Xconomy profiles, yet again, UW CSE startup Skytap. “‘One of the key attributes of Skytap is that they give you cloud computing with your existing apps, whereas the others require you to develop specially for their restricted model of computing,’ says Ignition partner Brad Silverberg. ‘It means you can go cloud computing right now.'” Read the full post here.… Read more →
Venture Capitalists Reflect on the Past 10 Years
Celebrating VentureWire’s 10th anniversary, The Venture Capital Dispatch blog (part of the Wall Street Journal) recently asked a panel of venture capitalists to share their favorite memories of business in the past decade or so. Matt McIlwain, one of our friends at Madrona Venture Group, talks about CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Farecast.
Read the full article here.… Read more →
Building an Artificial Human Hand
CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka, recently interviewed by KPLU radio’s Keith Seinfeld, talks about her research on prosthetic hands. The human hand has been one of the most difficult limbs for medicine to replace. War veterans are learning the hard way–as their best option continues to be a mechanical claw.
Listen to the complete interview here (5min MP3). Read about the hand on Keith’s KPLU blog here.… Read more →
HydroSense wins UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
HydroSense — a team led by UW CSE graduate student Jon Froehlich and advised by UW CSE faculty members Shwetak Patel, James Fogarty, and James Landay, won the $10,000 grand prize in UW’s Environmental Innovation Challenge. Other members of the Hydrosense team included CSE graduate student Kate Everitt, MechE junior Tim Campbell, EE senior Alex Horton, EE graduate student Jianlei Shi, BioE graduate student Rahber Thariani, and Community, Environment and Planning senior Conor Haggerty.
HydroSense focused on the problem… Read more →
CSE’s Susan Eggers Wins ACM’s Athena Lecturer Award
CSE professor Susan Eggers has received the 2009-2010 Athena Lecturer Award. The Athena Lecturer Award, given by ACM-W, recognizes women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. Susan was recognized for her work on computer architecture and experimental performance analysis has led to the development of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), the first commercially viable multithreaded architecture.
Congratulations Susan!
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UW CSE Team Wins Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, Headed to Nationals
The 2nd Annual Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition was held March 28 & 29th on the Microsoft campus. Teams were asked to secure a mock corporate network from an attacking red team while keeping business services such as the company website, email, and IT services up.
UW CSE’s team emerged victorious. With the regional competition win under their belts, the team (David Balatero, Vjekoslav Brajkovic, Ian Finder, Rob Hanlon, Amit Levy, Travis McCoy, Alex Meng, and Erik Turnquist) will… Read more →
UW CSE in Reader’s Digest!
Finally, the big time! A Reader’s Digest article titled “How to Hide Anything” describes “19 ingenious new ways to conceal everything from your personal info on the Internet to a few extra pounds on your hips.”
#4, after “Kitchen Problems,” “A Few Extra Pounds,” and “A Few Extra Years,” is “Personal Info on your Laptop,” which includes a description of the UW CSE and UCSD Adeona software.
#7 (with “Anxiety” and “Your Medical Identity” intervening) is “Your Tracks Online,”… Read more →
Coding is cool again
According to an article in the Seattle PI today, computer science classes are getting their groove back. According to the new Taulbee Report from the Computing Research Association, computer science enrollment rose 6.2 percent over last year, counting majors and pre-majors.
“Speaking from a computing symposium in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska was fired up about computing enrollments and eager to talk about the promise of the field. But he also expressed frustration that UW caps its… Read more →
Foldit on NPR
CSE’s Zoran Popovic and his UW Biochemistry colleague David Baker are interviewed on NPR’s “Studio 360” regarding their protein folding game “Foldit.”
“It turns out that humans are a lot smarter at this than supercomputers … As Studio 360’s Sarah Lilley discovered, it’s a lot more fun than it sounds.”
Listen to the complete interview here. Help science by playing the game here.… Read more →
CSE’s Richard Ladner wins UW Outstanding Public Service Award
CSE professor Richard Ladner has received the 2009 University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award, “presented to a faculty or staff member to honor extensive local and/or national and international service.” Richard was recognized for his decades-long efforts focused on under-represented groups, particularly the deaf-blind community.
Congratulations Richard!… Read more →