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 →
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science releases Refraction 2 for iPad
Refraction 2, the award-winning game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in which players use fractions to save lost animals in space, is now available as a free download for the iPad.
Refraction won the grand prize in the Disney Learning Challenge at SIGGRAPH 2010. The game challenges players to expand their knowledge of fractions as they bend, split and redirect lasers to free animals trapped in spaceships. Originally developed for children nine to 11 years old, Refraction… Read more →
Superbowl here we come!
The Seahawks banner has returned to the exterior of UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
Back in New England, the truck delivering a Patriots banner to the Stata Center backed into the building and dented it. More dents to come …… Read more →
UW CSE’s Hank Levy testifies before the House Higher Education Committee on meeting the demand for computer science degrees
Department chair Hank Levy traveled to our state capital today at the invitation of the House Higher Education Committee to address the growing demand for computer science graduates in Washington and the role of UW CSE in meeting that demand.
Speaking before the committee, Hank emphasized the role that UW CSE plays in supplying top computer science graduates to large information and communication technology (ICT) employers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google; local startups that do not have the resources… Read more →
Congratulations to Mayukha Vadari from Redmond HS – UW CSE summer research intern and NCWIT award winner!
Nineteen young women from Washington State have been named regional winners of 2015 Aspirations in Computing Awards from NCWIT – the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Among them is Mayukha Vadari, and 11th grader at Redmond High School, who spent last summer as a research intern working with UW CSE professor Magda Balazinska and other faculty and students from UW CSE and UW Astronomy.
Mayukha’s biography on the NCWIT awards website begins: “This summer (2014), Mayukha had her… Read more →
Congratulations – yet again – to Shwetak Patel
Shwetak Patel has been appointed as the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Shwetak’s research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor-Enabled Embedded Systems, and User Interface Software and Technology. He is particularly interested in developing new sensing technologies with an emphasis on energy monitoring and health applications for the home.
He was a founder of Zensi, Inc., a residential energy monitoring company, which was acquired by Belkin,… Read more →
UW CSE hangs out the Seahawks pride
It’s becoming a welcome annual event: decorating the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering with multi-story banners celebrating the success of Paul’s Seattle Seahawks!… Read more →
Bill Gates pays tribute to Bill Gerberding
This evening the University of Washington community celebrated the life of Bill Gerberding, our longest-serving President and a very special human being.
More information in a previous post here.… Read more →