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 →
WTIA: Coding Ninjas are Washington’s Secret Weapon
Check out this great new infographic from the Washington Technology Industry Association:
1. Higher education now
2. Adult education over the next 2-3 years
3. K-12 over the next 10 years
Download and share the infographic here.… Read more →
Algorithmia @ UW CSE
On the day of their launch, co-founders Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer of Madrona-backed startup Algorithmia took an hour off from fighting fires to talk with the UW CSE faculty.
Quoting Diego, “Algorithmia gives developers the ability to turn algorithms into scalable web services with a single click. Application developers can then integrate the algorithm into their own applications with under 10 lines of code. Algorithmia hosts the web services, makes them discoverable and enables algorithm developers to get paid… Read more →
UW Daily: Local tech leaders rally behind new CSE building
The UW Daily writes:
“Twenty-three tech leaders recently sent a letter to the Washington State Legislature endorsing the funding of a new computer science and engineering (CSE) building on campus …
“[Jeremy] Jaech is the CEO of SNUPI Technologies, a UW spin-off that makes in-home sensors that detect issues like flooding. He said that newer companies like his need local talent …
“‘Companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have the wherewithal to hire people from all around the world and… Read more →
Entrepreneurship: Company-Building from Formation to Successful Exit
Tonight was the final class session of Greg Gottesman‘s phenomenal course “Entrepreneurship: Company-Building from Formation to Successful Exit.” The course this quarter had a bit more than 60 students: UW CSE undergraduate and graduate students, and Foster School of Business MBA students.
Right on schedule, tonight’s topic was “Exits,” featuring a presentation by UW alum Aber Whitcomb (co-founder of MySpace, currently CTO of Social Gaming Network), followed by a panel discussion moderated by Greg and including Aber… Read more →
Famous photo, lost for over 25 years, finally returned to UW CSE
A famous historical UW CSE photo, lost for over 25 years, has been located in North Carolina. This photo, of CSE graduate student Monkey W. Duncan (ABD ‘89), graced the grad student photo board on the lower level of Sieg Hall (CSE’s home prior to the Allen Center) in the late 1980s. The photo also shows the advanced technology that was available to CSE graduate students at that time.
Unfortunately, Mr. Duncan never completed the program, as the Ph.D. quals… Read more →
College-bound? Washington Monthly’s “The Other College Guide” is must reading!
Washington Monthly‘s “The Other College Guide” is chock full of great advice:
“Other books cater mostly to students from well-to-do families trying to get into the most exclusive, priciest schools. The Other College Guide is for every student …
“Other books … rank schools based on how many students they turn away, or how much money they raise and spend, or how other college presidents rate them. But these metrics … are mostly measures if inputs, not outcomes.… Read more →
Michael Schutzler in GeekWire: “Computer science education is key to our future”
WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler writes in GeekWire:
“The Seattle area is home to more software development engineers than any metropolitan area in the country. More than Boston. More than New York. More than San Francisco.
“When it comes to software, we are number one. Our deep talent pool in this field is one of the reasons why Apple, Google, Facebook, and so many other global tech powerhouse companies have opened large offices here.
“The impact on our region has… Read more →