That was the comment of CSE professor Ed Lazowska’s younger son – a lawyer who majored in economics and political science as an undergraduate, so hardly a “true believer” – upon reading a Washington Post column attacking Lazowska’s recent letter in the New York Times regarding the move to offer computer science in K-12 schools across the nation.
Read Lazowska’s letter here. Read the Washington Post column here. Learn about Neanderthals here.… Read more →
Trifacta – a big data startup with UW ties – secures $25 million Series C round
Trifacta, a San Francisco big data company co-founded by UW CSE professor Jeffrey Heer and UC Berkeley professor Joe Hellerstein – has completed a $25 million Series C financing round, led by Seattle-based Ignition Partners.
Trifacta provides a way to approach the bottlenecks in data analytics from a human perspective. The company is pioneering a Data Transformation Platform to prepare data for analysis.
Read more in Venture Beat here; TechCrunch here. Press release from Trifacta here.… Read more →
DARPA unveils hack-proof drone based on UW, UCSD research
Defense Tech writes:
“The Pentagon’s research arm unveiled a new drone built with secure software that prevents the control and navigation of the aircraft from being hacked.
“The program, called High Assurance Cyber Military Systems, or HACMS, uses software designed to thwart cyber attacks. It has been underway with the Defense Advance Research Project Agency for several years after originating at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington, said Kathleen Fisher, HACMS program manager for DARPA.… Read more →
UW CSE honors inspirational teachers
In every student’s academic life, there are some truly special teachers who provide life-changing inspiration – who cause the student to recognize what s/he can achieve and what s/he should aspire to.
UW CSE invites our undergraduates to nominate their most inspirational teachers from middle school, upper school, or community college. We host these teachers, their partners, and the students who nominated them at a dinner in the spring.
All teachers – from preschool to graduate school – are in… Read more →
Xconomy on AnswerDash and the UW Information School
A nice article in Xconomy discusses AnswerDash, a startup based on a four-year research effort by then-iSchool Ph.D. student Parmit Chilana (now a professor at the University of Waterloo) and her faculty advisors, iSchool professors (and CSE adjunct professors) Jake Wobbrock and Andy Ko:
“The University of Washington Information School has more than a century of history, and now, it’s first startup company, AnswerDash, which aims to improve self-service online help for e-commerce, government, and other Websites.
“While… Read more →
TechCrunch: From The Ivy League To State Schools, Demand For Computer Science Is Booming
TechCrunch reports:
“Demand for computer science classes and programs is booming at universities across the U.S., according to data presented this past week at the NCWIT summit for Women in IT by Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and Stanford Computer Science professor Eric Roberts.
“At Lazowska’s own school, the number of incoming freshmen who plan to major in computer science is soaring – the graph… Read more →
UW CSE – current and future – rocks in ACM Student Research Competition
The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue celebrating undergraduate and graduate student research. In the Grand Finals, first, second, and third place awards are made in both undergraduate and graduate student categories, considering students from all geographies and all research areas.
In the 2014 Grand Finals:
Graduate student, second place: UW CSE graduate student Sai Zhang.
Sai was recognized for research that addresses configuration errors, which cause correct software to behave in undesired ways. Sai created… Read more →
Seattle Business: Analyze This – Seattle as the Epicenter of Big Data
Seattle Business has published an extensive article on Seattle as “the epicenter of big data,” including profiles of many of Seattle’s leading ‘big data’ companies. It makes a great case!
“Two years ago, the University of Washington sought to recruit as faculty four of the nation’s leading minds in data science and machine learning. Competition was fierce from such schools as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford, which also offer highly regarded education in data-related fields.
“However, the UW… Read more →
Crosscut: How a “game-changing” gift is supercharging UW research
Crosscut describes the Washington Research Foundation’s $31.2 million commitment to the University of Washington, including $9.3 million to the eScience Institute:
“Talk with top UW researchers and faculty, and ‘game changing’ is the most common phrase used to describe the WRF investment …
“The dollars will support only four programs at the university, each selected because it plays to the university’s most promising strengths …
“According to WRF CEO Ron Howell, his organization’s $31.2 million gift was inspired by Jeff… Read more →
Congratulations to NCWIT on an amazing first 10 years!
Photos from the wonderful Tenth Anniversary NCWIT Summit!… Read more →