The UW School of Public Health profiles Saloni Parikh, an undergraduate in UW’s interdisciplinary honors program majoring in Public Health and Computer Science:
“Saloni Parikh combines a passion for public health with a talent for computer programming. As an undergraduate in the interdisciplinary honors program, she’s already making an impact. For a global health study in Kenya, Parikh helped develop a mobile application that allows healthcare workers to track pregnant mothers with HIV. And when she’s not studying or Skyping… Read more →
DawgBytes update
Learn the latest about DawgBytes, UW CSE’s K-12 outreach efforts:
Our multiple DawgBytes summer camps in computing!
The Paul Allen Computing Challenge!
Engineering Discovery Days!
Programming contests!
AP CS review and ice cream social!
Summer opportunities for teachers!
Here’s the latest update. Here’s the DawgBytes Facebook page.… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Washington State NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing
On March 8th, twenty high school women from Washington State were honored at UW CSE with Awards for Aspirations in Computing from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). We also recognized the two national NCWIT award winners from Washington State, Sampurna Basu and Alisha Saxena.
The NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing honor young women at the high school level for their computing-related achievements and interests.
Awardees are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability,… Read more →
Microsoft highlights UW CSE Ph.D. student Kyle Rector
Kyle Rector, a fourth-year UW CSE Ph.D. student, has developed Eyes-Free Yoga, which uses Microsoft Kinect to track body movements and quickly offer verbal feedback for various yoga poses. A mix of a video game and exercise, Eyes-Free yoga makes a typically visual exercise accessible to people without sight.
Kyle is featured on the Microsoft Facebook Page and in Microsoft’s “The Fire Hose” news blog.
Learn more about Kyle and her work here.… Read more →
Columns Magazine: “Got Data. Now What?”
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 →