Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships are among the nation’s most prestigious awards for young scientists.
Today, UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota and Thomas Rothvoss were named recipients of 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. Shyam and Thomas join 24 previous UW CSE faculty members (plus 3 adjunct faculty members) as recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships – an unprecedented number that speaks to the extraordinary caliber of our young (or, in some cases, formerly young …) faculty members.
Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of… Read more →
American millennials lag the developed world in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving
Not directly related to UW CSE, but important to all who care about education and about the future of our society:
A sobering analysis by the Educational Testing Service of results from the latest Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey of adult skills carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Among the 22 participating nations, American millenials (the cohort born after 1980) had:
Among the lowest average scores in each skill area… Read more →
Remembering Ira Kalet, 1944-2015
Retired CSE adjunct professor Ira Kalet passed away last night after a long battle with cancer.
Ira joined the University of Washington in 1978 in the then newly formed Department of Radiation Oncology. Subsequently he held adjunct appointments in Computer Science & Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biological Structure, and a joint appointment in Medical Education (now the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education).
From 2005 until his retirement, Ira also served as Director of Security and Networking for UW Medicine… Read more →
Google Faculty Research Awards to UW CSE’s Tom Anderson, Alvin Cheung, Richard Ladner, Ph.D.alums Ethan Katz-Bassett and Steve Swanson, iSchool professor Karen Fisher
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson, Alvin Cheung, and Richard Ladner are among 122 recipients (from among 808 applicants) of Winter 2015 Google Faculty Research Awards. UW CSE Ph.D. alums Ethan Katz-Bassett (now on the faculty at USC) and Steve Swanson (now on the faculty at UCSD) also were recipients, as was UW iSchool professor Karen Fisher.
Congratulations to Tom, Alvin, Richard, Ethan, Steve, and Karen! Read more here.
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UW CSE’s Nanocrafter in PLOS
“On its surface, it looks like just another science puzzle game. In reality, the game is part of a broader goal to enable non-scientists to contribute to synthetic biology research.
“‘It’ is Nanocrafter, a project created by researchers and game developers at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. They are the same team behind the citizen science project FoldIt.”
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Forbes: “We Need to Innovate the Science Business Model”
An article by Greg Satell in Forbes concludes:
“Most of all, we need to accept that we all have a stake in the public funding of science. It is, after all, government funding that made the iPhone possible, has led to miracle cures and blockbuster drugs and decoded the human genome. We’d all be poorer without it.”
The article quotes UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska extensively:
“When [Vannevar] Bush wrote his famous proposal for public financing of scientific research,… Read more →
NSF CAREER Award to UW CSE postdoc alum Yuriy Brun
Congratulations to Yuriy Brun – 2008 USC Ph.D., Computing Innovation Fellow postdoc in UW CSE from 2009-12, and now an Assistant Professor at UMass-Amherst – on receipt of an NSF CAREER Award.
Yuriy’s research interests are in software system modeling, design, and development, focusing on understanding how local component behavior impacts global system behavior.
(That’s the Allen Center’s cool LED public artwall in the background of Yuriy’s photograph!)… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Code for Seattle’s “Seattle Open Data Day”
Today UW CSE hosted Code for Seattle’s “Seattle Open Data Day” – a one day unconference on open data and civic technology where we ask: how might we …
Make data easy to find and use?
Use data to make and improve decisions?
Make it easy for everyone to participate in open data and civic technology?
UW CSE Ph.D. student Will Scott was the organizer. Socrata, Microsoft, and the City of Seattle were among the sponsors.
Putting public… Read more →
UW’s Aaron Parks, Kyle Rector are 2015 North American Google PhD Fellows
Among the 15 2015 North American Google PhD Fellows announced to day are UW’s Aaron Parks and Kyle Rector.
Aaron, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, works with CSE and EE professor Josh Smith on the design of ultra-low-power hardware and software systems, and RF energy harvesting for ubiquitous computing applications.
Kyle, a Ph.D. student in CSE, works with HCDE professor (and CSE affiliate professor) Julie Kientz and CSE professor Richard Ladner on research at the intersection of human-computer… Read more →
Live outside of your comfort zone: UW CSE alum Mohamed El-Zohairy shares lessons learned as a student, an entrepreneur and an activist
UW CSE alumni may be revolutionary in technology terms, but Mohamed El-Zohairy (BS, ’07) took it to a new level when he joined the political revolution in his home nation of Egypt. Yesterday, Mohamed returned to the Allen Center to share his experiences with a group of undergraduates as part of CSE’s Leadership Seminar Series.
Mohamed opened his talk by urging students to “live outside of your comfort zone” – words he certainly lived by during his unconventional journey from… Read more →