UW CSE professor Magda Balazinska has been selected to participate in the prestigious HP Labs Innovation Research Program. The program is designed to provide colleges, universities and research institutes around the world with opportunities to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.
HP reviewed more than 375 proposals from 202 universities across 36 countries, choosing 52 to receive 2010 Innovation Research awards.
Congratulations Magda!… Read more →
Michael Piatek, Hoifung Poon to DARPA ISAT “Future Ideas Symposium”
Seventeen top graduate students from ten universities were invited to participate in a “Future Ideas Symposium” organized by the Information Science And Technology working group of the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency.
UW CSE was represented by Michael Piatek (working with Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy on building Internet-scale services) and Hoifung Poon (working with Pedro Domingos on statistical relational learning).
Congratulations to Michael and Hoifung!… Read more →
Lazowska co-chairs PCAST review of NITRD program
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska has been named by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to co-chair a Congressionally-mandated review of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program on behalf of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Under the NITRD program, 14 federal agencies coordinate their investments in order to maintain America’s leadership in information technology.
Lazowska’s co-chair is PCAST member David Shaw of D.E. Shaw Research. The members of… Read more →
“The Labor Gap”
Seattle Business magazine discusses workforce gaps in Washington State.
“According to a 2009 report by the HECB, state universities are producing less than half the number of computer science majors needed to meet projected demand in 2011. However, state universities are not able to produce these graduates. Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, says his program turns away between 50 and 80 percent of qualified applicants each year.… Read more →
UW CSE at the ACM Awards Banquet
UW CSE was well represented at the annual ACM Awards Banquet, held this year at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco on the evening of Saturday June 26th.
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska received the ACM Distinguished Service Award “for more than two decades of wide-ranging and tireless service to the computing community, especially in advocacy at the national level.”
UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello and UW CSE Ph.D. alumni Jeff Dean (now a Google Fellow) and Chandu Thekkath… Read more →
UW CSE startup Corensic reaches another milestone
Corensic (formerly PetraVM) is a UW CSE startup that provides tools for eliminating concurrency bugs from multicore software — launched by faculty members Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin, and backed by our friends at Madrona Ventures, the Washington Research Foundation, and Perkins Coie.
Today Corensic launched Windows and Linux versions of Jinx, its first tool. Read about it here.… Read more →
UW CSE Bay Area Alumni Event
On June 27, more than 60 UW CSE Bay Area alums gathered at the home of Jeff Dean and Heidi Hopper, joined by UW CSE faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska. Many thanks to Jeff and Heidi for hosting a terrific event! Photos here. Keep in touch here.… Read more →
“Threads” to be shown at 15th Annual 1 Reel Film Festival
“Threads,” UW CSE’s 2009 computer animation capstone production, has been invited to be screened at the 15th Annual 1 Reel Film Festival (September 4 – September 6, 2010), part of Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music and Arts Festival, which annually draws over 150,000 people to the grounds of the Seattle Center to celebrate the arts.
Congratulations to Barbara Mones and the entire Threads crew!
See all of UW CSE’s animation productions here.… Read more →
“Refraction” is finalist in Disney Research Learning Challenge
“Refraction,” a game to teach fractions to youngsters, has been named a finalist in the Disney Research Learning Challenge. Learn more about Refraction here.… Read more →
“Mind-Controlled Robot Uses Human Brainwaves”
UW CSE researchers have developed a mind-controlled robot (called Mitra) that is directed by human brainwaves. Discovery News’ Kasey-Dee Gardner interviews UW CSE’s Raj Rao, undergrad Mike Chung, and grad Johnathan Lyon as they demonstrate Mitra to find out the human benefits of such a robot.
See the video here.… Read more →