(And the lunch was really good too!)
Many thanks to our Microsoft recruiter, Becky Tucker!… Read more →
The New York Times spends another 36 hours in Seattle
They spent it in some very odd ways (they should have asked Nick Wingfield, who lives here, or John Markoff, who visits often), but hey, any press is better than no press.
“Seattle is in boom mode, and for visitors that means creative restaurants, a vibrant nightlife scene, and stunning art.”
Read more here.… Read more →
ACM Distinguished Paper Award to CSE’s René Just, Darioush Jalali, Michael Ernst
René Just, Darioush Jalali, and Michael Ernst of UW CSE have won an ACM Distinguished Paper award for their paper “Are Mutants a Valid Substitute for Real Faults in Software Testing?”
Both practitioners and researchers need to evaluate the quality of test suites – for example, researchers want to know whether a new testing technique improves a test suite. The true measure of a test suite’s quality is how many real faults it detects. The set… Read more →
Rev. Jesse Jackson @ UW, December 2, 6:30 p.m., Kane Hall 130
The Reverend Jesse Jackson will speak in Kane Hall 130 on Tuesday December 2 from 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Rev. Jackson is visiting Seattle to speak with technology firms about their diversity efforts. He has made a special request that CSE community members attend his lecture.
Registration is required. Further information here.… Read more →
UW CSE featured in article on gender diversity efforts at the University of Maryland
“Maryland is one of 15 universities participating in the Building Recruiting And Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID) initiative led by the Anita Borg Institute and Harvey Mudd College.
“Harvey Mudd College, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington have already seen success at increasing female participation in their computer science departments …
“At UW, Ed Lazowska is now the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering and once served as the computer science department chair. Lazowska agrees… Read more →
Paul G. Allen tackles Ebola with 10,000 ODK-equipped smartphones
Philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation will ship more than 10,000 specially programmed smartphones to West Africa to enhance data collection and identify aid needs. Additionally, Mr. Allen is providing a grant to NetHope to further connectivity throughout Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. This initiative is part of Mr. Allen’s $100 million commitment to tackle the Ebola crisis.
The smartphones will enable government workers and humanitarian aid volunteers to gather reliable… Read more →
Crosscut on UW’s Shwetak Patel: “Seattle genius tackles energy, healthcare and the future of computing”
Crosscut writes
“For every variation in sound, pressure, temperature or electromagnetic wave, Shwetak Patel sees an opportunity. He is the master of white noise, the enemy of inefficiency. He made a name for himself with ElectriSense, a home energy monitor that reads noise to tell you how much electricity is used by each lightbulb and appliance in real time. But ElectriSense is only the beginning; there are no limits to what he and his lab might achieve.
“What drives Patel… Read more →
Remembering Ben Taskar
Ben Taskar, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, passed away on the early morning of November 18 2013 of sudden and severe heart failure. Ben left behind his wife Anat Caspi, their two year old daughter Aviv Taskar, his mother, father, and sister, and an array of other family members, friends, and colleagues – all of whom miss him tremendously.
When a 30-something person dies unexpectedly, leaving behind a spouse and a young child,… Read more →
Google funds Turing Award at $1 million
The New York Times reports:
“The A.M. Turing Award is often called the Nobel Prize of computer science. Now, thanks to Google’s largess, it will be a Nobel-level prize financially: $1 million.
“The quadrupling of the prize money, announced on Thursday by the Association for Computing Machinery, the professional organization that administers the award, is intended to elevate the prominence and recognition of computer science. The move can be seen as another sign of the boom times in technology.
“Computing… Read more →
“5 Lessons That Business Leaders Could Learn From Academics”
A nice piece in Entrepreneur by UW iSchool professor (and UW CSE adjunct professor) Jake Wobbrock:
“As noted in the New York Times, government-sponsored university research has played a major part in the breakthroughs underlying companies like Google, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Microsoft and more. In fact, a study of 30 well-known companies like these by the National Research Council found that $500B/year in their revenues were attributable to discoveries from university research.
“So how is it that academics… Read more →