CSE's Helene Martin, Emily Harmell, Zorah Fung, and Rachel Sobel at NWrWIC 2012
NWrWIC is a Northwest regional Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, including tech-oriented women from Oregon and Washington colleges and universities, professional organizations, and the high school women and teachers from the NCWIT Oregon and SW Washington Regional Awards.
NWrWIC 2012 was held on Saturday in Portland OR. UW CSE was represented by faculty member Helene Martin and students Zorah Fung, Emily Harmell and Rachel Sobel. Read more →
“Facebook has transformed how we keep tabs on friends, by training people to constantly publish short status updates about the delicious meal they just ate or the killer vacation they just took. A site called Wavii opened to the public earlier this week that wants to do the same thing for topics, with short bursts of news on everything from corporate acquisitions to celebrities.
“Wavii, based in Seattle, works by scouring the Web, including news sites, Twitter and blogs, for news about a vast number of topics. It then automatically creates the equivalent of a status update on the topic that summarizes the news, often in just one sentence, with a link to the full story on the site from which the news originated. Wavii users see a Facebook-like feed with updates on all the news topics they follow.
“Using machines, rather than human editors, to summarize the news in a faithful way is a big technical challenge, according Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, who is also an adviser to Wavii. ‘They have state-of-the-art information extraction technology which allows them to do this is,’ said Mr. Etzioni, who is a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence.”
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StudentRND – a workplace for student tech innovation created and led by UW CSE undergraduate Ed Jiang – was featured on KING 5 News.
“Demand for talent in the technology industry is so great that some companies are offering six-figure salaries to college students before they even graduate. Seizing on that demand, a student-run non-profit in Bellevue, called StudentRND, is giving young people in high school and college a chance to get valuable hands-on experience … On Wednesdays and Saturdays, StudentRND provides students a 3500-square-foot workspace to flex their tech muscles.”
Watch the video here. Learn more about StudentRND here. Read more →
Thursday marked the public open house at Facebook’s new Seattle office – Facebook opened in Seattle in August 2010, outgrew their original space, and has moved to new digs with room for 170 engineers.
Cullen Walsh is one of many UW CSE alums working at Facebook Seattle. But he was the only one whose photo appeared in the Seattle Times riding his RipStik through the office during the open house.
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An article in Technology Review cites the work of UW CSE’s Josh Smith:
“As one of many examples of what is becoming possible using ultra-low-power computing, consider the wireless no-battery sensors created by Joshua R. Smith of the University of Washington. These sensors harvest energy from stray television and radio signals and transmit data from a weather station to an indoor display every five seconds. They use so little power (50 microwatts, on average) that they don’t need any other power source.”
Interesting factoid from the article:
“If a modern-day MacBook Air operated at the energy efficiency of computers from 1991, its fully charged battery would last all of 2.5 seconds.”
Read the article here.
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Choose “Cast Your Vote” here. and vote the CSE ticket:
- Startup of the Year: Decide.com
- Geek of the Year: Oren Etzioni
- Mobile App of the Year: OneBusAway
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Many major computer science conferences have established the tradition of annually identifying the most influential paper from the conference ten years ago. UW CSE authors have received a number of these awards – a clear indication of the lasting impact of our research.
The most recent winner is the paper “ArchJava: Connecting Software Architecture to Implementation” which has just been named the “Most Influential Paper from ICSE 2002” – the International Conference on Software Engineering. The ArchJava paper was co-authored by UW CSE Ph.D. student Jonathan Aldrich (now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon) and UW CSE professors Craig Chambers (now at Google Seattle) and David Notkin. The award will be presented at ICSE 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland in June.
Congratulations to Jonathan, Craig, and David! Read more →
An article in the Puget Sound Business Journal on UW initiatives in technology transfer leads with a discussion of the work of UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and his students. Read the article here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. students Tom Lin and Yoav Artzi have received awards in Yahoo!’s 2012 Key Scientific Challenges program. From an outstanding group of 208 proposals, 30 exceptional Ph.D. students were selected. See the complete list of winners here.
Congratulations Tom and Yoav!
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Today marked the 2012 edition of the annual UW CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon, celebrating the donors and recipients of UW CSE endowed scholarships and fellowships.
Graduate fellowship recipient Ray Cheng and undergraduate scholarship recipient Mariana Zanella addressed the attendees, representing dozens of CSE students whose education is made possible through the generosity of UW CSE alumni and friends.
Many photographs here. And, see the booklet from the event here. Read more →
