This year, the UW CSE ACM student chapter replaced the traditional faculty dunk tank with a faculty pie toss. Lots of good licks were had by all.
Victims included professors Dan “Was That Really Your Best Shot?” Grossman; Luis “I Think I May Have Messed My Pants” Ceze; Anup “Maybe I Should Have Given An Easier Final Exam In CSE 421” Rao; Gaetano “Take Him Out With The Trash, He’s Already Bagged” Borriello; and John “This Was My Only Clean… Read more →
UW CSE reunion at Oakland!
This year’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“The Oakland Conference”) marked the presentation of a paper describing a UW / UCSD collaboration on automotive security and privacy, and also the debut of the UW CSE security group t-shirt.
In the photo (you can tell from the background that it’s really Oakland …): Roxana Geambasu (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tammy Denning (UW CSE Ph.D. student), David Molnar (MSR, teaching in UW CSE), Alexei Czeskis (UW CSE Ph.D. student),… Read more →
UW CSE’s Peter Henry in New Scientist
New Scientist reports on two recent results in robotics, including work by UW CSE’s Peter Henry and collaborators Christian Vollmer, Brian Ferris, and Dieter Fox.
“Rather than pre-programming fixed instructions, the team thinks it’s simpler to drop a robot untrained into the real world but equip it with the smarts to study and mimic the behaviour of those around them. They have developed an algorithm that allows a virtual robot to navigate a crowd as a human might by first… Read more →
Facebook’s Seattle office
Mayor Mike McGinn will celebrate Facebook’s opening of a Seattle engineering office — their first outside the Bay Area — at a City Hall ceremony on May 18. In addition to the Mayor, speakers will include UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Greg Badros (Facebook’s Director of Engineering), UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, and Ari Steinberg (Manager of Engineering and head of Facebook’s Seattle office).
Attracting engineering R&D operations to Seattle is critical to Seattle’s evolution as one of the nation’s great… Read more →
Luis Ceze, James Lee honored by UW
Five junior faculty from across UW were honored today for national recognition received this year. Two of the five were from CSE: Luis Ceze (Microsoft New Faculty Fellow) and James Lee (Sloan Research Fellow).
Overheard at the event: Provost Phyllis Wise to James: “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Phyllis Wise, the Provost.” James, in response: “Actually, we’ve met, when you visited our department to gently deliver bad news.”
Congratulations to Luis and James!… Read more →
PhotoCity is CRA/CCC Computing Research Highlight of the Week
Each week, the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium give visibility to a “Computing Research Highlight of the Week.” This week, it’s the PhotoCity project and “virtual capture-the-flag game” led by UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and Cornell’s Noah Snavely (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum).
See the post (with links to the project website) here.… Read more →
Eric Arendt wins 2010 Dean’s Medal in Engineering
Eric Arendt, a dual major in CSE and EE (with a minor in African Studies!), has been named one of two recipients of the 2010 University of Washington Dean’s Medal in Engineering.
Eric is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Kappa Nu. He has received multiple scholarships, and he has served as a TA and as TA Coordinator in CSE.
Eric’s nomination read, in part: “Eric is a top performer in EE and CSE. He has traveled the… Read more →
“Cars’ Computer Systems Called at Risk to Hackers”
The New York Times reports on work by UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno, UCSD professor (and UW CSE Ph.D.) alumnus) Stefan Savage, and their students.
“Automobiles, which will be increasingly connected to the Internet in the near future, could be vulnerable to hackers just as computers are now, two teams of computer scientists are warning in a paper to be presented next week.
“The scientists say that they were able to remotely control braking and other functions, and that the… Read more →
Pedro Domingos elected AAAI Fellow
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos has been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Pedro, an expert in data mining and machine learning, joins Oren Etzioni and Dan Weld as UW CSE AAAI Fellows.
AAAI elected 8 new Fellows this year — indicative of the prestige of the award. Read the AAAI press release here.
Congratulations Pedro!… Read more →
UW College of Engineering “Diamond Awards”
Each year, the University of Washington College of Engineering recognizes the achievements of five extraordinary alums with “Diamond Awards.”
This year, two of the five awardees were CSE alums. At a ceremony on Friday night, 1976 M.S. alum Loren Carpenter received the Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence for his many contributions to digital animation, and 2007 Ph.D. alum Tapan Parikh received the Early Career Diamond Award for his work in harnessing technology to empower people in the developing… Read more →