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 →
UW CSE’s Emily Fox, Shyam Gollakota, Thomas Rothvoss win Sloan Research Fellowships
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.”
Read more here.… Read more →
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 →