UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Noah Snavely, now a faculty member at Cornell University, received Honorable Mention in the 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition. Noah’s dissertation, “Scene Reconstruction and Visualization from Internet Photo Collections,” provides much of the technology behind Microsoft’s Photosynth offering, as well as the “Rome in a Day” project.
Congratulations Noah!… Read more →
“Reconstructing Rome” is IEEE Computer cover article
The June 2010 issue of IEEE Computer magazine is devoted to the theme of “Capturing the World.” The cover article describes UW CSE’s “Building Rome in a Day” project; the article, “Reconstructing Rome,” was authored by Sameer Agarwal (UW CSE -> Google), Yasutaka Furukawa (UW CSE -> Google), Noah Snavely (UW CSE -> Cornell University), Brian Curless (UW CSE), Steve Seitz (UW CSE), and Rick Szeliski (Microsoft Research; UW CSE affiliate professor).
“Community photo collections like Flickr offer… Read more →
Power from thin air
More than a century ago, a startup— funded by J. P. Morgan with technology from Nikola Tesla— envisioned a future where energy would be delivered over the air from power stations to consumers. That vision wasn’t realized, but now researchers have revived the vision on a nano scale.
The Economist reports on research by Josh Smith (UW CSE adjunct faculty and principal engineer at Intel Labs Seattle) with collaborators Scott Southwood (UW CSE undergrad) and Alanson Sample (a researcher at… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anne Condon appointed Head of Computer Science at UBC
Professor Anne Condon – a UW CSE Ph.D. alum – has been appointed Head of the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science.
Condon is internationally recognized for her research in complexity theory and bioinformatics, and a leading Canadian proponent for women in science and technology. Her four-year term begins on July 1, 2011.
Earlier this year, Condon was awarded the Computing Research Association A. Nico Habermann Award for her “long standing and impactful service toward the goal… Read more →
Lazowska, Zahorjan, Eager share inaugural ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award
In 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS, the ACM Special Interest Group for the computer systems performance evaluation community, inaugurated a “Test of Time Award.”
In steady-state, the SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award will recognize annually one performance evaluation paper whose impact is still felt 10-12 years after its initial publication in the proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS conference.
To bootstrap the process, the inaugural ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award recognizes three papers published between 1973 and 1999 – essentially, the three… Read more →
Loren Carpenter in TechNewsWorld
UW CSE alum Loren Carpenter, Chief Scientist at Pixar, was interviewed by TechNewsWorld in connection with his receipt of a UW College of Engineering Diamond Award for alumni achievement.
“Carpenter, a graduate of the University of Washington, was in Seattle recently to accept a Diamond Award honoring UW alumni for their contributions to the field of engineering. With the release of ‘Toy Story III’ set for June 18, TechNewsWorld sat down with Carpenter for an interview and asked him about… Read more →
Photographs of UW CSE graduation ceremony
A lovely set of Bruce Hemingway photographs of the June 12 UW CSE graduation ceremony:
Preliminaries
Bachelors Processional
Masters Processional
Hooding of the Ph.D.s
Reception… Read more →
MSB online!
Most Significant Bits, the newsletter of UW Computer Science & Engineering, has leapt into the 21st century with an online html version, as well as an email version.
Online html version of the Spring 2010 issue here.
Traditional pdf version here.
Sign up to get the email version of MSB the day that it’s published by sending an email to msb at cs.washington.edu.
Get CSE news, events, etc., via email, RSS, Twitter, Facebook, etc., here.… Read more →
UW CSE honors “Inspirational Teachers”
Each year, UW CSE invites students to nominate “inspirational teachers” from secondary school or community college – teachers who shaped their perceptions of themselves as students. We host those teachers, their spouses/guests, and the students who nominated them at a dinner in the Allen Center. We have three goals: to honor the teachers for their contributions; to re-acquaint them with some of their favorite students; and to encourage them to send us more great students!
Photos from this year’s “Inspirational… Read more →
“A Micro-Century of Computational Miscellany”
After more than 25 years on the UW CSE faculty (preceded by stints at Purdue and Yale), Larry Snyder marked his retirement with a valedictory lecture on June 2 2010, attended by more than 100 friends and colleagues.
Larry advertised the talk, “A Micro-Century of Computational Miscellany,” as follows:
“A micro-century (uC) is 52.6 minutes, the optimum length for a college lecture in the opinion of people who worry about such things. A valedictory lecture, a concept with a British… Read more →