“In a lab at the University of Washington, Morphy, a pint-size robot, catches the eye of an infant girl and turns to look at a toy.
“No luck; the girl does not follow its gaze, as she would a human’s.
“In a video the researchers made of the experiment, the girl next sees the robot “waving” to an adult. Now she’s interested; the sight of the machine interacting registers it as a social being in the young brain. She begins… Read more →
Who da man?
As a prelude to its annual “Brainstorm Tech” conference in Aspen (July 22–24), Fortune magazine has anointed “The 50 smartest people in tech” — five people in each of ten categories “whose collective intelligence propels us into a future that looks nothing like the present.”
The winner in the “Engineer” category — the “Smartest Engineer”? UW CSE bachelors alumnus, former Googler and founder of Cloudera Christophe Bisciglia!
“What kinds of problems could we solve if… Read more →
More from the ACM Awards Banquet
UW CSE faculty, alumni, and spouses at the ACM Awards Banquet at the Westin St. Francis on June 26th.
L-R: Gaetano Borriello (new ACM Fellow) and Melissa Westbrook; Lyndsay Downs and Ed Lazowska (ACM Distinguished Service Award winner); Jeff Dean (new ACM Fellow) and Heidi Hopper; Noah Snavely (ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award runner-up) and Beth Xie; John Davis and Jessica Davis; Radhika Thekkath and Chandu Thekkath (new ACM Fellow). At the banquet but missing from the photo: Thomas Kwan.… Read more →
Magda Balazinska receives HP Labs Innovation Research Award
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 →