More than 100 UW CSE students spent the afternoon at Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum.
Despite Moore’s Law, one thing hasn’t changed in 40 years: 19-year-olds are seduced by an IBM 029 card punch!
The Living Computer Museum is extraordinary. Every important PC and minicomputer is up and running!
Bruce Hemingway photos of our excursion here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno on “ethical hacking”
KUOW (Seattle NPR) interviews UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno:
“Yoshi Kohno is a cyber security professor at the University of Washington. He has a class that is designed for students to understand computer security threats against modern technologies. ‘We teach students both how to violate the security of a computer system and how to protect the security of a computer system,’ he said.
“With a group of smart students actively engaged in building and breaking security systems, the natural concern… Read more →
Seattle named “Smartest City in North America”
Or so says Fast Company.
I mean, how dumb is that???
But, as we always say, “We advertise the surveys whose results we like, and we do our best to bury the other ones.”
Read this highly authoritative survey here.
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CSE startup SNUPI: First among GeekWire’s “Seattle 10”
GeekWire writes:
“Seattle is ripe with innovation …
“With that in mind, we’re excited to announce the Seattle 10, presented in partnership with the Museum of History & Industry and the new Bezos Center for Innovation.
“This is a list of some of the most promising emerging technology companies in the region …
“As a member of the Seattle 10, each company will get the opportunity to sketch their business concepts on giant six-foot by six-foot cocktail napkins. Those napkins,… Read more →
CSE’s Rajesh Rao to lead UW’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
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 →