Young women from Washington recognized by the National Center for Women in Information Technology in the 2015 “Aspirations in Computing” award competition were honored today at a symposium at Google Seattle co-hosted by UW CSE and Google.
Congratulations to these phenomenal students for showing what’s possible!
Learn more about the honorees here.
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska’s shameless plug to the parents on why their daughters should continue to pursue computer science and should do it at the University… Read more →
Remembering Dottie Smith
Dottie Smith – long-time University of Washington reference librarian and wife of UW CSE affiliate professor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Burton Smith – was remembered today at a service at the University Congregational United Church of Christ attended by family, neighbors, and friends from UW CSE, UW Libraries, Microsoft, Tera/Cray, and the church.
Dottie passed away on February 11 after a valiant fight with cancer. Her generosity, sense of humor, positive attitude, and intellect inspired us all.
Our thoughts are… Read more →
“I Am CSE” video series shows why UW CSE is the place to be!
Every March, UW CSE welcomes prospective Ph.D. candidates for two action-packed days of lab tours, social events, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. This week, a record-high 104 candidates spent two days at the Allen Center exploring what it means to be a UW CSE graduate student.
Now, thanks to a new video series, everyone can learn about the people and projects that make UW CSE one of the most innovative and forward-thinking computer science programs in the nation.
“I Am… Read more →
Night school @ UW CSE
This evening, ten alumni and friends participated in a “big data and machine learning” lab tour.
Many thanks to Magda Balazinska, Shumo Chu, Carlos Guestrin, Dan Halperin, Bill Howe, and Jennifer Ortiz for terrific presentations and demos, to Sergey Smirnov for organizing, and to Neal Fachan, Peter Godman, Joe Heitzeberg, Amnon Horowitz, Steve Jang, Dan Kerns, Kevin McCall, Lee Smith, Scott Tennican, and Kim Tennican for attending.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Will Scott receives Information Controls Fellowship
The Open Technology Fund has selected 11 individuals to receive Information Controls Fellowships, including UW CSE Ph.D. student Will Scott.
The new Information Controls Fellowship recipients will be working to create solutions and remedies to online censorship and surveillance. They are students, lawyers, and hackers well-established in their respected fields of computer science, software development, social science, and more.
Will’s UW CSE research has included a large number of high-impact projects in this vein. With his Information Control Felowship,… Read more →
2015 Washington State Algebra Challenge: April 27-May 1
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science announced the next Washington State Algebra Challenge will take place April 27th to May 1st. This statewide contest challenges Washington’s K-12 students to solve 250,000 algebra equations in one week.
During the 2013 Algebra Challenge, students far exceeded expectations by solving nearly 391,000 equations in just one week. For the 2015 challenge, the Center for Game Science will provide participating classrooms with access to its new math learning game, Riddle Books. Previously only… Read more →
UW CSE’s Stuart Reges on KING5 TV: “While the course was hard, the cookies were soft and chewy”
A lovely report on KING5 TV News tonight, reporting on UW CSE’s Stuart Reges, who each quarter bakes chocolate chip cookies as a final exam treat for his class … which had nearly 1,000 students this quarter!
“In the days leading up to this semester’s final exam in Computer Programming 1 at the University of Washington, students spent hours studying over their laptops, while their teacher was slaving over a hot oven.
“‘I just love this,’ said Stuart Reges. ‘I… Read more →
UW lands Air Force Center of Excellence with help from CSE and eScience
The University of Washington announced today that it has landed the Air Force Center of Excellence on Nature-Inspired Flight Technologies and Ideas (NIFTI), a collaboration among UW’s Department of Biology, the College of Engineering, the Institute for Neuroengineering, and the eScience Institute. The five UW leads include UW CSE and EE professor Matt Reynolds, UW CSE adjunct professor and eScience Institute Senior Data Science Fellow Tom Daniel (who will direct the center), and eScience Institute Data Science Fellow and… Read more →
10% of U.S. K-8 students are enrolled in Code.org’s Code Studio!
Let’s hear it for Seattle’s Hadi Partovi and Code.org!
After tens of millions of students learned their first Hour of Code in December, how many have kept learning?
Code.org’s online learning platform Code Studio just passed 5 million students enrolled, together with almost 115,000 teachers around the world!
10,000 new teachers are signing up to teach introductory CS with Code Studio every month. 10,000 new students are enrolling in courses every day!
10% of all elementary and middle school… Read more →
The Seattle Times on UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello
The Seattle Times writes:
“Gaetano Borriello wanted to marry technology with humanity. He believed that computer science wasn’t about creating the next app, but about helping and enriching lives around the world.
“Those beliefs led him to develop the Open Data Kit, an open-source mobile-data collection tool used around the world to address issues in public health, human rights and the environment.
“Professor Borriello, the leader and visionary behind the Open Data Kit and professor in the University of Washington… Read more →