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 →
UW CSE rocks at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
UW CSE robotics faculty (Maya Cakmak, Dieter Fox, Raj Rao, Josh Smith (joint with EE), and Emo Todorov (joint with Applied Mathematics)) and their students have 14(!) papers accepted at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the major conference in robotics. The research cover a large variety of areas in robotics, including biologically inspired microrobots, optimal control, computer vision, human robot interaction, machine learning, hardware design, and manipulation. The papers:
A Wirelessly… Read more →
UW’s AccessComputing helps code.org make their inspirational videos accessible
UW’s AccessComputing – the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers – has worked with code.org to make their inspirational videos accessible to blind students by adding audio description. Audio description provides additional audio to the video to describe what is visually happening. The added audio is in a different voice to distinguish it from the voices in the original video.
AccessComputing, a joint effort by CSE and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington, is… Read more →
CSE’s Yoav Artzi wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
And in late-breaking news (“nobody ever tells me anything”), UW CSE Ph.D. student Yoav Artzi has also been named a recipient of a 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship.
Yoav, who is advised by Luke Zettlemoyer, works at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and learning through interaction.… Read more →
CSE’s Mayank Goel wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Mayank Goel has been named one of 12 recipients (from 181 nominees!) of 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships.
Mayank is advised by professors Gaetano Borriello and Shwetak Patel. His research concerns ubiquitous computing and ICTD (information and communication technology for development).
Other recent UW winners of this hugely competitive fellowship are Gabe Cohn and Franzi Roesner in 2012, Morgan Dixon in 2011, Kayur Patel in 2009, and Pravin Bhat, Scott Saponas, and Jon Froehlich in… Read more →
The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering bids farewell to the 49ers
Coffee or hot tubs?
Software or croissants?
You make the call!
Go ‘Hawks!… Read more →
Games for Learning: The Norwegian Algebra Challenge
Remember last spring’s Washington State Algebra Challenge? In a partnership between UW CSE’s Center for Game Science and the Technology Alliance, 4,192 Washington State K-12 students solved over 390,000 algebra equations during the first week of June, using an adaptive version of the game DragonBox.
This week marks the Norwegian Algebra Challenge. Those of us who live in Ballard are excited to report that on the first day, all previous records were shattered: over 1.6 million equations were… Read more →
DawgBytes update – UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program
DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”) is UW’s Computer Science & Engineering K-12 outreach program – we introduce students, parents, and teachers to the exciting world of computing.
Learn about recent activities and upcoming events here!… Read more →