Nicole Torcolini has faced more obstacles than most: she lost most of her sight at age four due to cancer in the optic chiasm, and the cancer treatment she received caused her to become slightly hard-of-hearing in both ears.
While a student at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale, Washington, Nicole attended a University of Washington summer workshop hosted by CSE professor Richard Ladner’s Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing). This experience inspired Nicole to invent the Nemetex Nemeth… Read more →
GeekWire: “Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni, GeekWire‘s 2012 GeekWire Awards Geek of the Year, was the speaker at Seattle’s monthly Startup Grind meetup on Wednesday evening. During a fireside chat at Pier 70 — which was actually once home to one of Etzioni’s past startups, Go2Net — Etzioni shared some great advice for anyone in the startup world.
“Life is short,” he said. “Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing … And don’t do something that’s two percent better… Read more →
“We Make Seattle” on Kickstarter
Help celebrate Seattle as an entrepreneurial hub! Find out more here.… Read more →
CSE’s Shyam Gollakota wins SIGCOMM “Doctoral Dissertation” and “Best Paper” awards
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has just been honored twice by SIGCOMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication.
Shyam’s 2012 MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems” (advised by Dina Katabi) was recognized with the 2012 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award, given annually to the outstanding Ph.D. thesis in computer networking and data communication. Shyam’s dissertation had previously been honored with the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for the top Ph.D. dissertation in all of… Read more →
Matt Reynolds to join UW CSE+EE
Matt Reynolds, currently Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, will be joining UW this fall with a joint position in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Matt’s research, which has resulted in 5 best paper awards, focuses on ultra-low power sensing and computation, RFID, wireless power transfer, biomedical applications, and smart materials and surfaces. Matt holds 12 patents and has co-founded three companies. He received his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from… Read more →
CSE’s Saleema Amershi wins UW Graduate School 2013 Distinguished Dissertation Award!
Saleema Amershi, a 2012 UW CSE Ph.D. alumna who is now a Researcher in the Computer Human Interactive Learning (CHIL) group at Microsoft Research, has received the University of Washington Graduate School’s 2013 Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Saleema’s research interests are at the intersection of human-computer interaction and machine learning. She is interested in designing effective end-user driven machine learning for a variety of real-world applications. Her dissertation – “Designing for Effective End-User Interaction with Machine Learning,” was advised by… Read more →
Breakthrough in detecting DNA mutations from CSE’s Georg Seelig
Georg Seelig – UW professor of CSE and EE – working with David Zhang of Rice University and Sherry Chen, a UW EE doctoral student, this week unveiled a groundbreaking new method for detecting minute changes known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome. The human genome has more than 6 billion base pairs, and one of the revelations of modern genomics is that even the slightest change in the sequence – a single-nucleotide difference – can have… Read more →
July 27 in CSE: Emily + Carlos … Hélène + Yaw
July 27 … a big day for UW CSE weddings …
Adjunct CSE faculty member (and Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Statistics) Emily Fox + Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Computer Science & Engineering Carlos Guestrin …
CSE Lecturer (and CSE bachelors alumna) Hélène Martin + CSE Ph.D. alumnus (and co-founder of the software startup Nafundi) Yaw Anokwa …
Congratulations one and all!… Read more →
UW/MSR Summer Research Institute 2013: Understanding Situated Language in Everyday Life
The 18th UW/MSR Summer Research Institute in Computer Science was held this week at Alderbrook in Union, WA.
Each summer UW Computer Science & Engineering and Microsoft Research co-organize a summer research institute that brings together dozens of the world’s top researchers to discuss an important emerging topic. This year’s topic was “Understanding Situated Language in Everyday Life” – organized by Luke Zettlemoyer (UW CSE) and William Dolan (MSR). Quoting from the overview:
“Robust natural language understanding systems have the… Read more →
Today’s rankings …
Washington Monthly ranks UW 7th among all U.S. “national universities.” (The criteria are “social mobility,” “research,” and “service” – UW got killed in the latter category.)
Forbes ranks UW among the top 10 public colleges and universities in the nation for its undergraduate programs. (The ranking includes both public and private colleges and universities … and it ranks Pomona above Princeton … so caveat emptor …)
Movoto ranks Seattle as America’s hardest working city. (Doubtless due to the combination of… Read more →