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 →
Data Science Innovation at the University of Washington
The Washington Research Foundation interviewed leading faculty in Astronomy, Biology, Oceanography, and Computer Science & Engineering to explore the impact of data science on discovery. Check out the video! (Many thanks to our friends at WRF!)
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Please use the download/streaming links below.… Read more →
ACM regional programming contest 2013 results
Five teams from UW CSE participated in the Pacific Northwest Regionals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, held last Saturday November 2nd. UW competes in a region that stretches from California up to Canada and over to Hawaii. The contest is held at several different sites simultaneously. Allison Obourn traveled with our five teams to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma to compete.
We placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th among the 15 teams competing at the… Read more →
Business Insider: “Oren Etzioni: Six startups in a row, all acquired”
Business Insider cites UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni among “14 Of The Most Successful People In Tech You’ve Probably Never Heard Of”:
“In September, Decide.com announced that it was being acquired by eBay. The site predicted when prices on electronics would drop.
“It was the sixth-in-a-row successful exit for co founder and CTO Oren Etzioni. His first was four years before Google was born, one of the web’s first search engines, MetaCrawler, bought by Infospace in 1999.
“He’s probably best known… Read more →
Shwetak receives tenure!
What better way to celebrate the formal receipt of tenure by UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel than by surprising him with a simultaneous parody of his fashion sense and his MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award?
(Thanks to Shwetak’s graduate students for organizing this nice prank!)
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Levytown: Only 12 11 gifts away from fully funded!
The exponential crowdsourced funding effort for Levytown, revitalized by Brier Dudley’s recent article in the Seattle Times, continues to flourish!
Alums Jeff and Carolyn (Holmes) Hughes have put us only 12 gifts away from fully funding Levytown!
Jeff wrote: “My wife and I recently saw the update to the ‘Levytown’ fundraising and it got us thinking. As both of us are UW CSE alums … we’re interested in giving back to the department. Without a doubt, the department… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu is runner-up for inaugural SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award
The Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created by the computer systems research community in 2013 to recognize research in software systems and to encourage the creativity that Dennis Ritchie embodied, providing a reminder of Ritchie’s legacy and what a difference one person can make in the field of software systems research.
At the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles today, UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Roxana Geambasu, a professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, was… Read more →