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 →
CSE’s Crowley, Fiuczynski, Baer, and Bershad honored by International Conference on Supercomputing
The paper “Characterizing Processor Architectures for Programmable Network Interfaces,” which appeared in the International Conference on Supercomputing in 2000, is one of 35 papers selected for inclusion in the retrospective volume 25 Years of the International Conference on Supercomputing.
The selection committee considered the 100 most cited papers out of approximately 1,800 papers published in the ICS proceedings between 1987 and 2011, selecting the 35 most influential.
Congratulations to authors Patrick Crowley (then a UW CSE Ph.D. student,… Read more →
CSE’s Tracy Erbeck paces World’s Largest Kettlebell Workout
We’ve been wondering what Allen Center building manager Tracy Erbeck was doing down in the Allen Center loading dock area at lunchtime every day. And those klunky things sitting on her desk didn’t look quite like curling stones.
Now we know.
Tracy joined University of Washington President Michael Young, his wife Marti Young, and more than 1,000 of their closest friends today in an attempt to set a Guinness record for the World’s Largest Kettlebell Workout – part of UW’s… Read more →
UW startup SNUPI in MIT Technology Review
“Earlier this month, as Google was snatching up the smart-thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, a lesser known home sensor company made its own announcement. SNUPI Technologies, a Seattle startup, said it had garnered $7.5 million in funding. That might be pocket change compared to the Nest deal, but it was a significant endorsement just ahead of SNUPI’s first product launch: a low-power wireless sensor network called WallyHome that tracks humidity, water leaks, and temperature throughout a building.”
SNUPI’s… Read more →
Twitter’s Seattle engineering facility
Seattle is the site of Twitter’s first organically grown engineering office away from the mother ship (the company’s Boston and New York City outposts resulted from acquisitions).
Chris Fry, Twitter’s Senior VP of Engineering, and Raffi Krikorian, VP of Platform Engineering, flew up to Seattle this week to check out the new digs.
Krikorian tells GeekWire that Twitter has always hired people from the Seattle area, so it was only natural to open up a permanent office here. “A lot… Read more →
“Tuesdays with T4A”: UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska
T4A (Tech for America) is a non-partisan organization that is creating a network of entrepreneurs committed to redefining the public/private sector relationship. At T4A’s TechTables, current and former elected officials and tech industry thought leaders engage in substantive dialogue in safe, off-the-record, non-partisan settings.
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, a member of the Seattle Convening Board of T4A, is profiled in an interview this week:
“T4A: Just about everyone (regardless of political affiliation) sees a large gap between our politics (Washington… Read more →
CSE animated short “Catch and Release” at Children’s Film Festival Seattle
“Catch and Release,” the 2011 animated short produced by students in the digital animation capstone course sequence directed by UW CSE’s Barbara Mones, will be shown at Children’s Film Festival Seattle on the evening of Saturday February 1.
Learn more about “Catch and Release” and other UW Animation Research Labs shorts here. Purchase tickets to the CFFS showing here.… Read more →