Department of Computer Science & Engineering Volume 10, Number 2University of Washington Summer 1998

Karp ReceivesTechnion’sHarvey PrizeIn May Prof. Richard Karp was awardedthe Leo M. Harvey Prize in Science andEngineering by the Technion - Israel In-stitute of Technology. Karp was recog-nized for his “leadership and achieve-ments in the areas of theoretical computerscience and operations research.” Hisfundamental contributions to combinato-rial algorithms were specifically cited.

The Harvey Prize recognizes break-throughs in science, technology andmedicine as well as contributions to peacein the Middle East. Along with luminar-ies such as Mikhail S. Gorbachev andFreeman Dyson, there have been severalother computational pioneers recognized:Claude E. Shannon, Michael O. Rabin,George B. Dantzig, Benoit B. Mandelbrotand Donald E. Knuth.

Born in Lithuania in 1887, Harvey emi-grated to the US in 1907, attended Coo-per Union School in New York City, andmoved to Southern California in 1911,where he became a successful industri-alist. After World War II he developed aworldwide aluminum processing busi-ness. The Prize has been awarded annu-ally since 1972 “to celebrate the advance-ments of humanity and outstanding ef-forts towards peace.”

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Paul YoungRetiresAfter a distinguished and influential career, 15 years of which were spent on tUW faculty, Paul Young has decided tretire. At 62 years, Young explained hobjective as “wanting to spend more timdoing only the things I want to do.” Hewill leave Seattle for his 80 acre farm iWisconsin, where he and his wife, DebbJoseph, a computer science professothe University of Wisconsin, will restoremuch of the land to its original prairiehabitat.

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Young, a graduate of Antioch Colleg(’59) who earned his PhD from MIT(’63), joined the UW faculty in 1983 fromPurdue, where he had spent most of early career. He was UW Computer Sence chair from 1983 to 1988. Thouhis leadership style emphasized conssus and cooperation, Richard Ladnclaimed at Young’s retirement party, thit was nevertheless difficult having Paas chair. “None of us who worked wihim ever learned to read Paul’s handwing,” he quipped. A sampling of Youngmemos and marginalia were circulatedthe mystification of the partiers.

Young, whose dissertation advisor wHartley Rogers, made seminal contribtions to recursion theory and abstracomplexity theory.

At the transition between the Young aBaer administrations, the departmemoved from the College of Arts and Scences to the College of EngineerinShortly after the move, Dean of Engineing J. Ray Bowen named Young Assoate Dean of Engineering for ResearcFacilities and External Affairs. By reo

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Richard Anderson, GaetanoBorriello and Anna Karlin have beenpromoted to the rank of Professor.

Brian Curless joined the faculty af-ter receiving his doctorate fromStanford.

Chris Diorio joined the faculty afterreceiving his doctorate from Caltech.

Oren Etzioni returned from a sabbati-cal spent in Israel.

Alistair Holden has retired.

Nancy Leveson has been on leave forthe past year visiting MIT.

Alon Levy joined the faculty fromAT&T Laboratories.

David Notkin returned from a sabbati-cal spent partly in Israel and Japan.

Steve Tanimoto returned from a sab-batical part of which was spent inRome.

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dering his responsibilities, Young becamknown around the department as tDean of F.E.A.R.

Young was also instrumental in founing the Computer Research Associat(CRA). CRA, whose membership includes the PhD-granting computer sence and engineering departments ofUS and Canada as well as industrial laand computer related societies, is tprincipal advocate for the computer rsearch agenda in North America. Youserved as its first chair and guided it establishing its Washington, DC officIn recognition of his many contributionto the field, Young was awarded CRA1996 Distinguished Service Award.

In 1994, Young was drafted to be Asstant Director of the National SciencFoundation’s Computer and InformatioScience and Engineering (CISE) diretorate. He was responsible for new intiatives, and implemented needed forms. Characteristic of his public spirand at the expense of his well-earned sbatical, Young stayed on after his CISterm was completed to oversee t“NPACI re-competition,” which selectethe next generation NSF Supercompusites.

Young characterized his UW administrtion as having continued the departmenresearch momentum, hired the best athe brightest and enhanced undergraate instruction:

• The research “momentum,” begun ding his predecessor Bob Ritchie’s admistration, referred to sustaining thdepartment’s large projects, including tEden Project, Blue CHiP Project and tVLSI Consortium. The department uder Young landed two more coordinatexperimental research (CER) awards agreatly enhanced its experimental pofolio.

