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 →
SpiroSmart, SoundWave in The Economist
The Economist describes work by UW CSE researchers and collaborators that utilizes mobile phones and signal processing to create medical diagnostic instruments and other novel applications.
“Microphones exist in many shapes and sizes, and work in many different ways … These microphones all do the same thing: they convert sound waves into an electrical signal.
“It turns out, however, that with the addition of suitable software, microphones can detect more than mere audio signals. They can act as versatile sensors,… Read more →
WiSee: Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless
The work of UW CSE’s Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel is described in this UW News article:
“Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.
“University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology… Read more →
KCPQ-TV interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on Washington’s shameful STEM education performance
“‘We are the ass end of the donkey in providing educational opportunity for our kids, despite this booming economy,’ said Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW. ‘It’s absolutely crazy.’
“Lazowska is on a crusade to let the public know that many of these great, yet-to-be-filled tech jobs are going to be taken by college graduates from other states – not from Washington. And that’s because the state isn’t educating… Read more →
UW CSE alumni startup Captricity closes $4.5 million round of funding
Captricity – a service that quickly and easily turns paper information into structured, digital data – has closed a $4.5 million round of funding.
Captricity was co-founded by UW CSE bachelors alum Kuang Chen at the conclusion of his UC Berkeley Ph.D. studies. At UW, Kuang was a double major in CSE and Comparative History of Ideas. His undergraduate research led to the creation of the Seattle startup Teranode, where he worked for four years following graduation. At Berkeley, his… Read more →
CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia: Bag Man
You find the craziest things in airport gift shops!
Today, for example, CSE chair Hank Levy ran across this bag featuring a December 2007 Business Week cover photograph of 2003 CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia – then a Senior Software Engineer at Google, subsequently co-founder of Cloudera, now co-founder and CEO of WibiData.
Reese Witherspoon … Katherine Heigl … Christophe Bisciglia … Oprah Winfrey … your photo goes here …… Read more →