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 →
CSE’s Yaw Anokwa, Nafundi, Open Data Kit in Nordstrom ad!
You can’t make up stuff that’s this unlikely!
Recent Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa, co-developer of the widely-used Open Data Kit platform for data collection via mobile phones, and co-founder of the Seattle startup Nafundi focused on applications for challenging environments such as the developing world, is featured in an advertisement for Nordstrom’s new “Citizens of Humanity” jeans.
Watch the video! It provides a superb overview of Yaw’s work. (And he cleans up really well – good news in light… Read more →
Seattle Times features UW CSE alum A.J. Brush in Faculty Summit summary
Monday and Tuesday marked the 14th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
The Seattle Times devoted much of its coverage to the “Lab of Things” platform created and demonstrated by UW CSE Ph.D. alum A.J. Brush:
“Lab of Things is a platform for research that uses connected devices in the home, allowing researchers who need to collect data from homes for their studies to more easily manage and collect and analyze data.
“Researchers, such as those working in… Read more →
FuSE 2013 (Foundations of Software Engineering) honors David Notkin
Wednesday’s Future of Software Engineering symposium – FuSE 2013, held in Redmond WA following the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit – has been dedicated to UW CSE professor David Notkin, who passed away in April. See the program here. Watch videos here. Learn more about David here.… Read more →