Ed Lazowska in the KIRO-FM studios
GeekWire summarizes an interview with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska: “Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska … We talked about tons of stuff … But perhaps no subject we talked about was more important than the demand for top engineers, and what it’s going to take for the supply to catch up in the form of increased capacity for computer science education in the state. He also talked about another outcome from the department, the transfer of technologies to startups and other tech companies in the region, and his general outlook on the Seattle tech community.”
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UW CSE startup Impinj, the world’s leading innovator in UHF Gen 2 RFID solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging, has filed for an IPO.
Impinj was co-founded by UW CSE professor Chris Diorio and his Ph.D. mentor Carver Mead, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, and was originally funded by our friends at Madrona Venture Group.
Read a GeekWire post here. Xconomy here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Stuart Reges has won this year’s University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given to faculty who show “a mastery of their subject matter, intellectual rigor and a passion for teaching.” Stuart is the 5th CSE faculty member to receive this honor. A list of previous winners here.
This makes a hat trick for Stuart – adding to the teaching awards he has won at Stanford and Arizona.
Read the announcement here.
Congratulations Stuart! Read more →
A terrific interview regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Listen to the story here. Read more about the competition here. Read more →
CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa is GeekWire‘s “Geek of the Week.”
“One of the goals of GeekWire’s ‘Geek of the Week’ feature is to shine is a light on extraordinary people in the Pacific Northwest technology community. Yaw Anokwa, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Washington, certainly fits that profile — from his Open Data Kit research project to his work as a co-founder of the Change group at the UW.”
The Geek of the Week articles consist largely of the geek’s answers to a wide-ranging set of questions. Yaw gives some thoughtful and surprising answers to such questions as “If someone gave me $1 million to launch a startup, I would …”
Read the article here.
Congratulations, Yaw!! Read more →
UW CSE’s annual summer workshop for K-12 teachers, CS4HS, is open for registration! This year’s workshop, once again sponsored by our friends at Google, will be held from August 10-12 in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering on the UW campus.
CS4HS aims to:
- Earn you either 20 clock hours from WSTA OR 2 units of university credit from the University of Washington.
- Expose you to exciting examples of computer science operating in close relationships with other disciplines.
- Teach you the basics of computational problem solving and give you the vocabulary to relate these concepts to your students and your own subject material.
- Broaden your view of computer science and the way it is shaping Washington’s communities and people–and those of the entire world.
- Explore opportunities for you to help broaden your students’ interest in computer science and dispel myths about what computer science is and is not.
The workshop is targeted at teachers with no computer science or programming experience.
Information here. Registration here.
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Mark Zbikowski, a 25-year Microsoft employee now in the UW CSE Ph.D. program, is interviewed by the Seattle Times in connection with Paul Allen’s new book.
“‘Paul was pushing to take the state of the art and move it forward a bit.’ In the end, they devised a system that paved the way for future advances to give PCs much more storage. ‘It was prescient of Paul to see that we’d need this organizational ability so far in advance of the hardware,’ Zbikowski said.”
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UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten – currently on leave from Princeton University to serve as the first Chief Technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission – has been elected as a member of the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution. Its purpose was to provide a forum for a select group of scholars, members of the learned professions, and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic.
Felten is a Professor of Computer Science and of Public Policy at Princeton, and Founding Director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is an expert in computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. He received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1993.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and namesake of our Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, was also elected to the American Academy today, as was Affiliate faculty member Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. students Elisa Celis, Emad Soroush, and Michael Toomim are among 22 students from across the nation to win 2011 awards in the Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” program.
Elisa works with UW CSE professor Anna Karlin on algorithmic game theory, internet economics, and social networks.
Emad works with UW CSE faculty member Magda Balazinska on data management.
Michael works with UW CSE professor James Landay on human-computer interaction.
In 2010, UW CSE Ph.D. students Yaw Anokwa and Yingyi Bu were among the 23 winners. In 2009, UW CSE Ph.D. student Raphael Hoffman was among the 21 winners. Next year we’re shooting for four!
Congratulations to Elisa, Emad, and Michael! And thanks to Yahoo! for recognizing our students. Read more →
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum, a first year grad student studying quantum computing with Dave Bacon and Aram Harrow, has received a 2011 National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship. He is the department’s 14th recipient of this fellowship.
David also recently won an NSF Graduate Fellowship, as reported here.
Congratulations to David! Read more →
