UW CSE hosted an event on Thursday for alums at Facebook’s Seattle engineering office.
Exactly four years ago – in August 2010 – Ari Steinberg opened a one-person Facebook engineering office in Seattle. Today it boasts roughly 400 employees – roughly 90 of whom are from UW. (It also boasts a killer view!)… Read more →
WSU “Academic Planner” features UW on the cover!
We can’t make up stuff that’s this great:
“Students at Washington State University did a double-take when they received their free student planners from The Bookie this week. The cover features a picture of a cougar, the iconic Bryan clock tower and a building that was a little harder to identify.
“Down at the very bottom of the cover, with beautiful brick and elegant cherry trees is Savery Hall, a building located at the heart of the campus of WSU’s… Read more →
UCSD student publishes nude photos of advisor in top security conference
This doesn’t have much to do with UW CSE (well, one of the co-authors is the Ph.D. alum of a Ph.D. alum of ours, and another is a Bachelors alum of ours), but it’s too good to pass up. (Plus, we figure Savage and Voelker must have had their fingers in it somewhere …)
Read about it here. More photos here.
(Thanks to Dan Ports for the tip.)… Read more →
Looking to the Future of Data Science
Steve Lohr, in the New York Times, features UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni (now CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), with cameos by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research). Etzioni and Horvitz delivered keynotes earlier this week at KDD, the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
“Mr. Etzioni acknowledged the gains made possible by big data methods – identifying patterns and calculating statistical probabilities – in tasks like speech… Read more →
New smartphone app can detect newborn jaundice in minutes
UW News describes a UW CSE cellphone app, Bilicam, developed by Shwetak Patel’s students Lilian de Greef and Mayank Goel:
“Skin that turns yellow can be a sure sign that a newborn is jaundiced and isn’t adequately eliminating the chemical bilirubin. But that discoloration is sometimes hard to see, and severe jaundice left untreated can harm a baby.
“University of Washington engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results… Read more →
Ivan Sutherland receives Reed College Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and Reed College professor Jim Fix today presented computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland with the Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology at Reed College’s 2014 opening convocation.
The Vollum Award was created by Reed College in 1975 as a tribute to the late C. Howard Vollum, a graduate of the Class of 1936 and the founder of Tektronix. The award “is intended to recognize and celebrate the exceptional achievement of a member of… Read more →
New earthquake early warning system funded at UW by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Napa earthquake of earlier this week has drawn renewed attention to a major award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, Caltech, and the United States Geological Survey to create a west coast earthquake early warning system.
At last night’s kickoff meeting of the NSF M9 (Magnitude 9) Project, John Vidale – UW professor of Earth & Space Sciences, Washington State Seismologist, member of the eScience Institute team, and Moore Foundation PI… Read more →
31 million thanks to the Washington Research Foundation
UW formally thanked the Washington Research Foundation yesterday, at a reception at the President’s home, for their extraordinary and transformational $31 million commitment to four leading-edge research initiatives at the University of Washington.
Computer Science & Engineering is integrally involved in two::
A $9.3 million award to the University of Washington eScience Institute, committed to UW’s leadership in data science – both in advancing the methodologies, and in putting these advances to work in a broad range of fields.… Read more →
UW MHCI+D program graduates first class!
The University of Washington’s Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D) program is a truly interdisciplinary experience with world-class faculty and students from four departments in the cross-disciplinary group DUB (Design-Use-Build): Computer Science & Engineering, Design, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the Information School.
On Friday the MHCI+D program graduated its first-ever class of 29 students. Of the graduates, about 12 were focused on Design, 10 on User Research, and 7 on Interface Technology – the three core areas… Read more →
Foldit helping in Ebola research
The Seattle Times writes:
“Months before the recent Ebola outbreak erupted in Western Africa, killing more than a thousand people, scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design were looking for a way to stop the deadly virus.
“For inspiration, they turned to an unlikely source: gamers.
“Specifically, they asked thousands of computer-game enthusiasts worldwide to tackle an Ebola puzzle on the interactive game Foldit, a 6-year-old project that encourages people to solve puzzles for science.”
Foldit… Read more →