“Education. Big data. Health. Telecommunications. Clean tech.
“Seattle is producing groundbreaking startups in a host of industries, generating a crop of impressive entrepreneurs who are truly attempting to change the world.
“Getting to tell these startup stories at GeekWire is an honor and a privilege, and that’s one of the reasons why we are so excited to once again partner with the Museum of History & Industry to bring you The Seattle 10.
“This list showcases 10 of the most… Read more →
Welcome to Seattle, Apple!
Apple is the latest leading-edge tech company to open a Seattle engineering office, joining Google, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Oracle, LinkedIn, Groupon, eBay, and (just last week) Alibaba.
What’s going on?
First, Seattle is the software capital of the world. That’s literally – numerically – true: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports more “Software Developers” (“Applications” + “Systems”) in Seattle (Seattle-Everett-Bellevue) than in Silicon Valley (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara).
Second, Seattle the cloud capital of the world. That’s also literally true… Read more →
CBS “Innovation Nation” features UW CSE’s age progression software
UW CSE professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman demonstrates her amazing age progression software on CBS TV’s “Innovation Nation.”
Want to know what you or your child will look like a few decades from now? Check it out!
CBS interview here. Research web page here.
(Quoting UW CSE’s Steve Seitz: “I love when they showed the ‘code’ behind the algorithm. Hand scrawled with lots of integrals :-)”)… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson keynotes ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
UW CSE professor Tom Anderson delivered the opening keynote this morning at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.
Tom’s topic was “High Performance Data Center Operating Systems and Networks” – specifically, UW CSE’s new Arrakis data center operating system and F10/Subways approach to data center network configuration.
“Recent device hardware trends enable new approaches to the design of data center operating systems and networks, yielding substantial benefits for application performance. In a traditional operating system, the kernel mediates access… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire Radio
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska joins GeekWire‘s Todd Bishop and John Cook for a conversation on GeekWire Radio. Topics include:
Regular GeekWire content:
The Microsoft Band (Todd had a review model – way cool!)
Starbucks home delivery (John thinks they’re transforming into a technology company)
Interview with Ed (9:00-16:25)
What’s cool in computer science?
How much is this reflected in education?
What about student demand for computer science? What’s driving the dramatic increase?
What can we do to meet our local… Read more →
CSE’s “Dress Like Your Research” Halloween Party
(For most of these, your guess is as good as ours … but see if you can find “tail effects,” “barrelfish,” “non-volatile RAM,” “BiliCam,” …)… Read more →
Jacob Nelson’s Ph.D. defense
Apparently Jacob didn’t get the memo regarding appropriate attire for a Ph.D. defense on Halloween.… Read more →
UW CSE and Microsoft Band
Let’s hear it for Microsoft Research – UW CSE affiliate professor Desney Tan, UW CSE affiliate professor Dan Morris, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Scott Saponas, and the rest of the team!
Read about Microsoft Band in the New York Times here.… Read more →
UW CSE “mock technical interviews”
“Mock technical interviews” help prepare UW CSE students for the real thing! Many thanks to our friends and alums from top companies who participated last night:
Amazon: Rowan Hale, Bingo Ngo, Shridhar Pathak
Google: Kiran Bagga, Alexis Cheng, David Schultz
Marchex: Rich Hanbidge, Kent Henneuse, Morten Pedersen
Microsoft: Zac Brown, Kasey Champion, Alejandro Guerrero Gonzalez, David Haley, Peter Hauge, Tri Nguyen
Qumulo: James Athappilly
Tableau: Austin Dahl
Comments from two of the above:
“I had a fantastic time getting to… Read more →
Apple’s Tim Cook: “We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.”
Read more in the New York Times here and here.
CSE’s Ed Lazowska is quoted in the latter article:
“Edward Lazowska, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, said most technology companies, like most universities, have policies that say they are open to women, gays, lesbians and members of minority groups.
“‘But down at the rank-and-file level is where these policies are put into practice, and that’s where many of us fall short,’ he said. ‘My… Read more →