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.
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PhotoCity in Xconomy
PhotoCity – a research effort and online game developed by faculty and students at the University of Washington and Cornell to capture a virtual 3D world from millions of cell phone photographs – was most recently featured in Xconomy.
“Building on a previous program called Photo Tourism [the core technology of Microsoft’s Photosyth] that pieces together photos culled from Flickr into virtual 3D models, PhotoCity is a ‘capture the flag’-esque game that re-creates sections of campuses or city blocks,… Read more →
CSE Ph.D. student Cynthia Matuszek in New Scientist
“Typically, robots respond well to precise instruction sets but they are flummoxed if their instructions are given in the fuzzy, everyday language so beloved by humans. Now, a team at the University of Washington in Seattle has developed translation software which could enable robots to understand a set of natural-language directions …
“Cynthia Matuszek and her colleagues used the principles of machine translation – commonly used online to translate text of one language into another – to develop a… Read more →
“On the frontiers of synthetic biology”
Georg Seelig is featured in UW’s Trend in Engineering.
“Seelig describes himself as a molecular programmer. ‘We use nucleic acids as nanoscale building material for molecular circuitry. We can take advantage of design ideas from computer science and electrical engineering to build new programmable biological circuitry. The goal is to build complex control circuits that can behave similarly to existing biological circuits such as gene regulatory networks,’ Seelig said.”
Read the article here.
His team has built nucleic-acid logic… Read more →
UW CSE animation “Kings” selected for Seattle International Film Festival
“Kings,” UW CSE’s 2008 Animation Capstone film, as been selected from among more than 3,000 entrants to be screened at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival. Kings will be screened as an “official selection” during SIFF’s Short Film Weekend (May 21-23) at the new state-of-the-art SIFF Cinema where all formats are brilliantly projected.
SIFF is the largest and most well-attended film festival in the United States, with 150,000 attendees expected in 2010. With extensive local, national and international media coverage,… Read more →
Zensi, Shwetak Patel’s Energy Monitoring Startup, Purchased by Belkin
Zensi, an energy monitoring company based on technology developed by UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel and collaborators, has been purchased by Belkin.
Zensi’s technology was licensed from the University of Washington and from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Patel’s Ph.D. institution. The technology includes single-point-of-attachment sensors for electrical power, water, and natural gas — a single sensor in a home or business uses signal processing and machine learning to identify sources and rates of consumption. This dramatically reduces the cost… Read more →