You guessed it – college professor.
Where did we go wrong?
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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 →
NIAC co-directors Vikram Jandhyala and Moe Khaleel
“‘The expanded partnership between UW and PNNL will create tremendous new opportunities for both organizations,’ said Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science and engineering. ‘Big data is transforming the process of discovery in all fields. UW and PNNL have significant and complementary strengths.’ Lazowska leads the eScience Institute, created in 2008 to support data-driven discovery at the UW. Many of the roughly dozen UW faculty who will be involved with the new group at its launch are eScience Institute affiliates.”
Read the UW press release here. Read the PNNL press release here. Tri-City Herald here. Seattle Times here. Xconomy here. Read more →
The UW Daily reports on CSE professor Richard Ladner’s work on developing a science-friendly American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary.
“Working with professors at Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Ladner has created the ASL-STEM Forum, a site on which users can post signs for vocabulary for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
“Due to the broadness of its use, ASL doesn’t have many standardized terms that are common in STEM fields. The forum boasts almost 3,000 signs that students can look through for their education.
“‘More than half of universities in the U.S. have at least one deaf student; UW has 20 or 30,’ Ladner said. ‘A good number of them use sign language, and their access to science is somewhat limited. If there aren’t signs for terms, then they need to be spelled out; that takes a lot of time, so they’re missing out on information.'”
Read the article here. Visit the ASL-STEM Forum here. Read more →
A lovely New York Times article on the re-opening of Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry:
“The museum pays tribute, for example, to the many corporate giants that were born and thrived here, so startlingly out of proportion to the city’s modest population (now just over 600,000). There is a 1920s Model T reconfigured to look like an early truck from United Parcel Service, established as the American Messenger Company in Seattle in 1907. There are galleries devoted to Boeing and Microsoft, a tribute to Amazon, and displays about major breakthroughs in medical treatments that evolved here (including improved dialysis machines and cardiac defibrillators). Somehow the museum even has the hand-painted wooden sign that stood outside the first Starbucks in 1971 …
“But at the same time, the museum celebrates the dropout bohemianism of the Beat scene, the grunge rebellion of Seattle bands and decades of countercultural protest and environmental activism. The recent legalization of marijuana in Washington State is prefigured by other enthusiasms; 99 bottles of beer are mounted on one wall, each locally brewed …
“The spirit of the place is strong, its stance vigorous, its imagination fertile. It is Seattle in an alluring self-portrait.”
Article here. Slideshow here. MOHAI website here. Read more →
UW CSE undergraduates Eric Lei and Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk have been honored with Mary Gates Research Scholarships – competitive scholarships intended to enhance the educational experiences of undergraduate students at the University of Washington while they are engaged in research guided by faculty.
Congratulations to Eric and Vaspol. Learn more about the Mary Gates Research Scholarship program here.
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Each day during the holidays, Crosscut revisits two top stories from the last year. Today’s focus is social services. UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello and his team are featured:
“Gaetano Borriello’s students in the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering are just a few of those good people. In the spring of 2011, several of Borriello’s undergraduates, working with other students in the department’s Human Centered Design program, designed prototypes for new mobile devices to help the G2L project meet one of its objectives: helping south King County residents find cheap, affordable interpreters.”
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Each year, the University of Washington College of Engineering confers “Diamond Awards” on alumni in four categories: Distinguished Achievement in Industry, Distinguished Achievement in Academia, Entrepreneurial Excellence, and Distinguished Service.
The recipient of the 2013 Diamond Award for Distinguished Service – to be conferred at an award banquet on May 31 – is 1988 UW CSE bachelors alum Kevin Ross.
In 2002, while working as a senior design engineer at Microsoft, Kevin became concerned that enthusiasm seemed to be declining among entry-level engineers just out of college. While book-smart, they lacked passion. In response, Kevin founded Washington FIRST Robotics. Today, Washington FIRST Robotics works with over 7,500 students and 2000 volunteers each year in Washington State, matching student groups with mentors to provide high quality experiences. Their goal is to have a FIRST robotics team available for every student in the state of Washington. Kevin and Washington FIRST Robotics are changing lives across our state – inspiring the engineers of the future.
Congratulations to Kevin! Read more here. Learn about Washington FIRST Robotics here. Read more →
Last week, UW CSE was the site of a press conference at which Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn was joined by Gig.U Executive Director (and former author of the National Broadband Plan) Blair Levin, Gigabit Squared President and co-founder Mark Ansboury, and UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, to announce a collaborative initiative – Gigabit Seattle – to develop and operate an ultra-high-speed fiber and wifi broadband network in Seattle.
Videos of the event have now been posted – Lazowska’s remarks here; others linked from that site.
KUOW (NPR) followup interview here. Read more →
