UW CSE Masters alum Kate Matsudaira is one of several successful computer scientists from under-represented groups interviewed in the Business Week article “What It’s Like to be Black or Female in Silicon Valley.”
Of course, Kate has never actually worked in Silicon Valley – she’s been at Microsoft, Amazon, Delve Networks, Moz, UW CSE startup Decide, and her own startup popforms, all in Seattle. But the press thinks of “Silicon Valley” as a state of mind rather than a physical… Read more →
NPR: “A Smartphone Gadget Pumps Up Breast-Milk Banks”
NPR reports on a successful partnership between UW CSE and Seattle-based global health non-profit PATH:
“Each year, 800,000 children under the age of 5 die because they didn’t have access to breast milk — close to 1 out of every 8 infant deaths, most of which occur in developing regions …
“Now there’s a simple device called FoneAstra that, when combined with a smartphone, can pasteurize milk so a bank can be set up almost anywhere …
“PATH … partnered… Read more →
Foldit – The Movie!
“It’s the greatest” – and it’s only 3 minutes.
Watch it here.
Play Foldit here.
Learn about other game-changing activities of the UW CSE Center for Game Science here.… Read more →
Seattle Times: “UW maxed out on computer science space”
Katherine Long writes in the Seattle Times:
“At a moment in history when the computer is at center stage, and in a city where technology companies are driving a boom in the local economy, it’s no surprise that programming and technology majors are some of the most sought-after degrees on campus.
“But as a result, just 11 years after the UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering opened, the building is maxed out, and there’s not much… Read more →
EFF in Oracle v. Google: APIs should not be copyrightable
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing, on behalf of 77 computer scientist signatories, that the justices should review an inexplicable lower court decision finding that application programming interfaces (APIs) are copyrightable. That decision, in a case in which Oracle sought to copyright the Java API, up-ended decades of settled legal precedent and industry practice.
Among the 77 computer scientists on behalf of whom EFF filed the brief are UW CSE professor Ed… Read more →
UW CSE ACM FallFest
Buurrrpppp!!!!!… Read more →
“The 50 Most Innovative Computer Science Departments in the U.S.”
What’s the methodology? We couldn’t care less! We’re Number Four!
Read more here. Or don’t.… Read more →
Packed house for CSE-II Information Meeting
The room was packed with representatives from architectural and engineering firms who came to learn about the CSE-II project – the project formerly known as LevyTown.
Check out reports on the project in GeekWire and the UW Daily. And listen to Ed Lazowska’s statement of the case on GeekWire Radio.… Read more →
Center for Game Science to participate in Life Sciences Research Weekend at Pacific Science Center
Brian Koepnik and Vikram Mulligan – two of the scientists behind FoldIt, the award-winning protein-folding game developed by members of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science and the UW Department of Biochemistry – will be at the Pacific Science Center this Friday through Sunday to help celebrate Life Sciences Research Weekend.
FoldIt is an online game that has effectively crowd-sourced scientific discovery of the 3-D structure of proteins that play a role in diseases such as cancer, AIDS,… Read more →
UW Daily reports on plans for a second building for CSE
The UW Daily reports:
“The UW Computer Science & Engineering department (CSE) recently proposed a dramatic expansion to satisfy the demand for its education and research.
“On Oct. 24, the UW backed the department by submitting an official request to architects for the design of a new, additional CSE building (CSE II) …
“‘We have built one of the best computer science departments in the country and I think we’ll continue to improve, to provide better education and more opportunities… Read more →