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 →
“We’re Number Fourteen! …”
… which is pretty darned good. US News has released its first ranking of “Global Universities” and the University of Washington comes in at #14: just behind Princeton, just ahead of Yale, and tied with Michigan and Toronto.
US public institutions in the top 25 (of more than 700 universities that were ranked) include Berkeley (#3), UCLA (#8), Michigan (#14), UW (#14), UCSD (#18), and UCSF (#22).
Important disclaimer: We don’t put much stock in any rankings. We publicize the… Read more →
Crosscut on UW CSE’s LivingVotersGuide
Crosscut writes:
“As elections matter more, voters seem to become more frustrated and overwhelmed with the process …
“et our election decisions profoundly affect the quality of our communities and our personal lives …
“LivingVotersGuide.org supports that path to engaged and informed voting. Developed by Seattle CityClub in partnership with University of Washington, this online tool helps Washingtonians consider their choices, get relevant background information and discuss candidates and ballot issues with each other.”
(In 2010 Seattle CityClub partnered… Read more →
UW CSE’s Carlos Guestrin: “Geek of the Week”
GeekWire‘s “Geek of the Week” this week? UW CSE professor Carlos Guestrin:
“Carlos Guestrin wants to bring big data and machine learning to the masses.
“Guestrin, the CEO and co-founder of GraphLab, is the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He’s a leader in the field of machine learning, who was named one of the 2008 “Brilliant 10″ by Popular Science magazine, received the 2009 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award… Read more →
Welcome to Seattle, Alibaba!
TechFlash reports the location of Alibaba’s new Seattle office.
“This is the Chinese e-commerce giant’s second U.S. office after a space opened recently in Silicon Valley. Alibaba has been recruiting engineers in Seattle, but the location of the office was not revealed …
“Alibaba is subleasing 8,000 square feet on a short-term basis from Synapse Product Development … Alibaba is looking for a longer term office with as much as 60,000 square feet.”
Seattle … it’s where it’s happening!
Read… Read more →