• In faculty recruiting, Robert HenryDavid Notkin, Ken Sloan, Richard PattTony DeRose, Richard Anderson, CaEbeling, Martine Schlag, Paul BeamGaetano Borriello, Dan Weld and SusEggers were hired. To emphasize t

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these were the “best and the brightenine of them won the prestigious Predential Young Investigator Award, wiUW scoring triple winners two years a row.

• The undergraduate major was doubin size during the Young administratioand there was a concerted effort to ada more lab-intensive curriculum.

Perhaps the most miraculous develment of Young’s tenure as chair occurin May ’87 when the Steam PowerTuring Machine mural appeared in tEast stairwell of Sieg Hall. Taking ation the moment he heard about it, Youcalled UW’s physical plant, told them tpainting was not graffiti and requestthat they seal it. This departmental icis a fitting reminder of the Young Admiistration since Turing Machines wecritical to his research.

Lazowska ReceivesService Award

The 1998 UW Outstanding Public Sevice Award has been presented to CSChair Ed Lazowska for his contributionbeyond the UDub campus. Praise for htireless volunteer work poured in fromcommunity leaders such as SeattSchools Superintendent John Stanfoand State Representative Tom Huff. Thtop administrators who nominateLazowska stated that “The range animpact of his public service is simply ofthe chart. His record of achievementsalmost unbelievable. We are convincehe never sleeps.”

The support and testimonials tLazowska’s contributions came fromSeattle, the state and the nation. Stanfin his letter of support asserted that “thvolunteer work that Dr. Lazowska hadonated on behalf of the 47,000 studenof the Seattle Public Schools is invaluable.” The Alliance for Education gavLazowska its first ever A+ PartnershiAward for his contributions to the publicschools. Huff asserted that “The scopand quality of his service in support oeconomic development, education prgrams and policy, telecommunicationpolicy, land-use policy and tax policy iunprecedented in my experience

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EE/CSE Building Dedication, April 16, 1998. From left: Ed Lazowska, Greg Zick (EE),Dean Denice Denton, President Richard McCormick, Provost Lee Huntsman.

Steam PoweredDatabases?

Scott Johnson (BS ’90), who is on thesenior technical staff at Oracle, reportshaving recently killed off a tedious inter-nal email discussion about the finer pointsof Turing Machines by circulating ahyperlink to UW’s Steam Powered Tur-ing Machine mural. Along with a couplereplies to Johnson that it was the “mostenlightening contribution” of all, therecame a flurry of questions from the over-seas sales force: “What’s a Turing Ma-chine, what version of Oracle ships on it,and do we have TPC-C [benchmark per-formance] results yet?”

It has 84,500 usable square feet, staof-the-art labs, classrooms with full mutimedia support, commons areas andfice space. What the EE/CSE Buildindoesn’t have yet is CSE. That’s PhaII. For now the focus is on the just completed Phase I.

In April the handsome neo-Gothic building was dedicated by UW President Rchard L. McCormick. Rhapsodizinabout this “nexus between interrelatand complementary departments,” tpresident said the “[completed] buildinwill serve as a catalyst for major contbutions to the development of informtion technology, and as a setting for ecellence in education and research.”

Other speakers at the dedication wDean of Engineering Denice Denton athe two chairs, Greg Zick of EE and ELazowska of CSE. Denton lauded twof her premier departments, and thquipped that the world is becoming technological that an engineering degwill become the “liberal arts degree” othe next millennium. Following the ribbon cutting, guests were invited to tothe innovative, high-tech facility.

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Built on the southeast side of DrumhelFountain occupying a former parking lbehind the old EE building, EE/CSE wplanned to have multiple constructiophases. Phase I, built against the oldbuilding but without disturbing it, wouldallow EE to vacate their old premises inthe new facility. Then the wrecking bawould make space for Phase II. Finawhen the whole project was complet

the two departments would redistributhemselves to benefit from intellectuaaffinities in the closely allied fields.

Project implementation became rockhowever, and the EE/CSE Building construction became controversial. Thbuilding was completed months behinschedule, it could not be occupied intially because of a moldy ventilation sytem and there was a huge cost overrThe Seattle Times reported that the finprice tag for Phase I was $90 millionwhich represented a $20.5 million budget overage. There was considerable fger pointing among the university, thgeneral contractor, Ellis-Don of MerceIsland, and the architects, KallmanMcKinnell & Wood of Boston. UW can-celed Ellis-Don’s contract for Phase Iand contested $10 million in chargethough it only recovered $3.3 millionThe cancellation and overrun put PhaII construction in jeopardy, and prompteUW to reexamine its construction contracting procedures. But, at the dediction McCormick committed UW to completing the project so that CSE will havhigh quality space.

