Today’s monthly “Science Roundtable” on WXXI/NPR Connections featured UW CSE Ph.D. student Karl Koscher discussing online security in the wake of Heartbleed, former UW CSE faculty member (and current University of Rochester department chair) Henry Kautz discussing artificial intelligence, and Henry’s Ph.D. alum (and current Google[x] data scientist) Adam Sadilek discussing trend-tracking via Twitter.
Listen here.… Read more →
Seattle: Top of the tech cities for recent college grads
NerdWallet set about to identify the best cities for recent college graduates. Seattle, at #2 behind Washington DC, beat out San Francisco (#4), Austin (#5), Atlanta (#6), Raleigh (#7), Boston (#8), San Diego (#11), and San Jose (#13). New York didn’t make the top 20.
Admission: If we hadn’t ranked at the top, our reaction to this survey would have been “Who the hell is NerdWallet?” But since we did, check out the survey here!… Read more →
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi to speak at UW on May 8
In December, more than 20 million students around the globe participated in the Hour of Code, organized by Code.org – a Seattle-based non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. The event allowed students to try their hand at coding and prompted discussions among policymakers and educators about how to provide students with greater access to computer science education.
That discussion – and Hadi Partovi, co-founder and CEO of Code.org – will come to the University of Washington’s Seattle… Read more →
Solving word problems by computer
UW CSE’s Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer and MIT CSAIL’s Regina Barzilay and Nate Kushman have developed a new computer system that can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes. The work will be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in June.
In the near term, the work could lead to educational tools that identify errors in students’ reasoning or evaluate the difficulty of word problems. But it may also… Read more →
CSE’s Shyam Gollakota: “Wherefore go the networks?”
MIT EECS Connector features 2012 MIT EECS Ph.D. alum and UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, whose research on backscatter communication, gesture recognition, and other areas has received wide acclaim. “My goal is to change our fundamental understanding of what is possible, by designing and building novel systems that challenge conventional wisdom.”
Read the MIT EECS Connector article here.
Learn about the work of Shyam and his collaborators in UW CSE’s Networks and Wireless Lab here.… Read more →
UW CSE 2014 Scholarship/Fellowship Recognition Luncheon
UW CSE’s annual Scholarship/Fellowship Recognition Luncheon brings together the generous individuals and corporations whose gifts make scholarships and fellowships available to our students, and the outstanding students who are the beneficiaries of this generosity.
At yesterday’s event, graduate student Laurel Orr and undergraduate student Karolina Pyszkiewicz spoke, representing their peers.
Scholarships enable great students to attend UW CSE regardless of means, allowing us to fulfill the traditional role of the nation’s great public universities as tuition rises to offset dramatic… Read more →
“A study in UW geometry”
Seattle Times photographer Ellen Banner captures the Microsoft Atrium from above … here.… Read more →
IEEE Milestone plaque honoring UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall: Photos of the ceremony
On Friday, IEEE dedicated a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque honoring 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. (DRI) in Pacific Grove, CA. Hundreds attended the event – including an amazing number of former DRI employees.
DRI’s CP/M was the dominant microcomputer operating system throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM… Read more →
“Astonishing age progression software” from UW CSE
Seattle’s KOMO4 News and KING5 Evening Magazine feature what KOMO calls “astonishing age progression software” from UW CSE, interviewing professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman.
KOMO4 News here.
KING5 Evening Magazine here.
Information on the research here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner wins SIGCHI Social Impact Award
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner has been recognized far and wide for his extraordinary work on accessible computing.
Richard’s most recent honor comes from the ACM Special Interest Group on human-computer interaction, SIGCHI, which will present Richard with its Social Impact Award at CHI 2014 in Toronto later this month – given “to individuals who promote the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs.”
Read the citation here. Learn more about Richard and his work here.… Read more →