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 →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage wins 2013 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by the computer systems research community, to be given annually to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in computer systems research. The recipient must have begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC.
Today, the 2013 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award was presented… Read more →
Qazzow scores $500,000 seed investment
Qazzow – a UW spinout founded by iSchool professors (and CSE Adjunct Professors) Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock and their Ph.D. alum (and University of Waterloo professor) Parmit Chilana – has announced a $500,000 seed investment from UW’s W Fund.
Qazzow is a Q&A SaaS offering that websites use to increase sales conversions by answering customer questions. The system is being tested by Ben Bridge Jeweler, Game House, Big Fish Games, PetHub, Yapta, and PlayOn.
Congratulations, team! Read the GeekWire… Read more →
“Coding for Success”
Seattle’s Lakeside School profiles UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Lauren Bricker, who has transformed the school’s computer science programs since arriving in 2007.
“In junior high, Lauren Bricker insisted on being allowed to take shop instead of home ec – and ran away with the top prize. In high school, introduced to programming in math class, she spent every lunch hour seeing what she could make old Apple IIGs and TRS-80s do. In college, she sped through a theoretical math major… Read more →
SNUPI announces Wally
UW CSE startup SNUPI has announced Wally. Our friends at GeekWire write:
“Worried about toxic mold or pesky water leaks in your home?
“Never fear, Wally is here.
“That’s the new consumer brand from SNUPI Technologies, the latest startup effort from Seattle serial entrepreneur [and UW CSE alumnus] Jeremy Jaech …
“WallyHome – which works in conjunction with an always-on Internet connection – is designed to detect environmental hazards around the home by monitoring moisture, temperature and humidity changes. The… Read more →
UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner, Shiri Azenkot kick off MIT’s 2013 “Rising Stars in EECS”
MIT’s “Rising Stars in EECS” is an annual workshop that brings together top graduate and postdoc women in EECS for two days of scientific discussions and informal sessions aimed at navigating early stages of the academic career.
UW CSE Ph.D. students Franzi Roesner and Shiri Azenkot will present their research in the first session of the workshop. Franzi will speak on “Third-Party Web Tracking: Detection, Measurement, and Prevention.” Shiri will speak on “DigiTaps: Eyes-Free … Read more →