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 →
“A thank you letter to UW CSE”
In 2010, Anthony Wu, a 2005 UW CSE alumnus, sent a moving personal email to UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska. With a bit of distance, Anthony has now elected to publish the letter, along with an explanatory preamble. It’s must reading. Quoting from the preamble:
“This story is about a teenager who just badly wants to study computer science at an university that cannot afford to teach computer science to every interested student.
“This story is also about politics,… Read more →
UW CSE mock technical interviews
On Wednesday, 15 volunteers from UW CSE industry affiliate companies put 45 CSE undergraduates through the wringer in mock technical interviews, preparing them for the real thing in coming weeks. Our thanks to:
Dan Leventhal, Tableau Software
Akhil Patel, Pariveda
Eddie Carlson and Robert Noble, Whitepages
Jordan Hoyt, Jordan Kalilich, and Bingo Ngo, Amazon.com
Alexis Cheng, Jess Gray, Travis Hobrla, Vasantha Polipelli, and Fabio Yeon, Google
John-Gabriel D’Angelo, Samantha Luber, and Jason Thorsness, Microsoft… Read more →
UW CSE startup Skytap lands $6.45 million series C financing
From GeekWire:
Skytap, a Seattle startup that allows companies to test development environments in the cloud, has raised an additional $6.45 million in series C financing from existing investors OpenView Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and WRF Capital.
Skytap was co-founded by UW CSE professors Brian Bershad, Steve Gribble, and Hank Levy, and CSE Ph.D. student Dave Richardson.
Read more here.… Read more →
UW CSE Seattle-area alumni happy hour at Von Trapp’s
Roughly 40 Seattle-area alums joined UW CSE faculty members Maya Cakmak, Shyam Gollakota, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, and James Lee on Tuesday evening for a happy hour (or three) at Von Trapp’s on Capitol Hill.
UW CSE hosts a variety of alumni events each year in Seattle and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Want to be in the loop? Update your address and email (we use regional address pulls to generate email advisories of events; you can configure to… Read more →
Campus-wide data science event, Friday 2:00-5:00 in Mary Gates Hall
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 →