Professor Magdalena Balazinska, member of the Allen School’s Database Group and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute, has won the 2017 Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on the Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD). Balazinska earned the award for her 2005 paper “Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System,” which drew upon her Ph.D. research and was co-authored by Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, and… Read more →
Mozak from Allen School’s Center for Game Science and Allen Institute for Brain Science featured in The New York Times
Mozak, a new scientific discovery game developed by Allen School professor Zoran Popović and colleagues at the Center for Game Science and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, is featured in a New York Times article today highlighting its success at engaging citizen scientists in advancing fundamental neuroscience research. Since Mozak first launched last November, more than 200 people have logged on each day to produce three-dimensional reconstructions of neurons — helping scientists gain a better understanding of the… Read more →
Vote by Friday for Allen School nominees in the 2017 GeekWire Awards!
Only one more day to stuff the ballot box for Allen School nominees in the 2017 GeekWire Awards competition:
Deal of the Year: Impinj (Chris Diorio) or Turi (Carlos Guestrin) – let your conscience be your guide!
Geek of the Year: Ed Lazowska
Hire of the Year: Tim Prouty (alum)
Innovation of the Year: Microsoft Project Catapult (alum Andrew Putnam and Affiliate Professor Doug Burger)
App of the Year: Senosis Health (Shwetak Patel)… Read more →
Six Allen School faculty members win NSF CAREER Awards
The Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington is celebrating an unprecedented total of six NSF CAREER Awards earned by faculty members in 2017. The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program is the agency’s most prestigious category of awards and is designed to recognize and support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars and successfully integrate education and research. The six recipients are engaged in research that will advance core and emerging areas, with projects… Read more →
Allen School’s Tom Anderson elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Allen School professor and Ph.D. alum Tom Anderson has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed learned societies focused on advancing knowledge, scholarship, and civic discourse. Anderson, who holds the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW, is one of only seven computer scientists elected this year out of 228 new members drawn from the biological and physical sciences,… Read more →
New Tech Seattle – 5th Annual UW Event!
Always glad to host Red, Greene, and New Tech Seattle’s largest event of the year, at UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering! An amazing networking opportunity!… Read more →
Allen School undergraduates recognized in the Husky 100
Allen School undergraduates Camille Birch and Kelsie Haakenson have been selected as members of the 2017 class of the Husky 100. The Husky 100 program recognizes students from across the three UW campuses who are making the most of their Husky experience while making a difference on campus and in their communities through discovery, leadership, and a commitment to inclusivity.
Camille Birch is a senior from Woodinville, WA pursuing degrees in bioengineering and computer science. After developing an interest… Read more →
Allen School’s 2017 Women’s Research Day
Check out the agenda for today’s Women’s Research Day at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering! Facebook group here.… Read more →
Discover magazine on Oren Etzioni, Ali Farhadi, Allen Institute for AI
“Nestled among Seattle’s gleaming lights on a gloomy September day, a single nonprofit wants to change the world, one computer at a time. Its researchers hope to transform the way machines perceive the world: to have them not only see it, but understand what they’re seeing.
“At the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), researchers are working on just that. AI2, founded in 2014 by Microsoft visionary Paul Allen, is the nation’s largest nonprofit AI research institute. … At AI2,… Read more →
Allen School’s Shyam Gollakota wins 2017 SIGMOBILE RockStar Award
Professor Shyam Gollakota, who is widely known for his pioneering work on ambient backscatter as leader of the Allen School’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab, has been named the winner of the 2017 SIGMOBILE RockStar Award. The award, which was voted on by a committee of his peers and senior researchers in the mobile computing community, acknowledges Gollakota’s outstanding early-career contributions and the depth, novelty and impact of his research.
Since he joined the Allen School faculty… Read more →