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 →
UW CSE Grace Hopper Conference attendees interviewed in GeekWire on diversity issues in tech
GeekWire writes:
“Satya Nadella set off a firestorm last week after advising women to not explicitly ask for a raise, but rather rely on “good karma” …
“We caught up with some University of Washington computer science students who were representing their school at the conference (read how the UW is trying to increase women representation in computing here). Read on to hear what they had to say about Nadella’s comments and women in technology as a whole.”
UW… Read more →
Ed Lazowska in Crosscut: “Learning from Satya Nadella’s comments”
An article in Crosscut by CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
“Let’s use Satya Nadella’s remarks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing as a learning experience – for all of us.
“When Larry Summers made the comments about women in academia that led to the termination of his presidency at Harvard, the issue was not “inarticulateness” – it was that his comments betrayed a lack of familiarity with a rich scholarly literature regarding discrimination against women in academia: literature that… Read more →
Top 10 Ruby States
We’re #1!
An article in CIO Magazine, citing data from PayScale, reports that Washington leads the nation when it comes to average salaries for Ruby on Rails developers.
Check it out here.… Read more →
The bigger they are …
To demonstrate that we display no gender bias in our photo-inversion (see previous post here), we note today’s news concerning former UW Provost (and current University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor) Phyllis Wise, who, if reports are to be believed, on more than one occasion has published the same results multiple times, deleting co-authors.
From Retraction Watch:
“Phyllis Wise, the chancellor of the University of Illinois and an obstetrics researcher, has called for a massive correction of a 2006… Read more →
2002 UW CSE alum Jason Jenks on “How Facebook Made Your Mobile Messages Move at Super Speed”
Wired writes:
“If you’ve noticed your Facebook mobile messages zipping around a little more quickly over the past few months, you can thank a little-known open-source project called Apache Thrift.
“Facebook designed Thrift and has long used the tool to send data between computer servers inside the sprawling data centers that underpin its online empire. But in the summer, the company also began using it to connect user smartphones running the Facebook Messenger app to machines inside these data… Read more →