George Nychis writes:
In the Bay Area, when I put recruiting ads out I would get a ton of applications from Stanford and Berkeley. In Boston, I am getting no applications from those schools. At first I questioned whether my recruiting ad sucked, but then I thought … maybe nobody from those schools want to leave the Bay.
So I thought I’d use LinkedIn to gather some data on where recent graduates from the top schools go after they graduate. I did this by filtering for software engineers with less than 2 years of experience. The numbers are: the total number of people who graduated from school Y with less than 2 years experience, living in city X (who are on LinkedIn).
UW is a public university. Our job is to educate Washington State’s top students for Washington State’s top jobs. It seems to be working! (See the table to the right.) Read more →
Where but at today’s UW CSE ACM Winterfest would you see Paul Beame in a tuxedo? (Well, there’s always Halloween …)
A zillion thanks to our ACM Student Chapter for this great contribution to UW CSE community spirit!!!!!
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University of Washington Provost and Executive Vice President Ana Mari Cauce – a friend of all of us who strive to make UW the best that it can be – was named interim president by the Board of Regents at their regular meeting on Thursday. Her appointment will be effective March 2, 2015. She succeeds President Michael K. Young, who is leaving the UW for Texas A&M University.
Read more about Cauce here. Read more about A&M here. Read more →
Teams working with PATH’s MACEPA program in Zambia use Android smartphones equipped with Open Data Kit software to collect demographic information as they go house-to-house testing and treating for malaria. Photo: PATH/Gabe Bienczycki.
“On February 1, PATH and the entire global health community lost a great friend and innovator …
“Dr. Borriello’s work has positively impacted the lives of many thousands of children and mothers in developing countries. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
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The UW Innovation Research Award supports unusually creative early and mid-career faculty in engineering, health, natural and social sciences.
The Provost has just announced an award to team of six investigators: Shwetak Patel and James Fogarty (Computer Science & Engineering); Julie Kientz and Sean Munson (Human-Centered Design & Engineering; both are also Adjunct faculty in CSE); Jasmine Zia (UW Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology); and Roger Vilardaga (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). They are building tools used on a mobile device that allow patients to easily enter data about habits and behaviors related to a particular health problem. These data will help extend the reach of health care beyond the clinic, making it easier for physicians to make diagnoses and treatment plans.
Go team! Read more here. Read more →
The Puget Sound Business Journal reports on Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), led by UW CSE”s Oren Etzioni:
“We are years, decades, possibly even centuries away from designing machines that are fully equipped with human intelligence.
“But a Seattle organization that launched only a year ago is playing a major role in creating the building blocks necessary to advance artificial intelligence …
“Seattle is known for its growing number of big data startups, as well as machine learning research done at the University of Washington. Along with AI2, those organizations have made the region a powerful player in the world of artificial intelligence.
“We don’t have a monopoly, Etzioni cautioned, but we do have many advantages that other locations in the country do not.
“One of them is Paul Allen.”
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Look, Ma! No brakes!
Last night, 60 Minutes broadcast a segment called “DARPA Dan” in which Dan Kaufman, head of the agency’s Information Innovation Office, described the various ways DARPA is supporting research on cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. In one of the more dramatic demonstrations during the broadcast, Dan and UW CSE alum Karl Koscher hack into a car driven by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl (with DARPA PM Kathleen Fisher riding shotgun). View the segment here – the car hacking demo begins at minute 6:40, and Yoshi and his team appear at 9:37.
The broadcast foreshadowed today’s release of a report by Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on car hacking. Some of the media coverage refers to the 60 Minutes demonstration, which took place on the UW campus and was based on the work of UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and his students, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego.
Read more about today’s coverage here, here, and here, and delve into the history of UW and UCSD’s car hacking research, courtesy of The New York Times, here and here.
Read our previous blog post on this topic here.
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UW CSE old-timers gathered on Sunday to celebrate the 85th birthday of Hellmut Golde, one of the founders of our program.
Hellmut, a professor of Electrical Engineering, joined with colleagues from across the campus to establish the Computer Science Group as an inter-college graduate program in 1967. In 1975 an undergraduate program in Computer Science was added and departmental status was conferred. A second undergraduate program, in Computer Engineering, was added in 1989 when the department moved to the College of Engineering, and a Professional Masters Program was added in 1996. Jerre Noe was hired from SRI as CSE’s first chair in 1968. He was succeeded by Hellmut, Bob Ritchie, Paul Young, Jean-Loup Baer, Ed Lazowska, David Notkin, and Hank Levy.
Happy 85th, Hellmut! Thanks for launching UW CSE on a course that we strive to maintain today.
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This weekend Zillow and UW CSE – with participation from Socrata, the White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – present Hack Housing, a weekend hackathon to develop products and create solutions to aid home buyers and renters with particular needs.
Deep housing data is more accessible than ever thanks to companies like Zillow and federal open data efforts. But this wealth of information remains fragmented across a number of dense .gov websites and can be confusing even for the experts. During this weekend-long hackathon, teams are asked to come up with creative solutions to make it easier for first-time homebuyers, low-income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.
As part of the event, participants will have access to newly released government datasets on topics like federal housing programs, apartment buildings with accessory dwelling units and transit information. In addition, Zillow will make available its data on home values and rents.
The event was kicked off on Friday evening by Ed Lazowska (UW CSE), Rich Barton (Zillow co-founder), Stan Humphries (Zillow Chief Economist), and Nick Sinai (Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the former U.S. Deputy CTO at the White House). Judging is Sunday afternoon.
400 people registered for the event. To our astonishment, most of them showed up! Eeeek!
Read a comprehensive GeekWire report on the event here.
Read a US Department of Housing and Urban Development blog post here. Read more →
Get a sneak peek at this Sunday’s 60 Minutes episode in which UW CSE researchers hack into a car driven by Leslie Stahl, part of a segment examining cybersecurity threats and the Internet of Things. (See photos of the set-up taken by UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno at right.)
During the segment featured in the CBS preview, the head of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Dan Kaufman, DARPA Program Manager Kathleen Fisher, and UW Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher demonstrate how hackers can control various functions of a motor vehicle. The demo is based on research conducted by a team from UW CSE (Yoshi Kohno, Alexei Czeskis, Karl Koscher and Franzi Roesner) and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego.
Get a sneak peek at the 60 Minutes episode in the CBS preview here – the preview is all UW CSE, all the time!
Read more about the automotive security collaboration between UW CSE and UCSD here.
Tune into your local CBS affiliate Sunday, February 8th at 7:00 pm to catch the full segment! Read more →
