Allen School News

Or as Marion Daly says in her email auto-response: “Thanks for your email. I’m out of the office right now attending a very important costume competition at UW. However, don’t fear (unless you’re watching a horror movie or have just chopped of a digit while carving a pumpkin) I’ll be back online this afternoon.” Googler-as-Cookie-Monster has an illustrious history in CSE; see Yin Lu here.… Read more →

---

“‘We need to grow our degree programs at all levels to meet the demand for computing education, both for our own majors and outside,’ said Hank Levy, the department’s Wissner-Slivka Chair … “Finally, Lazowska said that ‘Washington’s kids must have the opportunity to become educated for Washington’s jobs.’ It’s a topic he’s sounded off on before … “‘We need more space and more faculty to meet these needs,’ Lazowska said.” Read more in GeekWire here. Follow the Levytown exponential… Read more →

---

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, gives a spectacular talk at last week’s Leadership Conference of the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce: “Right now we are an average state when it comes to computer science in schools. And by average I mean pathetic. Because as a country, we’re actually quite pathetic. Only 5% of the high schools in the entire country currently offer the AP course in computer science. In Washington state we have 771 high schools… Read more →

---

Our crowd-sourced exponential fundraising effort for Levytown had stalled after Eric Rudder put up $400, doubling Gaetano Borriello’s $200, doubling Shyam Gollakota’s $80, doubling Marc Fiuczynski’s $40, doubling Dieter Fox’s $20, etc. However, as a result of Brier Dudley’s column in today’s Seattle Times, Johnson Apacible has put up $800, leaving us only 16 gifts from having our new building fully funded. Track the progress here. (Being conservative, we are not counting Marc Fiuczynski’s second gift, of $1,000,000… Read more →

---

The Seattle Times reports on UW’s plans for an expanded facility for CSE, discussed at last week’s UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting: “Ten years after it opened, the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering still has that new-building smell. “It’s a glorious home for the University of Washington’s esteemed computer science program, with polished wood and metal interiors that look more like Microsoft headquarters than a public school … “More important, graduates have found jobs at pretty… Read more →

---

Research into the privacy and security of implantable medical electronics by UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and his collaborators continues to receive press attention following former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent revelation that the wireless capabilities of his pacemaker/defibrillator had been disabled for security reasons: “Many of the doctors hung up on him, Dr. [Kevin] Fu [of the University of Michigan] said, adding, ‘They thought I was crazy to worry about the security of a device in the chest.’ “Finally, he… Read more →

---

UW CSE chair Hank Levy joins UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce on the Husky Stadium field prior to the UW/Cal game.… Read more →

---

… Read more →

---

We admit it – there were more people eating and drinking than there were carving. The real question is who’s going to be the first to encounter our cleaning staff on Monday morning …… Read more →

---

UW CSE alum Ankur Jain is co-tech-lead of the team at Google that builds and operates YouTube’s content distribution network.  In awarding Google YouTube a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said: “Since YouTube’s founding in 2005, the world is surprised on a daily basis by the creativity, inspiration and passion that the planet’s most creative people bring to the YouTube platform. Each month, a billion people watch more than 6 billion hours of video.… Read more →

---