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 →
UW CSE startup Engaged Learning featured in Xconomy
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 →