Seattle’s KING5 News aired a feature on Microsoft’s TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) program. TEALS enlists computer engineers from Microsoft and other companies to help public schools offer computer science classes. The KING5 piece highlighted an AP Computer Science class that uses the textbook and approach developed by UW Principal Lecturer Stuart Reges for our popular CSE 142 class. Reges also serves on the Advisory Board for TEALS when he isn’t teaching the more than 1,000 students registered for fall CSE 142.
Check out the KING5 story here. Learn more about TEALS here. Read more →
DawgBytes is UW Computer Science & Engineering’s K-12 outreach program. We introduce students and their teachers to the exciting world of computing.
An update of recent and upcoming activities may be viewed here.
Subscribe to the DawgBytes mailing list here. Read more →
1989 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay has been named chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina.
This is the 50th anniversary year of UNC CS – founded in 1964 by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. as one of the first computer science departments in the US.
Congratulations, Kevin! Read more →
“A centuries-old clock built for a king is the inspiration for a group of computer scientists and electrical engineers who hope to harvest power from the air.
“The clock, powered by changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure, was invented in the early 17th century by a Dutch builder. Three centuries later, Swiss engineer Jean Leon Reutter built on that idea and created the Atmos mechanical clock that can run for years without needing to be wound manually.
“Now, University of Washington researchers have taken inspiration from the clock’s design and created a power harvester that uses natural fluctuations in temperature and pressure as its power source. The device harvests energy in any location where these temperature changes naturally occur, powering sensors that can check for water leaks or structural deficiencies in hard-to-reach places and alerting users by sending out a wireless signal.”
Read the UW News article here. Read the research paper here. Read more →
The Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports the translation of health-related technologies from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace.
LSDF has just awarded $250,000 to Shwetak Patel’s SpiroSmart technology – support for finalizing the development and conducting clinical testing of a mobile app for monitoring lung function and progression of obstructive lung diseases.
Learn about SpiroSmart here. Read more →
Each year VLDB – the International Conference on Very Large Databases – gives an award to the paper that appeared in the conference ten years previously and felt, with the benefit of hindsight, to have had the greatest impact.
UW CSE’s Dan Suciu and Nilesh Dalvi have just been named as the recipients of the VLDB 2014 10-year Best Paper Award for their paper “Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases,” which appeared in VLDB 2004.
Dan was (and is) a UW CSE faculty member. Nilesh, in 2004, was a UW CSE Ph.D. student working with Dan; Nilesh received his Ph.D. in 2007 and worked at Yahoo! Research and Facebook before founding Troo.ly this past December.
Congratulations to Dan and Nilesh!
(The VLDB 2011 10-year Best Paper Award also went to CSE authors – Jayant Madhavan (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum, currently at Google) and Phil Bernstein (a UW CSE Affiliate Professor, working at Microsoft Research), along with their co-author Erhard Rahm, for their VLDB 2001 paper “Generic Schema Matching with Cupid.”) Read more →
“A new app, developed by doctors and engineers our own backyard, could help detect newborn jaundice and ease the fears of new parents …
“Simply place the phone near the baby’s stomach and take a picture. The app analyzed the skin color to see if it’s at an appropriate level.”
Check out the story and video here. Learn more about the Bilicam research here.
Short article in The Economic Times and The Times of India here. Read more →
With apologies to IBM (and to Hank):
Hank Levy is our inspiration,
Head and soul of our splendid CSE.
We are pledged to him in every nation,
Our Chair and most beloved man.
His wisdom has guided each division
In service to all humanity
We have grown and broadened with his vision,
None can match him or our great CSE.
Hank Levy, we all honor you,
You’re so big and so square and so true,
We will follow and serve with you forever,
All the world must know what CSE can do.
Read more here.
Hank responds:
But we have this, thanks to The CSE Band!
More CSE Band information and videos here. Read more →
UW CSE hosted an event on Thursday for alums at Facebook’s Seattle engineering office.
Exactly four years ago – in August 2010 – Ari Steinberg opened a one-person Facebook engineering office in Seattle. Today it boasts roughly 400 employees – roughly 90 of whom are from UW. (It also boasts a killer view!) Read more →
We can’t make up stuff that’s this great:
“Students at Washington State University did a double-take when they received their free student planners from The Bookie this week. The cover features a picture of a cougar, the iconic Bryan clock tower and a building that was a little harder to identify.
“Down at the very bottom of the cover, with beautiful brick and elegant cherry trees is Savery Hall, a building located at the heart of the campus of WSU’s sworn rival – the University of Washington.
“Distraught manager Leslie Martin at WSU’s bookstore The Bookie says they are aware of the problem and are working with the vendor to come to a solution. The planners are no longer being handed out, but the ones that have been released are not being collected.”
Read about it from KLXY, KOMO, the Seattle Times, the Spokesman Review …
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