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 →
Noah Snavely receives Honorable Mention in 2009 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition
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 →