Since Spring Quarter, various CSclasses were scheduled in the new buiing. In the technology-loaded clasrooms, it is possible for a professor dispense with physical transparencieand simply project the lecture from laptop or the WWW.

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MSB is published semiannuallyby the UW Department of Com-puter Science & Engineering toprovide current information aboutits undergraduates, graduate stu-dents, faculty and alumni. MSBis supported by the CSE AffiliatesProgram. Volume 10, Number 2editors are Larry Snyder and JudyWatson. We are grateful to ourcontributors: Tony DeRose; BrianCurless and Marc Levoy for theHappy Buddha cover graphicwhich illustrates 3D scanning;photos by Judy Watson, LarrySnyder, Vicky Palm, Mary Levin,Kathy Sauber, and Kevin Clark;photo of Gary Kildall from hisdaughter Kristin.

DeRose at Oscarsas Geri’s GameWins

Former CSE professor Tony DeRose wone of five Pixar filmmakers in attendance at the 1998 Academy Awards whtheir film “Geri’s game” won the Oscafor “Best Animated Short Film.” Thefilm is indeed short, just 4.5 minutes, bit pioneered new techniques in graphicrendering of cloth and skin. The filmpremiered in Los Angeles in Novembelittle more than a week before this yeaaward deadline. According to Tony, hand Cindy “went crazy when they anounced the winner!”

The film stars an old man — Geri is shfor geriatric — who spends his days plaing chess with himself in the park. It hnot yet been theatrically released, but been a hit at animation festivals, incluing the famous Spike and Mike’s Animtion Festival.

DeRose, who joined Pixar two years aafter a decade as a CSE faculty memsaid “There were two objectives in maing Geri’s Game. First, the film was tdevelop new creative talent, and JPinkava, the writer and director, contriuted to that goal. Second, the film wto improve the technology for humaanimation beyond what was possibleToy Story. Michael Kass, who developa simulated cloth system, and I contruted to that goal.” DeRose modeled hman motion and the skin. The other twfilmmakers on the award were producKaren Dufilo and supervising technicdirector David Haumann. At the peak production 25 people were working othe film.

A key technology is DeRose’s subdivsion surfaces, which keeps a skin surftogether as a whole. It also helps to cate the digital puppet which animators uto control the character’s motion. Potions of this technology will be presentthis summer in a SIGGRAPH pape“Subdivision Surfaces in Character Anmation.”

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DeRose said “The original plan was develop new technology in the conteof Geri’s Game, then migrate it into threst of the company after the film wacompleted. It turned out that much what we developed spread like wildfirand will be heavily used in all our upcoming feature films, including A Bug’sLife due in November.”

DeRose described working on the filas a “blast.” “It’s wonderful to work inan environment where what you do wbe enjoyed by millions of people.”

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Sabbaticals give faculty an opportunto recharge their batteries and to thabout new research ideas. UW alCarla Ellis (PhD ’79) has discoveredbrilliant way to combine both. She hinvented a new device, called HikeBuddy, that allows her to study opering systems problems while hiking in tCascades.

Hiker’s Buddy assists outdoors enthuasts in the field by combining a PalmPhand-held computer, digitized topgraphical maps, a Global PositioniSystem (GPS) and a wireless commucation link back to a “homebase” computer. Ellis envisions many applicatiofor the unit ranging from showing lo

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Ellis, who is on Duke University’s computer science faculty, is the fifth visitoto UW sponsored by NSF’s ProfessionOpportunities for Women in Researand Education (POWRE) program. Tprogram is designed to enrich the opptunities for graduate students to meet scessful women researchers who mserve as role models and mentors.

The Hiker’s Buddy raises many interesing operating systems questions in tcontext of a truly mobile application operating in a “difficult” environment.Among these Ellis identifies power maagement, satellite accessibility, map relution, route deviations and wireless conectivity.

Earlier visitors to UW under the POWRprogram included another UW alumAnne Condon (PhD ’87) from the Unversity of Wisconsin, Anna Karlin fromDigital Equipment who joined the UWfaculty after her visit, Mary Vernon alsfrom Wisconsin, and Donna Quamefrom George Mason University.

The Best TAs The Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching As-sistant was awarded to Brian Dewey and Craig Kaplan. Sung-Eun Choi receivedhonorable mention.

UW Alums Promoted Soma Chaudhuri and Akhilesh Tyagi have been pro-moted to Associate Professor of Computer Science with tenure at Iowa State Univer-sity. Soma (PhD ’90) studied with Richard Ladner, and Akhilesh (PhD ’88) studiedwith Larry Snyder. Carla Ellis (PhD ’79) has been promoted to the rank of Professorat Duke University. Carla studied with Jean-Loup Baer.

