Spaceflight, molecular gastronomy, wireless, and computer science:
Charles Simonyi (Intentional Software), “Return to the Final Frontier”
Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young (Intellectual Ventures), “Cooking in Silico: Understanding Heat Transfer in the Modern Kitchen”
Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), “From Cell Phones to Smart Phones to Smart Books – An Exciting Journey” (also the 2009-10 UW Electrical Engineering Dean Lytle Memorial Lecture)
Craig Mundie (Microsoft), “Rethinking Computing”
Pat Hanrahan (Stanford), “Why are Graphics Systems So Fast?”
Be there!
See the schedule here. … Read more →
CSE’s Mike Ernst wins Inaugural IBM John Backus Award
UW CSE professor Michael Ernst has received the inaugural John Backus Award from IBM Research for his research contributions to enhancing programmer productivity. Ernst is best known for his work on dynamic invariant detection, testing, type systems, and security.
Created by IBM to honor mid-career university faculty members, the award is named for IBMer John W. Backus, the creator of the Fortran programming language.
Ernst received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 2000, working with David Notkin. He… Read more →
“Discover what’s next. It’s the Washington way”
There’s a new UW 30-second promo video that’s a huge improvement over its predecessors. Take a look here (Silverlight) or here (Flash)!… Read more →
Zoetrope in Business Week
Business Week discusses data visualization, including UW CSE’s Zoetrope, created by graduate students Eytan Adar (now on the faculty at the University of Michigan) and Mira Dontcheva (now a researcher at Adobe) and faculty members James Fogarty and Dan Weld.
“Today algorithmically inspired artists are re-imagining the art-science continuum through work that frames the left-brain analysis of data in a right-brain creative story. Some use data visualization as a bridge between alienating information and its emotional impact … Others take… Read more →
The Geek’s Guide to Seattle
Our friends at TechFlash have just published a wonderful “Geek’s Guide to Seattle” – twenty “must see” tourist stops for techies. Among the hotspots:
Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington – “This building, named after Microsoft’s co-founder, is the region’s nerve center for computer science education, sending graduates to Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many others.”
Wilcox Hall, University of Washington – “This was the UW computer center, known as Roberts Hall Annex,… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Vanish” in the Times of London
“Imagine if every time you sent a letter, the postman made a copy … This isn’t 1950s Russia but the internet today. Every e-mail you send is stored on not only your computer but also the recipient’s machine; your internet service provider (ISP) will have one too, as will the many servers that have handled your message in its travels across cyberspace … It’s this Big Brother vision that has inspired researchers in Seattle to create the world’s first self-destructing… Read more →
UW CSE’s Impinj powers “coke machine of the future”!
You can’t make up stuff like this! RFID chips from UW CSE startup Impinj (co-founded by CSE professor Chris Diorio and his now-living-in-Seattle mentor, legendary Caltech professor Carver Mead) are apparently integral to Coca Cola’s new “Freestyle” vending machine. Makes about as much sense as putting an Ethernet in a Xerox machine …
Read the TechFlash post here.… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family again score big in Technology Review TR35!
Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research they find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Selected from more than 300 nominees by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, the TR35 is an elite group of accomplished young innovators who exemplify the spirit of innovation. Their work – spanning medicine, computing, communications,… Read more →
UW places 2nd in USENIX Security Grand Challenge
A team representing UW CSE placed second in the USENIX Security Grand Challenge, held during the USENIX Security Conference, August 12-14 in Montreal.
On the day of the competition, each team received a virtualized server, with a number of services. The services were implemented in different languages (e.g., C, Java, or Python) and were both web-based and stand-alone. However, each service had a number of hidden security flaws, which were implanted by the organizers. The task of the participants… Read more →
“UW grad students trade textbooks for Kindles”
A KING-5 Television report on the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project. UW – Computer Science & Engineering and the Foster School of Business – is one of seven universities participating in an educational pilot project to understand the strengths and limitations of electronic textbooks. See the TV news video here. Learn more about the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project here.… Read more →