ACM SIGCOMM has selected two winners of its 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizing outstanding Ph.D. theses in the fields of computer networking and data communication from the past year, and both recipients have strong ties to the Allen School: former postdoc Vamsi Talla, and bachelor’s alumna Justine Sherry.
Recent Allen School postdoc and UW Electrical Engineering Ph.D. alumnus Vamsi Talla is recognized for “Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms.” Working under the guidance of professors… Read more →
Allen School and Microsoft Research gather leading researchers to envision the future of IoT
A group of leading researchers from academia and industry are gathered in Snoqualmie, Washington this week to explore the future direction of one of the fastest-growing areas of computing innovation: the Internet of Things. Organized by the Allen School and Microsoft Research, the 2017 Summer Institute: Unpacking the Future of IoT aims to foster new ideas, collaborations, and excitement around emerging technologies that will touch every part of our lives.
The Internet of Things is already having a profound impact… Read more →
Allen School professor James R. Lee named Simons Investigator
Professor James R. Lee, a member of the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group, has been named a Simons Investigator by the Simons Foundation’s Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Lee, whose research interests span algorithms, optimization, computational complexity theory, and related mathematical fields, is one of a small number of mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists recognized by the Simons Foundation this year.
The Simons Investigator program is designed to support outstanding scientists in their most productive years, when… Read more →
Pooja Sethi: The “badass and brilliant” Allen School alumna who is not afraid to fail
The latest installment of our Undergrad Spotlight features Pooja Sethi, a native of Granite Falls, Washington who graduated from the Allen School with honors last month. Sethi received her bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and was recognized as one of two winners of our Best Senior Thesis Award, which she earned for “Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowd-powered, and Accessible Speech Transcription System” that she worked on with professor Richard Anderson and Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha in the Allen School’s Information … Read more →
Domino effect: UW and Microsoft researchers use spatial organization to build DNA computers
A team of researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research Cambridge have achieved a breakthrough in the design of computational circuit boards using DNA molecules. The group, which was led by Allen School and Electrical Engineering professor Georg Seelig and Andrew Phillips, head of the Biological Computation Group at Microsoft Research, applied principles of spatial organization to create a new “DNA domino” architecture that reduced computation time from hours to minutes compared to existing approaches. The results… Read more →
Seattle PI’s “Famous (and infamous) UW Husky grads”
We have no idea how the Seattle PI chose these 58 UW graduates and near graduates …
The Paul G. Allen School can’t claim credit for Bruce Lee, Anna Faris, or Kenny G. Not Ted Bundy either, thank goodness.
But we’re delighted to claim:
Tim Paterson ’78 (QDOS -> MSDOS)
Loren Carpenter ’74 ’76 (Pixar)
Gary Kildall ’66 ’72 (CP/M, Digital Research)
The other half of Chris DeWolfe ’88 (his Myspace co-founder, Aber Whitcomb, is a 2000 ACMS alum)… Read more →
Allen School’s Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is ready for her close-up as GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman of the Allen School’s Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) flies her geek flag high in this week’s edition of GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week.” Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is one of the brains behind a series of high-profile research projects that combine facial recognition, modeling and 3-D reconstruction — including a new technique to create photorealistic videos of people from audio files, as demonstrated by a lip-syncing Obama.
The goal of her work, Kemelmacher-Schlizerman explains to GeekWire, is to… Read more →
Allen School’s DawgBytes summer camps are in full swing!
DawgBytes is the Allen School’s K-12 outreach program. One component of DawgBytes is a series of girls and co-ed computer science summer day camps for middle school and high school students. Always wildly over-subscribed, they’re in full swing now. This was the second week of a two-week “High School Girls Leadership Camp,” during which the students were joined by (and mentored) students in the Middle School Girls Creative Coding Camp.
More photos here. Info on our summer camps… Read more →
CNBC: America’s Top State for Business 2017 … Washington!
“With the nation’s fastest-growing economy and an all-star business roster of household names and up-and-comers, Washington — the Evergreen State — soars above the competition as America’s Top State for Business in 2017.
“The home of Amazon and Costco, Boeing and Expedia, as well as rising stars like Adaptive Biotechnologies, online marketplace OfferUp and space company Blue Origin, Washington has the old and new economies covered — as well as pretty much everything in between.
“But the success story… Read more →
Allen School professor Michael Ernst receives ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
Professor Michael Ernst of the Allen School’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering group (PLSE) has been recognized by the International Conference on Software Engineering with its Most Influential Paper Award for 2017. Ernst — along with co-authors Carlos Pacheco of Google, and Shuvendu Lahiri and Thomas Ball of Microsoft Research — earned the award for their ICSE 2007 paper, “Feedback-directed random test generation.”
Each year, ICSE selects a paper from 10 years earlier that it judges to have… Read more →