We admit it … this is pretty close to us talking about ourselves … but not quite.
UW !MPACT, “Informed Advocates of the University of Washington,” blogs:
“Recent UW alums don’t have to get too far off-campus to find a use for their newly-minted technology degrees. Washington’s booming tech industry is responsible for employing 238,900 people, and bringing in over $37 billion in revenue, according to a recent Washington Technology Industry Association study.
“Not only are our grads located in… Read more →
UW CSE’s Verdi team completes first full formal verification of Raft consensus protocol
Distributed systems are hard to get right in large part because they must tolerate faults gracefully: machines may crash and the network may drop, reorder, or duplicate packets. Verdi is a framework from the University of Washington to implement and formally verify distributed systems.
UW CSE’s Verdi team (students James Wilcox, Doug Woos, and Pavel Panchekha, and faculty members Zach Tatlock, Xi Wang, Mike Ernst, and Tom Anderson) has just completed the first full formal verification of the Raft consensus… Read more →
UW’s “Advanced Data Science” Ph.D. option launches!
The University of Washington’s Graduate School has approved the creation of a Ph.D. option in “Advanced Data Science” – an initiative of UW’s $2.8 million National Science Foundation IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research) award in data science, led by UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska.
The goal of the option is not to educate all students in the foundations of data science, but rather to provide advanced education to the students who will push the state-of-the-art in data science methods… Read more →
UW hosts NSF-sponsored Data Science Workshop 2015
Data Science Workshop 2015, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will be held at the University of Washington on August 5-7. The workshop will bring together 100 graduate students from across the nation, representing diverse science and engineering domains, to interact with data scientists from industry and academia.
David Beck, the UW eScience Institute’s Director of Research for the Life Sciences, chairs the Organizing Committee. Program partners include the UW eScience Institute (CSE’s Ed Lazowska is the Director, and… Read more →
UW waives indirect cost on cloud services
The University of Washington has waived indirect cost on cloud services.
This decision removes one of several bizarre disincentives to the rational selection of research computing and storage options – disincentives that plague universities nationwide.
Federal guidelines waive indirect cost on purchased equipment – so purchasing a $100K cluster costs a grant budget $100K, despite the fact that this equipment must be housed, powered, cooled, backed up, replaced …
Meanwhile, indirect cost is charged on outsourced cloud services – so… Read more →
Kurtis Heimerl to join UW CSE faculty
We are thrilled to announce that Kurtis Heimerl will be joining the UW CSE faculty in early winter 2016. Kurtis’ research interests span information and communication technologies and development (ICTD), human-computer interaction, and networks and systems. He was recognized with a 2014 MIT Technology Review TR35 Award for his work on Community Cellular, a low-cost, low-power system for providing small-scale, locally-owned cellular networks to rural communities that lack existing cellular coverage. After building the first network in a small village… Read more →
UW CSE’s Mike Ernst talks to BBC News about the gamification of cyber-security
Normally, we don’t play around when it comes to cyber-security. But according to UW CSE professor Mike Ernst, playing around may be just what we need in order to better defend against hackers and cyber-criminals. BBC News reported this week on the Verigames project – part of DARPA’s Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program – which harnesses the power of citizen science to make software less vulnerable. Mike talked to the BBC about engaging players of casual games, including… Read more →
UW CSE’s Chris Diorio named Innovator of the Year at 2015 ACE Awards
UW CSE faculty member Chris Diorio, who co-founded the RFID company Impinj based on technology developed here at UW CSE and at his Ph.D. alma mater, Caltech, was named Innovator of the Year at the ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards by the EDN Network and EE Times.
Chris was honored for “his pioneering work in advancing next-generation UHF RFID technology,” and for being a “tireless promoter of RFID’s potential since entering the industry in 2002.” In addition to… Read more →
UW CSE’s resident car-hacking expert, Yoshi Kohno, in the Washington Post
UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno was quoted in this week’s big, scary story in The Washington Post on hacking and the Internet of Things, inspired by his past research on the vulnerability of motor vehicle systems.
Last fall, Yoshi and a team of students were featured in this segment that aired on 60 Minutes in which they remotely took control of a car driven around a UW parking lot (a deserted UW parking lot!) by correspondent Lesley Stahl. Recently, another… Read more →
UW’s SideSwipe featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research led by UW CSE and EE professors Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel that will enable “command by gesture” for smartphones is the topic of a special report on human-machine interfaces in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. The technology, known as SideSwipe, relies on a phone’s own wireless transmissions, using small antennae to read changes in the signal caused by different hand motions.
From the article:
“Smartphones have become increasingly affordable and more widely used… Read more →