We firmly believe that you shouldn’t choose a college or a specific degree program based on financial return-on-investment (ROI).
But if you choose to ignore our advice … take a look at The Atlantic‘s article on ROI for colleges and for specific degree programs.
The University of Washington ranks among the nation’s top ten colleges and universities for institutional ROI.
And 9 of the nation’s top 10 specific degree programs in terms of ROI are Computer Science – including UW… Read more →
Seattle Business reports on UW’s Data Science efforts
Seattle Business magazine reports on UW’s Data Science efforts:
“The University of Washington has launched a new project that could dramatically increase the power of academic research by giving a broad universe of scientists — including astronomers, physicists, chemists and biologists — faster and smarter ways of extracting information and meaning from the increasingly large amounts of data they have available to them.
“The new project is managed by the UW’s newly established eScience Institute and paid for in part… Read more →
Washington Research Foundation provides $9.3M for UW Data Science efforts
The Washington Research Foundation has awarded $9.3 million to the University of Washington eScience Institute to consolidate UW’s leadership position in Data Science. Xconomy reports:
“UW professors and research leaders say the WRF funding will help programs that span some of the campus’ strongest departments become even better. The main focus is attracting and retaining elite faculty and post-doctoral researchers who work across multiple disciplines …
“The WRF money will also help finance new physical spaces at the UW, including… Read more →
Amazon Prime Air: Special delivery!
At today’s UW CSE robotics colloquium, Gur Kimchi, VP of Prime Air at Amazon.com, described to a standing-room-only crowd this new delivery system, whose goal is to get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles. “From a technology point of view, we’ll be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place. One day, Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today.”… Read more →
Starting ’em young!
UW CSE alum Jing Jing Long gets Kai off to an early start at the Mac in a CSE t-shirt!
Video here.… Read more →
UW’s Shwetak Patel in NAE “E4U” video contest
The Computing Community Consortium has entered a video featuring UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel and his students in the National Academy of Engineering’s “Engineering For You” video contest – a contest designed to surface inspirational engineering-0riented videos as part of NAE’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
Watch the video here.
(Thanks to the Computing Community Consortium and to videographer Patrick Sammon!)… Read more →
Entrepreneurship: Company-Building from Formation to Successful Exit
This spectacular course was taught by Madrona Venture Group’s Greg Gottesman and Matt McIlwain to 40 students: CSE undergraduates, Ph.D. students, and Professional Masters Program students, plus MBA students from the UW’s Foster School of Business.
Today the students – divided into six project teams – presented their final pitches at Madrona’s offices. Afterward they heard from Madrona co-founder Bill Ruckelshaus – twice head of the EPA and hero (along with Elliott Richardson) of the Saturday Night Massacre.
Learn about… Read more →
UW CSE in IEEE Computer annual “outlook” issue
Every year IEEE Computer publishes an outlook issue that highlights emerging technologies that promise to have a significant impact on computing in the near and distant future.
The 2014 issue – just out – features “The Emergence of RF-Powered Computing” by a quartet of UW CSE/EE faculty: Shyam Gollakota, Matt Reynolds, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall. The article describes small computers, already prototyped, that harvest energy from TV, cellular and other signals to run, sense and communicate. The… Read more →
Computer vision @ UW CSE
A special group of friends and alumni joined us on Wednesday evening for an hour of demos by UW CSE computer vision faculty Ali Farhadi, Ira Kemelmacher, Steve Seitz and their students, followed by dinner. Guests included Paul G. Allen, Austin & Pam Dahl, Benjamin Diament, Mike & Jenn Fridgen, Ed Fries, Bob Fries, Kirk Glerum, Ron Howell, Andy & Elana Jassy, Cam Myhrvold, Rob Short, Chris Stolte, and John & Patti Torode.… Read more →
UW CSE alum Jessan Hutchison-Quillian profiled in Seattle Times
Jerry Large writes in the Seattle Times:
“Jessan Hutchison-Quillian, a young Google engineer in Seattle, uses his time and money to fight poverty and income inequality …
“Hutchison-Quillan, 27, wants this to be a more just and generous society. Achieving that can require some revolutionary action, and it’s true that his upbringing helped shape his values.
“What drew my attention to him is this: He graduated from the University of Washington at 19 (computer science, because it was fun); in… Read more →