Last week, Eyes on Success interviewed UW CSE professor Richard Ladner about his long-running Tactile Graphics Project, a tool for creating universally accessible graphs and charts. During the half-hour audio show, Ladner talked about the importance of tactile graphics in providing blind students with access to figures and diagrams in textbooks, and how computer vision and machine learning techniques enable more rapid translation of graphical images for this purpose. He also talked about Tactile Graphics with a Voice, which is… Read more →
Annual UW CSE Center for Game Science Art Show and Pig Out
Unfortunately, this may be the last instance of an extraordinary annual event: Yun-En Liu, the graduate student instigator, is graduating. (You’d think something could be done about that …)
Today’s menu:
Real Food
Breads
90% rye levain
Vollkornbrot
Black bread
Black Pumpernickel
Pissaladière
Baguette
Challah
Sesame breadsticks
Grissini
Rosemary crackers
Charcuterie
Loukaniko
Saucisson sec
Cacciatore
Chorizo Rioja
Piccante salami
Garlic and black pepper salami
Wild boar salami
Cheeses and bread add-ons
Blue 61
Bonrus
Black pepper d’affinois
Robiola
Manchego
Truffle… Read more →
UW CSE’s Congle Zhang and NewsSpike-RE featured in UW Daily
UW CSE Ph.D. student Congle Zhang recently talked with the campus newspaper about NewsSpike-RE, a new machine learning algorithm developed at UW CSE to train computers to more efficiently and accurately parse human language using events described in news stories.
NewsSpike-RE discovers and extracts event relations from a vast array of online articles, and then employs a probabilistic graphical model to cluster sentences that describe similar events from parallel news streams.
From the article:
“NewsSpike stands out among other natural-language… Read more →
UW CSE Professional Masters Program reunion
UW CSE’s Professional Masters Program – a part-time evening/distance program designed for fully-employed professionals who wish to continue on their career paths while acquiring critical skills to move them into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact – has awarded 699 degrees in the 19 years since it was introduced.
Yesterday evening, nearly 100 of these alums (including Steve Thomas, PMP graduate #1, in 1997) joined UW CSE faculty and staff at a reunion hosted at the Microsoft… Read more →
CSE’s Daniel Jones in PNAS
UW CSE computational biology Ph.D. student Daniel Jones is second author on a paper that has just appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, “Let-7 family of microRNA is required for maturation and adult-like metabolism in stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes,” (abstract here), blends wet-lab biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, genomics and computer science.
Stem cell research shows enormous promise for both basic science and, ultimately, for therapy, e.g., potentially repairing tissue damage after a heart… Read more →
New York Times: UW CSE alum Nick Szabo = Satoshi Nakamoto?
A lengthy and fascinating article in today’s New York Times fingers 1989 UW CSE alum Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin:
“Mr. Szabo denied that he was Satoshi … But he acknowledged that his history left little question that he was among a small group of people who, over decades, working sometimes cooperatively and sometimes in competition, laid the foundation for Bitcoin and created many parts that later went into the virtual currency. Mr. Szabo’s most… Read more →
CSE’s Yaw Anokwa, Christophe Bisciglia honored at UW College of Engineering Diamond Awards gala
2012 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa and 2003 UW CSE Bachelors alum Christophe Bisciglia were two of the four alums honored at the 2015 UW College of Engineering Diamond Awards gala on Friday night.
Yaw received the Diamond Award for Distinguished Service. Christophe received the Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement.
Read more about the accomplishments of Yaw and Christophe here. Learn about the other 2015 Diamond Award honorees here.… Read more →
A place to remember Gaetano
Today the UW CSE community gathered to dedicate a bench in Sylvan Grove – adjacent to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering – to our beloved colleague Gaetano Borriello.
The plaques read:
In memory of Gaetano Borriello, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, 1988-2015.
Dedicated educator, valued mentor, scientist, and colleague. The innovative work of Gaetano and his students changed lives around the world.
Read some of the many tributes to Gaetano and his work:
IEEE … Read more →
GeekWire: “Paul Allen’s Artificial Intelligence Institute launches startup incubator with top minds in AI”
GeekWire reports on a new startup incubator launched by Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), where UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni is the CEO:
“‘We are quickly building an element of the Seattle tech ecosystem, and we’ve identified cutting-edge folks who are startup minded,’ said Oren Etzioni, the former University of Washington computer science professor who now leads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. ‘Once we identify super-talented folks … we give them a lot of freedom… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten joins White House as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer
The White House today announced that Ed Felten – UW CSE Ph.D. alum and Princeton faculty member – will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
Ed received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1993, working with Ed Lazowska and John Zahorjan. He joined the Princeton faculty at that time, where he is currently the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and of Public Affairs, and Director of Princeton’s Center… Read more →