We’re thrilled to have been recognized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology with NCWIT’s inaugural Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award, and with the coverage this received in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, Xconomy, GeekWire, UW Today, and KIRO Radio.
Two bits of followup:
First, here’s an article from a couple of years ago describing “the why and the how” of our focus on gender diversity… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean is WIRED Magazine’s May cover boy!
UW CSE Ph.D. alum and Google Senior Fellow Jeff Dean made the cover of May’s WIRED Magazine as first among twenty “unsung geniuses who are about to reshape the business world.”
Jeff, who with his MIT Ph.D. alum Google colleague Sanjay Ghemawat is responsible for much of Google’s game-changing scalable infrastructure, is now focused on deep learning as a way to truly make computer systems “smart.”
Read the Wired article here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Raj Rao’s research profiled in Washington Post
The Washington Post has picked up Smithsonian magazine’s coverage of UW CSE professor Raj Rao’s research:
“Of course, the story starts with the Vulcan mind meld.
“Since Spock first demonstrated on the original ‘Star Trek’ how Vulcans could absorb the thoughts of another being, the mind meld has been the go-to image for mental telepathy. So that’s how Jerry Adler begins his story ‘Why Brain-to-Brain Communication Is No Longer Unthinkable’ in the May Smithsonian magazine: He compares it with the… Read more →
“Myth and Reality in the Crisis of College Affordability”
A careful analysis of national data that cuts through the bull concerning escalating tuition at public research-intensive universities:
“The Real Culprit: Cuts in State Support
“If neither rising spending nor increased aid is primarily driving tuition increases, what is? If we turn to the revenue side of the balance sheet, the answer becomes clear: declining state support.”
Read it and weep … here.… Read more →
Seattle Times: “UW recognized for recruiting women to computer science”
The Seattle Times captures the essence of why UW CSE was recognized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology with the inaugural Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award. (Thank you Katherine Long!)
“UW CSE’s Siena Dumas Ang never thought she would come to love computer science.
“What she loved was dance – ballet and, later, modern – as well as math, and she was planning to major in both at the University of Washington. But then… Read more →
NY Times: “Making Computer Science More Inviting: A Look at What Works”
A phenomenal article by Claire Cain Miller in the New York Times, stimulated by UW CSE’s receipt today of the NCWIT Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award – the Grand Prize in the organization’s inaugural NEXT Awards:
“When Sonja Khan started college, she’d never thought of studying computer science. But when she heard from friends that the intro class was good, she decided to give it a try – and then ended up majoring in it.
“Four years… Read more →
UW CSE wins NCWIT Grand Prize for supporting women in computer science
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has recognized UW CSE with its Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award – the Grand Prize in the organization’s inaugural NEXT Awards. NCWIT selected UW CSE for this honor based on our strong commitment and demonstrated success in encouraging women to pursue computer science education and careers.
From the NCWIT Award website:
“These accomplishments are the result of strategic, well-planned recruiting and retention efforts. They conduct multi-pronged outreach… Read more →
The Seattle Times on the job market for this year’s UW graduates
The Seattle Times writes:
“Vivian Yu, a 21-year-old computer-science major at the University of Washington, is graduating this June with a job already lined up – and four other offers she turned down.
“Jessica Ramirez, a UW American ethnic studies major with a concentration in labor studies who is also graduating next month, is having a tougher go of it …
“Similarly, Sarah Croft, 21, a UW biology major, said she was finding it hard to land a job related… Read more →
Taskar Center for Accessible Technology joins eScience Institute “Data Science for Social Good” summer program
UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT) announced today that two of its projects were selected to participate in the eScience Institute‘s Data Science Incubation Program this summer focusing on Data Science for Social Good. Both TCAT projects address commuting and transportation needs in King County, with an emphasis on enhancing access for individuals with mobility impairments.
The first project, ParaTransit To Go, is a collaboration between TCAT and King County Metro Transit’s Accessible Services group to… Read more →
CSE’s GRAIL Group and Google turn online photos into time-lapse videos
CSE graduate student Ricardo Martin Brualla and professor Steve Seitz, in collaboration with David Gallup of Google, have pioneered a new method for creating time-lapse videos of popular or historically significant landmarks from the millions of photos posted online.
Using a process they call “time-lapse mining,” the researchers sorted photos of a particular location by date and devised a method of compensating for differences in camera position and lighting quality. By warping the photos to a common viewpoint and… Read more →