The paper Latency-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory describing UW CSE’s GRAPPA system was recognized today as a Best Paper at the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
GRAPPA is a modern take on software distributed shared memory (DSM) for in-memory data-intensive applications. GRAPPA enables users to program a cluster as if it were a single, large, non-uniform memory access (NUMA) machine. Performance scales up even for applications that have poor locality and input-dependent load distribution. GRAPPA addresses deficiencies of previous… Read more →
Jake Wobbrock profiled in NY Times
Jake Wobbrock – iSchool professor, CSE adjunct professor, and founding CEO and now chief scientist of AnswerDash, a provider of automated customer service for websites – is profiled in today’s New York Times in the “Corner Office” feature. A few excerpts:
“There’s no genuine opportunity to be a hero without the opportunity to be a goat, too. So if you’re on the free throw line at the end of the basketball game with one second left and two shots… Read more →
UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos, Geoff Hulten win KDD2015 Test of Time Award
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos and his Ph.D. alum Geoff Hulten (now at Microsoft Research) have received the KDD2015 Test of Time Award – presented at the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to a paper from a KDD conference beyond the last decade that has had an important impact on the data mining research community.
KDD is the flagship conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the top… Read more →
UW CSE’s computer science summer day camps kick off!
This week marked the kickoff of UW CSE’s extensive set of computer science summer day camps for elementary, middle, and high school students.
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 7 we’ll again host “Physical Computing.”
During the weeks of July 21 and August 11 we’ll host students entering grades 7-9 for “Building Android Apps.”
During the… Read more →
Washington State invests in Computer Science education!
All-in-all, the Washington State legislature’s session that draws to a close this week (after its second overtime period – thank god they didn’t have to resort to penalty kicks) was a great one for Computer Science!
With extraordinary leadership from Reps. Drew Hansen and Chad Magendanz, and with strong backing from Code.org, Microsoft, the Washington Tech Industry Association, and many others, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1813, establishing standards for learning and teaching computer science in K-12.
In the… Read more →
The fastest growing AP exam in the past 5 years: Computer Science!
Granted, we had (and still have) a pretty deep hole to climb out of, but between 2010 and 2015, Computer Science AP exams are up by 150% – from 20,000/year to 50,000/year.
This is particularly remarkable since only 5% of schools offer AP Computer Science. Let’s fix that!
Visit the Code.org website here; check out their blog post on AP growth here.… Read more →
What does the founder of a tech startup look like?
What does the founder of a tech startup look like? Not like the photo to on the right!
Claire Cain Miller reports in the New York Times on a study by researchers at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The average founder is 38, with a master’s degree and 16 years of work experience.
And while only 12 percent of current founders are women, when the researchers searched for potential founders based on matches with other characteristics of successful founders, 20… Read more →
Happy retirement, Scott Rose!
UW CSE M.S. alum Scott Rose has been CSE’s extraordinary webmaster-in-exile for more than 20 years – working first from Madison WI and then from Vancouver BC as he accommodated the career of his academic superstar wife, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anne Condon.
Anne has a sabbatical coming up (Caltech, New Zealand, and Ireland are on the agenda), and Scott took the opportunity to pull the ripcord.
Thanks, Scott, for your decades of superb work!
(Additional Bruce Hemingway photos here… Read more →
UW CSE Leadership Seminar Series
Each year, UW CSE’s Leadership Seminar Series brings alumni and friends back to campus to impart career success lessons from the school of hard knocks to upper-division undergraduates. This evening we thanked Bay Area participants in 2015’s Leadership Seminar Series at a dinner in San Francisco. Left-to-right: Erin Walker, Ed Lazowska, Ph.D. alum Brian Pinkerton (A9), Bachelors alum Mohamed El-Zohairy (NileTap -> CloudPress -> News Corp), Dan Grossman, Bachelors alum Brandon Ballinger (Google -> Sift Science -> healthcare.gov).
Thanks for… Read more →
UW CSE @ Sift Science
On Friday, Dan Grossman and Ed Lazowska visited UW CSE alum Jason Tan, co-founder and CEO of Bay Area startup Sift Science – bringing machine-learning-powered fraud detection to online merchants of all sizes.… Read more →