A wonderful NPR report on the women who launched the world of software. It was stimulated by Walter Isaacson’s new book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, in which he tells many of these stories.
“Decades ago, it was women who pioneered computer programming …”
Read/listen here.… Read more →
MSN Money credits UW for the latest panic: “Self-driving cars – the next terrorism threat?”
“Reports over the weekend that Tesla could be the latest carmaker to add autonomous features to its products is being greeted with excitement, but experts remain concerned that the new industry technology could be susceptible to sinister cybercriminal activity …
“Analysts are keen to point out an academic paper dating from back in 2011 when researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California-San Diego were able to wirelessly hack into cars. This led to the auto industry… Read more →
“Sound Startups” – KIRO 7
“Sound Startups” – A phenomenal KIRO 7 30-minute profile of the Puget Sound region’s startup ecosystem:
Bill Mitchell / PicoBrew
Dan Shapiro / Robot Turtles
Shwetak Patel (CSE faculty) / SNUPI Technologies + Wally
A stroll through Fremont
Elissa Fink / Tableau
Mike Young (UW President) / UW’s Startup Hall
Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock (CSE adjunct faculty, iSchool faculty) / AnswerDash
Jeremy Jaech (CSE alum, UW Regent) / serial entrepreneurship (and some wonderful comments on the role of UW… Read more →
UW “Trend in Engineering” features Data Science
“SeaFlow, a research instrument developed in the lab of UW School of Oceanography director Ginger Armbrust, analyzes 15,000 marine microorganisms per second, generating up to 15 gigabytes of data every single day of a typical multi-week-long oceanographic research cruise.
“UW professor of astronomy Andy Connolly is preparing for the unveiling of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will map the entire night sky every three days and produce about 100 petabytes of raw data about our universe over the… Read more →
“Making a World of Difference”
Here’s a wonderful new booklet from the National Academy of Engineering, celebrating its 50th anniversary by highlighting the past, present, and future of engineering. Wonderful stories, photographs, and ideas – many with computer science center-stage. Check it out here.… Read more →
Standing room only at UW CSE’s first career prep event of the year
Many thanks to David Dawson (CSE ’06; StashRewards), Will Pittman (CSE ’08; DocuSign), Claire Suver (CSE ’09; Amazon); Becky Tucker (our Microsoft recruiter), and Tony Vigil (CSE ’06, Disney Interactive) for a fantastic “employer panel.”
Next event: resume review workshop, October 6 in the Atrium!… Read more →
Watch “Sound Startups,” KIRO TV 7, Saturday at 7:30
“Sound Startups,” a new 30-minute special airing this Saturday, October 4th at 7:30pm, on KIRO 7 Eyewitness News, showcases Seattle and Puget Sound as a leading region for innovation. Our startup community is hot – and growing fast. This Saturday, KIRO will talk to some of the most innovative minds in Seattle and learn about new businesses thriving in the Puget Sound region.
“Sound Startups” airs Saturday, October 4 at 7:30pm (PST) and Saturday, October 11 at 8:30pm (PST) on… Read more →
UW CSE’s Jeff Heer is one of 14 Moore Foundation “Data-Driven Discovery Investigators”
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation joined last year with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a process that ultimately selected the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and New York University as partners in a 5-year, $38.7 million collaborative effort to advance data-intensive discovery.
The Moore Foundation has just announced the results of a subsequent competition to identify leading individual researchers as “Data-Driven Discovery Investigators,” funded at $1.5 million each. From an original field of more than 1,000 pre-proposals, roughly… Read more →
“Robot, where the hell are my car keys?”
“New RFID technology helps robots find household objects” is the actual headline of this University of Washington and Georgia Institute of Technology press release describing the work of UW CSE and EE faculty member Matt Reynolds.
If a PR2 takes as long to find car keys as it does to fold laundry, we have three words for you: “Take the bus.”
Actually, we have three additional words for you: “Read more here.”
Addendum: The research paper describing this work… Read more →
WSJ: “3 Reasons Why Seattle Is the Next Big Startup Hub”
Including … “The University of Washington has invested deeply in its computer science program and recently spent $1.5 million to remodel their Startup Hall.”
Read more here.… Read more →