CACM features exciting work by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (UW CSE Ph.D. alum now on the faculty at Georgia Tech), Adrian Sampson (UW CSE graduating Ph.D. student), Luis Ceze (UW CSE faculty), and Doug Burger (Microsoft Research and UW CSE affiliate faculty).
CMOS scaling is no longer providing gains in efficiency commensurate with increases in transistor density. Today, we can choose any two of performance, energy efficiency, and generality at the expense of the third. One approach to gaining performance and energy… Read more →
A salute to “Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2014”
As the new year approaches, we salute some of those recognized by Seattle Magazine as among “Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2014” – individuals who have particularly impacted UW Computer Science & Engineering through their words and deeds:
Nick Hanauer, “Person of the Year,” a Seattle-raised entrepreneur and venture capitalist, the first non-family investor in Amazon.com, and a prime mover behind many forward-looking regional and national civic initiatives.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, transforming Seattle and the world.
Ed … Read more →
UW CSE’s annual Christmas Hallway Bowling Spectacular
You can’t actually expect much work to get done on December 24 …
Grand Prize Winner: Chris “Strong Arm” Cunnington
First Runner Up: Hank “The Watchdog” Levy
Best Form: Rebecca “High Kick” DeGaris
Most Creative (if unhelpful) Form: Sophie “This’ll Work, I Swear” Ostlund
Best Action Shot: Kathy “Big Shot” Swan
Best Attitude/Sportsmanship: Raven “Miss Congeniality” Alexander
Coolest Uniform: Crystal “Shades” Eney
Best Scorekeeper, pin re-setter, and referee: Kayla “Multitasking really IS my middle name” Mackenzie… Read more →
Caltech hacks UW at the 1961 Rose Bowl
“For decades, every time a visitor heads downstairs into the Caltech Athenaeum Rathskellar for a burger and a brew, s/he has been confronted with a poster-size, blown-up, grainy but still magnificent black-and-white photograph of one of the greatest of the Caltech pranks …
“At the center of the picture, where the Washington fans had meant to spell out their own brand in a mosaic of thousands of hand-held cards, the word ‘Caltech’ appears instead …
“Thirty million viewers on NBC… Read more →
US News: UW outranks WSU in Plant and Animal Science
You can’t make up stuff like this! Check it out here and here.
Previous related post here.… Read more →
UW CSE hosts PSCSTA programming contest
On Saturday December 13th, 331 students from 27 schools across the region participated in the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association biannual programming contest. Due to high demand the contest was hosted at two sites, UW CSE and Microsoft, with UW CSE DawgBytes (our K-12 outreach program) and Microsoft TEALS as co-sponsors.
Westside (UW contest) winners:
Advanced
1st Place: Friday from Roosevelt High School, earning 655 points in 2:54:56
2nd Place: French Toast Mafia from Ingraham High School, earning 655… Read more →
UW CSE’s Karan Goel is GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
GeekWire writes:
“Karan Goel is a University of Washington computer science student who designs, builds, and ships software with the goal of making the world a better place. He’s an undergrad who has interned on Google’s Street View team and at Lenskart, developing analytics dashboards for business intelligence.
“But he’s also making his mark on campus — starting the university’s first developer club, UW Hackers, with the goal of exposing students to modern technology that is otherwise left… Read more →
Congratulations to UW CSE’s Tom Anderson and Steve Seitz
Tom Anderson, a 1991 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and a UW CSE faculty member since 1997, has been appointed to the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair in Computer Science & Engineering. Tom’s research concerns the practical issues in constructing robust, secure, and efficient computer systems. He is a “systems generalist” – he is attracted to the biggest problems he can find, regardless of area. Perhaps his greatest impact to date has been in the area of… Read more →
UW CSE @ SPD Hackathon
UW CSE students Kevin Li, Aaron Nech, and Kritin Vij are featured in a Q13 News video of today’s Seattle Police Department hackathon.
Check it out here.… Read more →
UW CSE: The Next Generation
Tracy, Aaron, and Jason have done their part to ensure that robust student demand will continue. (At today’s UW CSE faculty/staff holiday event.)… Read more →