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 →
OneBusAway developers past and present take Metro and Sound Transit to task for their transit data quality
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Brian Ferris and Ph.D. student Caitlin Bonnar take two of the region’s transit agencies to task in an op-ed in the Seattle Transit Blog for ongoing issues with the quality of the data they provide to OneBusAway, the Transit App, Google, and other transit information sources. (Brian wrote all the original code for OneBusAway, and Caitlin currently coordinates maintenance and development of the iPhone app.) Read it here, along with numerous comments from other riders.… Read more →
The economic impact of the University of Washington
A new study finds that the University of Washington generates $12.5 billion per year in economic activity, only one third of which is attributable to the salaries of athletic coaches and administrators. Read more here.… Read more →
CSES 2015!
At Friday’s 2015 UW Computer Science & Engineering Symposium (CSES 2015), 18 graduate students from across the field presented 15-minute research talks to an audience of more than 100 UW CSE graduate students and faculty members.
The goal of CSES is to create a forum for interaction between the different fields of research in CSE. The Symposium organizers – graduate student Yoav Artzi and faculty members Franzi Roesner and Zach Tatlock – invited visionary talks that place current research within… Read more →
UW CSE bids fond farewell to Lindsay Michimoto
There are academic counselors … and then there is Lindsay Michimoto.
Lindsay joined the UW CSE family as our staff graduate advisor in November 2000. Since then, she has:
processed 14,245 applications to the Ph.D. program,
personally attended to the needs of 602 Ph.D. students,
and provided more than 250,000 M&Ms (peanut and plain) to students, staff and faculty.
Current and former students, faculty, and staff gathered on Friday to thank her and wish her a wonderful retirement.
Many Bruce… Read more →
What do Oren Etzioni, Pete Carroll, Andy Jassy, Steve Singh, Matt McIlwain, and Christian Chabot have in common?
For one, they’re all friends of UW CSE. But the real answer is that they’re among the Puget Sound Business Journal‘s “15 in 15: Here’s who to watch in 2015.”
“He may not be a household name, but Etzioni is a force to be reckoned with. Years ago, he developed and sold the technology Bing Travel uses to find fares, and then went on to found Decide.com, which was acquired in 2013 by eBay. In fact, Etzioni has co-founded six… Read more →
UW Regents select LMN Architects to design additional building for UW CSE
On Thursday, the UW Board of Regents approved the hiring of Seattle’s LMN Architects to carry out pre-design for a new facility for UW CSE – a second building to complement the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (which LMN also designed) and accommodate growth.
We’re firmly committed to responding to the ever-increasing demand for computer science education by students and by employers. This is the first step in a process to develop the physical capacity that… Read more →