UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos has just been named as the recipient of the KDD 2014 Innovation Award, the highest award for technical excellence in the field of data mining and data science.
Pedro was recognized “for his foundational research in data stream analysis, cost-sensitive classification, adversarial learning, and Markov logic networks.”
Pedro carried out some of the earliest research on mining data streams – his VFML toolkit is one of the best open-source resources for stream mining. Another… Read more →
250 UW CSE Bay Area alums and friends convene at Pixar
Many thanks to Tony DeRose for hosting 250 UW CSE alums and friends – plus faculty members Ali Farhadi, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, and Barbara Mones, and staff members Casey Amundson, Kay Beck-Benton, Anne Fitzmaurice-Adams, Lara Littlefield, and Sergey Smirnov – at Pixar on the evening of Thursday July 10.
It was a phenomenal evening, and a great chance to reconnect!
Looking forward to next year!… Read more →
San Jose and Seattle top NerdWallet’s rankings of best places for tech jobs
GeekWire reports on NerdWallet’s new ranking of best places for tech jobs – San Jose and Seattle are head-and-shoulders above the rest.
See the GeekWire post here.
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Better visualizing of fitness app data helps discover trends, reach goals
UW News describes research by CSE’s James Fogarty and his collaborators Daniel Epstein, Felicia Cordeiro, Elizabeth Bales, and Sean Munson:
“Smartphone apps can track where we eat our meals, when we commute to and from work and how many minutes we exercise each day. Ten thousand steps today? Check.
“More people are opting to use their phones as “life-logging” devices, but is the data they collect actually useful? Massive amounts of information showing your life patterns over a week, month… Read more →
Broadening Participation in Computing: The Why and the How
The under-representation of women in computer science is well known. UW CSE is a leader among major departments in addressing this. The chart to the right shows the proportion of Computer Science bachelors degrees granted to women by UW CSE, compared to the national average for all departments (reported by NSF), and for those departments that, like UW CSE, grant the Ph.D. (reported by the Computing Research Association).
We have a long way still to go, but focus pays off.… Read more →
USAID hearts UW CSE’s Open Data Kit
“Feed the Future has been piloting cutting-edge software, called the Open Data Kit (ODK), to improve its survey data collection methods, and in the process, has generated a number of lessons learned that are being integrated back into the open-source system for the benefit of future users. ODK provides a set of tools used to author, field, and manage mobile data collection. Using this new system for conducting population-based surveys (PBS) on Android 7″ tablets, the project was able to… Read more →
“How Seattle is falling behind other 21st century cities”
A superb commentary in the Seattle Times:
“Remaining globally competitive will require all of us to work together. We can begin by asking ourselves some challenging questions:
“Why can’t we transform our education system to prepare all kids for the global economy?
“Why can’t our region lead the country in math, science and engineering degrees?
“Why can’t the Puget Sound find new ways to stimulate research and innovation?
“Other regions are answering these questions with smart investments and innovative programs.… Read more →
UW CSE Bay Area Alumni+Friends Event at Pixar!
UW CSE @ Pixar, Thursday July 10 at 6 p.m.
Bay Area alums and friends of UW CSE – please join us! Registration required – register here.
6:00 – mix and mingle
6:45 – program in the Steve Jobs Theater, including a showing of “Party Central,” Pixar’s newest short
7:30 – tours every 15 minutes
Food, drink, and good fellowship with CSE faculty, staff, and fellow Bay Area alums and friends!
Please register and join us!
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CSE’s Emina Torlak featured in The Programming Language Enthusiast
The Programming Language Enthusiast, a blog devoted to “developments in programming languages, and why they matter,” profiles incoming UW CSE professor Emina Torlak:
“‘I like to work on practical problems that require both theoretical insights and engineering. When looking for solutions, my guiding principles are elegance of ideas and simplicity of implementation. I am excited about developing new knowledge and tools to automate the mechanics of programming (such as searching for bugs or for code snippets that implement specific behaviors),… Read more →
CSE’s Jeff Heer, startup Trifacta, in Fast Company
“Big data can be a nightmare. Sure, it’s powerful stuff, but as anyone who’s worked with large sets of raw data knows, they can be an epic bitch to wrangle. Cleaning things up into a consistent, usable format winds up burning an extraordinary amount of time – precious hours that could be going into something far more productive. But that may be about to change.
“The issue is known among data scientists and statisticians as data transformation. And by Jeff… Read more →