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 →
Microsoft’s Brad Smith discusses UW CSE on GeekWire Radio
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 →