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Ed Lazowska;"A;Half Century of Exponential;Progress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where,;Why, and How" (1996 University of Washington Annual;Faculty Lecture);Vice;President Gore's speech at the ENIAC 50th;anniversary celebration: "[Congress] talks like George;Jetson. But they support policies more appropriate for;Fred Flintstone.";University;of California at Berkeley invents Chinese cooking!;Nathan;Myhrvold joins;Ed;Lazowska and the;UW;CSE faculty on a trip down memory lane;Ed Lazowska;Ed Lazowska is Professor and Chair of the;Department of Computer Science & Engineering;at the;University of Washington.;Lazowska received his A.B. from;Brown University in 1972, and has been at the University;of Washington since receiving his Ph.D. from the;University of Toronto in 1977.;His research concerns computer systems and computer system;performance. Recent specific topics have included parallel;discrete-event simulation, scheduling policies for multiprocessors,;kernel structures to support high-performance parallel computing,;programming systems for networks of multiprocessors, effective;program performance monitoring tools for parallel systems, the;interaction of architecture and operating system design, hardware;and software techniques for high performance communication, and,;most recently, operating system and programming system support that;exploits wide-address architectures;(Opal). Almost all of this work has actually;been carried out by terrific students, and has been supervised;jointly with;Hank Levy or;John Zahorjan; Lazowska mostly;wears;ties,;pushes paper, and racks up frequent flier miles.;(The graduate students seem to have picked up on;this (1.7Mb;Quicktime).) He;also hosts lots of visitors, a surprising number of whom have;funny;noses.;Lazowska is a member of the Board of Directors of the; Computing Research;Association (CRA's members include essentially all;graduate departments and industrial research laboratories;in the field), and Chair of;CRA's Government Affairs Committee.;He serves on the National Science Foundation's Advisory;Committee for;Computer and Information Science and;Engineering,;and on the National Research Council's;Computer;Science and Telecommunications Board.;He is a member of the 6-person Technical Advisory Board for;Microsoft Research,;of the 4-person;National;Semiconductor Computer Science & Systems Academic;Advisory Council,;of the Board of Directors of;Data I/O Corporation,;and of the Scientific Advisory Board for;Cable & Howse Ventures' Cascadia Fund.;He belongs to the standing advisory committees;for the;Department of EECS;at UC Berkeley and;the Departments of Computer Science at;Stanford University,;the University;of Virginia,;and the Hong;Kong University of Science & Technology,;and is a member of ACM's;A.M.;Turing Award selection committee.;He has just completed service on a 12-person National Research Council;panel reviewing the multi-agency;High Performance Computing;and Communications program;(the "Brooks/Sutherland Committee"), and;has recently served as Chair of the Committee of Examiners;for the Graduate Record Examinations Board Computer Science Test,;Chair of ACM SIGMETRICS (the Association for Computing Machinery's;Special Interest Group concerned with computer system performance),;Chair of the ACM Software Systems Award Committee, Program Chair;of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and;editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers.;At the University of Washington, in addition to serving;as Chair of the;Department of Computer Science & Engineering,;Lazowska is Chair of the University Advisory Committee on;Academic Technology.;He has recently served as a member of the;Committee on the Deanship of the College of Arts;and Sciences, as Chair of the review committee for;the Ph.D. program in Molecular Biotechnology, and as a;member of the performance review committee for the Dean;of Engineering. He was selected to deliver the;1996;University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecture.;Lazowska is;a Fellow;of the Association;for Computing Machinery and of the;Institute of Electrical and;Electronics Engineers.;Seventeen;Ph.D.;students and 21 M.S. students;have completed degrees working with him.;Miscellaneous links:;An integrated;overview of the University of Washington, the;Department, and the region. There's also a;Persuasion Player version of it (250K), intended for;local consumption.;"The;Impact of a Research University: An Information Technology Perspective";New UW;CSE professional Masters program.;Persuasion Player;Top;Ten Reasons to Major in CSE at UW (115K).;Information on the EE/CSE;Building project.;Abbreviated CV;Computing;Research: Driving Information;Technology and the Information Industry Forward;Massy-Goldman;report alleging 50% CSE;Ph.D. over-production to be re-issued due to flawed data;"Median;Years to Ph.D." in new Conference Board;study of doctorate programs is not what you think!;"A;Half Century of Exponential;Progress in Information Technology: Who, What, When, Where,;Why, and How" (1996 University of Washington Annual;Faculty Lecture);"Driver's;Ed for the Information Highway" (University of Washington "Saturday;Seminar," November 1995);Testimony;to the House;Appropriations Committee concerning NSF, April 1995;Testimony;to the House Science Committee concerning HPCC, October 1995;Vice;President Gore's speech at the ENIAC 50th;anniversary celebration, February 1996;Some interesting;home pages that I sometimes use for demo purposes.;Ode;to T III (Executive Vice President Tallman Trask III departs;for Duke University);University;of California at Berkeley invents Chinese cooking!;Nathan;Myhrvold joins;Ed;Lazowska and the;UW;CSE faculty on a trip down memory lane;Lazowska/Downs family home page;Directions;to my house;Shilshole Aquatic Club;(SAC) home page;Recently-discovered;review of my now-10th-grade son's 6th grade poetry;finger lazowska@cs.washington.edu for schedule;information.;CU-SeeMe: office 128.95.2.223, reflector 128.95.2.51, home 128.95.1.129;This page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/;lazowska@cs.washington.edu;