Allen School alum Frank McSherry (Ph.D., ’04) has earned the prestigious Gödel Prize co-sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). The annual prize recognizes outstanding papers in theoretical computer science and is named in honor of the 20th century mathematician Kurt Gödel, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic and the theoretical foundations of computer science.
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Allen School faculty and alumni honored at the 2017 GeekWire Awards
Last night was the annual GeekWire Awards bash, where everyone who’s anyone in local tech assembles to celebrate the best of the Northwest in entrepreneurship and innovation. A number of people and companies with connections to the Allen School were nominated for awards, which are decided by popular vote. At the end of the evening, Allen School professor Ed Lazowska emerged from an impressive field of nominees to take home the Geek of the Year trophy, while alum Andrew Putnam… Read more →
Allen School’s Jeffrey Heer wins ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Allen School professor Jeffrey Heer has been named the recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This prestigious award recognizes an outstanding early-career professional who has made a significant technical or service contribution to the field of computing. Heer, who leads the Allen School’s Interactive Data Lab, was chosen as this year’s winner for his work on visualization tools that have transformed how people interact with data — tools that are currently… Read more →
Allen School capstone film “Fish Out of Water” wins Global Shorts Award of Merit
“Fish Out of Water,” an animated film created by students in the Allen School’s interdisciplinary Animation Capstone, has won an Award of Merit in the 2017 Global Shorts competition. Global Shorts is an international competition based in Los Angeles that recognizes outstanding films with run-times of 50 minutes or less. It attracts works from filmmakers around the world, some of whom go on to earn nominations and awards in such prestigious competitions as the Golden Globes, Cannes… Read more →
Allen School’s Magdalena Balazinska wins SIGMOD Test of Time Award
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 →