Aaron Bauer, a PhD student at UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, will participate in Meet an Engineer Night on February 26th. The event is part of a month-long program of activities organized by the Seattle Public Library and Pacific Science Center as an extended celebration of National Engineers Week.
Meet an Engineer Night aims to introduce teens to engineering as a career. While the target audience is age 12 and above, everyone is welcome to attend and… Read more →
Jane Goodall on Gaetano Borriello
Today we received a remarkable testimonial to Gaetano Borriello’s impact from Jane Goodall:
“It was with great sadness that we learned of Professor Borriello’s passing. Please accept our deepest condolences for your loss.
“The Institute was first introduced to Prof. Borriello and his students in 2009. Since then, the use of Open Data Kit (ODK) has transformed our approach to conservation in Africa and enabled us to greatly advance our mission of creating a world where people, animals and the… Read more →
GeekWire: Startup leaders say President Young’s departure won’t slow UW entrepreneurial momentum
GeekWire interviews Matt McIlwain (Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group), Chris DeVore (Managing Director of Techstars Seattle, operating inside UW’s Startup Hall), Connie Bourassa-Shaw (director of UW’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship), and Ed Lazowska (UW CSE) regarding the departure of UW President Michael Young, who has been a champion for innovation and entrepreneurship.
McIlwain: “My hope is that the Regents continue to emphasize the importance of how the UW intersects with the commercial and non-profit world in their selection of… Read more →
UW CSE alum Brandon Ballinger shares wisdom and war stories with students as part of CSE’s Leadership Seminar Series
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 →