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 →
UW CSE GHC
The 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held Wednesday through Friday October 8‐10. Two sessions during GHC created a great deal of controversy: a Male Allies Plenary Panel on Wednesday evening featuring Alan Eustace (Google), Blake Irving (GoDaddy), Mike Schroepfer (Facebook), and Tayloe Stansbury (Intuit), and an interview of Microsoft
CEO Satya Nadella by Harvey Mudd College President (and Microsoft Board of Directors
member) Maria Klawe on Thursday morning.
On the evening of Monday October 13, UW… Read more →
The Stranger on tech vulnerabilities
The Stranger, Seattle’s authoritative source for tech news and views, reports on an experiment in which our EE colleagues deploy a surgical robot rife with software vulnerabilities, then demonstrate that it can be hacked.
The work of CSE professor Yoshi Kohno and his colleagues also is cited:
“This isn’t the first time the University of Washington has conducted such an experiment. The computer science department – particularly the work of Tadayoshi Kohno – has unearthed flaws in embedded medical devices,… Read more →
UW CSE’s 3rd annual Notkinfest TGIF
The announcement read:
This Friday, 5/8 at 4:30 in the Atrium, we will be holding the 3rd annual Notkinfest TGIF to celebrate the life of former CSE chair David Notkin! Come, eat, drink, and enjoy exciting beard-related activities, which in past years have included “Make your own Notkin beard” and “Pin the beard on the Notkin.” There will be prizes in benson store credit** for “Best Beard” and “Most Creative Beard.”
Check out pictures from Notkinfest 2014 and from the … Read more →
And then there’s CHI …
We missed April’s announcement of “Best Papers” at the 2015 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). Three had UW CSE ties:
Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India, by UW CSE Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha, MSR India researcher Ed Cutrell, the late UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello, and MSR India researcher Bill Thies.
From User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product, by… Read more →
Another day, another “Best Paper” Award …
Noah Smith has not yet arrived in Seattle as a member of the UW CSE faculty, but we’ll over-reach and claim partial credit for his “Best Paper” Award at the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015).
The paper – Retrofitting Word Vectors to Semantic Lexicons – describes “retrofitting,” a new way to improve any vector encodings of words in English (or any language) using existing semantic… Read more →
It’s the Friday before Mother’s Day!
Did your son make you a Mother’s Day hat and ask you to wear it at work? CSE Facilities Manager Tracy Erbeck’s son did!… Read more →
UW CSE’s Annual Scholarship/Fellowship Recognition Luncheon
UW CSE is fortunate to have 28 endowed undergraduate scholarships and 18 endowed graduate fellowships available as departmental awards. Each spring we host a luncheon to recognize the donors of our scholarships and fellowships, and the outstanding students who are the beneficiaries of this generosity. It’s one of our favorite events of the year!
At the undergraduate level, scholarships allow Washington’s top students to get a UW CSE education, regardless of family circumstances. At the graduate level, fellowships allow us… Read more →