UW CSE’s Amazon Professor of Machine Learning professor Carlos Guestrin headlined an evening event on Thursday for 65 Bay Area alums, hosted by our alumni startup Sift Science.
We host technical, social, and mixed events for Bay Area alums. With a host of “big data” and cloud alumni startups in the Bay Area (Cloudera, WibiData, Sift Science, and more), there was lots of demand for an event focused on large-scale machine learning. Carlos’s GraphLab is… Read more →
Computing Open House at UW CSE – Saturday December 7
Middle and high school students and families! Attend UW’s Computing Open House, 1-5 p.m. on Saturday December 7 in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, kicking off Computer Science Education Week! Last year, more than 1,000 attended this super event!
Information here.
Schedule of activities here.
Learn more about UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), here.
And don’t forget the Hour of Code – more than 5 million students… Read more →
Bill Gates lauds UW CSE’s Zoran Popović on Facebook and Twitter
“Zoran Popović is getting students excited about education by turning math into a game” says Bill Gates on Facebook and Twitter this morning.
BillG links to an article in this week’s Wired magazine, “Kids Like to Learn Algebra, if It Comes in the Right App.”
Wired writes: “A computer scientist at the University of Washington, Popović first became known for his popular online game, Foldit, which challenges players to create intricate protein patterns by bending and rearranging amino… Read more →
Penn remembers Ben Taskar
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on December 2. Program here.… Read more →
Stanford remembers Ben Taskar
“Daphne Koller, the Rajeev Motwani Professor in Computer Science at Stanford School of Engineering, remembered Taskar as ‘a remarkable human being. He was an exceptional researcher, who even as a graduate student and continuing to his work as a faculty member, made seminal contributions to machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing,’ Koller said. ‘Such academic talent is rare but even more so when combined with a gentleness of soul and a sweetness of nature, both of which characterized… Read more →
KUOW: “Cracking The Code: Encouraging Girls, Women To Pursue Jobs In Tech”
KUOW on UW CSE’s summer daycamps for middle school and high school students:
“It’s summertime in Seattle, and deep inside a basement classroom of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Justin Bieber is being deconstructed.
“It’s not what you might think, though. Teacher Hélène Martin is taking apart Bieber’s digital picture, bit by bit, using a computer programming language called Processing.
“The week-long class, part of a program started by the… Read more →
Boston Globe: “Computer science course fills seats, needs at Harvard”
Boston Globe on Harvard’s CS50:
“Trevor Brandt-Sarif had no interest in computer science when he arrived at Harvard. Philosophy was his thing. Coding? That was for students at MIT.
“Then he heard about David Malan. Part performer, part professor, Malan has done what many would have thought implausible just a few years ago at Harvard. He has taken a computer science course and turned it into the university’s number-two most popular class, about 60 students away from knocking out Introduction… Read more →
Chronicle of Higher Education: “Students of All Majors Should Study Computer Science”
“‘The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth?’ (The Chronicle, November 11) says most researchers consider the STEM crisis a myth, unless their funding comes from technology companies. As information technology is certainly in STEM, we looked to see whether our field should be tarred along with the same brush applied to the sciences, engineering, and mathematics …
“Fortunately, this debate is not being settled by pundits writing op-eds. Students are voting with their feet …
“Student demand and employer demand are… Read more →
Video of White House announcement of $37.8 million UW/Berkeley/NYU data science award from Moore and Sloan Foundations
Presentation by Ed Lazowska (UW), Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley), Yann LeCun (NYU), Josh Greenberg (Sloan), and Chris Mentzel (Moore) at the White House “Big Data Partnerships” event on November 12.
A 5-year, $37.8 million award in data science to the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and New York University from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation was announced last week at a White House event.
Video is now available of the announcement – presentations by… Read more →
UW CSE @ Xconomy forum “Big Insight: Making Sense of Big Data In Seattle”
On November 19, Xconomy hosted a half-day forum “Big Insight: Making Sense of Big Data in Seattle.”
The opening keynote was provided by UW CSE alum Jeremy Jaech, currently CEO of UW CSE spinoff SNUPI.
A panel on data-intensive science was moderated by UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska.
And the closing keynote was provided by UW CSE professor – now Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence – Oren Etzioni.
Agenda here. Photographs from the event here… Read more →