The paper “Interactive Record/Replay for Debugging Web Applications” by CSE’s Brian Burg, Jake Bailey, Amy Ko, and Michael Ernst has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention from UIST 2013.
The paper describes Timelapse, an extension to the WebKit browser engine that can cheaply capture and exactly replay a user’s session with a web application. This capability is being used to create powerful new tools for debugging, testing, bug reporting, and program visualization.
Read the paper here. Timelapse GitHub here. Read more →
This Friday – October 18 – is “Machine Learning Day 2013,” jointly organized by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research (Emily Fox, Ben Taskar, and Ofer Dekel).
An overview, the program, and registration materials are here.
240 people are already registered! It’s going to be huge! Read more →
A terrific John Markoff article discusses advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent transportation, and emotional computing:
“‘During the next decade we’re going to see smarts put into everything,’ said Ed Lazowska, a computer scientist at the University of Washington who is a specialist in Big Data. ‘Smart homes, smart cars, smart health, smart robots, smart science, smart crowds and smart computer-human interactions.’
“The enormous amount of data being generated by inexpensive sensors has been a significant factor in altering the center of gravity of the computing world, he said, making it possible to use centralized computers in data centers — referred to as the cloud — to take artificial intelligence technologies like machine-learning and spread computer intelligence far beyond desktop computers.”
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The Seattle Times reports on the changing culture in the UW College of Engineering:
“When Eve Riskin first began teaching electrical engineering at the University of Washington in 1990, her students were so surprised to find a young woman professor teaching in a male-dominated field that many asked her if she had a Ph.D.
“Of course, Riskin did — in electrical engineering, from Stanford.
“Twenty-three years later, female professors are slowly becoming more common in male-dominated engineering and science fields ..
“Four of the five associate deans in the UW College of Engineering are women, including Riskin, who is associate dean of academic affairs, as well as a professor of electrical engineering.
In 2001, fewer than 10 percent of the UW engineering faculty members were women. In 2012, it was just over 20 percent, or 47 tenure- and tenure-track women faculty out of a total of 231. The national average was 14 percent.”
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The Hour of Code is coming! As part of Computer Science Education Week, Hadi Partovi’s Code.org has established an incredibly audacious goal: have every student in America spend one hour learning to program.
At the rollout event today in San Francisco, UW CSE’s Hélène Martin emceed a panel featuring Brad Smith (Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Microsoft), Max Levchin (President and CEO of HVF; co-founder of PayPal), Hadi Partovi (CEO of Code.org), Maggie Johnson (Director of Education and University Relations at Google), and Tom Torlakson (California State Superintendent of Public Instruction).
Learn more, and watch the video of today’s event, here. Get inspired! Get involved! Read more →
More than 120 UW CSE students in two shifts are being coached this afternoon for upcoming technical interviews by 15 alumni and friends from local companies. Our thanks to:
- Amazon.com: Jordan Moore, Sylvia Tashev, Igor von Nyssen
- Google: Kennet Belenky, Brian Lee, Ian Talarico, Hannah Tang
- Groupon: Eric Herrmann
- Microsoft: John Gabriel D’Angelo, Jason Thorsness
- Pariveda: Sean Beard, Stephen Verstraete
- Tableau Software: Austin Dahl
- Whitepages: Jack Foy, Paul Sutton
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At UW and other colleges and universities, interest in computer science continues to soar. There is lots of data, and there are lots of reasons – which we’ll discuss in a subsequent post. But for now, take a look at annual enrollment in UW CSE’s two introductory courses – “CS1” (numbered CSE 142 at UW), and “CS2” (numbered CSE 143 at UW). (By “annual enrollment” we mean the total enrollment in the most recent four quarters – for example, “au13” is the sum of the enrollments in winter quarter 2013, spring quarter 2013, summer quarter 2013, and autumn quarter 2013.)
Also worth noting: the proportion of women in these courses, while still less than we would like it to be, is trending in the right direction.
Students have figured it out: Computer science – it’s where the future is!
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Friday October 11 and Saturday October 12 mark the dedication of the Bezos Center for Innovation at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI).
Through interactive exhibits, community and educational programs, and first-person insights from leading innovators, the Bezos Center for Innovation explores Seattle’s role as a nexus of big ideas and new directions.
The dedication features a “Power Hour” (how can you not like that?) with CSE’s Shwetak Patel. See an interview conducted in connection with the dedication here. Other interviews of leading Seattle innovators here.
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More than 200 UW CSE students participated in yesterday’s resumé review workshop – prepping for the recruiting fairs held in conjunction with our Industry Affiliates Meeting in two weeks.
Many thanks to the 15 industry volunteers who reviewed the resumés, undeterred by a fire alarm (triggered by a water main break north of campus):
- Amazon.com: Mike Materasso, Eric Wigley, Nikki Dutton
- Tableau Software: John Charrier
- Google: Carolyn Balousek, Erica Hiler, Mandy Smith, Ryan Peterson
- Whitepages: Jenny Kohr Chynoweth, Robert Noble
- Microsoft: Tera Kull
- VMware: Jehad Affoneh, Andrey Belokrylov, Salim Abiezzi, Imranul Hoque
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