A new Bloomberg study ranks Washington #1 among the states for innovation.
The study considers six factors: STEM professionals as % of state population; science and tech degree holders as % of population; utility patents granted as % of US total; state government R&D spending as % of US total; gross state product per employed person; three-year change in productivity; and public tech companies as % of all public companies.
Washington is followed (in order) by California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. … Read more →
UW CSE, PATH share $1M Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant
UW CSE and PATH (Seattle’s international non-profit focused on global health) will share a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations initiative to expand access to donated breast milk by simplifying human milk banking. The two-year, follow-on grant recognizes successful projects with additional funding, allowing UW CSE and PATH to build on work already under way.
The award will help UW CSE and PATH scale up a novel milk pasteurization monitor as part of… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner profiled in livfun
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner is profiled in livfun, a magazine targeted at seniors:
“He laughed when I asked him about his plans to retire. ‘I have partially retired. I’m no longer teaching. Of course, I’m not paid as much, but I really like working with students on projects. I’m on various boards and doing different things for different organizations.’
“‘Do you want to retire?’ I asked.
“‘Only from things I don’t want to do. It seems like every year… Read more →
UW CSE hosts 246 students for high school programming competition
On Saturday – concluding Computer Science Education Week – 246 students on 94 teams representing 24 high schools participated in a Computer Science Education Week high school programming competition held at UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering and hosted jointly by UW CSE and the Puget Sound chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). The event was generously sponsored by Microsoft.
Check out the photographs and results!
Learn about DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”),… Read more →
The Hour Of Code: >500M lines of code written by >15M students!
Computer Science Education Week 2013 was an off-the-scale success, with The Hour Of Code capturing the imaginations of students, teachers, parents, and policymakers nationwide! More than 15,000,000 students participated in The Hour Of Code, writing more than 500,000,000 lines of code!
The tide is turning! Computer science, computational thinking, and computer programming are fundamental capabilities for the 21st century!
Be sure to watch the Hour of Code video here.… Read more →
US Representative Suzan DelBene discusses UW CSE’s OneBusAway on floor of House
Rep. Suzan DelBene attacks patent trolls on the floor of the US House of Representatives, using as her example Arrival Star’s lawsuit against King County Metro and a number of other transit agencies alleging infringement of an overly-broad and unpracticed patent by public transit apps including UW CSE’s widely-used and widely-emulated OneBusAway.
Watch the video here.… Read more →
Alisha Saxena recognized in 2014 National NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing competition
Congratulations to Alisha Saxena of Bellevue’s Interlake High School, who has been named a Winner in the 2014 National NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.
Alisha, a hugely accomplished student who is a National Merit Semifinalist, is conducting research in UW CSE’s Security and Privacy Research Laboratory, where she is being mentored by Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner and professor Yoshi Kohno.… Read more →
Broadband in Seattle
GeekWire reports on the apparent collapse of Gigabit Squared’s efforts to provide high-bandwidth Internet at a reasonable price to Seattle neighborhoods.
“Whether or not Gigabit Squared can pull off the project, the fundamental concept of leveraging the city’s existing fiber network is a good one, Lazowska said. He said ‘the idea of the city making its fiber available to others as an alternative to Comcast and CenturyLink is excellent. There shouldn’t be any debate about that. We have terrible Internet… Read more →
CSE Martina Unutzer – Honorable Mention in CRA 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
UW CSE undergraduate Martina Unutzer has received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition, which recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Martina’s research, with UW CSE professor Magda Balazinska and UW Astronomy research scientist Ben Williams, has completely transformed the way our astronomy colleagues handle artifacts (due to cosmic rays) in their databases of stars. Magda writes: “I would… Read more →
More CSEdWeek @ UW CSE
Middle school and high school students from the Battleground School District participate in Computer Science Education Week activities at UW CSE.
Learn more about UW CSE’s K-12 outreach umbrella, DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), here.
Learn about Computer Science Education Week, and The Hour Of Code, here.… Read more →