University of Washington

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University of Washington

• Govind Kabra

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University Highlights

• Founded in 1861
• 31,000 undergraduate,
• 12,000 graduate/ professional
• 3,400 faculty
• Annual operating budget 2.7 billion

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Paul Allen Center
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CS Overview

• Established 1967
• Size
• 40 faculty
• 150 graduate students 15 PhD, 25 MS every
  year.
• 125 professional master
• 450 undergraduate CS and Comp Eng. combined
• Distinction
• 13 ACM Fellows
• 9 IEEE Fellows
• 27 NSF Career, 5 Presidential Early Career Award

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Database Group
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People in Database Group

• Alon Halevy
• Dan Suciu
• Pedro Domingos
• Daniel Weed
• Nilesh Dalvi, Xin (Luna) Dong, Ashish Gupta, Jing
  (Michelle) Liu, Chris Re, .

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Alumni in Database Group

• Anhai Doan (University of Illinois, Urbana
  Champaign) (Schema matching). Winner of the 2003
  ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award.
• Marc Friedman (Microsoft SQL Server) (data
  integration)
• Zack Ives (University of Pennsylvania) (adaptive
  query processing, XML).
• Yana Kadiyska
• Isaac Kunen
• Jayant Madhavan (Google Inc.) (Corpus-based
  schema matching, composing semantic mappings).
• Luke McDowell (United States Naval Academy)
  (Semantic Email, Semantic Web).
• Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts) (Data
  Security, XPath containment).
• Peter Mork (MITRE Corp.) (bio-informatics,
  knowledge representation, updates in large-scale
  data management systems, Piazza, Bio-Mediator)
• Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia)
  (model management, MiniCon).
• Igor Tatarinov (Amazon.com) (peer-data management
  systems, XML).

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Notable Corporate Support

• Corporate support
• Ford - 1.5 Million, Intel free PCs
• Microsoft free software, Summer research
  institute
• Endowments
• Boeing (David Notkin), Microsoft (Hank Levy)
• Washington Research Foundation (Dan Weld)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Still vacant..
  ?)

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Industrial Affiliates Program

• For mutual needs of industry and academia
• Benefits for industry
• Annual meeting talks, demo, workshop, interview
  students
• Seminars by faculty at companys site
• Invitation to interesting seminar and
  presentations
• One-on-one interaction and relationships
• About 60 CS companies
• Companies support university start-ups
• Professional Masters Program

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UWash and Microsoft ( MSR)

• Collaborative research
• e.g., Alon Halevy with Phil Bernstein
• access to students
• Microsoft gives research grants, donations
• UW appoints affiliate faculties
• Graphics Maneesh Agrawala, Michael Cohen,
  Richard Szeliski
• Also in other groups
• Talks/ Seminars/ Workshops
• Remote courses
• Saves time, increases participation
• UW lectures broadcasted to Microsoft
• MSR researchers teaching classes at UW remotely

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Oren Etzioni - Bio

• godfather of search Seattle times
• First Harvard student to major in CS, 1986
• PhD, CMU, 1991 (Tom Mitchell)
• UW since 1991
• AAAI Fellow

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Oren Etzioni - Research

• KnowItAll
• Hamlet datamining to predict prices in travel
  industry
• Partner at Madrona Venture Group
• MetaCrawler, 1995
• Erik Selberg now works at MSN Search
• Internet Softbots, 1991

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KnowItAll

• KnowItAll V2 entity mining on web
• Opine Mining Product Reviews

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Alon Halevy - Bio

• Bachelor Hebrew Univ 1988
• PhD, Stanford,1993
• Advisor Richard Fikes
• ATT (Bell) Labs 1993 97
• UWash since 1998
• On leave from UWash, At Google
• Sloan Fellow 1999 2000
• Presidential Early Career Award 2000
• Editor of VLDB J, JAIR, ACM T on Internet Tech
• PC Chair for SIGMOD 2003

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Alon Halevy - Research

• Semex tool for personal information management
  and integration
• Someone from Anhais group can give comments
• Woogle web services search engine
• Piazza peer database management system
• Schema and ontology matching
• Anhai got ACM Best Dissertation
• Transformic, 2004 everyclassified.com
• 2 students from Anhais group interned
• Nimble Technology, 1999 enterprise information
  integration

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Dan Suciu - Bio

• PhD from UPenn, 1995
• Advisor Peter Buneman
• ATT Labs, until 2000
• UWash, since 2000
• Book Data on the Web from Relations to
  Semistructured Data and XML
• Editor ACM TODS, ACM T on Internet Tech

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Dan Suciu Research

• MystiQ probabilistic query answering
• Data Security, K-Anonymity
• Gerome Miklau, Nilesh Dalvi
• XML
• Containment of XPath Expressions
• XML Toolkit a query processing engine
• SilkRoute XML views as middleware on relational
  databases
• Piazza

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Daniel Weld - Bio

• Bachelors from Yale in 1982
• PhD from MIT in 1988
• AAAI Fellow 1999
• Founding Editor of J of AI Research
• Two books

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Daniel Weld - Research

• AI
• Personalizable user interfaces
• Netbot Inc in 1996, Jango Shopping Search
• AdRelevance, 1998
• Nimble Tech, 1999
• Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group, 2001

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Pedro Domingos - Bio

• Bachelor Master, IST Lisbon, 92
• MS and PhD, UC Irvine, 1997
• Advisor Dennis Kibler
• 2 years at IST
• UWash since 1999
• Visiting Stanford, 2005 06
• Assoc Editor of JAIR, Board of ML Journal
• PC Chair for KDD-03
• Sloan Fellow, NSF Career, Fullbright Scholar, IBM
  Faculty

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Pedro Domingos Research

• Statistical Relational Learning
• Learning from noisy data in rich representation
• Model complex relations between training examples
• Apply to link-based Web Search, viral Marketing,
  social network analysis
• The Intelligent Surfer Probabilistic Combination
  of Link and Content Information in PageRank
• Collective Knowledge Base
• Discovering complex semantic matches between
  Database Schema
• Large Scale Machine Learning
• Mining High Speed Data Streams

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AI Research

• Brian Curless  
• Pedro Domingos  
• Oren Etzioni  
• Dieter Fox  
• Alon Halevy  
• Henry Kautz  

• Marina Meila  
• Rajesh Rao  
• Steven Seitz  
• Linda Shapiro  
• Steve Tanimoto  
• Dan Weld

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Graphics, Vision, Animation

• Faculty
• Brian Curless  
• Barbara Mones  
• Zoran Popovic  
• David Salesin  
• Steven Seitz  
• Linda Shapiro  
• Steve Tanimoto

• Affiliated Faculty  
• Alan Borning (UW CSE)  
• Michael F. Cohen (Microsoft)  
• Tom Duchamp (UW Mathematics)  
• Anna Karlin (UW CSE)  
• Werner Stuetzle (UW Statistics)
•  Richard Szeliski (Microsoft)