CNET News reporter Charles Cooper reports in his Coop’s Corner blog on a panel that looked at the impact of information technology on democracy. UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska organized the panel, which included Princeton University professor and 1993 UW CSE PhD Ed Felten and two others. The panel was held as part of a meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences exploring the information technology and the public good.
Ed Felten offered some hopeful comments:… Read more →
Change Poster Session Well Attended
Change is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of under-served populations, especially in the developing world. Change was started to better frame ICT for Development research in CSE, but is now being extended to bring together everyone at UW who cares about technology in developing regions.
The group hosted a poster session on February 26th in the Atrium. This… Read more →
Bus cuts and tracking your next ride
Metro bus service could be cut by as much as 20 percent. With this prospect looming, Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW‘s program The Conversation recently spoke with CSE grad student Brian Ferris about his bus-tracking tool, OneBusAway. The segment appears around minute 40.
Earlier coverage on OneBusAway may be viewed here.… Read more →
Combining BitTorrent with Darknets for P2P Privacy
Current popular peer-to-peer networks suffer from a lack of privacy. OneSwarm is a new file-sharing application that improves privacy in peer-to-peer networks. It was developed by UW computer scientists Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy and PhD students Michael Piatek and Tomas Isdal.
Read the Slashdot post here.
Read earlier coverage of BitTorrent here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Luis Ceze and collaborators score two 2008 computer architecture “top picks”
The January/February 2009 issue of IEEE Micro is a Special Issue containing the sixth annual “Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.” Quoting from the Guest Editors’ Introduction, “This issue has become an important tradition in the computer architecture community, and one of the most important forms of recognition of research excellence.”
Two of the 12 papers selected for this prestigious recognition were authored by UW CSE’s Luis Ceze: “Atom-Aid: Detecting and Surviving Atomicity Violations” and “… Read more →
Amazon.com, Eggsprout, Google, and Microsoft participate in UW CSE Technical Interview Coaching Event
On the evening of Wednesday February 25, more than 50 UW CSE undergraduates participated in a Technical Interview Coaching event held in the atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Students spent 20 minutes with each of 3 company representatives in “mock interview” sessions, learning what companies look for in interviews. Our thanks to engineers from Amazon.com, Eggsprout, Google, and Microsoft for participating in this event!… Read more →
“Impinj navigates nascent RFID market with unique technology, strategy – and patience”
“What is the most exciting company in Seattle?” Gregory Huang of Xconomy recently asked this question of Patrick Ennis, head of technology for Bellevue, WA-based Intellectual Ventures, and was surprised at the answer: Impinj. Impinj, founded in 2000 by UW CSE’s own Chris Diorio, is well-known for its focus on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies. Diorio, a student of microelectronics pioneer Carver Mead at Caltech (and current CSE affiliate faculty), serves as Impinj’s chairman and chief technology officer. ‘“He’s… Read more →
UW is one of six ‘suns’ in map of tech industry’s ‘solar system’
University Week reports on the fabulous Puget Sound Tech Universe map recently published by a collaboration of Seattle University, the Washington Technology Industry Association, and Virginia Tech. The map shows the geneology of over 700 local technology companies, institutions, and organizations represented as astronomical bodies. Most orbit one of six “suns,” of which the University of Washington is one. (Interactive version of the map is available online here.)
Read the full article here.
We previously… Read more →
Oren Etzioni talks of startups, venture capital, and the future of web search
CSE’s Oren Etzioni recently sat down with Rachel Tompa for Xconomy to talk about his philosophies on technology, startups, and investing in the current economy. He also talked about his most recent projects, two new software technologies that search the web in innovative ways.
PanImages, an image search tool, mines Google Images and Flickr for pictures and is a step towards an Internet that is not limited by language barriers. With PanImages, you can find pictures on Web pages… Read more →
University Week: Information technology needs present challenge, interviews show (eScience Institute)
UW Director of News and Information Bob Roseth writes in University Week about a large-scale study of the computing needs of the UW research community. One hundred and twenty-five researchers were interviewed in what CSE professor and University of Washington eScience Institute director Ed Lazowska calls the most comprehensive study of its kind yet conducted. “No other university has conducted such a balanced study of top researchers’ information technology needs. What we have found is a rich texture of IT… Read more →