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 →
Computer Science for High School Teachers: UW CSE CS4HS 2013
Seven years ago, three universities – the University of Washington (Ed Lazowska), Carnegie Mellon University (Jeannette Wing), and UCLA (Deborah Estrin) – approached Google about sponsoring a 3-day summer workshop on computer science for middle school and high school teachers of math and science.
Today the program – CS4HS – is sponsored by Google at 62 universities in the US and Canada, 20 in China, 15 in Australia and New Zealand, and 28 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa… Read more →
UW CSE “DawgBytes” summer day camp on “physical computing”
July 16-19 marked UW CSE’s 4-day summer co-ed day camp on “physical computing.”
More and more, computing is moving off desks and into pockets and devices spread across our world. A great group of students got a chance to learn about physical computing from Brett Wortzman, a fantastic local high school teacher.
Microsoft donated 12 .NET Gadgeteer Kits for use by the students – carried across the Atlantic with two days to spare by Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche from Microsoft Research… Read more →
UW CSE “DawgBytes” summer day camp for high school girls, Session 2
July 8-12 marked the second session of this summer’s UW CSE summer day camps for high school girls. A fantastic group of 21 students joined us for a week of computing fun! Many thanks to Google for donating Android phones for project work.
This was the second of eight UW CSE summer day camps. In addition to two week-long day camps for high school girls, we are hosting two week-long day camps for middle school girls. In addition, there are… Read more →
CSE’s Sam Hopkins: “A Triple Threat in Math, Philosophy, and Computing”
CSE senior Sam Hopkins is the recipient of the 2013 UW Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal for the Natural Sciences, awarded to the top graduating student in the Natural Sciences division of UW’s College of Arts & Sciences. Sam – the son of long-time UW Chemistry chair Paul Hopkins – entered UW at age 15 through the Early Entrance Program, and will head to Ithaca in the fall as a computer science graduate student at Cornell. Sam is the 11th … Read more →
“Al Qaeda Behind The Wheel”
UW CSE professor (and UCSD Ph.D. alum) Yoshi Kohno, UCSD professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Stefan Savage, and their students spent two years exploring the security vulnerabilities of modern automobiles and working with vehicle manufacturers and Federal regulatory agencies to address them.
It took Fox News only 4 minutes and 34 seconds to sensationalize it beyond recognition.
Sigh … watch the result here. Better, read about the research here.… Read more →