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 →
UW CSE remembers Ben Taskar
Faculty, students, staff, and friends observed a period of silent reflection coinciding with services in San Francisco. Ben passed away on the early morning of November 18 of sudden and severe heart failure, leaving behind his wife Anat Caspi, their two year old daughter Aviv Taskar, his mother, father, and sister, and an array of other family members, friends, and colleagues – all of whom will miss him tremendously.
Memorial website here.
Memorial service at the University of Pennsylvania,… Read more →
UW CSE Security & Privacy Research Lab at FTC “Internet of Things” workshop
The subject of today’s U.S. Federal Trade Commission Internet of Things workshop was security and privacy. The workshop included four panels – on the smart home, connected health and fitness, connected cars, and privacy and security. These are topics that UW CSE’s Security & Privacy Research Lab has been working on for years now.
In his opening remarks, Keith Marzullo from the National Science Foundation included a slide on exemplar security and privacy projects for cyber-physical systems. The slide listed… Read more →
Ben Taskar, 1977-2013
It is with deep sadness that we announce that Ben Taskar, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, passed away on the early morning of November 18 of sudden and severe heart failure. Ben leaves behind his wife Anat Caspi, their two year old daughter Aviv Taskar, his mother, father, and sister, and an array of other family members, friends, and colleagues – all of whom will miss him tremendously.
Ben joined UW CSE one… Read more →
Oren Etzioni in NY Times on deciding whether to sell a startup
The New York Times interviews eight startup veterans on the “sell vs. remain independent” decision, including UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni:
“Oren Etzioni caught the start-up bug so many times while working as a professor of computer science at the University of Washington that it seems he will never shake it. All four of the start-ups he has helped found have been acquired, the most recent ones by eBay and Microsoft …”
Read more here.… Read more →
Xconomy: “SNUPI Technologies’ Home Sensor Network Monitors Water Leaks, Babies”
“SNUPI Technologies wants to help homeowners spot mold, leaks, and appliance failures before they become a big problem, but that’s just the beginning.
“This Seattle startup is building a platform at the intersection of low-cost, low-power sensor networks, cloud computing, and machine learning, that is showing potential beyond the initial product and service that SNUPI is bringing to market.
“SNUPI is also notable for its location in a surprising space on University Way – better known as The Ave –… Read more →