Zoran Popovic, director of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, is featured in a recent Crosscut article about Enlearn, software developed by the non-profit of the same name that is designed to provide a more personalized, adaptive learning experience to students.
Zoran is founder and chief scientist at Enlearn, where he put his experience developing the Center for Game Science’s wildly popular protein folding game, FoldIt, to good use in tackling another massive challenge: improving K-12 math… Read more →
Magda Balazinska, Luis Ceze, and Yoshi Kohno honored with Career Development Professorships
Congratulations to UW CSE professors Magda Balazinska, Luis Ceze, and Yoshi Kohno, who have been appointed by the Provost to Career Development Professorships – endowed positions that are awarded for a fixed period of time (typically three years) to extraordinary Associate Professors.
Magda has been appointed as the Jean-Loup Baer Career Development Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. This professorship was established by UW CSE Bachelors alumna Anne Dinning and her husband Michael Wolf in honor of… Read more →
UW data science team at AAAS Annual Meeting
There’s a new kind of researcher on campus, one who doesn’t fit into the usual nooks and crannies at a university.
They are data scientists – students, faculty members and professional scientific staff – who are building the tools and crafting the methods to help researchers analyze the vast amounts of data now abundant in every field. The very nature of their skill set is interdisciplinary, and the university system doesn’t always reward them for the time they spend developing… Read more →
Transforming Washington’s Industries Through Big Data: A day-long event co-presented by the Technology Alliance and UW CSE
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Carlos Guestrin will be featured speakers at an event next month that will examine the impact of big data in Washington State. “Insight to Impact: Transforming Washington’s Industries Through Big Data” will provide a comprehensive look at ground-breaking developments in big data and explore how this rapidly growing field will shape Washington’s industries and economy.
Ed, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW CSE, will provide the audience with… Read more →
UW powers Seattle’s great technology companies!
George Nychis writes:
In the Bay Area, when I put recruiting ads out I would get a ton of applications from Stanford and Berkeley. In Boston, I am getting no applications from those schools. At first I questioned whether my recruiting ad sucked, but then I thought … maybe nobody from those schools want to leave the Bay.
So I thought I’d use LinkedIn to gather some data on where recent graduates from the top schools go after they graduate. … Read more →
UW CSE ACM Winterfest 2015
Where but at today’s UW CSE ACM Winterfest would you see Paul Beame in a tuxedo? (Well, there’s always Halloween …)
A zillion thanks to our ACM Student Chapter for this great contribution to UW CSE community spirit!!!!!
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UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce named Interim President
University of Washington Provost and Executive Vice President Ana Mari Cauce – a friend of all of us who strive to make UW the best that it can be – was named interim president by the Board of Regents at their regular meeting on Thursday. Her appointment will be effective March 2, 2015. She succeeds President Michael K. Young, who is leaving the UW for Texas A&M University.
Read more about Cauce here. Read more about A&M here.… Read more →
PATH recognizes the contributions of Gaetano Borriello
“On February 1, PATH and the entire global health community lost a great friend and innovator …
“Dr. Borriello’s work has positively impacted the lives of many thousands of children and mothers in developing countries. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Read more here.… Read more →
UW Innovation Research Award to CSE’s James Fogarty, Julie Kientz, Sean Munson, Shwetak Patel
The UW Innovation Research Award supports unusually creative early and mid-career faculty in engineering, health, natural and social sciences.
The Provost has just announced an award to team of six investigators: Shwetak Patel and James Fogarty (Computer Science & Engineering); Julie Kientz and Sean Munson (Human-Centered Design & Engineering; both are also Adjunct faculty in CSE); Jasmine Zia (UW Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology); and Roger Vilardaga (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). They are building tools used on a mobile device that… Read more →
PSBJ: “Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence wants computers to be smarter than a fourth grader”
The Puget Sound Business Journal reports on Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), led by UW CSE”s Oren Etzioni:
“We are years, decades, possibly even centuries away from designing machines that are fully equipped with human intelligence.
“But a Seattle organization that launched only a year ago is playing a major role in creating the building blocks necessary to advance artificial intelligence …
“Seattle is known for its growing number of big data startups, as well as… Read more →