The paper “Interactive Record/Replay for Debugging Web Applications” by CSE’s Brian Burg, Jake Bailey, Amy Ko, and Michael Ernst has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention from UIST 2013.
The paper describes Timelapse, an extension to the WebKit browser engine that can cheaply capture and exactly replay a user’s session with a web application. This capability is being used to create powerful new tools for debugging, testing, bug reporting, and program visualization.
Read the paper here… Read more →
UW/MSR Machine Learning Day 2013
This Friday – October 18 – is “Machine Learning Day 2013,” jointly organized by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research (Emily Fox, Ben Taskar, and Ofer Dekel).
An overview, the program, and registration materials are here.
240 people are already registered! It’s going to be huge!… Read more →
NY Times: “The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence”
A terrific John Markoff article discusses advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent transportation, and emotional computing:
“‘During the next decade we’re going to see smarts put into everything,’ said Ed Lazowska, a computer scientist at the University of Washington who is a specialist in Big Data. ‘Smart homes, smart cars, smart health, smart robots, smart science, smart crowds and smart computer-human interactions.’
“The enormous amount of data being generated by inexpensive sensors has been a significant factor in altering the… Read more →
“UW female professors building a culture for engineering”
The Seattle Times reports on the changing culture in the UW College of Engineering:
“When Eve Riskin first began teaching electrical engineering at the University of Washington in 1990, her students were so surprised to find a young woman professor teaching in a male-dominated field that many asked her if she had a Ph.D.
“Of course, Riskin did — in electrical engineering, from Stanford.
“Twenty-three years later, female professors are slowly becoming more common in male-dominated engineering and science fields… Read more →
Let’s hear it for Hadi Partovi, Code.org, CSEdWeek, and the Hour of Code!
The Hour of Code is coming! As part of Computer Science Education Week, Hadi Partovi’s Code.org has established an incredibly audacious goal: have every student in America spend one hour learning to program.
At the rollout event today in San Francisco, UW CSE’s Hélène Martin emceed a panel featuring Brad Smith (Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Microsoft), Max Levchin (President and CEO of HVF; co-founder of PayPal), Hadi Partovi (CEO of Code.org), Maggie Johnson (Director of Education and… Read more →
Technical interview coaching @ UW CSE
More than 120 UW CSE students in two shifts are being coached this afternoon for upcoming technical interviews by 15 alumni and friends from local companies. Our thanks to:
Amazon.com: Jordan Moore, Sylvia Tashev, Igor von Nyssen
Google: Kennet Belenky, Brian Lee, Ian Talarico, Hannah Tang
Groupon: Eric Herrmann
Microsoft: John Gabriel D’Angelo, Jason Thorsness
Pariveda: Sean Beard, Stephen Verstraete
Tableau Software: Austin Dahl
Whitepages: Jack Foy, Paul Sutton… Read more →
UW introductory computer science enrollments continue to soar!
At UW and other colleges and universities, interest in computer science continues to soar. There is lots of data, and there are lots of reasons – which we’ll discuss in a subsequent post. But for now, take a look at annual enrollment in UW CSE’s two introductory courses – “CS1” (numbered CSE 142 at UW), and “CS2” (numbered CSE 143 at UW). (By “annual enrollment” we mean the total enrollment in the most recent four quarters – for example, “au13”… Read more →
CSE’s Shwetak Patel featured in new Bezos Center for Innovation at MOHAI
Friday October 11 and Saturday October 12 mark the dedication of the Bezos Center for Innovation at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI).
Through interactive exhibits, community and educational programs, and first-person insights from leading innovators, the Bezos Center for Innovation explores Seattle’s role as a nexus of big ideas and new directions.
The dedication features a “Power Hour” (how can you not like that?) with CSE’s Shwetak Patel. See an interview conducted in connection with the dedication here… Read more →
Record participation in this year’s first resumé workshop
More than 200 UW CSE students participated in yesterday’s resumé review workshop – prepping for the recruiting fairs held in conjunction with our Industry Affiliates Meeting in two weeks.
Many thanks to the 15 industry volunteers who reviewed the resumés, undeterred by a fire alarm (triggered by a water main break north of campus):
Amazon.com: Mike Materasso, Eric Wigley, Nikki Dutton
Tableau Software: John Charrier
Google: Carolyn Balousek, Erica Hiler, Mandy Smith, Ryan Peterson
Whitepages: Jenny Kohr Chynoweth, Robert Noble… Read more →
What’s an anniversary without cake(s)??
UW CSE students, staff, and faculty celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
… Read more →