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 →
Computer science at Seattle’s Sand Point Elementary School
UW CSE professor Magda Balazinska has a child at Sand Point Elementary School. Last year, Magda encouraged the school to try out Scratch on the 5th grade class; CSE’s Allison Obourn provided some mini-lectures. This year Sand Point expanded Scratch to the 4th grade, and during CS Ed Week, the 2nd through 5th grades participated in the Hour of Code.
Comments from teachers:
About the Hour of Code: “The kids loved the coding activities with Frozen and Angry Birds. I’m… Read more →
Mike Ernst, Adam Finkelstein, Eric Horvitz are 2014 ACM Fellows
ACM’s most prestigious member grade recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology. ACM has just recognized 47 of its members as new ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing that are driving innovations across multiple domains and disciplines.
Among the new class of ACM Fellows:
UW CSE professor Michael Ernst “For contributions to software analysis, testing, and verification”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and Princeton professor) Adam Finkelstein “For contributions to non-photorealistic… Read more →
UW CSE startup GraphLab -> Dato, raises additional $18.5M
GeekWire writes:
“There are big changes afoot at GraphLab, the Seattle-based startup that aims to make it easier for small and medium businesses to make sense of mounds of data. First off, the company has rebranded to Dato, a move that it hopes will better encompass the breadth of its machine learning product.
“In addition, Dato announced today that it raised an $18.5 million Series B investment round. The round saw participation from NEA and Madrona Venture Group, two firms… Read more →
UW CSE’s BiliCam named among “Ten of the year’s promising technologies for global development”
E4C (Engineering for Change) writes:
“These are our picks for 10 promising technologies for global development that made headlines in 2014 …
“BiliCam is a smartphone application that diagnoses jaundice in newborns. It is still in development and available now only for clinicians, but in the future it could be a low-cost, powerful tool for parents and rural clinics in developing countries and anywhere in the world.”
BiliCam is the work of UbiComp lab members Lilian de Greef, Mayank … Read more →
UW CSE introductory course enrollment continues to explode
CSE 142, our first introductory course, had 995 students during Autumn Quarter, and has 1,011 students this quarter. In the past year, 2,892 students have taken the course – 35% of them women.
CSE 143, our second introductory course, has 807 students this quarter; in the past year, 1,802 students have taken the course.
That’s a total of 4,694 student enrollments in these courses in the past year!
(During fall quarter, CSE’s remarkable Stuart Reges taught both 142… Read more →
UW CSE alums Yaw Anokwa, Christophe Bisciglia win College of Engineering Diamond Awards
The University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Awards honor outstanding alumni and friends who have made significant contributions to the field of engineering. This year’s Diamond Awards will be presented at a dinner gala on May 8. Two of the four recipients are CSE alums!
The recipient of the 2015 Diamond Award for Distinguished Service is 2012 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa. In places where there is no clean water or reliable power, one will often find mobile… Read more →
UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta wins WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award
2014 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Sidhant Gupta – now at Microsoft Research – has been honored with this year’s Innovation in Technology Award from the Western Association of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International.
Sidhant invents new sensing techniques and builds innovative hardware and software systems to address hard challenges in sustainability sensing and human computer interaction. His research often requires identifying and exploiting physical phenomena around us in unique ways to continually redefine what, and how, signals can be… Read more →