Allen School News

Emo is extensively quoted in the article “Seeing the Natural World With a Physicist’s Lens.”  Read the article here. Read more →

UW CSE’s Bruce Hemingway’s sculpture “Regina Sprocket (robot critic)” was recently displayed at the Seattle Museum of miniature Art (Kirkland Arts Center).  Wonderful photographs here. Read more →

Seattle Magazine has named UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and his UW Biochemistry collaborator David Baker among its 2010 “Most Influential” for their collaboration on the protein folding game Foldit.

“’We’re involving people in science in a way that produces results that you can’t get any other way,’ says Popovic.  ‘It’s democratizing science.’”

Read the article here.  Play Foldit here. Read more →

Halloween is near, and that means it’s time for the annual UW CSE pumpkin carving TGIF.  Eyuccch! Photos here. Read more →

The Puget Sound Business Journal and its partner TechFlash report on the computer science job market.

“David Truong, a 21-year-old University of Washington student from Kirkland, faces an uncertain future as he looks ahead to entering the workforce, hoping the remain in the region where he grew up.  His biggest challenge:  choosing among the multiple companies interested in hiring him. … Truong is a computer science major who has already started making his mark with internships at Intel, Lockheed Martin and Microsoft.  And the competition for people like him is only becoming more fierce. …

“Speaking after a recent UW appearance, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that the new influx of Silicon Valley firms will be looking to lure engineers from his company.  ‘Why would anyone open up in Seattle, Washington?’ Ballmer said.  ‘Answer:  Microsoft and the University of Washington.’”

Read the full article in TechFlash here.  PSBJ version here (pdf). Read more →

Alumni and Affiliates

Keynote by UW VP Linden Rhoads

Posters and Demonstrations

Career Fair

Zillow

Matt McIlwain presents the Madrona Prize

The annual UW Computer Science & Engineering Industrial Affiliates Meeting took place on October 27th and 28th.

On the 27th, more than 100 representatives from Affiliates companies participated in a day of research presentations, as well as a keynote presentation by Linden Rhoads, UW Vice Provost and head of the Center for Commercialization.

That evening, more than 250 Seattle-area alumni joined for an evening of posters, demonstrations, and fellowship.

On the 28th, 42 companies recruited UW CSE undergraduate and graduate students.

Additional photographs of the 27th here; of the 28th here.  (Thanks to UW CSE faculty member Bruce Hemingway for the photography!) Read more →

It’s a zoo at the UW Computer Science & Engineering Industrial Affililates’ recruiting fair, held on Thursday October 28th in conjunction with the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting.  42 companies, from Adobe to Zynga, all looking to recruit UW CSE students.

See additional photos of the event here.  See information on national job projections here. Read more →

Would you consider a job at a tech startup that posted on Craigslist with the headline:

Need a bikini booth babe for UW Career Fair

If so, then you and LetsDivvy deserve each other. This sort of offensive, degrading, misogynistic, sophomoric nonsense has no place in our society, in our field, or on our campus.

Read the full Craigslist post here (pdf) – it only gets worse.  (This is a pdf of the original post, which was dated October 26th.  The post was revised on October 28th.)

Some related reading here (pdf).

[LetsDivvy has asked us to note that no one in a bikini actually worked their booth at the UW SEBA career fair.  Their revised Craigslist post is here [post no longer exists].] Read more →

Tom Mitchell, head of the Machine Learning Department in CMU’s School of Computer Science and Ph.D. advisor of UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni, spoke in the UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series on October 21 on the subject of “Never-Ending Learning.”

Talk abstract and video here.  New York Times article on Tom’s NELL system here. Read more →

UW CSE bachelors alumnus Paul Javid is one of three students profiled by the UW Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs in an article on the impact of international experiences on undergraduates.

Paul worked with UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, UW CSE Ph.D. student Tapan Parikh (now a faculty member at UC Berkeley), and Microsoft Research on a number of projects in rural India.  Paul graduated from UW CSE in 2006, and is now completing dual graduate degrees at UC Berkeley in public health and business.

Read the profile here. Read more →