UW CSE’s Stuart Reges has won this year’s University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given to faculty who show “a mastery of their subject matter, intellectual rigor and a passion for teaching.” Stuart is the 5th CSE faculty member to receive this honor. A list of previous winners here.
This makes a hat trick for Stuart – adding to the teaching awards he has won at Stanford and Arizona.
Read the announcement here.
Congratulations Stuart! Read more →
A terrific interview regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Listen to the story here. Read more about the competition here. Read more →
CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa is GeekWire‘s “Geek of the Week.”
“One of the goals of GeekWire’s ‘Geek of the Week’ feature is to shine is a light on extraordinary people in the Pacific Northwest technology community. Yaw Anokwa, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Washington, certainly fits that profile — from his Open Data Kit research project to his work as a co-founder of the Change group at the UW.”
The Geek of the Week articles consist largely of the geek’s answers to a wide-ranging set of questions. Yaw gives some thoughtful and surprising answers to such questions as “If someone gave me $1 million to launch a startup, I would …”
Read the article here.
Congratulations, Yaw!! Read more →
UW CSE’s annual summer workshop for K-12 teachers, CS4HS, is open for registration! This year’s workshop, once again sponsored by our friends at Google, will be held from August 10-12 in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering on the UW campus.
CS4HS aims to:
The workshop is targeted at teachers with no computer science or programming experience.
Mark Zbikowski, a 25-year Microsoft employee now in the UW CSE Ph.D. program, is interviewed by the Seattle Times in connection with Paul Allen’s new book.
“‘Paul was pushing to take the state of the art and move it forward a bit.’ In the end, they devised a system that paved the way for future advances to give PCs much more storage. ‘It was prescient of Paul to see that we’d need this organizational ability so far in advance of the hardware,’ Zbikowski said.”
Read the interview here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten – currently on leave from Princeton University to serve as the first Chief Technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission – has been elected as a member of the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution. Its purpose was to provide a forum for a select group of scholars, members of the learned professions, and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic.
Felten is a Professor of Computer Science and of Public Policy at Princeton, and Founding Director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is an expert in computer security and privacy, and public policy issues relating to information technology. He received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1993.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and namesake of our Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, was also elected to the American Academy today, as was Affiliate faculty member Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. students Elisa Celis, Emad Soroush, and Michael Toomim are among 22 students from across the nation to win 2011 awards in the Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” program.
Elisa works with UW CSE professor Anna Karlin on algorithmic game theory, internet economics, and social networks.
Emad works with UW CSE faculty member Magda Balazinska on data management.
Michael works with UW CSE professor James Landay on human-computer interaction.
In 2010, UW CSE Ph.D. students Yaw Anokwa and Yingyi Bu were among the 23 winners. In 2009, UW CSE Ph.D. student Raphael Hoffman was among the 21 winners. Next year we’re shooting for four!
Congratulations to Elisa, Emad, and Michael! And thanks to Yahoo! for recognizing our students. Read more →
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum, a first year grad student studying quantum computing with Dave Bacon and Aram Harrow, has received a 2011 National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship. He is the department’s 14th recipient of this fellowship.
David also recently won an NSF Graduate Fellowship, as reported here.
Congratulations to David! Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa discusses his work on information technology for the developing world in this terrific UW College of Engineering video.
“Computer scientists and computer engineers change the world by designing, building, and deploying innovative solutions to real-world problems …”
Watch the video here. Learn more about Yaw and his research here. Read more →
Todd Bishop and John Cook host UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire:
“This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a ’60 Minutes’ crew, the opening of Zynga’s new office in Pioneer Square, and the city’s plan to bring better Internet connectivity to the Seattle neighborhood, to the potential benefit of the many startups headquartered there.
“Our guest in the studio is Ed Lazowska, the longtime University of Washington computer science professor, who talks about the latest trends he’s seeing in computer science research, his take on Paul Allen vs. Bill Gates, the state of funding for computer science education, the rising demand for top-notch engineers, and the areas he would focus on if he were just starting out in the field.”
Listen to the podcast here. Read more →