The fire marshal was blessedly AWOL for today’s UW CSE Distinguished Lecture featuring 1996 Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean, “Large-Scale Deep Learning For Building Intelligent Computer Systems.”
Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in Google’s Knowledge Group, where he leads Google’s deep learning research team in Mountain View. He has co-designed/implemented five generations of Google’s crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed/implemented major pieces of Google’s initial advertising and AdSense for… Read more →
UW CSE: Reaching more students than ever and expanding opportunities for women in computer science
Here at UW CSE, we are experiencing record interest in our undergraduate major and record enrollments in our introductory courses. This explosion of interest is happening across the country, but UW is doing particularly well among a key demographic underrepresented in the field: women.
When principal lecturer Stuart Reges attended a recent meeting organized by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, he talked about the tremendous growth of student interest in computer science. He shared UW CSE’s… Read more →
Seattle Business: “Seattle area tech leaders ask state to allocate money for a new computer science building”
Seattle Business writes:
“A who’s who of 23 Seattle area leaders including executives from F5, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Redfin, Concur, Zillow and Apptio sent a letter today to the Washington State Legislature in support of a $40 million capital appropriation for a downpayment on a second building for UW’s department of Computer Science and Engineering. The remainder of the money required to build the $110 million, 130,000 square-foot building would come from private sources.
“Ed Lazowska, the Bill… Read more →
GeekWire: “Tech leaders lobby for $40M in state funding for new UW computer science building”
GeekWire writes:
“A group of 23 technology leaders in Washington state – including representatives of Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants – are asking the state Legislature to approve $40 million in capital spending to help fund a new, $110 million University of Washington computer science building.
“The second building, proposed last fall, would allow for a doubling of enrollment in the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering program. The department granted 315 degrees in June,… Read more →
Seattle Times: “Tech leaders urge state to help pay for new UW computer science building”
The Seattle Times writes:
“Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Zillow: A who’s-who of tech company leaders have written a letter urging the Washington Legislature to fund $40 million of the $110 million cost for building a new computer science and engineering building on the University of Washington campus.”
“The UW’s fast-growing computer science department has already run out of room in its 11-year-old building, the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Securing the money to build a second… Read more →
23 WA technology leaders line up in support of expanded facilities for UW CSE
Today, 23 leaders from the State of Washington – from Alberg to Zapolsky … Amazon to Zillow – sent a letter to the Washington State Legislature supporting a $40 million capital appropriation to partially fund a second building for UW CSE, which will accommodate a doubling of our enrollment. (The project is expected to cost $110 million; the remainder will be raised privately.)
The leaders wrote:
“We are writing to express our collective support of the University of Washington’s request… Read more →
UW CSE alum Ben Hindman offers advice on career and life as part of Leadership Seminar Series
Today, UW CSE alum Ben Hindman (B.S. ’07), co-founder of data center operating system startup Mesosphere, offered current CSE undergrads advice on what to do when your path diverges from your plan, as part of our Leadership Seminar Series.
Among Ben’s top tips for students approaching life after CSE: “always be learning” (great advice regardless of what one does after graduation), and “love your co-workers” (emphasizing the importance of picking one’s partners, employees and investors carefully).
Ben’s first stop… Read more →
Seattle Times: “Higher ed is getting a smaller slice of the budget pie”
Katherine Long writes in the Seattle Times:
“Thirty-five years ago, higher education received 16 percent of the budget … In the last biennium, it received only 9 percent of the budget …”
Read more here. And note overwhelming voter support for increased investment in computer science education here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Tessa Lau: One of “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley”
Tech.Co has “scoured Silicon Valley for 50 women in tech who are empowering all of us to never stop chasing our dreams.”
Number 23 on the list is UW CSE Ph.D. alum Tessa Lau, “cofounder and Chief Robot Whisperer, Savioke. Lau’s passion is building systems that improve people’s lives. Her background in machine learning enables her to understand what roboticists are saying, while her expertise in human-computer interaction drives her to understand people’s needs and build user-focused systems… Read more →
New poll reveals Washington citizens’ overwhelming support for greater investment in computer science education
Washington STEM, an organization that supports improved STEM education for our state’s students “from cradle to career,” recently announced the results of a poll showing overwhelming support among Washington’s citizens for improved access to computer science education at the K-12 and post-secondary levels.
Among the highlights:
85 percent support increasing computer science degree capacity at Washington’s public higher education institutions.
90 percent support expanding the number of public K-12 schools in Washington that offer computer science classes.
91 percent… Read more →