Each summer, UW CSE welcomes middle school and high school teachers from around the state at our computer science education workshop, CS4HS. Math and science teachers are invited to participate in an action-packed, three-day program designed to give them the knowledge and resources to integrate computer science into their classrooms and to build student interest in our exciting and rapidly growing field.
The 2015 workshop will take place July 15th – 17th at UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for… Read more →
Congrats to UW CSE’s Melody Kadenko!
UW CSE’s Melody Kadenko has received the 2015 UW College of Engineering Professional Staff Award.
Melody manages more than 100 research grants from multiple agencies. In her “spare time,” she mentors UW’s National Collegiate Cyberdefense Competition team, and shakes the tin cup to fund the CSE espresso room (appropriating a page from the NPR playbook: “We need $2500 before I quit sending email!”).
A faculty member writes, “Melody uses creativity and persistence to solve any kind of thorny research grant… Read more →
UW CSE’s Krittika D’Silva: “I signed up for an intro CS class, and couldn’t stop taking classes after that”
UW’s Undergraduate Academic Affairs office recently published a great article on CSE undergrad Krittika D’Silva, who decided to double-major in computer science and bioengineering after taking one of our introductory courses. The article, “Undergrad sees change in the palm of her hand,” describes how Krittika arrived at the intersection of the two fields, which earned her a 2014-2015 Levinson Emerging Scholars Award.
After being accepted to CSE, Krittika worked with the late professor Gaetano Borriello on the development… Read more →
UW CSE’s time-lapse video project featured on PBS NewsHour
The new method for creating time-lapse videos developed by UW CSE’s GRAIL Group and Google was featured on a recent segment of the PBS NewsHour. As part of “NewsHour Shares,” its series of eye-catching stories from around the Web, PBS highlighted the videos created by graduate student Ricardo Martin Brualla, professor Steve Seitz and Google’s David Gallup of famous locations such as the Vatican and the Las Vegas strip – all from photos posted online.
As PBS anchor Judy… Read more →
What is Programming Language research and how is it useful?
We love being used to make a point! The University of Maryland’s Mike Hicks writes in “The Programming Languages Enthusiast” blog:
“If you are in the world of programming languages research, the announcement that UW had hired Ras Bodik away from Berkeley was big news. Quoting UW’s announcement:
“Ras’s arrival creates a truly world-class programming languages group in UW CSE that crosses into systems, databases, security, architecture, and other areas. Ras joins recent hires Emina Torlak, Alvin Cheung,… Read more →
KIRO Radio on UW CSE’s gender diversity initiatives
KIRO Radio did a terrific 8-minute segment on UW CSE’s gender diversity initiatives and our recognition by the National Center for Women & Information Technology with NCWIT’s inaugural Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award.
“There’s also a very diverse pool of teacher’s assistants. Nearly 50 percent are female. That’s part of what made a difference to student Siena Dumas-Ang, who didn’t intend on being a Computer Science anything during her time at the university. She now plans… Read more →
Broadening Participation: The Why and the How
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 →