The Reign Continues Ed Lazowska, having completed a five year term aschair of the department was reappointed by Dean of Engineering Denice Denton forthree more years. Denton cited Lazowska’s effectiveness as chair. With an eyetowards a long delayed sabbatical, Ed requested an abbreviated second term.

Best Staffer Senior Administrator Chris Cunnington has been awarded the 1998College of Engineering Outstanding Staff Award. During her 18 years at UW Chrishas assisted—or perhaps endured—departmental chairs Bob Ritchie, Paul Young,Jean-Loup Baer and Ed Lazowska. Lazowska credits her with having on occasion“saved the department from collapse.”

Top Prof I University of Virginia Assistant Professor Kevin Sullivan (PhD ’94)has been named one of seven UVa Teaching Fellows for 1998-99 in recognition ofhis teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. He was also voted “the top un-dergraduate professor” by the UVa student ACM Chapter. Sullivan was advised byDavid Notkin.

Top Prof II UW’s Student ACM Chapter, perhaps following UVa’s lead, inaugu-rated a “top prof” award. Martin Tompa was the first winner of their DistinguishedTeaching Award. One hundred undergraduates filled out nominations for their fa-vorite teachers, according to Vincent Lam, chapter president. Other high scoringfaculty were Gaetano Borriello, Anna Karlin, Dick Karp and Larry Ruzzo. In anapparent reference to the fact that all of the high scoring faculty except Borrielltheoreticians, Tompa accepted the award with the cry, “Theory Rules!”

Celebrating Women Professor Linda Shapiro was the featured speaker aUniversity of Iowa’s Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among WomShapiro, who received her PhD in 1974, was the first woman to receive a docfrom Iowa’s Computer Science Department. The CS Department’s Women In Cputer Science organization hosted the celebration this year. Shapiro’s presen“Computer Vision: From the 70’s to the 90’s,” related work from her dissertawith current practice.

Distinguished Professor UW-Bothell campus CS Department chair Bill Erdhas won the first annual UW-Bothell Worthington Distinguished Professor Awa

200th PhD In June CSE graduated Soha Hassoun, the 200th PhD since thgram began awarding degrees in 1967. Soha, who was advised by Carl Ebean Assistant Professor at Tufts University in Boston. CSE’s first PhD was Quinlan. Brian Bershad was the 100th doctorate.

DatagramsJaechs GiveDiversity AGenerous Assist

In a very affirmative action Jeremy andLinda Jaech have pledged $240,000 toCSE to attract and maintain a more di-verse student body. The focus will be onstepped-up recruitment, tutoring andmentoring programs directed atunderrepresented and disadvantaged stu-dents.

Jeremy Jaech is a CS grad (MS ’80), andis founder and CEO of Visio Corpora-tion, a maker of graphics software forbusinesses. But, that is his present career.Earlier, in July 1985, Jaech and the twoco-founders of Aldus Corporationlaunched PageMaker, the pioneeringdesktop publishing software.

The Jaech’s commitment drew praisefrom CSE Chair Ed Lazowska. “Demandfor top computer talent increases daily,so we must educate the greatest numberof the best minds. White males will beonly one component. The Jaechs are help-ing us to reach the largest possible talentpool.”

Jaech acknowledges that “This is an ex-periment;” but adds, “If it works, we’lldo more of it.”

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The award, presented at a Universitwide ceremony on June 11, carried wiit a $3500 check. In celebratioLazowska chartered the Argosy’s QueMary for a cruise of Lake Washington fothe faculty, students and staff of the dpartment.

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Duplication of faculty first names has long been a CSE curiosity. In 1992 MSB noted several duplicates over CSE’s briefhistory: Alans: Shaw and Borning; Larrys: Ruzzo and Snyder; Pauls: Young and Beame; Richards: Ladner, Anderson andPattis; Davids: Dekker, Notkin and Salesin; Roberts: Ritchie, Herriot and Henry; Steves: Tanimoto, Hanks and Burns. Thoughwe’ve added a pair of Brians and another Martin, the big news this year is duplicate last names. We now have two Levys, Hankand Alon, and two Andersons, Richard and Tom. It’s just a matter of time before we hire another Zahorjan!—Ed.

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Tom AndersonReturns to UDub

UW alum Tom Anderson (PhD ’91) returned to alma mater as an Associate Professor after a half dozen years Berkeley’s EECS department. “Tom wextremely successful at Berkeley,” saEd Lazowska, who with Hank Levy coadvised Anderson’s doctoral resear“We’re delighted to have him back.”

