Joe Traub – Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, as well as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute – passed away earlier this week.
Joe was a giant of the field, and an inspiration. After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1959, he was hired by Bell Laboratories. He continued at Bell Labs until 1970, when he began his professorial career at the University of Washington. Soon after, in 1971, he was offered the… Read more →
UW CSE student and football freestyler Cory Black in the Seattle Times
For anyone wondering if hard-working UW CSE students have lives outside of their academic studies: check out the great Seattle Times story on our very own Cory Black, computer science major and “freestyle magician.” Cory is competing in the Super Ball World Open Championships this week in Liberec, Czech Republic.
From the article:
“After years playing soccer, Cory Black realized he enjoyed doing tricks with the ball more than the game itself.
“Fortunately for Black, 19, a Bellevue resident and… Read more →
Eli Shlizerman joins UW EE
UW Electrical Engineering has just announced the hiring of data analysis expert Eli Shlizerman, joint with UW Applied Mathematics.
Shlizerman’s research focuses on analyzing complex dynamic networks, such as the nervous system. Typically, such networks are extremely challenging to study because of their complex structure and intricate time-dependent dynamics. To overcome these challenges, Shlizerman developed analysis methods that fuse data analysis with dynamical system theory, which uses various equations to determine the behavior of complex systems.
Congratulations to Eli, to… Read more →
Washington Monthly hearts UW
Washington Monthly’s College Guide and Rankings ranks four-year colleges in America on “three measures that would make the whole system better, if only schools would compete on them.” The first is upward mobility: Are schools enrolling and graduating students of modest means and charging them a reasonable price? The second is research: Are they preparing undergraduates to earn PhDs, and creating the new technologies and ideas that will drive economic growth and advance human knowledge? The third is service: Are… Read more →
Paul G. Allen receives 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
UW CSE friend and benefactor Paul G. Allen will receive a 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
The Carnegie Medal goes to those who use their private wealth to improve the greater public good. Paul was selected for his work to protect the oceans, fight Ebola, save endangered species, help expand educational opportunities for girls, research the human brain and support the arts, according to the Carnegie statement.
Plus, of course, there’s our building …
Congratulations Paul!
GeekWire post here… Read more →
UW eScience Institute’s data science do-gooders featured in Xconomy
“What did you do on your summer vacation?” is a common refrain as students and faculty return to campus. For the students who took part in the UW eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good program, they can honestly say they spent their summer trying to make the world a better place – and they did it with data.
DSSG gave students from a range of disciplines the opportunity to work with data scientists and public stakeholders to apply the… Read more →
Justine Sherry wins Best Student Paper Award at SIGCOMM 2015
2010 UW CSE bachelors alum Justine Sherry – now completing her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley – is first author on this year’s Best Student Paper at SIGCOMM 2015, the premier conference in computer networking.
The paper – “Rollback-Recovery for Middleboxes” – is part of Justine’s Berkeley thesis work. Network middleboxes must offer high availability, with automatic failover when a device fails. Unlike routers, when middleboxes fail they most recover lost state about active network connections to perform… Read more →
A super summer of UW CSE computer science day camps for K-12 students!
This week marked 2015’s 9th and final UW CSE summer computer science day camp for K-12 students.
During the week of June 29 we hosted a co-ed camp for students entering grades 3-5 for “Scratch Adventures,” and a co-ed camp for students entering grades 10-12 for “Physical Computing.”
During the week of July 6 we again hosted “Physical Computing.”
During the weeks of July 20 and August 10 we hosted students entering grades 7-9 for “Building Android Apps.”
During the… Read more →
Summer 2015 Google Faculty Research Awards
Another great performance by UW CSE faculty and alums in the most recent Google Faculty Research Awards:
Human-Computer Interaction
UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and former Creative Director of the UW Center for Game Science) Seth Cooper (Northeastern University)
UW CSE affiliate professor Sean Munson (UW Human Centered Design & Engineering)
UW CSE affiliate professor and Ph.D. grandchild Jessica Hullman (UW Information School, and the University of Michigan Ph.D. alum of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Eytan Adar)
Networking
UW CSE… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher in Wired: “Think twice about what you’re plugging into your car”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher, of 60 Minutes car hacking fame, is in the news once again for exposing the vulnerabilities of motor vehicle systems with a team at University of California, San Diego, where he is doing a postdoc with UCSD CSE professors and UW CSE Ph.D. alums Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker.
This time, Karl and his fellow researchers demonstrate for Wired magazine and the USENIX security conference a new threat for motorists: common plug-in devices… Read more →