Allen School professor Franziska Roesner has been recognized with a 2017 TR35 Award, MIT Technology Review’s annual celebration of the world’s 35 top innovators under the age of 35. Roesner is honored in the “Inventors” category, recognizing the visionary individuals who are creating the breakthroughs and building the technologies that will shape the future.
Roesner co-directs the Allen School’s Security and Privacy Research Lab, where she analyzes the security and privacy risks of existing and emerging technologies… Read more →
Allen School faculty and alumni gather at annual DARPA ISAT meeting
Every August, the members of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Science and Technology study group (DARPA ISAT) gather in Woods Hole, Massachusetts for their annual summer meeting to discuss the future of computing and communications technologies.
As professor and past ISAT Chair Ed Lazowska notes, the Allen School tends to be “wonderfully over-represented” at these meetings and on the ISAT study group in general. No fewer than 11 current members have Allen School connections, including three newly… Read more →
Allen School researchers expose cybersecurity risks of DNA sequencing software
In an illustration of just how narrow the divide between the biological and digital worlds has become, a team of researchers from the Allen School released a study revealing potential security risks in software commonly used for DNA sequencing and analysis — and demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to infect software systems with malware delivered via DNA molecules. The team will present its paper, “Computer Security, Privacy, and DNA Sequencing: Compromising Computers with Synthesized DNA, … Read more →
Allen School’s Zachary Tatlock and Neutrons software verification project featured in Communications of the ACM
Verifying that software runs safely and reliably is a mandate for mission-critical systems ranging from avionics to automobiles. A system of special significance to professor Zachary Tatlock and colleagues in the Allen School’s Programming Language and System Engineering (PLSE) group is the Clinical Neutron Therapy System (CNTS) at the UW Medical Center. One of only three radioactive therapy systems of its kind in the United States, the CNTS directs powerful radiation to patients’ heads to treat cancers of the tongue… Read more →
UW alumni Vamsi Talla and Justine Sherry win SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Awards
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 →