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 …
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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 →
Cloudera in the news!
Cloudera is a cloud computing company founded by UW CSE alumnus Christophe Bisciglia, who while working at Google created UW’s highly-regarded cloud computing course, the first in the nation. On-leave UW CSE graduate student Aaron Kimball was the company’s first employee, and UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska serves on the company’s technical advisory board.
A post on the New York Times Bits blog on Monday covers Doug Cutting’s departure from Yahoo to join Cloudera. Cutting created Hadoop, an open-source… Read more →
Project Trident
For more than two years, Microsoft Research and oceanographers have worked to develop Project Trident, an open-source “scientific workflow workbench,” which compiles, crunches and spits out scientific data in ways that make large-scale research findings easy to share, visualize, and replicate. It’s highly extensible. The Collaborative Ocean Visualization Environment (COVE), an extension developed by UW CSE graduate student Keith Grochow, lets scientists visualize their findings on a Google Maps-like atlas of the ocean floor.
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“Outstanding Student Paper” award for Vanish
UW CSE graduate student Roxana Geambasu and undergraduate student Amit Levy have received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 18th USENIX Security Symposium for their paper “Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data.” Vanish has received widespread attention; see some links here and here. Learn more about Vanish here. The work was co-advised, and the paper co-authored, by UW CSE faculty members Yoshi Kohno and Hank Levy.… Read more →
CS4HS 2009
August 6-8 marked the third offering of CS4HS at the University of Washington, a computer science workshop for high school teachers of math and science.
CS4HS is offered jointly by the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA, the University of Texas at Austin, and Western Oregon University, and sponsored by Google. This year, at the UW offering, more than 30 teachers spent 3 days exploring topics such as synthetic biology, cryptography, computational thinking (using CS Unplugged), debunking stereotypes, careers… Read more →
UW CSE’s Daryl Hansen in International Olympiad in Linguistics
A news post by the National Science Foundation features the strong performance by U.S. high school students at the International Olympiad in Linguistics in Wroclaw Poland, including incoming UW CSE freshman Daryl Hansen. Daryl writes: “I heard about the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad from one of my teachers, and went with one of my friends to go compete in it in March, since it sounded interesting. In the second round, I ended up 4th in the country, which put… Read more →
“Vanish” featured by NSF
UW CSE’s “Vanish” project is featured by the National Science Foundation’s “The Discovery Files” podcast:
“I’m Bob Karson with ‘The Discovery Files’ – new advances in science and engineering from the National Science Foundation.
“Getting data onto the Internet is one thing; the real trick may be getting rid of the data. I mean when you write an extremely sensitive e-mail or chat message, you really have no idea where that information could turn up may be even years later.… Read more →