The UW alumni magazine, Columns, uses UW CSE professor Richard Ladner to illustrate an article on “second careers”:
“Or consider Richard Ladner, Boeing Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and a 2008 winner of the Purpose Prize for extraordinary social innovators over 60 years of age. After 35 years as a professor, Ladner wanted to move from theory to impact. The hearing son of deaf parents, Ladner combined his expertise in computers and technology with an innate understanding of… Read more →
UW Daily on WiSee
Better late than never, the UW Daily becomes the 99th publication to run an article on UW CSE’s WiSee technology:
“A quick wave of a hand can shut off the lights and a flick of a finger can turn on the heater. Thanks to a team of UW Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) students and faculty, this type of gesture-recognition technology is now possible.
“This newly developed home gesture system, known as WiSee, can perform simple household tasks, such as… Read more →
UW CSE summer day camps for middle school and high school students
Creative programming projects, car hacking, discrete math card tricks, and lots of snacks – it must be time for UW CSE’s summer day camps for middle school and high school students!
This past week marked the first of eight UW CSE day camps. Twenty one energetic, curious, driven high school girls joined us for a week of exposure to computer science.
There will be a second week-long day camp for high school girls later in the summer, as well as… Read more →
UW CSE Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing
UW News writes:
“The UW program, called the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing, is the only one of its kind in the nation that offers a full quarter of academic credit to incoming college students or those who just finished their first year.
“It also gives deaf students a chance to explore an academic field they may not have already considered, said Richard Ladner, a UW professor of Computer Science & Engineering… Read more →
UW CSE @ Tesla
200 UW CSE alums and friends gathered at Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto CA this evening for our annual spring Bay Area alumni soiree.
Many thanks to Tesla for hosting a terrific event, featuring remarks and Q&A by co-founder and CTO JB Straubel, plus tours of the R&D facility.
Two-Tesla owners Loren Carpenter and Jeff Dean joined one-Tesla owners Ben Lenail and Shwetak Patel plus many dozens of Tesla-owner-wanna-be’s for a really super evening.
Photos here and (from Adam Perry)… Read more →
CSE’s Oren Etzioni, Farecast in NY Times
“Over the years, airline travel has been a prime testbed for advanced computing and data tools. In the late 1950s and 1960s, American Airlines and I.B.M. teamed up to develop the Sabre computerized reservations system, perhaps the most impressive private-sector computer system of its day.
“More recently, airline data has served as the raw material for predictive data-mining applications like Farecast, which tells consumers whether the price of a plane ticket, for a specific trip on a specific day, is… Read more →
CSE’s Luis Ceze wins IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze has received the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award!
This annual award recognizes outstanding, innovative, high impact research contributions in the field of computer architecture by computer architects who earned their doctorates six years or less ago.
Luis received the award today at the 40th International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Tel Aviv.
Congratulations Luis! Learn more about his research here.
Update: It may appear that Luis is relaxing after receiving his award, but… Read more →
UW CSE @ LearnSprout
LearnSprout, a Bay Area startup, is loaded with UW CSE alums. Pictured are Frank Chien, Alex Meng, Jonathan Fung, Anthony Wu, Alex Odle, and Joe Woo. That whiteboard behind them? It converts to a bed – check out the video here.… Read more →
Bumper crop of UW CSE seniors heading to graduate school
It’s been a great year for UW CSE seniors gaining admission to the nation’s top graduate programs:
David Colmenares, Jesse Dodge, Ekaterina Nepomnyashchaya, and Sor Sukkerd are headed to CMU (David in Mechanical Engineering).
Sam Hopkins, Jonathan Shi, and Laure Thompson are headed to Cornell.
Jerry Li is headed to MIT.
Kevin Clark is headed to Stanford (after a gap year).
Chris Dentel and Bennett Ng are headed to Berkeley (Bennett in Bioengineering).
Changhou Han is headed to UCSD.
Christopher… Read more →
CRA and ACM honor David Notkin
At the ACM Awards Banquet in San Francisco on Saturday, CSE’s David Notkin was posthumously recognized with the CRA A. Nico Habermann Award for his many contributions to advancing members of under-represented groups – particularly women – in computing. The award was accepted by David’s daughter Emma and son Akiva.
This lovely tribute video to David and to his Ph.D. advisor Nico Habermann was produced by ACM and shown at the Awards Banquet.
Thanks to CRA and ACM for honoring… Read more →