We live in a data-driven world. Many of the Web services, mobile apps, and third parties we interact with daily are collecting immense amounts of information about us – every location, click, search, email, document, and site that we visit. And they are using all of this information for various purposes. Some uses of these uses might be beneficial for us (e.g., recommendations for new videos or songs to see); other uses may not be as beneficial. The problem is… Read more →
UW CSE’s Jeffrey Heer, Matt Mohebbi in NY Times on “Data Wrangling”
Steve Lohr writes in the New York Times:
“Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering.
“The field known as ‘big data’ offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources … Its promise is smarter, data-driven decision-making in every field. That is why data scientist is the… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anne Condon honored by Anita Borg Institute
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anne Condon will receive the 2014 Technical Leadership ABIE Award from the Anita Borg Institute at October’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.s
The Technical Leadership ABIE Award recognizes women technologists who demonstrate leadership through their contributions to technology and achievements in increasing the impact of women on technology. Anne has made significant research contributions in computational complexity and bio-molecular computing, and has increased the numbers and success of women in computing research in the… Read more →
Center for Game Science + Boys & Girls Clubs summer day camps
This summer, UW CSE’s Center for Game Science worked with local Boys & Girls Clubs to provide fun summer play testing activities for several programs currently in development. While most of the day camp sessions have been held at the University of Washington, several sessions were held at local Clubs, allowing campers the opportunity to explore art activities related to Riddle Books and build games progressively over the week. CGS and the Clubs are already discussing plans for next summer.… Read more →
DawgBytes: UW CSE’s summer daycamps for middle schoolers and high schoolers
Check out the photos from our wonderful summer daycamps for middle schoolers and high schoolers on the DawgBytes Facebook page here.
Two introductory sessions using Processing for girls entering grades 7, 8, or 9
Two introductory sessions using Processing for girls entering grades 10, 11, or 12
A co-ed session in Physical Computing for students entering grades 10, 11, 12, or new college freshmen
A co-ed session in Game Programming for students entering grades 7, 8, or 9
Co-ed… Read more →
UW CSE alumni events at Google Kirkland, Google Seattle
We hold alumni events annually at the companies in Seattle and the Bay Area that employ significant numbers of our alums. On August 12 we were at Google’s Kirkland WA engineering office; on August 13 we were at Google’s Seattle engineering office. Google has close to 2,000 engineers in these offices, growing to 3,000 – including lots of our alums. It’s great to re-connect!
Another recent post related to UW CSE alums at Google is here.… Read more →
Fracking in Pittsburgh: Will CMU’s Gates & Hillman Centers be next?
The New York Times reports on a financial lifeline for Pittsburgh International Airport:
“Pittsburgh’s airport is struggling financially and mired in debt …
“For salvation, airport officials are looking down – about 6,000 feet. The quiet runways, it turns out, are sitting on enough natural gas to run the whole state of Pennsylvania for a year and a half, and this month, Consol Energy will drill its first well here to tap the gas …
“After the drilling, which uses… Read more →
Alum of the future …
Q: What’s the perfect attire for the child of two UW CSE Ph.D. alums?
A: A UW CSE t-shirt, of course!
(As Mom said on Facebook: “So very appropriate for a kid who owes his existence to UW CSE!“)
Thanks to Julie Letchner and Seth Bridges for the cute photo!… Read more →
Chronicle of Higher Education on ties between academic CS programs and industry
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on ever-closer ties between academia and industry in Computer Science:
“Professors and industry leaders across the computer-science landscape say that their worlds have never been closer and that a new generation of tech giants is leading the push …
“The reasons are clear. Academics need access to the data and scale that only industry can generate, not to mention the money that large corporations like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo provide in an age of… Read more →
CSE’s Ryan Drapeau featured in Google Student Blog
Google’s Student Blog – news and updates especially for students – has a feature article today on UW CSE bachelors student Ryan Drapeau, who’s interning at Google Mountain View this summer along with many of his UW CSE classmates. A few excerpts:
Can you provide us with a high-level description of your summer project?
I work on the Accessibility Engineering team in Google Research in Mountain View, CA. As a team, we build innovative products and solutions to help make… Read more →