At today’s University of Washington Awards of Excellence ceremony, UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce presented CSE professor Gaetano Borriello with the 2014 Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, and CSE Ph.D. alumnus (and UW-Tacoma professor) Donald Chinn with one of seven 2014 Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Congratulations Gaetano and Donald!… Read more →
CSE helps Sand Point Elementary School introduce Scratch programming
Sand Point Elementary, a public school near the University of Washington, has started to incorporate programming classes into their curriculum. They are using the wildly popular Scratch language, which lets the students visually compose programs that animate small sprites on the screen. These sprites can be controlled by the user and can interact with each other.
“By exposing students at a young age to programming, we begin to build in them an idea of the potential for their… Read more →
“New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything”
UW News reports:
“Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches everything there is to know about any visual concept. Called Learning Everything about Anything, or LEVAN, the program searches millions of books and images on the Web to learn all possible variations of a concept, then displays the results to users as a comprehensive, browsable list of images, helping them… Read more →
Spring 2014 issue of most significant bits – the CSE alumni magazine
Check out the Spring 2014 issue of most significant bits, the UW CSE alumni magazine. Stories include:
Multiple initiatives in “big data”
New members of the CSE faculty
Alumni Achievement Awards to Jeff Dean (Ph.D. 1996) and Gail Murphy (Ph.D. 1996)
College of Engineering Diamond Award to Brad Fitzpatrick (B.S. 2002)
Przemek Pardyak (A.B.D. 2000) and Usermind
Christophe Bisciglia (B.S. 2003) and WibiData
Shiri Azenkot (Ph.D. 2014) wins 2014 Graduate School Medal
Martina Unutzer (B.S. 2014) recognized in 2014 CRA… Read more →
Jeff Dean, Gail Murphy receive 2014 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Awards
Several years ago, we established the tradition of honoring two outstanding UW Computer Science & Engineering alumni each year as part of our graduation ceremony. In doing this, we have three objectives:
To honor some of our most distinguished alumni by recognizing their extraordinary achievements.
To ensure that graduating students know that they are joining a long tradition of excellence and accomplishment.
To inspire current members of the UW CSE graduating class.
The recipients of the 2014 UW CSE Alumni… Read more →
New York Times: CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean on “Intelligence Too Big for a Single Machine”
In the New York Times special section on Cloud Computing (which also identified Seattle as the “the center of the most intensive engineering in cloud computing”), CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean – Google Senior Fellow – is quoted extensively:
“Jeff Dean, a research fellow at Google, focuses on accelerating the progress of artificial intelligence in tasks like computer vision and understanding the meaning of words. Until a few years ago, for example, Google image searches were executed mainly… Read more →
Happy Birthday Stefan Savage!
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage – star professor at UCSD CSE – turned 45 today.
At some point Stefan had expressed a fondness for Adirondack chairs. His UCSD faculty colleagues, led by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Geoff Voelker, came through.
Said Stefan, after reality met fantasy head-on:
“What is theory with these? Is this some kind of New England Calvinist thing where sitting on your lawn on a nice day felt too good so, inspired by church pews, they… Read more →
New York Times: “Silicon Valley Tries to Remake the Idea Machine”
Ed Lazowska comments in response to this New York Times article:
“The real message in this article is easy to miss:
“‘Moonshots’ are heroic engineering efforts that draw upon decades of fundamental research. Without fundamental research, there can be no moonshots.
“So, who’s doing it? ‘Back in the day,’ IBM Research and Bell Labs invested in fundamental research, alongside the Federal government. Today, to first approximation, only Microsoft (through Microsoft Research) does so. Google X, as Astro Teller states, is… Read more →
New York Times: “Seattle, the New Center of a Tech Boom”
“Rain or shine, Seattle has quickly become the center of the most intensive engineering in cloud computing: the design and management of global-scale data centers …
“Besides talent that knows how to build infrastructure, Seattle has a number of leading cloud software companies. Tableau Software, a leader in the computer visualization of large sets of data, is across the street from Google in Fremont. Concur, used for online expense forms, is in Bellevue, near Microsoft Azure. Other companies include Chef,… Read more →
Googlers and UW CSE students in uProxy hackathon
UW CSE and Brave New Software partnered to develop uProxy, a project seeded by Google Ideas.
One out of every three people live in societies where free expression is severely restricted. When corrupt or repressive groups control the Internet’s infrastructure, they often subject their citizens’ Internet traffic to censorship, surveillance, and misdirection. uProxy enables friends to provide each other with a trusted pathway to the web.
This week, Googlers and UW CSE students are participating in a uProxy hackathon… Read more →