A NOVA profile of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille has won the 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.
In announcing the award, Seftel Productions, who produced the video, says:
“We’re honored to have won the prestigious 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for our NOVA scienceNOW profile on crowdsourcing computer scientist, Adrien Treuille.
“The award is described as “the pinnacle of achievement for science journalism.”
“We’re flattered, but we’ve got to give credit to the inspiring Adrien Treuille for… Read more →
BBC on Seattle tech
“Seattle is home to some of the biggest names in tech, including Amazon and Microsoft.
“The vibrant and laid back seaport town is also the location of a series of new start-up firms including the comical website icanhas.cheezburger.
“So what makes it attractive to tech firms and does it have enough entrepreneurial spirit?”
Listen to the report here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Jeff Bigham, Tapan Parikh win Sloan Research Fellowships
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Jeff Bigham and Tapan Parikh are two of the sixteen recipients of 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to top young faculty members in eight fields of science.
Jeff, who studied with CSE’s Richard Ladner, is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies crowd sourcing for the benefit of people in their everyday lives.
Tapan, who studied with CSE’s Ed Lazowska and David Notkin, is an… Read more →
Middle schoolers learn Scratch at UW CSE
Today we held the second of four UW CSE “Saturday Scratch Workshops” (never mind that it’s Monday …). CSE alumna and lecturer Allison Obourn leads students in grades 6-8 with no programming experience in creating cool games and animations using Scratch, a drag-and-drop programming environment.
Learn more about UW CSE’s many K-12 outreach activities – carried out under the “DawgBytes” (“A Taste of CSE”) umbrella – here.… Read more →
STEM Out! 2014
Nearly 100 girls from the Puget Sound region participated this weekend in an afternoon just for girls hosted by UW CSE.
STEM Out! was organized by engineers from Amazon.com in partnership with DawgBytes, UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program. Speakers discussed academic research, biology, computer science and more! Participants extracted DNA from strawberries, solved lots of puzzles, and participated in an egg drop challenge.
Thanks to all who made this possible!
Photos of the event here. Information about DawgBytes… Read more →
Vibrant UW campus-wide data science event
Many hundreds of UW faculty and students joined President Michael K. Young, Provost Ana Mari Cauce, Vice Provost for Research Mary Lidstrom, representatives of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, leaders of the UW eScience Institute on Friday for a campus-wide data science event.
An hour of presentations (slides here, Windows Media video here, MP4 video here) was followed by a two hour poster and networking session with more than… Read more →
UW CSE joins Facebook Open Academy
Facebook Open Academy is a program designed to provide a practical, applied software engineering experience as part of a university student’s computer science education.
At the beginning of the term, students and mentors from open source projects come together at Facebook HQ for a weekend of learning and hacking. After this kickoff session, students return to their universities and continue to work in virtual teams. Open source mentors support their teams by helping students find and understand tasks and review… Read more →
Author Helen Schulman pays tribute to David Notkin
“Everyone needs a lodestar, someone who keeps them moving on the right path. Author Helen Schulman pays tribute to her own true north, a man who taught her much about how to live life to the fullest – and how to end it with grace.”
Read this moving essay here.… Read more →
Innovation sector letter to the Governor
“No one would argue with Boeing’s importance to our state economy. However, it’s time for a similar economic development strategy focused on meeting the needs of Washington’s information technology, biotechnology and other innovation sector employers, which currently generate approximately 28 percent of all the jobs in the state …
“The attached summary outlines the key elements that must be included in this economic development strategy, including:
Prioritizing state resources to expand higher education capacity and access and create more graduates,… Read more →
Second annual Notkinfest
UW CSE graduate students and faculty celebrate the second annual Notkinfest, honoring UW CSE professor David Notkin. Participants in the ratty beard contest pictured to the right. Additional photographs here.
David, we miss you!… Read more →