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CSE undergraduates Julia Moore and Kathy Wei have been awarded 2008 Goldwater Scholarships. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences.… Read more →
Six win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
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Three UW CSE graduate students and three recent UW CSE bachelors alums have been named recipients of 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, the top award for graduate students in engineering and the sciences. UW CSE graduate student recipients are Laura Effinger-Dean, Brian DeRenzi, and Jessica Chang. UW CSE bachelors alum recipients are Annie Liu (now a graduate student at Caltech), Gabriel Maganis (now applying to graduate schools), and Kurtis Heimerl… Read more →
CSE’s Alan Ritter, Tom Lin win National Defense Science & Enginering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships
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CSE graduate students Alan Ritter and Tom Lin, both working with Professor Oren Etzioni in the Turing Center, have received 2008 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowships.… Read more →
“UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips” (Seattle Times)
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“Some University of Washington students, faculty and staff are being tracked as they move about the computer-science building, with details of where they’ve been, and with whom, stored in a database.
“Professor Gaetano Borriello checks a computer to find graduate student Evan Welbourne’s last location: on the fourth floor, outside room 452 at 10:38 a.m. Wednesday. He opens another screen to reveal the building’s floor plan, and a blinking green dot representing Welbourne shows him… Read more →
“Universities see spike in applications from abroad” (Seattle Times)
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“Junior Koshal Thirumalai, from India, is majoring in computer engineering at the UW. ‘It doesn’t make sense to go anywhere else if you are into computers,’ he says.”… Read more →
“Developing Tools That Help Disabled Students Use the Web” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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The Chronicle of Higher Education interviews UW CSE professor Richard Ladner. “Disabled students face a host of challenges. Mr. Ladner, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, has spent much of his career trying to improve their opportunities for success in the discipline. The Computing Research Association recently gave him its A. Nico Habermann Award for advancing underrepresented groups.”… Read more →
“Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional”
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Wired riffs on CSE professor Yoshi Kohno’s undergraduate computer security course. “Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail … I’ve often speculated about how much of this is innate, and how much is teachable … Which is why CSE 484, an undergraduate computer-security course taught this quarter at the University of Washington, is so interesting to… Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis featured in College of Engineering “Campaign Update”
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“Alexei Czeskis … is one of the initial recipients of the new Students First fellowships — the Hacherl Endowed Graduate Fellowship established by alumnus Don Hacherl (’85) … Czeskis is now immersed in computer security research under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Yoshi Kohno, who last fall was recognized by Technology Review as one ofthe nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35.”… Read more →
“Hacking the Heart” (KOMO-TV News)
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“A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that could stop the devices from delivering a lifesaving shock …”… Read more →
“Tracking technology in the corridors of learning: An American university is testing a system that allows participants to follow others’ movements around campus”
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“‘Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people’s privacy at the same time,’ says Magda Balazinska, the project leader and assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UW. ‘We want to get a handle on the privacy issues that will crop up if these systems become a reality.'”… Read more →