Anderson has been recognized for research and his teaching. As a newsistant professor he received the NSPresidential Young Investigator Award1992. Two years later he was recognizwith NSF’s even more selective awathe Presidential Faculty Fellowship. further honor, also in 1994, was tAlfred P. Sloan Research FellowshEmphasizing that Anderson is as effetive in the classroom as he is in the lhe was awarded the Diane S. McEntAward for Excellence in Teaching i1995. In addition he has written seveaward winning papers.

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Anderson, whose bachelors degreefrom Harvard (’83) in Philosophy, wrota doctoral dissertation titled, OperatingSystem Support for High PerformanMultiprocessors, but his interests havevolved. At Berkeley he was a principinvestigator on the Network of Workstations or NOW Project. The effort interconnected commodity engineering worstations to build a cost-effective high peformance parallel computer. More rcently he has been a PI on the IRAProject, which combines DRAM technoogy with processor technology. Berkley has also allowed him to develop hinterest in networking. He has gradated five MS students and five PhDs.

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Brian CurlessBrings Us Closer toMichelangelo

Just a year after joining UW, BriaCurless will be leaving. His destinatiowill be Italy, and the task will be to asshis doctoral research advisor, StanforMarc Levoy, in creating a high resoltion 3D digitization of Michelangelo’sculptures. The effort, known as the Dital Michelangelo Project, applieCurless’s dissertation research to cstructing digital representations of theRenaissance masterpieces.

“We hope to get quarter millimeter reslution,” says Curless, “That should bgood enough to see Michelangelo’s chmarks clearly.” A whole team of studenand staff headed by Curless, Levoy aUW alum Kari Pulli (PhD ’97) will digi-tize the statues in situ after hours. TheVatican authorization for the project rquired Cardinal-level approval.

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Recalling that the Pieta was attackeda chisel-wielding visitor some years agCurless observes that one obvious apcation of the digitization is as a permnent record of the sculpture’s form. Bit could also be displayed by a 3-D redering device, used by scholars for dtailed analysis off site and at their leisuor even be the basis for exact reprodtions.

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In the 1950’s computers were so unusthat press accounts described them“electronic brains,” probably a useleanalogy to the layman and ridiculousanyone who knew how brainless compers actually are. Now, four decades lathe public has some idea what a compis, and Chris Diorio is intent on buildinan electronic brain. Or almost. He wa“to design fundamentally different computing systems inspired by neurobioogy.”

Diorio’s vision is that humans are gooat certain computational problems—ware expert at face recognition almost frbirth—but these problems are intractawith conventional technology. Dioriwonders if the processes that are sofective for the brain can be used in eltronics.

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Chris Diorio joined the CSE after completing his PhD under the direction oCarver Mead at Caltech. He is a 19Physics major from Occidental Colleg

The Silicon Synapse. As part of his doc-toral dissertation, Diorio created a singtransistor floating-gate MOS device hdubbed the “silicon synapse.” The dvice was applicable to designing certaanalog circuits, to constructing siliconeural networks and to modeling neurbiology. He demonstrated a local learing rule for an array of the silicon synapses, and showed that they could be sstabilizing.

Diorio and his co-authors won the pretigious 1996 Paul Rappaport Award frothe Electron Devices Society for the bepaper in any EDS publication. The awawhich carried a $1000 prize, was prsented at the annual International Eletron Devices Meeting in December. Thpaper “A single-transistor silicon synapse,” by C. Diorio, P. Hasler, B.AMinch and C.A. Mead appeared in IEEETransactions on Electronic Device43(11):1172-1180.

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Given prevailing views about ivorytower academics, it is perhaps surpristo find that relevance is a key componeof Alon Levy’s research. And when henot concerned about relevance, hequally interested in irrelevance. In fahis doctoral dissertation was titled, Irrel-evance Reasoning in Knowledge BasSystems. “Relevance,” according to Lev“means that a tuple is actually usedanswering a query in a database or otreasoning system. Pruning irrelevatuples early in query evaluation leadssignificant performance improvements

In 1988 Levy received his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics froHebrew University in Jerusalem, gradating Summa Cum Laude. He joined tCSE faculty from AT&T Bell Laborato-

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As a Stanford research assistant he ctributed to the How Things Work grouheaded by Prof. Richard Fikes, and it where that he developed relevance reasing and applied it to the domain of moeling physical devices and to query opmization in database systems. Fikes walso Levy’s dissertation co-superviswith Prof. Edward Feigenbaum.

Levy’s research concentrates in the ovlap between the areas of artificial intelgence and databases. At AT&T hworked on information integration anmediator systems, and also hybrid knoedge representation languages and scription logics. Most recently he hadeveloped a novel Web-site managemsystem based on concepts from databsystems.

