Max Willsey presents 2.pl (“tuple”), a new computing substrate destined to bury Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Camille Cobb looks on in disbelief – “I have to follow this guy?!?!” The bare foot of a potential VC intrudes from the left.
On Friday May 12, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering once again hosted the annual Symposium of Potentially Computer Science (PoCSci). Quoting from General/Program Chair John Toman:
We invite you, your friends, loved ones, and pets to submit your best potential computer science research for presentation at this prestigious venue.
Potential areas of potential computer science include:
- Pun Based Research
- Barnyard Data Science
- Cross-disciplinary research combining CS and French Existentialism
- Bad Docker Jokes
- Political-Figure Inspired Languages
- … and more!
I am also very happy to announce a brand new Tech Transfer Track. This is your chance to pitch your potential computer science to potential Venture Capitalists looking to invest in potential startups. Come prepared to answer questions and use the word “disrupt” a lot.
This year we will be using a new 0-round review process. No abstract submission, or any submission at all is required to present.
James Mickens was unable to make it this year; he has a real job now, working for a hedge fund guy. Read more →
Only one more day to stuff the ballot box for Allen School nominees in the 2017 GeekWire Awards competition:
Deal of the Year: Impinj (Chris Diorio) or Turi (Carlos Guestrin) – let your conscience be your guide!
Geek of the Year: Ed Lazowska
Hire of the Year: Tim Prouty (alum)
Innovation of the Year: Microsoft Project Catapult (alum Andrew Putnam and Affiliate Professor Doug Burger)
App of the Year: Senosis Health (Shwetak Patel) Read more →
Always glad to host Red, Greene, and New Tech Seattle’s largest event of the year, at UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering! An amazing networking opportunity! Read more →
Check out the agenda for today’s Women’s Research Day at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering! Facebook group here.
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“Nestled among Seattle’s gleaming lights on a gloomy September day, a single nonprofit wants to change the world, one computer at a time. Its researchers hope to transform the way machines perceive the world: to have them not only see it, but understand what they’re seeing.
“At the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), researchers are working on just that. AI2, founded in 2014 by Microsoft visionary Paul Allen, is the nation’s largest nonprofit AI research institute. … At AI2, unshackled by profit-obsessed boardrooms, the mandate from CEO Oren Etzioni is simple: Confront the grandest challenges in artificial intelligence research and serve the common good …”
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UW CSE – the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering – seeks legislative support for additional enrollment growth. The case is overwhelmingly strong:
- Student demand is extraordinary
- Employer demand is extraordinary
- CSE’s track record of delivering on its commitments is exemplary
- $70 million in private fundraising for a second building to accommodate recent and future CSE growth is complete
Read more here! Read more →
Thanks to our friends from Amazon, GE Digital, Indeed, Karat, Microsoft, PayScale, RealSelf, and Whitepages who provided technical interview coaching to nearly 100 CSE students on Wednesday afternoon! Read more →
Join us for this symposium highlighting the accomplishments of some of the University of Washington’s outstanding women scientists and engineers.
Friday January 20
3:00-5:00 (reception starting at 2:30)
Savery 260
Full agenda here. Read more →
Many thanks to the alums and friends from Amazon, CDK Global, Facebook, GE Digital, Google, Impinj, Microsoft, PayScale, Qumulo, RealSelf, and Whitepages who reviewed the résumés of 129 CSE students on Wednesday evening!
Next up: technical interview coaching next Wednesday! Read more →
The Seattle Times reports:
“Washington State University Cougar fans are going to want to spend a bit of time staring at their feet this morning.
“Bartell Drugs issued a recall this week for an $18 Christmas pair of Strideline WSU College ‘Cougar Socks.’ The red-and-white socks have a not-so-Cougarish slogan printed on the inside cuff. It reads, ‘Go Dawgs’ …
“Using the rival University of Washington’s ‘Go Dawgs’ slogan for WSU socks was a quality-control error, co-founder Jake Director said …
“‘It’s pretty unfortunate,’ he said, though he admitted he can see why some might find it funny.”
Almost as funny as back in August 2014 when WSU’s “Academic Planner” featured a photo of UW on the cover! As we said back then, “We can’t make up stuff that’s this great!”
Read the Seattle Times article here. Read more →
