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 →
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 →