UW offers a host of Professional Masters Programs in technology fields – programs geared to the needs of fully-employed professionals.
An ad in today’s GeekWire highlights these programs. Check out the full list here. Learn more about UW CSE’s Professional Masters Program – one of these offerings – here.
Why would you seek a professional masters degree from a different institution when you can benefit from UW’s top-ranked programs? Read more →
Well, sort of … In Episode 430, “Black Market Pharmacies And The Spam Empire Behind Them,” NPR’s “Planet Money” features UW CSE Ph.D. alum and UCSD professor Stefan Savage:
“Chances are you’ve received an email with a subject line like this ‘The hottest method to please your beloved one’ …
“You’ve probably wondered — who is sending these emails? Does anyone actually click on these links? What happens when they do?
“On today’s show, we go deep inside the world of spam to answer these questions with the help of cyber-security reporter Brian Krebs and researcher Stefan Savage.”
Listen here. Read more →
Friends from Google X – Google’s “skunkworks” – will speak in UW CSE on January 28th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room EEB 125, and on February 1 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. in room CSE 403.
On January 28, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon on leave at Google X, will begin by providing an overview of activities at Google X.
Then Nick Hobbs, a graduate of Olin College and a PM at Google X, will discuss the Driverless Car Project.
Plan on roughly 60 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A.
Please RSVP here!
On February 1, UW alum and former UW EE professor Babak Parviz, co-creator of Google’s Project Glass, will describe that project. Babak’s Google colleagues Nirmal Patel and Bob Ryskamp also will participate.
Note: This post has been updated to reflect schedule and content changes! Read more →
Students are busting down the doors at all of the nation’s top computer science programs.
At UW, Winter Quarter enrollment in CSE 142 (“CS-1,” the first introductory course) is 810; the previous all-time high was 659. And 1/3 of the students are women, also an all-time high. Enrollment in CSE 143 (“CS-2,” the second introductory course) is 530, also an all-time high.
Enrollment varies from quarter to quarter. One way to understand the long-term picture is to graph a 1-year rolling total. CSE 142 enrolled 2,070 students in the past year; CSE 143 enrolled 1,340; for a total of 3,410 students in these two courses during the past year.
Wowzers!
SoundWave – research by UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and Sidhant Gupta, and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and Desney Tan.
Thrill to the KOMO TV weather guy attempting to explain the Doppler effect! Watch it here. Read more →
Two UW CSE MOOCs launch this week on Coursera.
Programming Languages, taught by UW CSE professor Dan Grossman, has roughly 60,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 341.
Introduction to Computer Networks, taught by UW CSE professors Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan, has roughly 50,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 461.
Hey, what can possibly go wrong?? Read more →
I mean, how high can your IQ possibly be if you say to Stefan Savage, “Buy me whatever you want for Christmas and I’ll wear it on the first day of my Winter Quarter OS class”?
(Josh Smith adds: “At least Stefan doesn’t shop at Victoria’s Secret … could have been worse.”) Read more →
In late 1999, UW CSE launched the fundraising effort for a marvelous facility that eventually became known as the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Early progress is chronicled here.
Today, less than a decade after we abandoned Beautiful Sieg Hall for the Allen Center, we’re again bursting at the seams.
As a result, we have launched the fundraising effort for Levytown.
Concept drawing:
Progress thus far:
David Notkin (who also kicked off the Allen Center campaign): 
Hal Perkins: 
James Landay:
Carlos Guestrin: 
Dan Halperin: 
Luis Ceze: 
Ed Lazowska: 
Dieter Fox: 
Marc Fiuczynski:
Shyam Gollakota: 
Gaetano Borriello: 
Eric Rudder: 
Johnson Apacible: 
Yaw Anokwa & Hélène Martin: 
Sunil Garg:
Ratul Mahajan & Marta Penas Centeno: 
Jeff & Carolyn (Holmes) Hughes: 
CSE Faculty:
Only 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 more gifts to go! You can be next! Help put us over the top! Read more →
Each year, the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,500) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
This year’s UW Junior Medalist is CSE’s Eric Lei. Eric, who entered the UW after 10th grade through the Robinson Center’s UW Academy, was last year’s Freshman Medalist. (Your correspondent is a systems guy, so is not concerned by the arithmetic implicit in that statement.)
Eric is the eighteenth CSE student to be recognized as a University of Washington Medalist since 2000 (including the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Medal, plus the President’s Medal awarded to the top graduating senior, most recently CSE’s Melissa Winstanley) – fully 1/3 of the medals awarded during that period.
Congratulations to Eric – and to CSE’s many superb students! (Including Eric’s sister Jinna – a current UW CSE Ph.D. student who did her undergraduate work at Cal.)
UW press release here. Read more →