Over the past several years Levy hspent time collaborating with researcers at the University of Paris-Sud Orsay, France. The projects have volved hybrid knowledge representatioand verification of knowledge bases. 1996 Levy and co-author Marie-Chritine Rousset received the Best PaAward at AAAI’s National Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence for “Verificationof knowledge bases based on contament checking.”

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“Fish Shtick,” the project from the 1and “Whose Hat is That?” have bewere included in the first annual Moin Eugene, Oregon, held in April awith screenings at the Vital InternCardiff, Wales. In September theyFestival” at Bumbershoot, Seattle’s

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Exploring the computational connectioto neurobiology may make Diorio seelike some fuzzy headed dreamer, butis an accomplished design engineer. thesis produced six patents or patentplications. For more than a dozen yefollowing his 1984 Caltech MS in EEhe was an IC designer, primarily at TRHe produced numerous aggressive signs in GaAs. In addition, he studithe quantum effects in two-dimensionelectron gas GaAs, InAs and InSb dvices.

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dents from CSE, Architecture, Art, andid Salesin and Cassidy Curtis, from Pa- various guest lecturers.

996 offering of Computer Animation,en appearing regularly together: Theytion Graphics Animation Arts Festivalnd in “Videotheque,” a video library

ational Animation Festival (VIAF) in will be included in the “1 Reel Film Art Festival at Seattle Center.

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Ted Kehl Now ProfessorEmeritus

In the summer of 1979 Ted Kehl, alwaenthusiastic about the next hot electrotechnology, arranged to have CarvMead, the guru of the VLSI revolutiongive a course on chip design at UWLooking back on it, that event initiatechanges transforming the departmeuniversity and the State of WashingtoFor Ted Kehl and UW, Very Large ScaIntegration was very large.

Kehl, who designed his first chip thsummer, had been designing hardwareyears. But he didn’t start out as an eltrical engineer. Rather, he received of his degrees in Zoology, all from thUniversity of Wisconsin: BS in 1956, Min 1958 and PhD in 1961. In 1967 afta post-doc, instructorship and assistprofessorship in the Physiology Depament at the UW Medical School, Kejoined the Computer Science Group htime. He was promoted to Associate Pfessor (’68) and Professor (’76) in Computer Science and in Physiology. In 19he switched to full time in CSE. Kehretired this past year, but is staying the faculty to teach part-time.

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CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series 1998/99

October 8, 1998Jim Foley, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory

“There’s More to Computing Than Computer Science”

November 12, 1998Michael Stonebraker, Informix Software

“A DBMS View of Middleware”

December 3, 1998Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley

“Beyond Third Generation Cellular Networks: The Integration ofInternet and Telephone Technology”

March 4, 1999David D. Clark , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Internet Telephony: Will it kill the telephone companies,the Internet, or both?”

Lectures are presented at 3:30 p.m. in 210 Kane Hall, University of

Washington, and are open to the public. A reception follows each lecture.

Lecture Series: Live and On FileCSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series has for more than fifteen years presented com-puter science’s most eminent researchers and visionaries. In recent years the lec-tures have been taped and available on UWTV. Now, the DLS series along with thenormal Tuesday/Thursday colloquia and other special series are broadcast live overthe Internet. All lectures are archived and can be replayed. For details visit:www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html#MBONE.

In addition to the DLS lectures, listed below, CSE added a Technology Lecture Se-ries to inaugurate its new Professional Masters Program. A High-Technology Entre-preneurship Speaker Series was also initiated this year with other campus units.

CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series 1997/98: David Patterson, UC Berkeley;Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley; Forest Baskett, Silicon Graphics; JeannetteWing, Carnegie Mellon University.CSE Technology Lecture Series for 1997/98: Jeremy Jaech, President and CEO,Visio; Rob Glaser, Chairman and CEO, Progressive Networks; Glenn Entis, Head ofDream Works Interactive.High-Technology Entrepreneurship Speaker Series 1998: Edward Fritsky, Chair-man and CEO, Immunex; Leroy Hood, Chairman of UW’s Molecular Biotechnol-ogy Dept; George Rathmann, Chairman and CEO, ICOS; Brent Frei, Co-founder ofONYX Software; Anthony Naughtin, President and CEO, InterNAP; Peter Adkison,President, CEO and Janitor, Wizards of the Coast; Thomas Cable, Vice-Chair andCo-Founder of Cable and Howse; Russell Daggatt, President and COO, Teledesic.

