A memorial service was held today for Eliana Hechter, who died on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.
Eliana was briefly a CSE major, but graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in 2006 – at the age of 18 – with a degree in mathematics. She received a Goldwater Scholarship and was a 2006 Rhodes Scholar – at the time the second-youngest person to ever receive the Rhodes. She was also selected for a Marshall Scholarship but declined in… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tina Donahue takes Ballard Criterium Women’s Cat 4
California Chrome lost. You should have put your money on UW CSE academic advisor Tina Donahue instead. Tina took the Women’s Category 4 race in the 2014 Ballard Criterium by 15 lengths, as well as taking all but one of the intermediate sprint prizes (and you’d have to be nuts to sprint for a gift certificate to the Lock & Keel).
Congratulations Tina!… Read more →
Dr. James Mickens keynotes UW CSE PoCSci ’14
Dr. James Mickens, renowned researcher in the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft’s Redmond lab and recipient of the 2040 ACM A.M. Turing Award, delivered a stirring keynote at today’s UW CSE Potentially Computer Science Conference 2014 (PoCSci ‘14), “The Premier Sham Conference for Potentially Computer Science Research.”
PoCSci is the conference that in 2002 – its second year – revolutionized the field of Potentially Computer Science Research through Doug Zongker’s work “Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken” (YouTube… Read more →
The triumphal return of Luis Ceze
Regular readers of this space will recall that three weeks ago Luis Ceze’s knee was destroyed at a social event organized by Hank Levy.
We are pleased to report that Luis has surfaced once again (he has been seen by us only in X-rays up to this point), sporting a lasting memento of Hank’s hospitality.
Says Luis, who looks in the bright side of everything: “Now that I have a handicapped sticker, I can go to Capitol Hill for… Read more →
GeekWire: “Analysis: The exploding demand for computer science education, and why America needs to keep up”
“Young adults today are realizing how computer science knowledge can help them succeed at not just being a software developer, but with nearly any job. Heck, even journalists like us are being encouraged to take a few Javascript and HTML courses.
“‘Kids are waking up,’ said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the UW. ‘Every field is becoming an information field, and if you can program at a level beyond an intro… Read more →
CSE’s Brad Fitzpatrick receives College of Engineering Diamond Award
At the 2014 UW College of Engineering Diamond Awards celebration on Thursday night, 2002 CSE Bachelors alum Brad Fitzpatrick received the Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement. Brad is a widely respected leader in the open-source community, improving software development culture and creating open source projects used by millions of web sites around the world. Early-on, he created Memcached to support the exploding user community of his social network startup LiveJournal – today used by most web-scale services including YouTube,… Read more →
UW CSE hosts 2014 Youth Apps Challenge Awards
On Tuesday evening, UW CSE hosted the awards ceremony for Western Washington’s Youth Apps Challenge.
Sponsored by the Technology Alliance, the Youth Apps Challenge provided middle school and high school students the opportunity to design and build apps. Teams of up to five students were eligible to participate. Prizes for the winning students included Android tablets, t-shirts, and visits to local technology companies.
The apps were amazing! Learn more here.… Read more →
Truly Inspirational: Empowering Blind Students in Science and Engineering
On Monday and Tuesday, UW CSE’s Richard Ladner hosted a workshop that brought together 19 blind or vision-impaired college students in science and engineering fields from across the nation, 13 blind or vision-impaired STEM professionals, and a number of regional civic, technology, and education leaders. It was a truly inspirational two days.
The students themselves were hugely impressive – many of them are sure to become leaders in STEM fields.
The professionals were extraordinary. To mention just a few (read… Read more →
Emina Torlak, Xi Wang join the UW CSE faculty
UW CSE is delighted to announce our third and fourth hires of the 2014 faculty recruiting season.
Emina Torlak, a researcher in software engineering and programming languages, received her Bachelors (2003), Masters (2004), and Ph.D. (2009) degrees from MIT, and subsequently worked at IBM Research, LogicBlox, and as a research scientist at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on automating and improving the programming process; in particular, she is an expert in using SAT-solvers and constraint languages for automatic reasoning… Read more →
UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello, students featured in Columns
The June issue of Columns – the University of Washington Alumni Magazine – features work by CSE professor Gaetano Borriello and students including Rohit Chaudhri, Brian DeRenzi, and Saloni Parikh, in the article “Mobile Medicine”:
“For infants in sub-Saharan Africa who are born pre-term, with low birth weight or with HIV, access to human breast milk can mean the difference between life and death. Human milk banks have been established to solve this problem, but they tend… Read more →