Each spring, UW CSE and other departments in the College of Engineering welcome K-12 students, parents and teachers to Engineering Discovery Days, an action-packed program featuring hands-on demonstrations that showcase the exciting world of engineering.
The 2015 Engineering Discovery Days are this Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25 on the Seattle campus. While Friday registration is full, we encourage people of all ages to join us on Saturday at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering… Read more →
UW CSE’s Saloni Parikh: Saving lives with smartphones
UW encourages its faculty and students to “be a world of good.” Saloni Parikh – a double-major in CSE and Public Health – has heeded that call in her work on the HOPE (Home-based Partner Education and Testing) project, using UW CSE’s Open Data Kit to improve HIV screening and data collection in Africa.
UW published a nice feature story today on Saloni’s research, tracing her journey from the late professor Gaetano Borriello’s lab in Seattle to a poverty-stricken city… Read more →
Governor Inslee reminds classrooms to sign up for the statewide Algebra Challenge
The Washington State Algebra Challenge, organized by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, kicks off next Monday, and Governor Jay Inslee is helping us spread the word to classrooms around the state.
We are challenging Washington’s K-12 students to solve 250,000 story problems using Riddle Books, the fun (and free!) math game developed by the center. In a letter sent to educators, Governor Inslee notes that, in addition to the game, educators will have access to resources such as… Read more →
Vote for Paul and Carlos!
It’s that time of year again – time for the GeekWire Awards!
Vote for Carlos Guestrin for CEO of the Year here.
And while you’re at it, vote for Paul Allen as Geek of the Year here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s James Lee wins ACM STOC Best Paper Award
UW CSE professor James Lee has won a Best Paper Award at the 2015 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) for his recent breakthrough research with David Steurer of Cornell and UW CSE Ph.D. alum Prasad Raghavendra of Berkeley. Their paper shows that one of the most powerful techniques currently available for designing polynomial-time algorithms will not work for fundamental NP-complete problems such as the Traveling Salesman Problem, the Maximum Independent Set problem, and a number of other combinatorial… Read more →
UW CSE’s Jeffrey Heer delivers opening keynote at OpenVis Conf
UW CSE professor Jeff Heer opened the third annual OpenVis Conf, a two-day gathering devoted to best practices and the latest technology tools for data visualization on the Open Web, earlier this month.
While many visualization tools require steep tradeoffs between ease of use and expressiveness, Jeff and his team in the Interactive Data Lab focus on creating tools that enable more efficient visualizations and richer data exploration by a broad base of users. Jeff’s presentation at OpenVis Conf,… Read more →
Barriers and Negative Nudges: UW CSE research team led by James Fogarty co-authors new study of mobile food journaling
UW CSE professor James Fogarty, PhD students Felicia Cordeiro and Daniel Epstein, and Dub group researcher Elizabeth Bales co-authored a paper with researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology examining mobile food journaling.
The paper, Barriers and Negative Nudges: Exploring Challenges in Food Journaling, identifies various pitfalls that prevent users from persisting with their food journals and considers how technology can more effectively help people meet their goals when it comes to developing healthy eating habits. The… Read more →
IEEE Pervasive remembers UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello
A lovely tribute to UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello appears in the April-June 2015 issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing:
Gaetano Borriello was a mentor to many of us, spending much of his time helping others in our community. In doing so, he touched many lives, from his students and colleagues at UW to mothers and children in Tanzania. His legacy will live on through the efforts he began and through the impact and influence he has had in this community… Read more →
UW CSE’s Irene Zhang, Nell O’Rourke win Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships
UW CSE Ph.D. students Irene Zhang and Nell O’Rourke have received 2015 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships.
Irene works with professors Hank Levy and Arvind Krishnamurthy in the Computer Systems Lab.
Nell works with professor Zoran Popovic in the Center for Game Science.
The scholarship supports women in computing and encourages them to follow in Dr. Anita Borg’s footsteps by serving as leaders and role models in the field. In addition to collecting a financial award, Irene and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Carlo del Mundo and Vincent Lee win 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
Each year, Qualcomm provides Innovation Fellowships to a select handful of students nationwide to enable them to pursue their innovative research ideas. This year, UW CSE students Carlo del Mundo and Vincent Lee were one of eight winning teams selected from a highly competitive field for their proposal titled “Systems and Architecture Support for Large-scale Video Search.”
Carlo and Vincent, who were recommended by professors Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin, were one of 35 teams selected as finalists from among… Read more →