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Holden received his BS from the Univesity of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955 andME degree from Yale University in 195In that year he came to graduate schin UW’s EE department, where he rceived his PhD in 1964. Throughout hcareer, Holden’s research interests cused in artificial intelligence and knowedge-based systems. He was the onator of IJCAI, the International JoinConference on Artificial Intelligence, anserved on its board of directors for thrdecades.

As a recent PhD Holden joined the Coputer Science Committee that formed1965. This committee was a self-selecgroup of about a dozen computer entsiasts from EE, mathematics, physics business departments who wanted UDto create a computer science departmBy 1967 they successfully convinced tGraduate School to establish a CompuScience Group to build a graduate pgram in computer science. Holdethough retaining his appointment in E

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The unusually long time interval since the last issue of MSBhas left us with a backlog of accomplishments and achiments, which though no longer late breaking news, are ntheless notable and worthy of recognition.

Faculty Promoted:Craig Chambers was promoted to the rank of Associate fessor with tenure, and Carl Ebeling and Dan Weld were moted to Professor.

Programming Contest Silver Medalists:Of the 1000+ programming teams worldwide that enteACMs 21st Annual Collegiate Programming Contest CSteam finished second. The final competition, held in San CA as part of the annual ACM Conference pitted the topteams from around the world in a grueling five hour comption. The only team to do better than UW was Harvey MCollege in Pomona CA; UW tied for second with the Univsity of Queensland in Brisbane Australia.

Karp Wins Harvard Medal:Professor Dick Karp was one of four recipients of the 1Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of ArtsSciences. The medal has been awarded annually since“for contributions to society that have emerged from their grate education at Harvard.” Karp received his AB (’55), (’56) and PhD (’59) degrees from Harvard.

Lazowska Chairs National Panels:The Computer Research Association’s Board of Directorselected Ed Lazowska to chair the board, succeeding DPatterson of Berkeley. The CRA advocates for computelated research in the US and Canada. Lazowska has alsoselected to chair the Advisory Board for NSF’s Computer Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) directorate,ceeding Bob Sproull of Sun. The CISE Advisory Board ovsees policy and implementation in the directorate.

Salesin Chosen Distinguished Teacher:Associate Professor David Salesin has won the UW’s Diguished Teaching Award, the third CSE professor to doSalesin’s most impressive achievement is to have develCSE458, Computer Animation. This interdisciplinary coubrings computer scientists and art and music students togto create a short animation in the style of Toy Story. The classis co-taught with a computer animation professional, incing Ronen Barzell of Pixar and Cassidy Curtis of Pacific DImages. Outside the classroom, Salesin works closely withdergraduates, giving them research opportunities andauthoring papers with them. In congratulating Salesin, Dof Engineering Denice Denton summed up the characteriof Salesin’s approach to teaching, “I personally appreciat

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Notkin Recognition:Professor David Notkin has been named Fellow of the Aciation for Computing Machinery. In addition, he was receelected chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group in SoftwEngineering, SIGSOFT.

Wilma Bradley Fellowship Announced:A new departmental fellowship, The Wilma Bradley Dissetion Fellowship, has been initiated by a departmental frwho became interested in CSE from Ed Lazowska’s FacLecture last year. The first recipient of the Fellowship is SuEun Choi, who is writing her dissertation with Larry Snyd

Departmental Fellowship Awardees for 1997/98:The Minority and Women Endowment fellowship was awarto Sean Sandys, who is working with Nancy Leveson. CKaplan, who is working with David Salesin, has receivedHellmut Golde Educator’s Fellowship. The Microsoft Endoment Fellowship went to Eric Anderson, who is working wAnna Karlin.

Excite Buys Netbot:Netbot, the start-up company founded on technologies invby Oren Etzioni’s and Dan Weld’s research projects, wasto Excite for $35 million. Netbot’s main product was Janthe Web shopping software. Other start-ups based on inttual property from CSE faculty include Inklination aNuminous, both licensing technology derived from DaSalesin’s group, Appliant, founded on work by Brian Bershgroup, and SafeSoft, applying Nancy Leveson’s research

Governor Locke Looks In:Governor Gary Locke stopped by CSE to gather firsthandon UW’s educational programs. In the photo below, whichin The Daily, CSE junior Mel Eriksen shows Locke someher work.

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UW’s Hits Rank 4thAccording to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a Webversion of the Nielsen ratings has statistically sampledacademic Web sights. MIT is first with 1.9 million hitsestimated in May. Next came the Universities of Illinoisand Michigan tied (1.8) followed by UW, tied with Texasat Austin (1.3). Harvard had about 1.1 million hits, andCMU and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,rounded out the schools with a million or more.

