Friends from Google X – Google’s “skunkworks” – will speak in UW CSE on January 28th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room EEB 125, and on February 1 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. in room CSE 403.
On January 28, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon on leave at Google X, will begin by providing an overview of activities at Google X.
Then Nick Hobbs, a graduate of Olin College and a PM at Google X, will discuss the Driverless Car Project.
Plan on roughly 60 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A.
Please RSVP here!
On February 1, UW alum and former UW EE professor Babak Parviz, co-creator of Google’s Project Glass, will describe that project. Babak’s Google colleagues Nirmal Patel and Bob Ryskamp also will participate.
Note: This post has been updated to reflect schedule and content changes! Read more →
Students are busting down the doors at all of the nation’s top computer science programs.
At UW, Winter Quarter enrollment in CSE 142 (“CS-1,” the first introductory course) is 810; the previous all-time high was 659. And 1/3 of the students are women, also an all-time high. Enrollment in CSE 143 (“CS-2,” the second introductory course) is 530, also an all-time high.
Enrollment varies from quarter to quarter. One way to understand the long-term picture is to graph a 1-year rolling total. CSE 142 enrolled 2,070 students in the past year; CSE 143 enrolled 1,340; for a total of 3,410 students in these two courses during the past year.
Wowzers!
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SoundWave – research by UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and Sidhant Gupta, and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and Desney Tan.
Thrill to the KOMO TV weather guy attempting to explain the Doppler effect! Watch it here. Read more →
Two UW CSE MOOCs launch this week on Coursera.
Programming Languages, taught by UW CSE professor Dan Grossman, has roughly 60,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 341.
Introduction to Computer Networks, taught by UW CSE professors Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan, has roughly 50,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 461.
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I mean, how high can your IQ possibly be if you say to Stefan Savage, “Buy me whatever you want for Christmas and I’ll wear it on the first day of my Winter Quarter OS class”?
(Josh Smith adds: “At least Stefan doesn’t shop at Victoria’s Secret … could have been worse.”) Read more →
You guessed it – college professor.
Where did we go wrong?
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Each year, the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,500) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
This year’s UW Junior Medalist is CSE’s Eric Lei. Eric, who entered the UW after 10th grade through the Robinson Center’s UW Academy, was last year’s Freshman Medalist. (Your correspondent is a systems guy, so is not concerned by the arithmetic implicit in that statement.)
Eric is the eighteenth CSE student to be recognized as a University of Washington Medalist since 2000 (including the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Medal, plus the President’s Medal awarded to the top graduating senior, most recently CSE’s Melissa Winstanley) – fully 1/3 of the medals awarded during that period.
Congratulations to Eric – and to CSE’s many superb students! (Including Eric’s sister Jinna – a current UW CSE Ph.D. student who did her undergraduate work at Cal.)
UW press release here. Read more →
NIAC co-directors Vikram Jandhyala and Moe Khaleel
“‘The expanded partnership between UW and PNNL will create tremendous new opportunities for both organizations,’ said Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science and engineering. ‘Big data is transforming the process of discovery in all fields. UW and PNNL have significant and complementary strengths.’ Lazowska leads the eScience Institute, created in 2008 to support data-driven discovery at the UW. Many of the roughly dozen UW faculty who will be involved with the new group at its launch are eScience Institute affiliates.”
Read the UW press release here. Read the PNNL press release here. Tri-City Herald here. Seattle Times here. Xconomy here. Read more →
The UW Daily reports on CSE professor Richard Ladner’s work on developing a science-friendly American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary.
“Working with professors at Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Ladner has created the ASL-STEM Forum, a site on which users can post signs for vocabulary for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
“Due to the broadness of its use, ASL doesn’t have many standardized terms that are common in STEM fields. The forum boasts almost 3,000 signs that students can look through for their education.
“‘More than half of universities in the U.S. have at least one deaf student; UW has 20 or 30,’ Ladner said. ‘A good number of them use sign language, and their access to science is somewhat limited. If there aren’t signs for terms, then they need to be spelled out; that takes a lot of time, so they’re missing out on information.'”
Read the article here. Visit the ASL-STEM Forum here. Read more →
