UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao has been named Director of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), based at the University of Washington with MIT and San Diego State as partners.
CSNE is one of 17 engineering research centers nationwide that aim to translate discovery to innovation through university, industry and government partnerships, and prepare the next generation of creative, interdisciplinary engineers to meet pressing challenges in health, energy, environment and national security. CSNE was… Read more →
NSF “Big Data” press release features video interview with UW CSE’s Bill Howe
An NSF press release in conjunction with yesterday’s White House “Big Data Partnerships” event includes a video interview with UW CSE’s Bill Howe … from last May … shot in front of the White House …
“Bill Howe of the University of Washington describes his work on big data and opportunities for collaboration among academia and industry. He discusses how classically trained data scientists can become valuable contributors to businesses.”
Watch the video here. Read the full NSF press… Read more →
Wall Street Journal gives a nod to Ambient Backscatter
The article is on “better batteries,” but it notes: “Researchers at University of Washington recently published a paper on how they used “ambient backscatter” from cellphone towers and other sources of energy to power a device with no battery at all.”
Read more here. Learn about ambient backscatter here.… Read more →
Seattle Times on UW/Berkeley/NYU/Moore/Sloan data science initiative
“The University of Washington is one of three schools across the country sharing a major grant to spread ‘big data’ analysis skills beyond computer science and apply them to other fields …
“‘Our goal is to figure out how to rapidly evolve universities to support and utilize data-intensive discovery,’ Ed Lazowska, eScience Institute founder and Computer Science & Engineering professor, said via email. ‘We have been doing this on a small scale, but now we’ll be able to work the… Read more →
GeekWire on UW/Berkeley/NYU/Moore/Sloan data science initiative
“‘All across our campus, the process of discovery will increasingly rely on researchers’ ability to extract knowledge from vast amounts of data,’ said UW project lead Ed Lazowska, a professor of computer science and engineering and director of the eScience Institute. ‘To remain at the forefront, the UW must be a leader in advancing the methodologies of data science and putting them to work in the broadest imaginable range of fields.'”
Read more here. Learn more about UW’s efforts… Read more →
Huffington Post on UW/Berkeley/NYU/Moore/Sloan data science initiative
Vicki Chandler, Chief Program Officer for Science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, write:
“Our hypothesis is that the greatest advances in tools and practices will result from meaningful interactions and sustained collaborations among data-intensive science researchers who build on one another’s work, leverage the best practices and tools in existence, and demonstrate solutions that can be used more broadly by others. It is also critical to establish long-term, sustainable career paths in academia for those scientists who take… Read more →
Xconomy on UW/Berkeley/NYU/Moore/Sloan data science initiative
Includes an excellent profile of recent UW Astronomy Ph.D. Sarah Loebman as an exemplar of the sort of scientist we seek to create:
“She specializes in comparing the evolution of galaxies simulated on supercomputers with actual observations of the Milky Way from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to learn about processes by which our own galaxy might have formed. For example, she is currently comparing the distribution of iron and oxygen in stars at the outer edges, or stellar… Read more →
New York Times on UW/Berkeley/NYU/Moore/Sloan data science initiative
The headline of the article nails it: “Program Seeks to Nurture ‘Data Science Culture’ at Universities.” Continuing …
“The modern flood of data comes in a many forms — sensor data, genomic data, web click streams and credit card transactions, to name a few. The disparate data sources are often called ‘silos,’ suggesting the challenge of mingling different data sets to generate insights.
“But if the data is in a silo, so are the people, often isolated in their fields… Read more →
UW, Berkeley, NYU collaborate on $37.8M data science initiative
The University of Washington, the University of California at Berkeley, and New York University are partners in a new five-year, $37.8 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation whose goal is to dramatically accelerate the growth of data-intensive discovery in a broad range of fields.
UW’s team, which includes more than a dozen faculty from across the campus, is led by Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science… Read more →
UW at White House “Big Data” event, Tuesday at 11 a.m. Pacific Time
Watch the UW presentation at the White House “Big Data” event on Tuesday at 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET, at http://live.science360.gov/.
Ed Lazowska (UW CSE) will join Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley Nobel laureate astrophysicist), Yann LeCun (NYU), Josh Greenberg (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) and Chris Mentzel (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation).
Agenda here.… Read more →