Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine, reports on data science activities at UW:
“Lazowska describes several challenges. Researchers are confronted with a tsunami of data that is rapidly growing in volume, velocity and variety. Even the best researchers often lack the expertise to effectively move ‘from data to knowledge to action.’ The tools and techniques are evolving rapidly. New partnerships are required. New approaches to educating the next generation of researchers, too – facilitated by a new major Interdisciplinary… Read more →
UW CSE’s Steph Burg featured by Microsoft
In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, Microsoft is celebrating “five dynamic Microsoft women inspiring change in technology” – including Microsoft software developer and UW CSE Professional Masters Program student Steph Burg:
“She says she hopes her efforts at outreach will help middle- and high-school girls realize that they can be in her shoes someday. ‘If I can show them this exists, and it’s fun, maybe I’ll be for them what that friend was for me when he said,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Brad Fitzpatrick wins Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement
Brad Fitzpatrick, UW CSE ’02, will receive the 2014 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement.
Brad is a widely respected leader in the open-source community, improving software development culture and creating open source projects used by millions of web sites around the world. He is perhaps best known as the creator of LiveJournal, an Internet tool that helped popularize blogging and was one of the earliest social networks. His Memcached technology, created to support LiveJournal’s exploding… Read more →
Data Science IGERT in UW Daily
The UW Daily reports on our new graduate program in Data Science, funded by an NSF IGERT (interdisciplinary graduate education) award:
“The big data Ph.D. track is a new interdisciplinary program at the UW … Five departments are participating in the track: computer science and engineering, statistics, astronomy, oceanography, and chemical engineering. Students who are accepted into the program take courses in data management, data visualization, statistics, and machine learning, in addition to the degree requirements laid out by their… Read more →
CSE alumni startup CloudPress acquired by News Corp
TechCrunch reports:
“CloudPress is a year-old startup which has emerged from the chaos of the Egyptian revolution, only to be acquired by one of the world’s biggest media companies: News Corp. Indeed, the media giant was so impressed with the team and the product, that it scooped it up in a fast acqui-hire …
“The three founders of CloudPress – Allen Chen (UW CSE ’07), Mohamed El-Zohairy (UW CSE ’07), and Bobby Mathews (UW CSE ’08) – started the company… Read more →
UW CSE’s Aditya Vashistha wins $10,000 Access Facebook Award, part of the Access Innovation Prize
The goal of the Access Facebook Award is to reward innovative projects using the Facebook platform to deliver a human rights or social good outcome.
At this week’s RightsCon, IVR Junction – a free and open-source tool that enables marginalized communities to be heard on the Internet through phone-based reporting and automated content updating and sharing on Facebook – was named the winner of the 2014 Access Facebook Award.
IVR Junction was developed in the Technology for Emerging Markets… Read more →
KING5 TV profiles UW CSE’s “AllSee”
“A new technology … may give users a new way of providing … interactivity … a gesture recognition system that can control a wide range of devices.
“The ‘AllSee’ system uses wireless signals for both power and gesture recognition. Sensors in the system read changes in the signals created by the gestures, and transforms them into specific commands. The UW team’s prototype is now using TV and RFID (radio frequency identification) signals for showing off AllSee’s capabilities, but they hope… Read more →
UW CSE alumni happy hour at Amazon.com
UW CSE hosts annual “happy hours” at a number of companies where our alums have a significant presence. Yesterday, CSE faculty (Tom Anderson, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, Hal Perkins, and Zach Tatlock), advising staff (Crystal Eney, Jen Pesicka, and Dave Rispoli) and outreach staff (Kay Beck-Benton, Karen Howard, and Sergey Smirnov) joined a big crowd of alums at Amazon.com.
We have a number of alums who’ve been at Amazon.com for more than a decade (they get cool colored employee badges!),… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dan Grossman elected to Computing Research Association Board of Directors
UW CSE professor Dan Grossman has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
CRA is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.
CRA’s mission is to enhance innovation by joining with industry, government and academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. CRA executes this… Read more →
UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes, featured in Front Porch
Front Porch – UW’s publication for U-District neighbors – features UW CSE’s DawgBytes K-12 outreach program as this month’s cover story.
Read the article here. Learn more about DawgBytes here.… Read more →