Gail Murphy Notkin UBCLightweight Structural Summarization as an Aid to SoftwaEvolution

Kingsum Chow Notkin IntelSupporting Library Interface Changes in Open System Sware Evolution

Adam Finkelstein Salesin PrincetonMultiresolution Applications in Computer Graphics: CurvesImages and Video

George Forman Zahorjan HP LabsObtaining Responsiveness in Resource-Variable Environm

James Ahrens Tanimoto/Shapiro Los Alamos NLScientific Experiment Management with High-PerformanDistributed Computation

Jeff Dean Chambers DEC WRLWhole-Program Optimization of Object-Oriented Languag

Suzanne Bunton Ladner/Borriello UW, MolecularBiotechnology

On Line Stochastic Processes in Data Compression

Dylan McNamee Lazowska/Levy Oregon Grad InstVirtual Memory Alternatives for Transaction Buffer Managment in a Single-Level Store

Michael Feeley Levy UBCGlobal Memory Management for Workstation Networks

Neil McKenzie Ebeling MitsubishiResearch

The Cranium Network Interface Architecture: Support for Msage Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks

Yoshito Yamane Notkin iCAT Corp.Event Query Based Debugging

Gus Lopez Borning NorthWestNetThe Design and Implementation of Kaleidoscope, A ConstrImperative Programming Language

David Johnson Tanimoto US WestEnabling the Reuse of World Wide Web Documents in Tutals

Michael Salisbury Salesin Xerox PARCImage-Based Pen-and-Ink Illustration

Ton Ngo Snyder IBM T.J. WatsonThe Role of Performance Models in Parallel Programming aLanguages

Tracy Kimbrel Karlin/Tompa IBM T. J. WatsonParallel Prefetching and Caching

Doctorate Degrees AwardedCongratulations to our recent PhD graduates, listed below their research advisor, initial appointment, and dissertation t

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Brendan Mumey Ruzzo Montana StateCluster Finding, Clone Overlap Detection, and DNA ProbeLocation: Three Applied Algorithmic Problems

Richard Segal Etzioni IBM T.J. WatsonMachine Learning as Massive Search

Keith Golden Weld NASA-AmesResearch Lab

Planning Support for Softbots

Michael VanHilst Notkin HP LabsRole Oriented Programming for Evolvable Software

Juan Alemany Karlin Ipsilon NetworksData Placement Algorithms for News-on-Demand Servers

Melanie Fulgham Snyder Quantum Corp.Multicomputer Routing Techniques

Nicholas KushmerickWeld Dublin City Uni-versity, Ireland

Wrapper Induction for Information Extraction

Xiaohan Qin Baer IBM T.J. WatsonOn the Use and Performance of Communication Primitivein Software Controlled Cache-Coherent Clusters

Kari Pulli Shapiro Stanford Post-docSurface Reconstruction and Display From Range and ColData

Anthony Barrett Weld JPL, PasadenaFrugal Hierarchical Task Network Planning

Soha Hassoun Ebeling Tufts UniversityArchitectural Retiming: A Technique for Optimizing LatencConstrained Circuits

Neal Lesh Etzioni MitsubishiResearch

Scalable and Adaptive Goal Recognition

Ted Romer Bershad HP LabsUsing Virtual Memory to Improve Cache and TLB Performan

Lauren Bricker TanimotoCooperatively Controlled Objects in Support of Collaboratio

Jack Lo Eggers/H. Levy Transmeta Corp.Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism on SimultaneoMultithreaded Processors: Hardware and Software Techniqfor Effectively Managing Shared Resources

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UW alum Gary Kildall (BS ’67, MS ’69, PhD ’72) is crediteas the first person to couple a microprocessor and disk dricreate a personal-sized computer. He built the first disk oating system, CP/M, for the machine, and sold a quartermillion copies of it at the dawn of the PC age. Kildall diedJuly 1994 at age 52. His daughter Kristin has donated $50to CSE to establish an undergraduate scholarship in meof her father.

The first recipient of the Kildall Memorial Scholarship is Wliam “Bo” Brinkman, a Computer Science major who is amajoring in Mathematics.

Kildall started out his career, not as an entrepreneur, but academic. After completing his masters degree at the hof the Vietnam War, he taught at the Naval Postgraduate Sin Monterey, CA. While at NPS he was able to continuework on his doctorate, completing his dissertation, Global Ex-pression Optimization During Compilation, under HellmutGolde’s direction. In 1975 he started Digital Research Ithe first microcomputer software company.

Kildall is credited with numerous other contributions to psonal computing. These include a preemptive multitas

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