CSE Associate Professor Ingolf Krueger has been appointed Director of the new Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center The Center's mission is to educate and train effective engineering leaders who create new products and jobs that benefit society.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has recognized CSE's Alex Snoeren with a prestigious research Fellowship! The distinction is one of 116 given annually to young U.S. and Canadian faculty who show "the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge." Snoeren is a member of CSE's systems group and received the award for his ground-breaking work on Decongestion Control, Secure and Policy-Compliant Source Routing, and Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting.

CSE Graduate students Laura Grupp and Ross Tate have won the 2008 Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship and Microsoft Research and Live Labs PhD Fellowship. Laura's work focuses on technology modeling and management of advance non-volatile storage technologies such as flash memory solid state disks. Her goal is to understand how computer systems can best exploit these technologies to accelerate existing applications and enable new ones. Using effects, Ross hopes to enable domain-specific language extensions while still enabling the compiler to optimize these extensions. In the long run, he hopes to blur the line between imperative and pure functional languages, providing the programmer and the compiler with the best of both worlds. Another Graduate Woman's Scholarship winner was CSE Alumna Tamara Denning.