UW CSE faculty member Magda Balazinska has won a 2009 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Magda’s award is for her work developing new techniques for large-scale data management aimed at cloud-computing environments and scientific data analysis applications. In addition to efficient query processing techniques, she is also developing new query management tools that provide runtime query control, intra-query fault tolerance, query composition support, and seamless query sharing.
Magda joins CSE’s Luis Ceze and Yoshi Kohno as 2009 NSF … Read more →
Seattle is “Minor League” Innovation Town, So We Shouldn’t Be So Smug, Tech Leaders Say
Xconomy reports on the OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit.
“Seattle can be a very politically correct place, and one very un-PC thing to say is that we’re a second-rate burg when it comes to spawning innovative industries of the future. But Ed Lazowska, one of Seattle’s gutsiest public intellectuals, let it rip yesterday in front of a small gathering of about 100 technology elites at the Four Seasons Hotel.
“‘We’re very smug and self-satisfied,’ said Lazowska, the Bill &… Read more →
Jeff Bigham, Scott Hauck recognized by UW College of Engineering
UW CSE Ph.D. student Jeff Bigham has been recognized as the 2009 UW College of Engineering “Student Innovator: Research” in the Community of Innovators award competition.
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Scott Hauck, now a faculty member in UW EE, has been recognized as the “Faculty Innovator: Teaching and Learning.”
Congratulations to Jeff and Scott!… Read more →
TechFlash on OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit
“University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska is known as a straight talking rabble-rouser who doesn’t pull many punches. And he certainly lived up to that reputation today at the OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit …
“Lazowska – who appeared on stage with the equally opinionated Mark Anderson of the Strategic News Service – reserved his toughest comments for a Lake Wobegon mentality in the state where everything appears to be above average.
“‘It seems to me that the… Read more →
Foldit in Computerworld
UW’s Foldit protein folding game received nice coverage in a Computerworld article on human computation (and more generally the importance of human-computer symbiosis).
“You can play a video game called Foldit on the Web while making important contributions to science. Understanding how 3-D proteins ‘fold’ into their optimum structures is critical to understanding disease, but it’s difficult computationally because there are an astronomical number of possible folds for most proteins.
“The thousands of people who play Foldit use their pattern-recognition… Read more →
TechFlash Compiles “100 Top Women in Seattle Tech”
TechFlash has published its inaugural list of of top women in the Seattle technology industry. Among those listed is UW CSE’s Emer Dooley. The list includes many other women who have close ties to UW CSE:
Connie Bourassa-Shaw, who runs the UW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Amanda Camp from Google Seattle, who has participated in many of our outreach and educational activities.
Suzan DelBene, who had been the CEO of UW CSE startup Nimble Technologies.
Maria Klawe, our… Read more →
Kathy Wei Receives 2009 Engineering Dean’s Medal
Congratulations to Kathy Wei! Kathy, a dual major in CSE and BioE, was selected as the 2009 College of Engineering Dean’s Medalist from a very competitive pool of applicants.
The Dean’s Medal is awarded to a graduating student in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, research activities, and campus and extra-curricular involvement. The medal is scheduled to be presented at the Community of Innovators Awards ceremony on June 4, 2009, 3:30-5:00 p.m., in the Don James Center.… Read more →
Jeff Bigham Selected 2009 NCTI “Technology in the Works” Awardee
UW CSE’s Jeff Bigham‘s team is one of five teams awarded the 2009 NCTI Technology in the Works award. His team was selected to examine web browsing made accessible for blind students— Enabling More Effective Use of the Web Anywhere with WebAnywhere and TrailBlazer.
The National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) assists researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs in creating innovative learning tools for all students, with special focus on students with disabilities. NCTI sponsors this annual competition to inform the… Read more →
Digital Album Puts Focus on Kids’ Health
UW CSE adjunct assistant professor Julie Kientz has built a high-tech tool that takes photos and video, creates an online diary and family newsletters, and at the same time tracks a child’s developmental milestones. The multimedia system is called Baby Steps. Her research indicates that parents who used Baby Steps had more useful information to present during visits to pediatricians and were more confident about their record keeping.
Read the post in the Technology Review blog here.
Read the… Read more →
Lazowska + Ozzie keynote annual “State of Technology” luncheon
A conversation between UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie keynoted the annual State of Technology luncheon hosted by the Technology Alliance.
More than 700 attendees heard Ozzie discuss topics such as collaborative software, cloud computing, the leadership team at Microsoft, cultural differences between large and small companies, special-purpose vs. general-purpose digital devices, intellectual property in a Web world, and the differences between Boston and Seattle as innovative regions.
Xconomy article here. TechFlash article and… Read more →