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 →
Making math addictive: UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic featured in Crosscut
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 →