Art Rosenfeld
Lee Hood
President Barack Obama today announced that Lee Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, will receive the National Medal of Science. Hood and his lab have invented five instruments that are central to the modern era of biotechnology, including the gene sequencer.
President Obama also announced that Art Rosenfeld, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and father-in-law of UW CSE professor Dan Weld, will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. A distinguished physicist, Rosenfeld is internationally renowned for his transformational work on energy efficiency.
Congratulations to Lee and Art! Read the White House press release here. Read more →
Mike Fridgen, CEO of UW CSE startup Decide.com, discusses dynamic pricing, and how consumers can turn it into a benefit.
“In today’s lackluster economy, dynamic pricing often works for the consumer, says Fridgen of Decide.com. ‘It’s never been a better time to be an online consumer,’ he says. ‘You literally have retailers changing their prices minute by minute competing with each other for your business.'”
Listen to the story here. Read more →
Are you no longer sufficiently challenged by the requirement of squeezing your research into a 10-page conference paper? Try Tiny ToCS – Tiny Transactions on Computer Science!
“Tiny Transactions on Computer Science seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer science. Tiny ToCS is the premier venue for computer science research of 140 characters or less.”
Remember … if it takes more than 140 characters to explain, it’s not a Big Idea!
(For better or worse, UW CSE students Gilbert Bernstein, Raymond Cheng, Dimitrios Gklezakos, Frazi Roesner, and Will Scott, and UW CSE alums Sunil Garg and Justine Sherry, are among those behind this absurdity.) Read more →
CSE professor Magda Balazinska celebrates her brand-spanking-new U.S. citizenship with fried chicken, apple pie, baked beans, okra, questions from the web-based citizenship test cram course, and the UW CSE data management and big data groups. Read more →
The Fall 2012 issue of Most Significant Bits – the UW CSE alumni magazine – is available!
- Industry Affiliates Meeting (including a new Startup Day)
- World Lab initiative
- Phenomenal faculty hires
- Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing
- CSE 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series
- Google’s G-Give campaign
- Datagrams – news about you!
- A spellbinding letter from Hank
Read the Fall 2012 issue here. Complete archive here. Keep in touch here. Read more →
On Saturday, 74 teams representing 26 Puget Sound area high schools – more than 200 students in all – participated in a programming competition hosted by UW CSE and the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association, and sponsored by Microsoft TEALS. The Allen Center was humming!
Thanks to Hélène Martin, Stuart Reges, Magda Balazinska, and a host of volunteers for making the day a huge success!
Photographs here. Results here. CSTA post here.
Learn more about UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes, here. Read more →
UW CSE alums Krista Davis (left) and Jessan Hutchison-Quillian (right) created the successful Google G-Give employee giving program. Jeff Prouty (center) is also a UW alum and helped develop G-Give.
“Two Google employees who graduated from the University of Washington have come up with a simplified way for their fellow workers to give money to social causes — an idea that raised about $120,000 for an endowed scholarship at the UW just this week … The program also raised money for the Seattle office of Solid Ground and the Kirkland office of Hopelink, as well as the Vittana Foundation, Social Justice Fund Northwest and the Post-Prison Education Program. Each program was showcased for a day on the company’s G-Give website.”
Read the Seattle Times article here. Read more about G-Give in GeekWire here. Read more →
Qualcomm has announced 33 finalist teams – from among 138 applications from 15 participating US schools – for the 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships. The winning teams – which will be selected in March – each will receive a $100,000 Fellowship.
Congratulations to UW CSE’s 3 finalist teams:
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Responding to pressure from the UW CSE News blog, subsequently echoed by the Daily Californian, the University of California has reversed course and abandoned its “flushing toilet” logo.
“While I believe the design element in question would win wide acceptance over time, it also is important that we listen to and respect the snarky response from UW Computer Science & Engineering” Daniel M. Dooley, UC’s senior vice president for external relations, said in a statement Friday morning. “There’s going to be hell to pay from the plumber’s union, but UCOP will stand firm.”
Will Stanford be next?
Read more here.
Update: Arnold Yeung, responding on the Daily Californian blog to questions regarding the cost of designing the new logo: “Well, it was inspired by some guy looking down while taking a piss in the toilet, so the total cost was a diet coke.” Read more →
Last summer, the University of Washington partnered with Coursera to make variants of some courses available for free. (In case you’ve been sleeping for the past year, these “MOOCs” have been widely discussed inside and outside of academia.)
CSE is excited about this opportunity and to date is responsible for about half of UW’s announced course offerings. The first two will begin in one month — on January 14, 2013. They are a programming-languages course similar to CSE341 taught by Dan Grossman, and a computer networks course similar to CSE461 taught by Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan. There’s still plenty of time to have your friends and neighbors sign up at www.coursera.org.
We have three more courses planned for April 2013 and more for the next academic year.
Getting ready to teach online courses to tens of thousands of students is an ongoing adventure that began months ago. Particular thanks is due to staff members Fred Videon and Rodney Prieto for the audio-video functionality, and to students Max Forbes, Claire McQuin, Eric Mullen, Cody Schroeder, and Rachel Sobel for all sorts of course materials and grading infrastructure. Read more →
