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 →
Anna Cavender wins 2010 UW Graduate School Medal
UW CSE’s Anna Cavender, completing her Ph.D. with professor Richard Ladner, has been awarded the 2010 University of Washington Graduate School Medal.
The Graduate School Medal is given annually “to recognize Ph.D. candidates whose academic expertise and social awareness are integrated in a way that demonstrates an exemplary commitment to the University and its larger community.” UW CSE’s Vibha Sazawal, now a professor at the University of Maryland, received the UW Graduate School Medal in 2004.
Congratulations Anna!… Read more →
Lydia Chilton, Kristi Morton named Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars
Each year, roughly 30 top women enrolled in computer science graduate programs in the US are named Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars. Among the 2010 Anita Borg recipients are UW CSE’s Lydia Chilton and Kristi Morton.
Anita Borg, who received her Ph.D. from Courant, was a research engineer for Nixdorf, DEC WRL, and Xerox PARC, and also was a hugely effective advocate for the inclusion of women in technology fields (she launched the Systers online community, co-founded the… Read more →
Simultaneous Multithreading wins 2010 ISCA “test of time” award
Each year the International Symposium on Computer Architecture – the leading conference in the field – bestows the ISCA Influential Paper Award on “the paper from the ISCA Proceedings 15 years earlier that has had the most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the intervening years.”
The 2010 award, for a paper presented at ISCA in 1995, has been bestowed on the paper “Simultaneous Multithreading: Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism” by Susan Eggers… Read more →
“Not the Retiring Type”
The Sunday New York Times profiles UW CSE alumnus Jeremy Jaech – co-founder of Aldus and Visio, and currently CEO of Verdiem.
“Now I am running Verdiem, which has 55 employees and provides software to reduce energy consumption of PC networks. The company monitors, measures and manages information technology energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions.
“I believe that Verdiem, like Aldus’s desktop publishing and Visio’s diagramming on the PC, is another opportunity to create a new market, this… Read more →
Michael Buettner receives 2010-11 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Michael Buettner has been selected as an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship winner for the 2010-11 academic year. Michael works with David Wetherall on wireless systems.
Congratulations Michael!… Read more →