On the 20th anniversary of Madrona Venture Group, and the day before the annual awarding of the Madrona Prize at our Industry Affiliates meeting, a lovely Seattle Times profile of its co-founder and our friend Tom Alberg.
“As one of the first investors in Amazon.com, Tom Alberg has been an active participant in the Seattle area’s tech industry for decades. He talks about those years, Amazon and investing in risky startups.”
Related: A post by Amazon’s Jay Carney, “What The … Read more →
Grace and Magda
A terrific crew of UW CSE students returned from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing just in time for a brunch for CSE’s women graduate students hosted by Magda Balazinska.
We are proud to have received, last spring, the inaugural annual award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology for Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing.
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UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher named runner-up for SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher has been named runner-up for the second annual SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer and Information Security for his UW Ph.D. thesis, “Securing Embedded Systems: Analyses of Modern Automotive Systems and Enabling Near-Real Time Dynamic Analysis.” The award was announced at the Conference on Computer and Communications Security, the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), held this week… Read more →
UW and Microsoft Research develop camera that reveals what we can’t see
UW faculty and students worked with Microsoft Research on the development of a new, affordable hyperspectral camera called HyperCam that is capable of capturing details unseen by the naked eye – including those beneath the surface of an object. The system, which has many potential applications, was created by UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel; UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello; CSE graduate students Mayank Goel, Eric Whitmire and Alex Mariakakis; and Scott Saponas, Neel Joshi, Dan Morris,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and students featured in NOVA episode on cybersecurity
UW CSE professor and cybersecurity expert Yoshi Kohno and two teams of graduate students from the Security and Privacy Research Lab were featured in this week’s episode of NOVA, “CyberWar Threat,” that aired on PBS.
The first part of the segment revisited the now-famous car hacking research done in conjunction with UCSD. Yoshi and his team – which included former CSE Ph.D. students Karl Koscher, now a postdoc at UCSD, and Franzi Roesner, now a professor at… Read more →
Join us at UW CSE’s annual Open House!
UW CSE’s annual Open House for friends, alumni, and industry affiliates will take place on Tuesday October 20 from 5-7 p.m. in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Food, drink, posters, demos, friends, and the awarding of the Madrona Prize.
Please join us! Information here!… Read more →
Madhouse at UW CSE resume review workshop!
UW CSE’s annual Industry Affiliates Meeting takes place next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday:
Monday: recruiting by startups and smaller companies, followed by a “startup pitch gong show” and a Q&A session
Tuesday: a day of research interactions, followed by an early evening Open House with posters and demos for affiliate, alumni, and friend, including the awarding of the Madrona Prize
Wednesday: recruiting by established companies
In the run-up, 315 student resumes were reviewed on Tuesday by 15 exhausted industry volunteers!… Read more →
Ana Mari Cauce named UW President!
Congratulations to us!
Ana Mari is one of us. She arrived here as a faculty member in 1986, and she’s made her career here, not just as a faculty member, but as Director of the Honors Program, Chair of Psychology, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Provost, and Interim President. She has risen through the ranks on her very considerable merits, and she is committed to the University of Washington’s missions of excellence and access.
Seattle Times, UW Today,… Read more →
Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium
Saturday marked the Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium, held in conjunction with the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2015).
Following an introduction by Ed Lazowska, awards commemorating Gaetano’s achievements were presented to his wife Melissa by IEEE USA President Jim Jeffries and by UNESCO United States National Commissioner Sheree Wen. Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) and John Bennett (University of Colorado), leaders in ICTD, presented keynotes. Richard Anderson, organizer of the symposium, chaired a panel that… Read more →
“The Master Algorithm” reaches #7!
Pedro Domingos’ popular book about machine learning, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine will Remake our World, is #7 on the Washington Post‘s best seller list!
Watch out, The Martian – can a feature film be far behind?
Late to the party? Buy it from Amazon here!
Check out Pedro on the big screen here and here, and watch the video of his appearance at Seattle’s Town Hall here.… Read more →