“US News has released its list of the 100 best jobs in 2014, and the No. 1 job on the list is: software developer.
“The work is meaningful, touching every aspect of our lives. It pays well. It is in demand in all parts of the country and doesn’t require a lot of grad school to get started …
“Plus, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts there will be nearly 140,000 brand-new software development jobs created before 2022, says the US News study.
“If you can’t be a software developer, your next bet is computer systems analyst, which is a job that deals with tech design, troubleshooting and analysis. The systems analyst role is morphing into something called a “data scientist,” a new job title in huge demand thanks to the big data trend. A data scientist helps companies munch through massive amounts of information — like tweets, news articles and sales stats — to find business insights …
“Both of these jobs are better than being a dentist or a doctor, US News says.”
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A NOVA profile of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille has won the 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.
In announcing the award, Seftel Productions, who produced the video, says:
“We’re honored to have won the prestigious 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for our NOVA scienceNOW profile on crowdsourcing computer scientist, Adrien Treuille.
“The award is described as “the pinnacle of achievement for science journalism.”
“We’re flattered, but we’ve got to give credit to the inspiring Adrien Treuille for this one.”
Watch the video here. See the Seftel Productions announcement here. Read more →
“Seattle is home to some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon and Microsoft.
“The vibrant and laid back seaport town is also the location of a series of new start-up firms including the comical website icanhas.cheezburger.
“So what makes it attractive to tech firms and does it have enough entrepreneurial spirit?”
Listen to the report here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Jeff Bigham and Tapan Parikh are two of the sixteen recipients of 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to top young faculty members in eight fields of science.
Jeff, who studied with CSE’s Richard Ladner, is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies crowd sourcing for the benefit of people in their everyday lives.
Tapan, who studied with CSE’s Ed Lazowska and David Notkin, is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. He studies the design and use of information and communication technologies for sustainable development.
Jeff and Tapan join 20 current UW CSE faculty members and many superb UW CSE Ph.D. alums as recipients of this extraordinarily prestigious award.
Congratulations Jeff and Tapan! Read more →
Today we held the second of four UW CSE “Saturday Scratch Workshops” (never mind that it’s Monday …). CSE alumna and lecturer Allison Obourn leads students in grades 6-8 with no programming experience in creating cool games and animations using Scratch, a drag-and-drop programming environment.
Learn more about UW CSE’s many K-12 outreach activities – carried out under the “DawgBytes” (“A Taste of CSE”) umbrella – here.
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Nearly 100 girls from the Puget Sound region participated this weekend in an afternoon just for girls hosted by UW CSE.
STEM Out! was organized by engineers from Amazon.com in partnership with DawgBytes, UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program. Speakers discussed academic research, biology, computer science and more! Participants extracted DNA from strawberries, solved lots of puzzles, and participated in an egg drop challenge.
Thanks to all who made this possible!
Photos of the event here. Information about DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, here. Read more →
Many hundreds of UW faculty and students joined President Michael K. Young, Provost Ana Mari Cauce, Vice Provost for Research Mary Lidstrom, representatives of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, leaders of the UW eScience Institute on Friday for a campus-wide data science event.
An hour of presentations (slides here, Windows Media video here, MP4 video here) was followed by a two hour poster and networking session with more than 130 poster presentations (list of posters here, Windows Media video here, MP4 video here).
See the event announcement here. Learn more about UW’s many data science activities here. Read more →
Facebook Open Academy is a program designed to provide a practical, applied software engineering experience as part of a university student’s computer science education.
At the beginning of the term, students and mentors from open source projects come together at Facebook HQ for a weekend of learning and hacking. After this kickoff session, students return to their universities and continue to work in virtual teams. Open source mentors support their teams by helping students find and understand tasks and review code contributions.
Students and mentors from 24 universities kicked off this term’s Facebook Open Academy this weekend. Eight UW CSE 495 students, mentored by Dan Halperin, will be spending winter and spring quarters working as part of distributed development teams with four different open source projects.
Pictured, left-to-right: Hongying Sophie Zhang, Whitney Schmidt, Panji Wisesa, Eli Elefson, Dan Halperin, Grant Timmerman, Noah Lindner, Erik Chou, and Jesse Warren. Read more →
“Everyone needs a lodestar, someone who keeps them moving on the right path. Author Helen Schulman pays tribute to her own true north, a man who taught her much about how to live life to the fullest – and how to end it with grace.”
Read this moving essay here. Read more →
