Here’s a ranking we can get behind!
A recent assessment of “Best Paper Awards” over the past decade at major conferences in AI, HCI, and data management ranks UW third in the nation, behind Microsoft Research and CMU.
(The conferences were WWW, SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, CHI, KDD, SIGMOD, ICML, VLDB, IJCAI, and UIST. See the tally here.)… Read more →
Vote for Shwetak!
It’s time to vote for the TechFlash “Newsmaker of the Year.” There are six nominees — five guys you’ve never heard of, and UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel.
“Shwetak Patel, a 28-year-old assistant professor in the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, sells home energy monitoring startup Zensi to Belkin and separately develops a novel method of using electrical wiring as a wireless antenna system, spawning another startup.”
Vote here!… Read more →
Ph.D. alumnus Li Zhang wins Packard Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Li Zhang, now on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, was the only computer scientist to win a 2010 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Zhang – who has also won an NSF CAREER Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship – studied with Steve Seitz in UW’s superb Graphics and Imaging Laboratory. Zhang’s research supported by the award will seek to restore stereo 3D… Read more →
Ed Felten: Local Boy Makes Good
A terrific article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly on the Center for Information Technology Policy, directed by UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten.
“The center’s interests extend well beyond voting machines. CITP’s director and driving force is Ed Felten, an affable, boyish-looking 47-year-old who holds joint appointments in computer science and public affairs. One of his claims to fame came in 2000, when he testified that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser could be detached from the Windows operating system, thereby… Read more →
There’s a new caffeine addict in town!
CSE professor Josh Smith treats his new (and as yet unnamed) Willow Garage PR2 humanoid robot to a trip to Reboot.… Read more →
“Undergraduates’ low-cost ultrasound system wins Gates Foundation grant”
An effort by students and faculty from CSE, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, and the Information School to design a low-cost portable ultrasound system for use in the rural developing world has received a $100,000 “Grand Challenges Explorations” grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – one of 65 grants awarded among more than 2,400 applicants.
Read the UW press release here. Read about the project and its participants here. Learn about Change, the cross-campus collaboration under which… Read more →
PCAST approves NITRD report
On Thursday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) unanimously approved a report reviewing the 14-agency, $4.3 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, representing the Nation’s entire unclassified R&D portfolio in computer science and related fields.
The 14-person Working Group assisting with the review was co-chaired by Ed Lazowska and David Shaw, who discussed the report on Thursday.
In summarizing the Findings, Lazowska noted:
“America’s NIT R&D efforts have been hugely successful. This… Read more →
Yahoo! expands university M45 research initiative
As scientists at the top US universities extend their research initiatives to the new frontiers of computing, Yahoo! has announced the expansion of its Hadoop-based M45 academic research initiative to include four additional US universities, including the University of Washington. Launched in November 2007, the M45 program is providing universities with the opportunity to conduct research otherwise impossible without the power and speed of a large-scale supercomputing resource. M45 consists of approximately 4,000 processors with 1.5 petabytes of storage.… Read more →
Ed Felten Named FTC’s Chief Technologist
UW CSE PhD alum Ed Felten was named as the US Federal Trade Commission’s first Chief Technologist. In this new position, Dr. Felten will advise the agency on evolving technology and policy issues. Felten is currently the Director of Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), a cross-disciplinary effort studying digital technologies in public life. His research interests include computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. Specific topics include software security, Internet security, electronic… Read more →
Stanford President John Hennessy in UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series
Stanford President John Hennessy spoke to a packed house on November 2 in the UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series on “The Future of Our Research Universities: Challenges and Opportunities.”
Talk video linked here. Photographs here.… Read more →