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.
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Happy 10th Anniversary to UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering!
Ten years ago – on October 9th 2003 – we dedicated the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
Designed by LMN Architects, the Allen Center – still widely regarded as the finest computer science facility in the nation – has had a dramatic impact on UW CSE’s competitiveness, allowing us to move forward into the 21st century as one of the nation’s leading computer science and computer engineering programs:
State-of-the-art laboratory space has changed the nature of… Read more →
NY Times quotes CSE’s Ed Lazowska’s ignorant speculation on Bill Gates and Microsoft
Just to be clear, here’s the actual exchange:
Nick Wingfield to Ed Lazowska:
I’m doing a story for early next week about Gates and his role at Microsoft. I thought you might have a thoughtful perspective on whether Gates will continue to be a figure of influence at Microsoft in the near future and why.
Ed Lazowska to Nick Wingfield:
I don’t have any special insight regarding BillG. My guess (and it’s only that):
Microsoft and Bill Gates are synonymous. … Read more →
“EnerJ, the Language of Good-Enough Computing”
IEEE Spectrum features CSE research on a language for “approximate computing” – work by Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, and Dan Grossman.
The work is part of a larger effort of rethinking the computing stack to embrace energy efficiency as a major concern, recognizing the fact that many modern applications do not require perfect accuracy. Other CSE/Microsoft Research work related to this effort, Neural Processing Units, has recently appeared in IEEE Micro “Top Picks” and was selected as a CACM Research… Read more →