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“The secretive Seattle virtualization startup Illumita has changed its name to Skytap and unveiled details around its first product, dubbed Skytap Virtual Lab … Started as a project by University of Washington computer scientists, Skytap’s goal with its first product is to create an easy and cost-efficient manner by which companies can test Web applications or software code in a virtual lab.”
According to CSE professor and company co-founder Hank Levy, the domain name Spinaltap… Read more →
“Hubble maps the changing constellation of Internet ‘black holes'” (UW News & Information)
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“You’re trying to log on to a Web site and it’s not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn’t pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
“The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a proportion of computer traffic ends up being routed into information black holes. These are situations where a path between two computers does… Read more →
“Microsoft creates ‘instant backing band’ for singers”
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“Whether you’re a frustrated songwriter or a shower-time crooner, you may long to hear your lyrics put to music. New software from Microsoft promises to provide just that: instant musical accompaniment to singing.
“The software, called MySong, was developed by Dan Morris and Sumit Basu at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, US, and Ian Simon at the University of Washington in Seattle.”… Read more →
CSE’s Chad Klumb, Pavan Vaswani, and Ting-You Wang score clean sweep of UW academic medals!
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Each year, the University of Washington awards medals to the students who had the strongest academic record in their class during the previous year. This year, in an unprecedented clean sweep, CSE students won all three medals. The Freshman Medalist (the top student in last year’s class of 5500 freshmen) is Chad Klumb. The Sophomore Medalist is Pavan Vaswani. The Junior Medalist is Ting-You Wang. Congratulations!… Read more →
CSE’s Julia Moore, Kathy Wei win Goldwater Scholarships
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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 →