Nationally, Computer Science is projected to be responsible for 70% of all new jobs in all fields of science and engineering during the current decade. Washington State projections are consistent with this.
The UW Daily reports on an anticipated enrollment increase of roughly 80 degrees per year in CSE.
“Hank Levy, UW CSE department chair, explained the significance … ‘There’s really extreme demand from our students,’ he said. ‘We have not been able to expand our program since 1999. Think about how much has changed in tech since then. So this is enormous.’ …
“In addition to growing the computer science major, Levy is looking to develop more courses for students outside the department.
“‘It’s increasingly important for everyone to know something about computing,’ he said. ‘Lots of students need exposure to it, not just computer science students. By doing both, I think we can make a big impact.'” Read more →
Kate will be a professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering, and an adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering. Nice Seattle Times article here. Read more →
From the book In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy:
“Google profiled people by which college they had attended. As Page said, ‘We hired people like us’ … Google sought its employees from Stanford, Berkeley, University of Washington, MIT – the regulars.” Read more →
UW CSE has just won the 2012 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, repeating 2011’s performance.
Team members Mick Ayzenberg, Henry Baba-Weiss, Ian Finder, Karl Koscher, Landon Meernik, Miles Sackler, Cullen Walsh, and Lars Zornes – coached by Jake Appelbaum and advised by Melody Kadenko – qualified for the National competition by winning the Pacific Rim Regionals last month. Hearty congratulations to these folks, and also to Barbara Endicott-Popovsky of UW’s iSchool for encouraging a UW-wide focus on cybersecurity.
See an excellent UW News article here. See a Seattle Times article previewing the competition here. Wall Street Journal MarketWatch article on the competition here. Seattle Times article on the competition here. Other press, out the wazoo: Sacramento Bee; PR Newswire; Infosec Island; Sys-Con Media; KHQ Spokane; KFVS Eklville; KYTX Tylor Longview; splunk. Read more →
UW CSE students competing this weekend in Texas: Ian Finder is center front; back from left: Henry Baba-Weiss, Lars Zornes, Cullen Walsh, adviser Melody Kadenko, Miles Sackler, Karl Koscher, Landon Meernik and Mick Ayzenberg.
The Seattle Times previews the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition:
“Somewhere in Texas right now, 30 hackers known as the Red Team are attacking a computer network called Go Mommy, using every trick to try to bring it to its knees.
“Among the defenders: Eight computer-science students from the University of Washington, working to repel the attack — quite possibly while humming the ‘Angry Birds’ theme song.
“This is the world of college cybersecurity competitions, where a dose of black humor underscores an atmosphere of extreme suspicion, and the hackers dish out clever pop-culture references while trying to break the student networks with a bag of dirty tricks.
“The UW team is one of the best in the country. It’s one of 10 teams competing in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio this weekend as the defending champs, having won the competition for the first time last year.”
Read more here. Read more →
Greenpeace is releasing today its ratings on how clean or dirty tech companies’ clouds are. The Seattle Times quotes UW CSE Ph.D. student Adrian Sampson in their article on the Greenpeace report:
“‘Only in the last few years have we started using more energy in the cloud than we are on the devices we have,’ said Adrian Sampson, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington who specializes in energy-efficient computing.
“Energy-conscious consumers should be aware that when they operate, say, a smartphone or a tablet, the battery is not the only energy they’re using, Sampson said. ‘Especially for things like iPhones and iPads, which are extremely energy-efficient, and they’re only able to be that efficient because they use so much energy in the cloud, in data centers,’ he said.”
Read the Seattle Times article here. Read more →
On June 15 and 16, 34 ACM A.M. Turing Award Winners come together for the first time, to honor the 100th Anniversary of Alan Turing and reflect on his contributions, as well as on the past and future of computing.
Three UW CSE programming languages and software engineering graduate students – Ivan Beschastnikh, Brian Burg, and Stephanie Dietzel – have been awarded scholarships by ACM SIGSOFT (the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) to attend this extraordinary event.
Congratulations to Ivan, Brian, and Stephanie! Read more →
CSE's Helene Martin, Emily Harmell, Zorah Fung, and Rachel Sobel at NWrWIC 2012
NWrWIC is a Northwest regional Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, including tech-oriented women from Oregon and Washington colleges and universities, professional organizations, and the high school women and teachers from the NCWIT Oregon and SW Washington Regional Awards.
NWrWIC 2012 was held on Saturday in Portland OR. UW CSE was represented by faculty member Helene Martin and students Zorah Fung, Emily Harmell and Rachel Sobel. Read more →
“Facebook has transformed how we keep tabs on friends, by training people to constantly publish short status updates about the delicious meal they just ate or the killer vacation they just took. A site called Wavii opened to the public earlier this week that wants to do the same thing for topics, with short bursts of news on everything from corporate acquisitions to celebrities.
“Wavii, based in Seattle, works by scouring the Web, including news sites, Twitter and blogs, for news about a vast number of topics. It then automatically creates the equivalent of a status update on the topic that summarizes the news, often in just one sentence, with a link to the full story on the site from which the news originated. Wavii users see a Facebook-like feed with updates on all the news topics they follow.
“Using machines, rather than human editors, to summarize the news in a faithful way is a big technical challenge, according Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, who is also an adviser to Wavii. ‘They have state-of-the-art information extraction technology which allows them to do this is,’ said Mr. Etzioni, who is a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence.”
Read more here. Read more →
StudentRND – a workplace for student tech innovation created and led by UW CSE undergraduate Ed Jiang – was featured on KING 5 News.
“Demand for talent in the technology industry is so great that some companies are offering six-figure salaries to college students before they even graduate. Seizing on that demand, a student-run non-profit in Bellevue, called StudentRND, is giving young people in high school and college a chance to get valuable hands-on experience … On Wednesdays and Saturdays, StudentRND provides students a 3500-square-foot workspace to flex their tech muscles.”
Watch the video here. Learn more about StudentRND here. Read more →
