Today’s monthly “Science Roundtable” on WXXI/NPR Connections featured UW CSE Ph.D. student Karl Koscher discussing online security in the wake of Heartbleed, former UW CSE faculty member (and current University of Rochester department chair) Henry Kautz discussing artificial intelligence, and Henry’s Ph.D. alum (and current Google[x] data scientist) Adam Sadilek discussing trend-tracking via Twitter.
Listen here. Read more →
NerdWallet set about to identify the best cities for recent college graduates. Seattle, at #2 behind Washington DC, beat out San Francisco (#4), Austin (#5), Atlanta (#6), Raleigh (#7), Boston (#8), San Diego (#11), and San Jose (#13). New York didn’t make the top 20.
Admission: If we hadn’t ranked at the top, our reaction to this survey would have been “Who the hell is NerdWallet?” But since we did, check out the survey here! Read more →
In December, more than 20 million students around the globe participated in the Hour of Code, organized by Code.org – a Seattle-based non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. The event allowed students to try their hand at coding and prompted discussions among policymakers and educators about how to provide students with greater access to computer science education.
That discussion – and Hadi Partovi, co-founder and CEO of Code.org – will come to the University of Washington’s Seattle campus May 8 for the Washington Education Innovation Forum.
Join us on Thursday May 8 at Kane Hall Room 110. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the event and live-streaming on UWTV will begin at 7 p.m. Free registration is on EventBrite. Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer and MIT CSAIL’s Regina Barzilay and Nate Kushman have developed a new computer system that can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes. The work will be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in June.
In the near term, the work could lead to educational tools that identify errors in students’ reasoning or evaluate the difficulty of word problems. But it may also point toward systems that can solve more complicated problems in geometry, physics, and finance – problems whose solutions don’t appear in the back of the teacher’s edition of a textbook.
Read an MIT News post here. Check out the research paper here. Read more →
MIT EECS Connector features 2012 MIT EECS Ph.D. alum and UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, whose research on backscatter communication, gesture recognition, and other areas has received wide acclaim. “My goal is to change our fundamental understanding of what is possible, by designing and building novel systems that challenge conventional wisdom.”
Read the MIT EECS Connector article here.
Learn about the work of Shyam and his collaborators in UW CSE’s Networks and Wireless Lab here. Read more →
UW CSE’s annual Scholarship/Fellowship Recognition Luncheon brings together the generous individuals and corporations whose gifts make scholarships and fellowships available to our students, and the outstanding students who are the beneficiaries of this generosity.
At yesterday’s event, graduate student Laurel Orr and undergraduate student Karolina Pyszkiewicz spoke, representing their peers.
Scholarships enable great students to attend UW CSE regardless of means, allowing us to fulfill the traditional role of the nation’s great public universities as tuition rises to offset dramatic reductions in public support. Fellowships help attract the very best graduate students to UW CSE, and provide flexibility during their first year as they discover the research area that excites them the most.
Thanks to our donors, and congratulations to our students!
To learn more about our endowed scholarships and fellowships, the donors, and the recipients, check out the booklet here. Read more →
Seattle Times photographer Ellen Banner captures the Microsoft Atrium from above … here. Read more →
UW EE alum Tom Rolander displays his DRI employee badge #1. (Gary was badge #0)
On Friday, IEEE dedicated a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque honoring 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. (DRI) in Pacific Grove, CA. Hundreds attended the event – including an amazing number of former DRI employees.
David Laws, Tom Rolander, and Gordon Eubanks reminisce about Gary and DRI at a ceremony at Pacific Grove City Hall
The IEEE Milestone plaque honoring UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall for the creation of CP/M
Unveiling of the Milestone plaque – secured with punched paper tape and a floppy disk
801 Lighthouse Avenue, former DRI Headquarters Office and site of the Milestone plaque
Tom Rolander, UW EE alum and DRI badge #1, speaks outside 801 Lighthouse Avenue, former DRI Headquarters Office and site of the Milestone plaque
UW EE alum Tom Rolander, DRI badge #1, flanked by Gary’s son Scott and daughter Kristin
DRI’s CP/M was the dominant microcomputer operating system throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS. Gary was an innovator: CP/M was the first microcomputer disk operating system (previous systems used only sequential media such as paper and magnetic tape), and introduced the BIOS layer (which allowed easy porting of the OS across a wide range of microprocessor and system architectures).
(In remarks at the event, several speakers also commented on the breakthroughs in programming language compiler technology embodied in Gary’s Ph.D. thesis, supervised by UW CSE’s Hellmut Golde.)
IEEE program for the event here.
Wonderful tribute in IProgrammer, with many linked resources, here.
Excellent GeekWire article here.
Computer History Museum article “Gary Kildall and the 40th Anniversary of the Birth of the PC Operating System” here.
KAZU (Monterey Bay NPR) pre-dedication interview here.
California Report post-dedication interview here.
Seattle Times article here.
Monterey Herald article here.
Previous CSE News post with additional information here.
On Friday, 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall will be honored by IEEE with a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. in Pacific Grove, CA.
Kildall’s CP/M was the first microcomputer operating system, and the dominant OS throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS.
– See more at: http://news.cs.washington.edu/#sthash.0wg2K9ii.dpuf
On Friday, 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall will be honored by IEEE with a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. in Pacific Grove, CA.
Kildall’s CP/M was the first microcomputer operating system, and the dominant OS throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS.
– See more at: http://news.cs.washington.edu/#sthash.0wg2K9ii.dpuf
On Friday, 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall will be honored by IEEE with a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. in Pacific Grove, CA.
Kildall’s CP/M was the first microcomputer operating system, and the dominant OS throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS.
– See more at: http://news.cs.washington.edu/#sthash.0wg2K9ii.dpuf
On Friday, 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall will be honored by IEEE with a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. in Pacific Grove, CA.
Kildall’s CP/M was the first microcomputer operating system, and the dominant OS throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS.
– See more at: http://news.cs.washington.edu/#sthash.0wg2K9ii.dpuf
Seattle’s KOMO4 News and KING5 Evening Magazine feature what KOMO calls “astonishing age progression software” from UW CSE, interviewing professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman.
KOMO4 News here.
KING5 Evening Magazine here.
Information on the research here. Read more →
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner has been recognized far and wide for his extraordinary work on accessible computing.
Richard’s most recent honor comes from the ACM Special Interest Group on human-computer interaction, SIGCHI, which will present Richard with its Social Impact Award at CHI 2014 in Toronto later this month – given “to individuals who promote the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs.”
Read the citation here. Learn more about Richard and his work here.
Congratulations once again, Richard! Read more →