33 members of the DARPA ISAT (Information Science And Technology) study group are working at Woods Hole this week – 7 with strong UW CSE connections: Tom Daniel (adjunct faculty), Franzi Roesner (faculty), Ras Bodik (faculty), Hakim Weatherspoon (Bachelors alum, Cornell faculty), Brandon Lucia (Ph.D. alum, CMU faculty), Ed Lazowska (faculty), Luis Ceze (faculty). Missing: Roxana Geambasu (Ph.D. alum, Columbia faculty).… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska named 2016 Tech Impact Champion by Seattle Business magazine
Seattle Business magazine announced that it has named UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska its Tech Impact Champion for 2016. In selecting Lazowska for the award, the magazine’s editors and judges cited his lifetime of work building UW CSE into one of the top 10 programs in the nation, his leadership in establishing the eScience Institute and advancing our region’s position at the forefront of data analytics, and his tireless promotion of the local tech industry.
From the announcement:
“When Lazowska… Read more →
UW CSE researchers tap their inner Indiana Jones to unearth the history of web tracking
Researchers in UW CSE’s Security & Privacy Research Lab turned archaeologists to deliver the first comprehensive study of third-party web tracking based on a new tool, TrackingExcavator, that detects and analyzes third-party tracking behavior. UW CSE Ph.D. student Adam Lerner presented the results of the study, which examines tracking on the most popular online destinations dating back to 1996, at the USENIX Security Conference in Austin, Texas last week.
“Third-party tracking started quite early in the history of the… Read more →
eScience Institute’s Sarah Stone and Micaela Parker featured in Oceanography magazine
The careers of Micaela Parker and Sarah Stone, program managers at the UW eScience Institute, are the subject of an article in the latest issue of Oceanography, the quarterly magazine of The Oceanography Society. In it, Micaela and Sara talk about what inspired them to jointly apply to the program manager position, in which they share responsibility for day-to-day operations of the institute and serve as the primary point of contact for campus and external partners and… Read more →
Icelandic delicacy day at UW CSE
Inspired by the global nature of the Olympic games, the UW CSE Systems Group’s Icelandic Ph.D. students treated us to a lunch of treats from their homeland: fermented shark, smoked and salted foal meat, sheep’s head cheese, liver sausage, blood pudding, flat bread with smoked lamb and butter, sheep pate on rye bread, …
Michael Phelps may have won twenty two gold medals, but we bet he wouldn’t have been able to work his way through this stuff …… Read more →
UW Interactive Data Lab’s Vega-Lite earns Best Paper at InfoVis 2016
Researchers in the UW Interactive Data Lab led by UW CSE professor Jeffrey Heer have captured the Best Paper Award at InfoVis 2016 for their paper presenting Vega-Lite, a new high-level grammar for rapid and concise specification of interactive data visualizations.
Although interaction is at the heart of effective data visualization, existing systems for designing interactive visualizations are either complex or overly limiting—particularly when it comes to customization. Enter Vega-Lite, which combines a traditional grammar of graphics—including visual encoding… Read more →
MIT Technology Review has the dirt on UW CSE’s Maya Cakmak and her housecleaning robots
UW CSE professor Maya Cakmak and her efforts to train robots to perform everyday tasks are the subject of a recent MIT Technology Review article that posed the question, “What will it take to get a robot to clean your home so you don’t have to do it?”
As it turns out, we have a ways to go before you will be able to trade your Roomba for a Rosie.
Cakmak specializes in programming by demonstration, in which a robot… Read more →
GeekWire reports UW CSE machine learning spinoff Turi acquired by Apple
GeekWire is reporting that Turi, the spin-off founded by Carlos Guestrin, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in UW CSE, has been acquired by Apple.
According to GeekWire’s breaking news post:
“Machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi has been acquired by Apple in a deal characterized as a blockbuster exit for the Seattle-based company, formerly known as Dato and GraphLab, GeekWire has learned.
“The acquisition reflects a larger push by Apple into artificial intelligence and machine learning. It… Read more →
UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska and Luna Dong to be recognized at VLDB 2016
Professor Magda Balazinska and Ph.D. alum Luna Dong of UW CSE’s Database group will be honored for their research contributions to the field of data management at the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016) conference next month. Balazinska receives the inaugural VLDB Women in Database Research Award for her “inspirational research record on scalable distributed data systems.” Dong, who earned her Ph.D. in 2007 working with former UW CSE professor and Database group founder Alon Halevy, receives the VLDB… Read more →
In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers.
Gary died in 1994, at the young age of 52. In 1993, the year before his… Read more →