CRA-W — the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research — has named UW CSE Ph.D. alum A.J. Bernheim Brush, a researcher at Microsoft Research, as one of two recipients of the 2010 Borg Early Career Award. A.J. studies human-computer interaction with a focus on computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) and ubiquitous computing. She enjoys investigating how technology can help people and families with everyday challenges including coordination, awareness, and energy conservation.
The award honors the late… Read more →
UW CSE alum Paul Mikesell in TechFlash
“Paul Mikesell, who co-founded Isilon Systems with Sujal Patel in 2001, is officially announcing a new company today called Clustrix which is trying to bring some of the same concepts that Isilon pioneered with digital storage to complex databases. And Mikesell, a University of Washington computer science grad and a former RealNetworks employee, has lined up some financial support from the same folks who backed Isilon …”
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Seattle NAE Grand Challenges Summit
The Seattle Times reports on Monday’s NAE Grand Challenges Summit, hosted by the University of Washington at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle.
“At the Grand Challenges Summit in Seattle today, the University of Washington’s Ed Lazowska … described the advances that computer science will bring to scientific research. ‘You’re going to see a revolution in discovery in the next 10 years,’ said Lazowska … He opened a discussion of ‘eScience’ and new systems for… Read more →
Dan Suciu wins 2010 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award
The ACM PODS (Principles of Database Systems) Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award was established in 2007 and was awarded for the first time in 2008. It is awarded every year to a paper published in the PODS proceedings ten years prior “that had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade.”
The winner of the 2010 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award is UW CSE professor Dan Suciu, for his… Read more →
Jon Froehlich, Carol Matsumoto win College of Engineering Innovator Awards
Each year the University of Washington College of Engineering bestows “Community of Innovators Awards” in seven categories.
This year, CSE Ph.D. student Jon Froehlich received the “Student Innovator — Research” award, and long-time CSE staff member Carol Matsumoto received the “Staff Innovator — Classified” award. They will be recognized at a College-wide ceremony on June 1.
Congratulations to Jon and Carol!… Read more →
UW’s Chris Re wins 2010 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, inaugurated in 2006, recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. Jim Gray.
Chris Re, a 2009 UW CSE Ph.D. alum, has been recognized as the winner of the 2010 award. Chris — now a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (“The Other UW,” as we call each… Read more →
“I feel jilted.”
Xconomy interviews tech leaders on the impact of UW President Mark Emmert’s departure to head the NCAA.
“‘Mark has been an excellent president in many ways. He will be a superb head of the NCAA. This is a huge loss for UW,’ said Ed Lazowska, a professor of computer science and engineering. ‘At the same time, I feel jilted. Those of us who have spent large parts of our careers at UW feel a great loyalty to the institution —… Read more →
Congratulations and thanks to Russ Arun!
Each year, Microsoft bestows three “Technical Recognition Awards”:
“Career Achievement” for exceptional and lasting contributions that span a lifetime.
“Outstanding Technical Achievement” to a team for a high-impact contribution.
“Outstanding Technical Leadership” for spearheading a breakthrough initiative.
As with many awards, the Microsoft Technical Recognition Awards involve both recognition and a prize. An innovative aspect is that the prize is given to a charitable organization designated by the individual.
This year, Russ Arun was honored with the Outstanding Technical Leadership… Read more →
“Reverse Traceroute” wins NSDI Best Paper Award
“Reverse Traceroute,” a paper describing a UW CSE network measurement innovation, has been named the “Best Paper” of this year’s USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI). The paper was authored by UW CSE graduate students Ethan Katz-Bassett and Harsha Madhyastha (now a postdoc at UCSD); UW CSE undergraduates Justine Sherry, Colin Scott, and Peter van Wesep; UW CSE faculty members Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson; and University of Minnesota graduate student Vijay Kumar Adhikar.
Traceroute… Read more →
“Top-Ranked Authors in ‘Operating Systems'”
Tom Anderson rises to #1! Hank Levy and Brian Bershad remain in the top 5. Ed Lazowska clings by his fingernails to #10. What’s the methodology? We don’t give a rip — we think it’s fantastic, whatever it is. Let Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and CMU delve into it! Check it out here. Cleaned-up pdf, saved for posterity, here.
( Hal Perkins’s observation on the value of citation statistics as a measure of scientific worth: “Some Turing Award winners… Read more →