University of Washington leaders will celebrate a pair of recent grants to support interdisciplinary data science research and collaboration at an all-campus event 2-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in Mary Gates Hall. Faculty and students from all disciplines who are interested in using big data in their research are invited.
Read more here.… Read more →
UW Daily discovers SNUPI Technologies
UW’s student newspaper, The Daily, wakes up and reports on CSE and EE startup SNUPI Technologies, whose first product will launch in ten days.
We would have posted this earlier but The Daily‘s website was down …
Read the article here. Learn more about Wally, SNUPI Technologies’ first product, here.… Read more →
UW’s Ambient Backscatter in New York Times
The New York Times reports on power harvesting technologies, including UW’s “Ambient Backscatter“:
“The next breakthrough smartphone, or maybe the one after that, might not have a traditional battery as its sole source of power. Instead, it could pull energy from the air or power itself through television, cellular or Wi-Fi signals …
“‘Hoping and betting on new battery technology to me is a fool’s errand,’ said [Tony] Fadell, who is now the chief executive of Nest, which… Read more →
ExtraHop’s binary 12th man UW CSE recruiting fair t-shirts
Gotta love it!
Ed Lazowska and Greg Gottesman model ExtraHop‘s UW CSE recruiting fair swag.… Read more →
UW CSE winter recruiting event for established companies
They’re all here – from Amazon to Zillow. What we need is additional capacity, so that we can enroll all of the great Washington State students who want a UW CSE education and the access it provides to these opportunities.… Read more →
UW CSE winter recruiting event for startups and small companies
UW CSE runs two recruiting events annually for our students and our industry affiliates – one in October and one in January.
Each lasts two days – one day for startups and small companies, one day for larger established companies.
Today was the winter recruiting event for startups and small companies. Participating companies ranged from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) to Weebly. (The winter recruiting event for larger established companies – tomorrow – truly runs from A (Amazon) to Z (Zillow).)… Read more →
UW CSE bids farewell to UW-Tacoma Chancellor Debra Friedman
UW-Tacoma Chancellor Debra Friedman succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning.
At UW-Tacoma, and before that on the Seattle campus, Debra was a leader who understood why we’re here, and who worked tirelessly to facilitate the people and programs that were doing it right.
Debra was special. She will be sorely missed.
UW Tacoma memorial page, with links to many tributes, here.… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Dave Eaton in Seattle Times on “Why Tesla?”
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel and UW Dean of the Graduate School Dave Eaton are two of Washington State’s Tesla Model S owners. They’re interviewed in today’s Seattle Times:
“‘We’re subsidizing the future car,’ said Shwetak Patel … He never thought he’s spend so much on a car, but that was never the only thing they were buying.”
Read more on the Seattle Times website here. Pdf here.… Read more →
IEEE to honor UW CSE alumnus Gary Kildall with “Milestone”
The IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing program honors significant technical achievements in all areas associated with IEEE. It is a program of the IEEE History Committee, administered through the IEEE History Center.
IEEE has formally approved a Milestone recognizing UW CSE alumnus Gary Kildall for the creation of CP/M. The Milestone plaque will be installed in the sidewalk at 801 Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove CA, home of Gary’s Digital Research office, in a ceremony on April 25… Read more →