A familiar face was back on campus today: UW CSE bachelor’s alum Brandon Ballinger (’06), former Google engineer and co-founder of fraud detection software company Sift Science (alongside fellow UW CSE alum Jason Tan) – and most recently, one of a small team of developers recruited to help fix the federal government’s online health insurance marketplace, Healthcare.gov.
Brandon graciously agreed to talk about his experience with around 35 undergrads as part of our Leadership Seminar Series, in… Read more →
Remembering Gaetano Borriello
With enormous sadness, we announce that our dear friend, colleague, and teacher Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, passed away this morning at his home, following a long fight with cancer.
Gaetano was dedicated to UW CSE and our students, and we were dedicated to him. Graduating from Berkeley in 1988, Gaetano applied to only a single academic department as an indication of how much he wanted to be here. Over the last… Read more →
The Gaetano Borriello Endowed Fellowship for Change
UW Computer Science & Engineering is pleased to announce the establishment of the Gaetano Borriello Endowed Fellowship for Change, honoring Gaetano Borriello, UW’s Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. The Borriello Fellowship will support University of Washington students whose work is focused on exploring how technology can improve the lives of underserved populations.
Gaetano joined the UW CSE faculty in 1988, following receipt of his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He had previously received… Read more →
State Reps. Drew Hansen, Chad Magendanz introduce bipartisan proposal to spur computer science education
State Reps. Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge Island, and Chad Magendanz, R-Issaquah today announced HB 1813, a bipartisan proposal to expand computer science education in the state.
HB 1813 creates the Computer Science and Education Grant program, which funds grants to help educators who want to pursue professional development in computer science, outreach to students to inspire their interest in computer science, and assistance for school districts to pay for technology to teach computer science courses. The bill also adopts… Read more →
UW CSE looks to key demographic for design advice on new building
When the son of one of our faculty members was asked to show a picture of a building he likes to his pre-school class, he chose the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
The photo he shared is of the Allen Center’s façade, but his dad told us that the elevators are really his favorite part of the building, and asked us to ensure that the new CSE-II building, currently in the pre-design phase, has cool… Read more →
Hack housing with Zillow and UW CSE!
UW CSE is partnering with online real estate marketplace Zillow to stage a weekend hackathon February 6-8, with participation from the White House, U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
“Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions” will encourage the development of creative solutions that harness the power of big data to better meet the needs of first-time homebuyers, senior citizens, and low-income renters. Participants in the hackathon will have access to newly-released government data sets… Read more →
What can academia learn from open source? Join the discussion at a Town Hall on February 2nd
The University of Washington’s eScience Institute and GitHub are co-hosting an Academia Town Hall next Monday, February 2nd, to explore the role of software in academic institutions and how they can adapt to better support the use of important software tools.
Panelists include UW CSE alum Dan Halperin, director of research in scalable data analytics at the eScience Institute; Marina Meila, associate professor of statistics at UW; researchers Katy Huff and Fernando Perez of the University of California,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner honored with the Broadening Participation in Computing Community Award
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner has been honored with the 2015 Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Community Award “in recognition of excellence and leadership in increasing access to computing for students with disabilities.”
Richard accepted the award at the STEM-CP: Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) PI Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, where he delivered a keynote address titled “Accessibility Is Not Enough.” The purpose of the CE21 meeting is to build community around the efforts of the National Science… Read more →
Lilian de Greef and Irene Zhang win Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships
UW CSE’s Lilian de Greef and Irene Zhang have been named 2015 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellows. Only 12 recipients were selected from among 169 nominees received by the company for this highly competitive fellowship, which provides financial support as well as the opportunity to work alongside leading computer scientists as part of a 12-week paid internship at Microsoft Research.
Lilian works with Shwetak Patel in the UbiComp Lab. Her interests include computer vision, embedded systems, machine learning and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates winter recruiting fair in full swing
From the smallest start-up to industry leaders operating on a global scale, companies from around the region descended on the Allen Center this week to pitch job opportunities to UW CSE students.
Company and student turnout for the two-day event has been terrific. Yesterday, recruiters representing around 40 local start-ups pitched an entrepreneurial career path to hundreds of our undergraduate and graduate students. Today, established companies get their chance, with representatives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and many more taking… Read more →