Long-time CSE professor Oren Etzioni, recently departed to lead Paul Allen’s new Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, is GeekWire‘s “Hire of the Year”:
“Perhaps no one has been more synonymous with the startup ethos at the University of Washington than computer science professor Oren Etzioni, a mainstay on campus for more than two decades and an inspiration for budding entrepreneurs in academia.
“Etzioni moved on from academia after nearly 30 years this past September after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen… Read more →
NSF highlights student projects from UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
The National Science Foundation highlights games created by students in UW’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering:
“Tech Sandbox: The playground of neural engineering. University of Washington students compete in creating projects that demonstrate the core principles of neural engineering.”
Read more here. Learn about CSNE here.… Read more →
What will you look like when you grow old?
The Seattle Times gushes over UW CSE’s age progression software, created by Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, Supasorn Suwajanakorn, and Steve Seitz:
“We also asked the program to age a number of others – from Miley Cyrus to Russell Wilson to Macklemore – to show them in their 60s. It showed us what Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain would have looked like had they lived, to 71 and 47 this year, respectively.
“No wonder so many plastic surgeons get rich.”
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Code.org @ UW
This evening UW welcomed Hadi Partovi of Code.org at the Washington Education Innovation Forum, organized by the Center for Reinventing Public Education. UW CSE, the UW College of Education, and Washington STEM co-sponsored the event.
State Representative Reuven Carlyle – known for advocating policies that pass the common sense sniff test – emceed a panel that included two Seattle-area high school students in addition to Hadi: Ifrah Abshir, a sophomore at Rainier Beach High School, and Megan Fu, a junior… Read more →
CSE’s Karl Koscher on WXXI/NPR Connections “Science Roundtable”
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 →