Today marked the debut of the new zipline in the Microsoft Atrium of UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. A good time was had by all!… Read more →
2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: UW CSE rocks!
The 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships – the most prestigious graduate fellowships in science and engineering – were announced today. To our delight, UW has the second largest number of fellowship recipients in the “Computer and Information Science and Engineering” category of any institution in the country!
NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding student researchers who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Congratulations to the UW students… Read more →
UW CSE @ F8
Five UW CSE undergraduates attended F8 this week – the Facebook developer conference in San Francisco.
“Join us at the intersection of creativity and technology. Product experts from Facebook, Instagram, Parse, Oculus, LiveRail and other apps will share what we’ve learned and built for developers. You’ll get access to our latest tools, new product demos and thought-provoking discussions to help you plan for your next build and beyond.”
Learn more about F8 here. Facebook Seattle is growing to 2000… Read more →
UW CSE @ Amazon
UW CSE hosts alumni events annually at major employers of our students (Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Tableau, …) and in geographies where large numbers of our alumni live and work (Seattle, the East Side, the Bay Area, …).
Tonight was Amazon night – the largest employer of UW CSE graduates in each of the past three years.… Read more →
UW CSE’s James Fogarty recognized with CMU’s Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence
UW CSE professor James Fogarty just returned from collecting the prestigious Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence at his Ph.D. alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.
The award, which James shares with his Ph.D. adviser, Scott Hudson; fellow CMU alumni Daniel Avrahami, Chris Harrison and Johnny Lee; and current CMU student Robert Xiao, honors an impressive body of research into “innovative and practical physical interaction techniques.” Their work produced more than 25 papers on subjects ranging from novel uses of sensors,… Read more →
“Drones Beaming Web Access Are in the Stars for Facebook”
The New York Times reports on Facebook’s initiative to provide Internet access in under-served regions of the world:
“Taking to the skies to beam Internet access down from solar-powered drones may seem like a stretch for a tech company that sells ads to make money. The business model at Facebook, which has 1.4 billion users, has more in common with NBC than Boeing …
“‘The Amazons, Googles and Facebooks [and Microsofts!] are exploring completely new things that will change the… Read more →
“Igniting a revolution in scientific research and development”
The Guardian reports on scientific advances in global health care, highlighting FoneAstra, a collaboration between UW CSE Ph.D. student Rohit Chaudhri, Microsoft Research India, and Seattle global health non-profit PATH.
“For thriving societies, you need healthy communities. But despite significant advances in global health over the past decade, millions of people are still without access to basic healthcare …
“In partnership with global health organisation PATH and the University of Washington’s department of computer science and engineering, the team… Read more →
UW CSE’s Team Hillarious* places 2nd at Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
We’re celebrating our own version of March Madness after Team Hillarious*, a group of students from UW CSE, captured second place at the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC) over the weekend. PRCCDC is an annual competition that serves as the regional semi-finals for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, a.k.a. the “big dance of data defense.” Teams of college students from Washington, Oregon and Idaho do battle against teams of hackers composed of cybersecurity industry experts who… Read more →
NSF CAREER Award to UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota has received an NSF CAREER Award – the 28th current UW CSE faculty member to have been recognized through this program and its predecessors.
The NSF CAREER Program “offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.”
Shyam leads UW CSE’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab and works on various topics including computer networks,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Jeffrey Heer on the future of data visualization at Strata + Hadoop World
Jeffrey Heer, director of UW CSE’s Interactive Data Lab and co-founder and chief experience officer of big data visualization company Trifacta, was a keynote speaker at the recent Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference in San Jose, California.
Strata + Hadoop World gathers leading minds in data science and data-driven businesses to explore new developments and best practices in data management, visualization, security and other topics of importance in the growing field of big data. Jeff focused on… Read more →