UW CSE was well represented on the stage at the 2013 ACM Awards Banquet gala in San Francisco on Saturday evening (coinciding, unfortunately, with UW’s commencement exercises, which were a week later than usual this year):
New faculty addition Shyam Gollakota received the Doctoral Dissertation Award for his MIT dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems,” supervised by Dina Katabi.
Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean, along with his colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, received the ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences… Read more →
A third IEEE Micro “Top Pick” for UW CSE’s Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh transferred from UT Austin to the University of Washington several years ago, when his advisor Doug Burger joined Microsoft Research.
Since his arrival at UW, Hadi has had an extraordinary string of three IEEE Micro “Top Picks” papers – roughly ten papers selected annually as the very best to have appeared in the various computer architecture conferences during the year, and re-printed in a special issue of IEEE Micro.
Hadi’s third “Top Picks” paper has just appeared: “… Read more →
“Forget MOOCs – Let’s use MOOA”
“As colleges begin using massive open online courses (MOOC) to reduce faculty costs, a Johns Hopkins University professor has announced plans for MOOA: Massive Open Online Administrations. Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg … says that many colleges and universities face the same administrative issues every day. By having one experienced group of administrators make decisions for hundreds of campuses simultaneously, MOOA would help address these problems expeditiously and economically. Since MOOA would allow colleges to dispense with most of their own administrators,… Read more →
Maya Cakmak to join UW CSE
Maya Cakmak – a robotics researcher specializing in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Programming by Demonstration (PbD) – will be joining the UW CSE faculty.
Maya completed her Ph.D. in Robotics at Georgia Tech in 2012. Since then she has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage, Inc., manufacturer of personal robots and robot software. A main goal of her research is to enable non-experts to program personal robots by providing demonstrations of what they want. Maya’s work investigates challenges… Read more →
Farewell to Marty Stepp
On Wednesday, CSE’s 60+ undergraduate TAs plus the faculty bid a fond farewell to Marty Stepp at a surprise party in the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons. Marty – a truly phenomenal teacher – has decided to take his talents southward. Stanford students, who already benefit from a superb lecturer corps, are in for a treat.
Marty, we’re sorry to lose you – thanks for all you contributed to UW CSE, best of success in the coming years, and remember… Read more →
Congratulations to CSE’s 2013 graduates!
Saturday June 15 marked the University of Washington’s 138th commencement exercises.
For CSE students, the day began at 9 a.m. with a departmental ceremony that filled Meany Hall, the largest auditorium on campus. The program recognized 203 Bachelors degree recipients in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 85 Masters degree recipients, and 23 Ph.D. degree recipients – 311 degree recipients in all! The program also recognized the recipients of the ACM Student Chapter Teaching Award (to Magda Balazinska), the Undergraduate Service… Read more →
Anne Dinning (B.S. ’84) and Ed Felten (Ph.D. ’93) receive UW CSE 2013 Alumni Achievement Awards
At commencement each spring, UW CSE recognizes two alums with Alumni Achievement Awards.
This year’s recipients – who will join us for a celebratory dinner on Friday June 14 and again at our commencement on the morning of Saturday June 15th – are Anne Dinning and Ed Felten.
Anne received her Bachelors degree from UW CSE in 1984, where she did research with Professor Richard Ladner. After working in Seattle for a year, she moved to New York and received… Read more →
Spring 2013 “most significant bits” – UW CSE’s alumni newsletter
With two days to spare, the Spring 2013 issue of msb has hit the newsstands! This issue pays tribute to David Notkin, celebrates CSE’s two newest winners of UW Dean’s Medals (Raymond Zhang and Sam Hopkins) and their 13 predecessors, honors Anne Dinning ’84 B.S. and Ed Felten ’93 Ph.D. as the recipients of our 2013 Alumni Achievement Awards, recognizes Kevin Ross ’88 B.S. for winning the 2013 College of Engineering Diamond Award for Public Service for his contributions to… Read more →
Washington State Algebra Challenge: Early Summary
Here’s a preliminary summary of the Washington State Algebra Challenge, co-sponsored by UW’s Center for Game Science and the Technology Alliance:
Top-level summary
4,192 K-12 students from across Washington participated in the Washington State Algebra Challenge during the first week of June, using an adaptive version of the game DragonBox. Together, Washington’s students solved over 390,000 equations in a 5 day period! The total amount of algebra work time during the week was 7 months 11 days and… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide.com – incredible reviews in WSJ, ATD
“After more than a decade of online shopping, it’s still difficult to comparison shop without doing a lot of detective work. People read consumer-product reviews, troll the Web for prices, ask friends for input and create spreadsheets compiling all of these factors.
“This week, I put my feet up and let an algorithm do the work for me by using Decide.com.
“This website has two main features that help it tell you whether or not you should buy something. First,… Read more →