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 →
Computer Science is Sunday’s “Cool Jobs” panel at the Seattle Science Festival
The 2013 Seattle Science Festival is the region’s only large-scale, community-wide celebration of science and technology. It brings hands-on exhibits, shows, demonstrations and performances to venues throughout the Pacific Northwest. All events provide experiences that educate, engage and inspire an interest in science and technology and stimulate imagination and innovation. The festival runs June 6-16, 2013.
SSF features a “cool jobs”‘ series where attendees can learn, first-hand, from successful and dynamic professionals in some of the most promising fields in… Read more →
UC San Diego CSE lands game-changing $18.5 million alumni gift
The largest gift ever made to UC San Diego by one of its alumni was received today by UCSD Computer Science & Engineering. The gift – from an alum who wishes to remain anonymous – will fund new faculty endowed chairs, top-of-the-line teaching labs, support for graduate students, expanded mentoring and tutoring programs for the next generation of undergraduates, and a more diverse offering of project-based courses.
The UCSD CSE faculty is chock full of UW CSE Ph.D. alumni, including… Read more →
Washington State Algebra Challenge – almost there with 2 days to go!
Can Washington students solve 250,000 algebra equations in one school week? That’s the Washington State Algebra Challenge, a partnership between UW’s Center for Game Science and the Technology Alliance. And with three days down and two days to go, we’re almost there: 3,459 participating students have solved 246,033 equations – and counting!
Follow the action here.… Read more →
Patent trolls on the march
A scary graphic from our friends at GeekWire. The blue segments are infringement lawsuits brought by companies actually practicing their patents. The red segments are infringement lawsuits brought by non-practicing entities – patent trolls. The National Economic Council and the Council of Economic Advisers released a detailed report accusing trolls of having “negative impact on innovation and economic growth.”
Read more here.… Read more →
Why Computer Science? Why UW CSE?
Presentation materials from sessions for high school counselors conducted by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Hélène Martin. Includes information on the nature of the field, workforce demand, and UW CSE’s program.
Check it out here. Learn more about UW CSE’s undergraduate program here. Learn about DawgBytes, our K-12 outreach program, here.… Read more →