This evening, UW CSE faculty, staff, and graduate students welcomed the incoming class of graduate students at our annual “Pit Party” potluck dinner, held this year at the Burke Museum on the UW campus.
The name “Pit Party” is … a bit obscure. Of our currently active faculty, only Richard Ladner ever spent time in the actual “pit.”
In the 1960’s, CSE (then called “the Computer Science Group”) was partially housed in the basement of Roberts Hall – once the… Read more →
NPR: “Competition For Tech Talent Heats Up In Seattle Area”
“From 2010 to 2013, the number of people working as software engineers in the Seattle metro area rose 14 percent … As of last year, a total of 48,725 software engineers were employed in the region …
“And there are still thousands more engineering jobs that have yet to be filled. Microsoft and Amazon alone are advertising close to 2,500 open engineering positions …
“And it’s not just the big local companies, like Amazon, Microsoft and Expedia that are hiring.… Read more →
UW CSE’s OneBusAway continues to expand
UW CSE’s OneBusAway continues to expand. A transit rider in any of the OneBusAway regions (currently Atlanta, Puget Sound, and Tampa – and growing) can download the OneBusAway app for iPhone, Android, or Windows Mobile, which will then automatically detect which region it’s in, connect to the server for that region, and seamlessly start serving transit data. Read the blog post here.… Read more →
UW CSE @ Seattle Business Magazine’s 2013 Tech Impact Awards
At a downtown gala on Thursday night, Seattle Business magazine presented its 2013 Tech Impact Awards – celebrating the accomplishments of the region’s technology companies and their leaders.
UW CSE alumnus Jeremy Jaech received the premier award of the night – the Lifetime Achievement Award. Jeremy co-founded Aldus (invented desktop publishing – sold to Adobe), Visio (constraint-based drawing – sold to Microsoft), and Trumba (calendar integration), served for several years as CEO of Verdiem (building energy management), and now is… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska on “The Future of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure”
CSE’s Ed Lazowska addressed the National Science Board (the oversight board for the National Science Foundation) on “The Future of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.” Other participants in the 3-hour briefing were Peter Lee (Microsoft Research), David Baker (UW Biochemistry), and Thom Dunning (NCSA, but soon to be the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, the joint initiative of UW and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory).
The topics that Ed addressed:
Why must America remain the world leader in computer science?
How did we… Read more →
$1.5M for UW brain-computer-spinal interface research from Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
To help develop a fascinating new prosthetic device, Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen is providing $1.5 million to a team of University of Washington researchers including specialists in neuroengineering and computer science. The team is developing a brain-computer-spine interface that’s intended to restore hand and arm function in people who have suffered spinal cord injuries. It’s basically an implantable computer, the size of a pacemaker, that will relay signals from the brain into the spinal cord.
The project is led… Read more →
Josh Blumenstock, Joe Devietti, Peter Henry honored by Intel
Nine faculty members from across the nation have been recognized by Intel in its 2013 U.S. Early Career Faculty Honor Program. Among the nine: UW CSE adjunct professor (and iSchool professor) Josh Blumenstock, and UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and University of Pennsylvania professor) Joe Devietti.
Fifteen top Ph.D. students from across the nation have been recognized by Intel in its 2013 U.S. PhD Fellowship Program, including UW CSE Ph.D. student Peter Henry.
Josh studies the social and… Read more →
DawgBytes update
DawgBytes is UW’s Computer Science & Engineering K-12 outreach program. We introduce students and their teachers to the exciting world of computing.
Here’s an update on summer activities and upcoming opportunities.
Get involved!… Read more →
What’s it like to be a computer science major at the University of Washington?
Find out from this Quora post by 2013 UW CSE graduate Ambar Choudhury:
“I’m going to talk about the undergraduate experience at the UW Computer Science Department (UWCSE), having graduated from the program in 2013. Short answer – it’s pretty darn awesome.
“The long answer lies below.”
Read more on Quora here.… Read more →
Eric Klavins, Georg Seelig win NSF award for molecular programming
UW EE professor (and UW CSE adjunct professor) Eric Klavins and UW EE and CSE professor Georg Seelig have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program as part of a multi-investigator team working to establish the engineering foundations for molecular programming and synthetic biology.
Klavins and Seelig will receive $2 million as part of the expedition called “Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms and Applications” led by Professor Erik Winfree of the California Institute of … Read more →