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 →
CSE’s Adrian Sampson wins Google Global Ph.D. Fellowship
Google has announced the 39 winners of their 2013 Global Ph.D. Fellowships: 2 from Australia, 4 from China, 13 from Europe, 5 from India, and 15 from the United States and Canada. UW CSE’s Adrian Sampson is among the 15 winners from the United States and Canada. UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Roxana Geambasu, now on the faculty at Columbia University, is highlighted in the Google press release as a previous winner of the award.
Congratulations to Adrian and Roxana!… Read more →
Stefan Savage turns 44
Even in binary it’s not a notable birthday, but if you put too many UW CSE Ph.D. alums in one place (UCSD CSE in this case), you get mayhem. No faculty office is complete without a disco ball … Happy birthday Stefan!
(Also today: CSE Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner turned 27, a perfect cube. And CSE Ph.D. alum and postdoc Dan Halperin turned 29, a prime. But no disco balls for them. There’s no justice in this world.)… Read more →
UW News: “New tasks become as simple as waving a hand with brain-computer interfaces”
“UW CSE’s Raj Rao and UW collaborators Jeff Ojemann, a professor of neurological surgery, and Jeremiah Wander, a doctoral student in bioengineering, published their results online June 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“In this study, seven people with severe epilepsy were hospitalized for a monitoring procedure that tries to identify where in the brain seizures originate. Physicians cut through the scalp, drilled into the skull and placed a thin sheet of electrodes directly… Read more →
Freshman demand for computer science – OFF THE CHARTS
It’s a national trend – demand for Computer Science is skyrocketing as students recognize that the field is chock full of intellectual challenges, has “change the world” potential like no other, and is central to pretty much any 21st century career. Plus, there’s only so much creativity you can exercise with asphalt.
The graphic displayed here shows the desired major of freshman applicants to the various Engineering majors at the University of Washington for Fall 2013. (We recognize that other… Read more →
“Hands down (and hands up), this is the coolest technology of the week”
The Washington Post praises UW CSE’s WiSee technology:
“Imagine standing in your kitchen preparing dinner, while the TV magically turns on in the living room, the dimmer lights flicker into action, a Netflix movie queues up for your viewing pleasure and the air conditioning adjusts just so. All of that, with just a wave of the hand, a swipe of your finger or a flick of the wrist.
“That’s the technological promise of new WiSee technology, a new gesture-recognition technology… Read more →