Paul G. Allen, founder of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), aims to spur the development of artificial intelligence that can understand and answer general questions about the world. Today, AI2 CEO (and UW CSE professor) Oren Etzioni announced the creation of the Allen AI Science Challenge – inviting academic and industry researchers to demonstrate that their AI system can outperform all others on an 8th grade multiple choice science test.
“IBM has announced that Watson is ‘going to… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson recognized with ACM SIGOPS “Hall of Fame” Award
A number of major technical conferences have introduced “Test of Time” awards recognizing research papers that have had the greatest impact with the benefit of (typically) ten or more years of hindsight.
The “ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame” is the “Test of Time” award for the operating systems community.
At this week’s ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, UW CSE professor Tom Anderson’s 1993 ACM SOSP paper “Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation” – co-authored with Robert Wahbe, Steve Lucco,… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alumna A.J. Brush of Microsoft Research to lead CRA-W virtual town hall
UW CSE alumna A.J. Brush (Ph.D., ’02) is kicking off the CRA-W’s new series of virtual undergraduate town halls on Thursday, October 8th at 2:00 pm with a talk on inventing technology for homes and families.
The CRA-W virtual town hall series offers undergraduate students an opportunity to interact with leading women in the field of computing and get answers to their questions on topics ranging from how to get involved in undergraduate research, to professional development, to how… Read more →
UW CSE @ SOSP
As always, UW CSE was well represented at the biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. This was the 25th SOSP – the 50th anniversary of this premier operating systems conference.
Learn about UW CSE’s research in systems and networking here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Kurtis Heimerl and Endaga joining Facebook
UW CSE alum and soon-to-be faculty member Kurtis Heimerl (UW CSE B.S. ’07, UC Berkeley Ph.D. ’13) co-founded startup company Endaga to help under-served communities in remote areas of the world to build small-scale, independent cellular networks that they own and run themselves. The company – which was spun out of UC Berkeley, where Kurtis completed his Master’s, Ph.D. and postdoc working with another UW CSE alum, Tapan Parikh (Ph.D., ’07) – epitomizes the potential for technology to meaningfully improve… Read more →
UW CSE news “back to school” edition
Classes started this week on the beautiful UW campus – and in K-12 schools across the region. To mark the occasion, UW CSE professor James Fogarty and his son posed for the traditional back-to-school photo.
As James said, “Excited for the first day of classes. Awesome staff, awesome students. Let’s make stuff!”
Welcome back, everyone – we hope you had a great first week!… Read more →
Friends of UW CSE take to the high seas!
Well, it was actually more of a drifting match, but a good time was had by all!
Spencer Rascoff, Michael and Cari Schutzler, Rob Short, Brad Smith, and John and Patti Torode join Tom Alberg, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, and Judy Mahoney aboard Tom’s 77′ sloop Cascadia for a lovely evening on Puget Sound!
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Study rates UW CSE software engineering research most practically relevant of the past five years
A UW CSE research paper on proactive conflict detection, part of the speculative analysis project led by professors Michael Ernst and David Notkin, was rated the most practically relevant software engineering research of the last five years in a recent industrial relevance study.
The study, which was conducted by Microsoft Research and Singapore Management University, asked more than 500 software developers to rate the relevance of 571 research papers in order to determine how relevant software engineering… Read more →
Washington Post: “Paul Allen’s $500 million quest to dissect the mind and code a new one from scratch”
A phenomenal Washington Post article on Paul Allen’s attempt to understand the human mind, working from two directions: the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (led by UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni).
“Paul Allen has been waiting for the emergence of intelligent machines for a very long time. As a young boy, Allen spent much of his time in the library reading science-fiction novels in which robots manage our homes, perform surgery and fly around… Read more →
UW CSE’s Martin Tompa publishes the definitive guide to winning at Schnapsen
When it comes to Schnapsen – the national card game of Austria – UW CSE professor Martin Tompa’s got game. And now the rest of us can, too, with the help of his new book, Winning Schnapsen. Like the title suggests, it is the definitive guide to mastering the 300+ year-old game that enjoys a popular following in continental Europe.
Schnapsen is a two-person card game that has some similarities with another well-known game, Bridge. It is the perfect… Read more →