This evening, UW CSE hosted a “sendoff reception” for several dozen undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing later in the week. The reception was attended by these students, CSE’s ever-growing cadre of woman faculty members, and several dozen woman alums from the region. Many thanks to Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler for providing inspiring remarks as part of the program!
Want to learn about CSE’s efforts to increase the representation… Read more →
UW CSE’s Arrakis is OSDI ’14 Best Paper
Congratulations to Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe – authors of Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane, just named one of three Best Papers of this week’s 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).
“In Arrakis, we ask the question whether we can remove the OS kernel entirely from normal application execution. The kernel only sets up the execution environment and… Read more →
NPR: “The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech”
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 →