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 →
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 →