Engaged Learning is a Gates-funded nonprofit startup that seeks to transform education using engaging, adaptive, game-like technology.
Engaged Learning was founded by UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic to drive the evolution and adoption of advances from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science.
Xconomy writes:
“As in virtually every other sphere of business and life, the technology-driven transformation of education from a data-poor to a data-rich field is creating the potential for innovation. And data is at the heart of… Read more →
Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science
At this week’s 10th Anniversary Summit of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, UW’s Ed Lazowska and Stanford’s Eric Roberts discuss “Tsunami or Sea Change? Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science.”
The presentation contains mountains of data of importance to anyone interest in undergraduate student interest trends.
Check it out here.
And check out the intended majors (among College of Engineering programs) of recent UW entering classes of freshmen here.
intended major… Read more →
UW startup SNUPI Technologies is Technology Alliance “Innovation Showcase Company of the Year”
At today’s annual Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon – keynoted by Crossing the Chasm author Geoffrey Moore – UW startup SNUPI Technologies was recognized as “Innovation Showcase Company of the Year.”
SNUPI’s first product, Wally, is an environmental sensor system for the home. The company was co-founded by UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel, UW CSE+EE professor Matt Reynolds, UW CSE alum Jeremy Jaech, and UW EE Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn.
Shwetak accepted the award on behalf of the team,… Read more →
Intended majors of UW’s 2014 incoming freshmen … “It’s CSE, baby!”
This just in: data on the intended major (among College of Engineering programs) of UW’s 2014 freshman class.
See a nice followup article from GeekWire here.… Read more →
UW CSE SANE retreat
UW CSE students and faculty in systems, architecture, and networking (SANE) spent Friday at a research retreat at the Talaris conference center.
Luis Ceze organized the event, but concocted a lame excuse for missing it. (Get well soon, Luis!)… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska in NY Times on the value of teaching kids to program
A set of letters in Friday’s New York Times were prompted by last Sunday’s article “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding.” One is from UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
To the Editor:
Your article provides nice exposure for the movement to expand computer science in K-12. But it does not mention several critical pieces of the argument.
Coding and computer science aren’t the same. Taught right, programming — coding — is the hands-on, inquiry-based way that students learn what… Read more →
Luis Ceze goes yachting
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze recently participated in a traditional hazing ritual for junior faculty: a trip across Lake Washington to Kirkland on CSE department chair Hank Levy’s boat.
Thanks to Dr. Paul Barei, UW Orthopaedics, Luis should be ambulatory again within a few weeks.
We echo Hank’s exhortation to all new members of the UW CSE faculty: “Break a leg, baby!”… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Chandu Thekkath to direct Microsoft Research India
1994 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Chandu Thekkath has been named Managing Director of Microsoft Research India.
Chandu is currently Director/Principal Researcher at MSR Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. He is well known in the research community for his work in operating systems, networks, distributed systems, and computer architecture. He has contributed to key technology transfers between MSR and Microsoft product groups such as the Hotmail team. He has also played many management roles in MSR. He is also… Read more →
$9.3 million to UW eScience Institute from Washington Research Foundation
The University of Washington is receiving a $31.2 million gift from the Washington Research Foundation to support four interdisciplinary initiatives that seek to advance global innovation in clean energy, protein design, big data science and neuroengineering.
The largest award, $9.3 million, is to the University of Washington eScience Institute, committed to UW’s leadership in data science – both in advancing the methodologies, and in putting these advances to work in a broad range of fields.
The eScience Institute is… Read more →
CSE alumni startup LearnSprout announces $4.2 million Series A round
San Francisco edtech startup LearnSprout has taken in more funding – announcing a $4.2 million round that actually closed last August. Investors in the new round are prior investor Formation 8, Samsung Ventures and former Blackboard president Justin Tan.
LearnSprout’s aim is to help schools unlock the data held in their legacy Student Information Systems by offering a free big data analytics service, so educators can dig into trends in areas such as attendance, college readiness or even student health… Read more →