Brad Smith’s entire interview with GeekWire‘s Todd Bishop and John Cook is outstanding. But we particularly like this part:
“One of the things ppeole often don’t appreciate is that the Univeristy of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Department is one of the foremost computer science departments in the world. But it’s not big enough. It’s turning students away because it doesn’t have the room to offer them the ability to major in that discipline …
“We need the money to… Read more →
KING 5 News on UW CSE emeritus professor Hellmut Golde’s imitation of The Lorax
“It’s a branch of the city that’s become an urban jungle filled with a particular type of bird.
“‘Five yellow cranes right in the middle, four of them you can see from here,’ said Hellmut Golde, peering out a window at the Mirabella Retirement Community off of Denny Way.
“‘There’s development on every block, from Denny Way to Valley,’ said John Pehrson, who, along with Golde, has lived at Mirabella for the past six years. The men, aged 88 and… Read more →
UW CSE @ Uber Seattle Engineering Center Launch Party
According to GeekWire, Uber is the 51st company to open an engineering center in Seattle. (See GeekWire‘s interactive map of Seattle engineering centers here.)
At the Uber Seattle Engineering Center launch party last night, speakers included Uber’s new Head of Seattle Software Engineering Tim Prouty (a 2006 UW CSE alum), Tim’s Bay Area boss, Uber’s Director of Infrastructure Engineering Paul Mikesell (a 1996 UW CSE alum), and UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska. Uber Senior Software Engineer Sunil Garg, a… Read more →
UW CSE’s Matt Kay co-authors study on gender representation and stereotypes in online image search results
Today, UW announced the results of a new study examining gender bias in online image search results associated with various occupations. The study, which will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI 2015 Conference later this month, raises interesting questions about how information systems influence behavior and whether search algorithms should be adjusted to counter occupational stereotypes when it comes to gender.
Co-authors Matt Kay (a UW CSE Ph.D. student), Cynthia Matuszek (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum and… Read more →
Ras Bodik joins UW CSE, creating a world-class Programming Languages group
Ras Bodik, an expert in programming languages and computer architecture, will join the UW CSE faculty this coming fall. Ras is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ras is widely known for groundbreaking work in programming languages, and for applying programming language ideas to a broad range of fields, such as biology, human-computer interaction, and computer architecture. His current research involves making it easier for both programmers and non-programmers to write computer programs using … Read more →
Registration is open for the 2015 Washington State Algebra Challenge!
Beginning today, K-12 classrooms across Washington State are invited to sign up for the 2015 Washington State Algebra Challenge. Participants will have access to Riddle Books, the new mathematics learning game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, as they attempt to solve 250,000 word problems during the school week of April 27-May 1.
Participation in the Algebra Challenge is free and only requires access to a PC, Mac or Chromebook. Encourage classrooms in your local school to sign… Read more →
Nanocrafter from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in Foundations of Digital Games Conference
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science creates interactive games for scientific discovery and for learning.
Foldit – a revolutionary game for protein design and protein structure prediction – has received widespread acclaim. Gamers playing Foldit solved an AIDS-related protein structure problem that had baffled the scientific community for more than a decade!
The team’s next scientific discovery game – Nanocrafter – is on the same trajectory. Nanocrafter is a synthetic biology game in which players use pieces of DNA to… Read more →
UW CSE’s DawgBytes offers elementary school students “a taste of CSE” in Scratch Adventures summer camp
UW CSE is thrilled to announce that we will once again offer elementary school students the opportunity to learn about computer science in a fun and inclusive environment as part of our DawgBytes summer camp lineup.
Scratch Adventures is a day camp open to students entering grades 3, 4 or 5 who have no previous experience using the visual programming language Scratch. During the sessions, which will take place June 29-July 2 on the University of Washington’s Seattle… Read more →
Whitman College hires UW CSE Ph.D. alum Janet Davis to lead new computer science program
Whitman College is a top liberal arts college in eastern Washington. They have raised $8M from Microsoft and other friends to launch a computer science program – not because anyone would go to Whitman for vocational reasons, but rather:
“As we see how computation has literally pervaded every aspect of our lives over last 20, 30 years, it seems reasonable that computational thinking and computer science in particular should be a part of a person’s liberal education.”
We’re delighted that… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner in Interactions Magazine: Design for user empowerment
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner penned the cover article for the March/April 2015 issue of Interactions Magazine, the flagship publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). In the article, “Design for User Empowerment,” he advocates that users of technology who have disabilities should be empowered to solve their own accessibility problems, drawing on nearly 10 years of experience at the helm of the National Science Foundation-supported AccessComputing alliance.
Richard explains how, with self-determination and… Read more →