Today’s the first day of UW CSE’s annual 3-day Industry Affiliates Meeting – a recruiting day for startup companies. 37 startups and two venture firms (each representing multiple startups) are crowded into the Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, along with hundreds of UW CSE students.
Tomorrow: research presentations and an evening open house for affiliates, alumni, and friends, plus awarding of the Madrona Prize.
Thursday: recruiting by more than 60 established companies (way… Read more →
CSE’s Kevin Liang anchors winning team in DubHacks
GeekWire reports:
“Nearly 400 students from the Pacific Northwest and beyond took over the third floor of the University of Washington’s Husky Union Building for the first-ever DubHacks, a 24-hour collegiate hackathon and the first of its kind in the region for college students …
“Angelica Cupat, Gantulga Balgan, Kevin Liang and Patrick Chiang didn’t know each other before forming a team and taking home the hackathon’s largest prize – cash, software, hardware and an opportunity to compete in Facebook’s… Read more →
DubHacks: 24-hour hackathon @ UW
Friday and Saturday marked the 24-hour DubHacks hackathon on the UW campus. More than 300 students from colleges and universities throughout the Northwest participated, including many from UW CSE. KIRO News 7 broadcast reports before and during the event.
Nice GeekWire article here.… Read more →
GraphLab rocks at Strata
UW CSE startup GraphLab is one of four Startup Showcase Winners at Strata+Hadoop World, part of NYC Data Week.
It’s the first cut in getting selected to compete as the “best of the best” at Strata.
Go GraphLab!… Read more →
Zach Tatlock defends Ph.D. … better late than never!
We’ve been wondering why CSE professor Zach Tatlock gets along so well with graduate students. Turns out it’s because he still was one! Not any longer, though … Zach has marked the second year of his UW faculty appointment by returning to UCSD to defend his thesis.
And this year’s winner of the Stefan Savage Better Late Than Never award is …… Read more →
“How the University of Washington plans to lead Puget Sound innovation”
University of Washington President Michael K. Young, in the Seattle Times:
“In the Puget Sound, we consider ourselves leaders and innovators. After all, we designed and built the planes that revolutionized the aerospace industry and changed the world; gave birth to culture-defining companies like Microsoft, Nordstrom and Starbucks; pioneered the online experience through Amazon.com and Expedia; and advanced global development through organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and PATH. Seattle set the standard in the field of… Read more →
UW CSE technical interview coaching
Many dozens of UW CSE students participated in tonight’s “technical interview coaching” session in the Allen Center Atrium, in advance of next week’s CSE Industry Affiliates recruiting sessions. Many thanks to the coaches – many of whom were UW CSE alums:
Amazon
Sheng Bi
Jill Edwards
Rishi Goutam
Google
Myles Jordan
Alyssa Pittman
Marchex
Chris Kolbegger
Jos Van Schagen
Andrew Furdell
Microsoft
Nikhil Barthwal
Robin Giese
Andy Howe
Brannan Matherson
Bayo Olatunji
Qumulo
Josh Snyder
Redfin
Dane Brandon
Galen Knapp… Read more →
UW ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest results
The local qualifying event for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) was held this Saturday, organized by Whitaker Brand and I. 31 teams of three undergraduates competed, with the top 5 teams advancing to the regional contest scheduled for November 15th.
The top 5 teams advancing are:
Eternal Flame (Siwakorn Srisakaokul, Jasper Hagunin, & Vladimir Korakov)
Amgems (Jeremy Teo, Sherman Pay, & Zachary Iqbal)
superluminal (Zehao Sun, Wenbo Cui, & Jingchen Hu)
House Lannister (Yingkai Wang, Gurwinder S. Gulati,… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Nanocrafter” is 2014 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge finalist
Nanocrafter , a synthetic biology game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, has been selected as a finalist in the 2014 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (SGS&C). Qualifying as a finalist allows Nanocrafter to be placed at pavilion booth (#2663) at December’s Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida.
At the conference, Nanocrafter is now eligible to win distinction as “2014 Best Serious Game” in the Business category as judged by the SGS&C evaluators, the… Read more →
Gates Foundation supports VillageReach for UW CSE Open Data Kit enhancement
VillageReach, a Seattle-based non-profit that develops, tests, implements and scales global health innovations, has received a $470,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop and enhance ODK scan, part of the Open Data Kit suite of data tools, in partnership with the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering. ODK Scan is an Android application that digitizes data on paper forms, using a device’s built-in camera and image-processing technology.
Read more here.… Read more →