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:
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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 →
UW team advances in GSK Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge
One year ago today, GSK – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – announced its Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge: a $1 million prize to the first team to generate a small, implantable, wireless device that can record, stimulate and block functionally-specific neural signals to and from a specific visceral organ in functional models.
In September, GSK created a $5 million Innovation Challenge Fund for teams to apply for support in their efforts to solving the challenge. After… Read more →
UW CSE startup Skytap raises additional $35 million
GeekWire reports:
“Skytap is flying high.
“The Seattle cloud computing startup today is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding in a deal led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from OpenView Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and the Washington Research Foundation.
“Used by companies such as Boeing, IBM and Cushman & Wakefield, Skytap helps customer build and test software more quickly. Skytap dubs this ‘environment-as-a-service.'”
Read more here.
TechCrunch report here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Zach Tatlock in “UCSD CSE Holiday Party 2014: Give Them Your Dissertation”
A real tear-jerker from the UCSD CSE holiday party, featuring UW CSE professor Zach Tatlock finally turning in his Ph.D. thesis to his UCSD advisor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Sorin Lerner.
Watch it here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s annual holiday “Shops Appreciation Luncheon”
It’s the men and women of UW Facilities Services who keep the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering looking great and working great. 75 of them turned out for our annual holiday “Shops Appreciation Luncheon.” Many thanks to all the great folks at UW Facilities Services who make it possible for those of us in CSE to focus on the computer science!
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UW CSE alum and Mesos co-creator Ben Hindman: Where the cluster manager came from and where it’s heading
ZDNet interviews 2007 UW CSE alum and Mesos co-creator Ben Hindman:
“Cluster manager Apache Mesos has already secured a serious role at high-profile users such as Twitter, Airbnb, HubSpot, Groupon, eBay and OpenTable. On top of that, startup Mesosphere this month announced an ambitious datacenter operating system based on the software …
Benjamin Hindman, who left Twitter in September to become Mesosphere’s chief architect, is the co-creator of Mesos. The cluster manager emerged from his collaboration with peers in the… Read more →