The October 21 story in New York Times “Tech Wealth and Ideas Are Heading Into News” includes Jeff Bezos among “Silicon Valley and its various power brokers.”
News flash: Amazon.com is not located in Silicon Valley.
Nor is the company that pioneered PC software (Microsoft).
Nor the company that invented desktop publishing (Aldus, now part of Adobe).
Nor the company that pioneered streaming media (RealNetworks).
Nor the companies that drove the revolution in electronic retailing in areas such… Read more →
UW CSE’s Kyle Rector innovates with “Eyes-Free Yoga”
People who are blind or low vision may have a harder time participating in exercise classes due to inaccessibility, travel difficulties, or lack of experience. Exergames can encourage exercise at home and help lower the barrier to trying new activities, but there are often accessibility issues since they rely on visual feedback to help align body positions. To address this, a team led by UW CSE Ph.D. student Kyle Rector created Eyes-Free Yoga, an exergame using the Microsoft Kinect… Read more →
UW/MSR Machine Learning Day 2013
Nearly 300 researchers from Microsoft and across the University of Washington participated in today’s UW/MSR Machine Learning Day, co-organized by Ofer Dekel (MSR), Emily Fox (UW Statistics), and Ben Taskar (UW Computer Science & Engineering).
An overview and the program are linked here.… Read more →
2013 Counselors for Computing @ UW CSE
On October 11th, 60 middle school and high school counselors joined UW CSE to learn about computing as part of the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s Counselors for Computing program. Counselors heard from faculty and industry professionals, participated in hands-on activities, and mingled with their university counterparts.
See event program and pictures.
The organizers were Jane Krauss from NCWIT, Hélène Martin from UW CSE, and Chris Kelly from WSCA.
Resources
General C4C slides: pdf | pptx… Read more →
Timelapse is UIST Best Paper Honorable Mention
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 →