For many years, CSE professor Stuart Reges has baked chocolate chip cookies for his students to enjoy while taking the final exam.
It was a lot easier before the enrollment in CSE 142 (our “CS 1” course) reached 1,000 this fall, and enrollment in CSE 143 (our “CS 2” course) reached 400. But Stuart, who is teaching both, was undaunted!
After all, what’s 154,000 calories (1,400 cookies) among friends?!?!… Read more →
President Obama does the Hour of Code!
It’s Computer Science Education week, and President Barack Obama is the latest newsmaker to join the challenge to learn to code. The “Coder in Chief” sat down with Code.org – the Seattle non-profit that created the Hour of Code event — to become the first president to write a few lines of Javascript. Read about it in GeekWire here.
Hadi Partovi (Code.org CEO), you are amazing!
Do your own Hour of Code here!… Read more →
“It’s Time to Intelligently Discuss Artificial Intelligence”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni, CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, refutes the AI fear-mongering of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking:
“The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy …
“To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations …
“So where does this confusion between autonomy and intelligence come from? From… Read more →
UW Columns: “Phone Training”
Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine, reports on research by UW CSE+EE professors Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds:
“Mobile phones have become second-nature for most people. What’s coming next, say UW researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone … The technology – developed in the labs of Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel, UW associate professors of electrical engineering and of computer science and engineering… Read more →
UW Columns: “A Tech Pioneer Gets His Due”
Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine, writes:
“On a leafy street corner in Pacific Grove, Calif., an old Victorian house – formerly the headquarters of Digital Research Inc., the company started by Gary Kildall, ’67, ’68, ’72 – is now adorned with a plaque from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to mark a Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing.
“The IEEE designation is a big deal; a quick scan of some of the prior milestones reveal… Read more →
Thank you, G-Give ’14 and UW CSE friends and alums at Google!
G-Give is a phenomenal program originally conceived and implemented by UW CSE alums Krista Davis and Jessan Hutchison-Quillian at Google’s Seattle engineering office. Each year during the first week of December, gifts by Googler’s to select non-profits are matched twice – once by Google itself, and once by Googlers who sponsor the specific non-profit.
2014 is the fourth year of G-Give, and the fourth year that UW CSE’s Google Endowed Scholarship has been included. Our Google Endowed Scholarship makes it… Read more →
UW Computing Open House
On Saturday December 6, more than 450 middle school and high school students and their families visited UW CSE for the annual UW Computing Open House, kicking off Computer Science Education Week.
Check out the demos and activities here. Photos here.… Read more →
New York Times: “How Technology Could Help Fight Income Inequality”
An interesting Upshot piece in Sunday’s New York Times:
“Technology has contributed to the rise in inequality, but there are also some significant ways in which technology could reduce it …
“The history of technology suggests that new opportunities for better living and higher wages are being created, just not as quickly as we might like.”
Read the article here.… Read more →
CSE Holiday Party 2014
Participants in the faculty skit have learned: when the script is iffy (which is pretty much a given), the sight gags had better be good! And breathing a little helium before speaking your lines helps too.
Happy holidays!… Read more →
Middle schoolers, high schoolers, and families: Attend UW’s Computing Open House Saturday 12/6!
It’s too early to do holiday shopping or trim the tree. Spend Saturday afternoon at UW Computer Science & Engineering instead!
WHAT: Participate in hands-on activities and visit research labs to find out what computing is all about! Students and faculty from UW’s computing majors will introduce you to the broad range of problems computing can address. Representatives from local technology companies will show cool demos and tell you why they love their jobs.
WHO: Middle and high school students… Read more →