WibiData – founded by UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia and UW CSE student-on-leave Aaron Kimball, with UW CSE alum Garrett Wu also on the leadership team – today published a list of “Top 10 Tips for New Engineering Grads”:
“Just because school is over, doesn’t mean the learning is. As you move into the next stage of your career, remember: asking questions, trying new things and expanding your skill set should be a continuous cycle that is never fully complete.… Read more →
Research publication beauty contest of the day: NSDI
We report here on an outbreak in Pittsburgh of the major-conference publication-counting beauty contests that have plagued the state of Wisconsin recently (see recent posts concerning SOSP/OSDI and ISCA).
CMU faculty member David Anderson has tallied an informal “Hall of Fame” consisting of the authors with 5 or more papers in NSDI, the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. The list has 34 researchers, including UW CSE faculty members Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tom Anderson, David Wetherall, and… Read more →
“He’s Number Two! We’re Number Three!”
University of Wisconsin computer architecture faculty members Mark Hill and Guri Sohi maintain an informal “Hall of Fame” for the International Symposium on Computer Architecture – researchers who have co-authored 8 or more ISCA papers. (UW CSE is tied with Stanford, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin with 5 faculty members on the list.)
Not to be outdone, University of Wisconsin computer systems faculty member Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau has compiled an analogous informal “Hall … Read more →
“Finally, progress on this annoying problem”
A lovely post on Dick Lipton’s blog about the research of UW CSE Ph.D. student David Rosenbaum, who is working withUW CSE faculty members Paul Beame and Aram Harrow:
“David Rosenbaum is right now the world expert on one of my favorite problems, group isomorphism …
“Today I want to talk about his work, which not only advances our understanding of this problem, but also makes progress on other ones …
“The new algorithms that David has found …… Read more →
UW CSE alum Heather Underwood wins 2013 ACM Graduate Student Research Competition Grand Finals
Heather Underwood – a 2009 UW CSE bachelors alumna now completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado’s ATLAS Institute working with long-ago UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus John Bennett – will be recognized on June 15th at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Awards Banquet as the First Place Graduate winner in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals for 2013.
Heather’s research innovation is the PartoPen – an application of digital pen technology to enhance the partograph system used… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean profiled in “People of ACM”
“People of ACM” highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science and a profession. These bulletins feature ACM members whose personal and professional stories are worthy of sharing with the larger computing community.
Today’s topic highlights UW CSE Ph.D. alum and Google Fellow Jeff Dean.
Read the profile here.… Read more →
“When All Science Becomes Data Science”
An article in Science Careers profiles activities in the University of Washington eScience Institute. Ed Lazowska, Bill Howe, Sarah Loebman, and Jevin West are quoted, as well as Greg Wilson from the Mozilla Foundation who taught a “Software Carpentry” course (a Python bootcamp for scientists) through the eScience Institute:
“Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW, believes that data-driven discovery will become the norm, as he told Science Careers in… Read more →
Washington becomes 10th state to allow computer science be integrated as part of math and science curriculum in high schools
Washington Governor Jay Inslee today signed into law HB 1472, which directs school districts to award a math or science credit to students who complete an AP Computer Science class.
We disagree with many aspects of the motivation as described in the Governor’s news release – “This bill will help students train for high-paying jobs in the technology industry and start addressing our state’s computer programmer shortage” is one of the least compelling reasons to encourage kids to study computer… Read more →
UW CSE startup GraphLab announces $6.75 million in funding from Madrona, NEA
GraphLab Inc. today announced a $6.75 million Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group and NEA. GraphLab is innovating on the popular GraphLab open source distributed graph computation framework that is used millions of times per day to deliver recommendations through popular consumer services.
Complex data sets such as those describing social media networks are commonly described as graph datasets. These graphs describe relationships between people, the products they buy, the pages they like, etc. Graph datasets require novel… Read more →
“Computer Science: It’s where the jobs are. It’s also where the future is.”
In a Seattle Times Sunday op-ed, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska sets the record straight on the demand for computer science graduates:
“Technology workforce issues are much in the news these days, stimulated by proposed changes to the nation’s H-1B ‘guest worker’ visa policy …
“Allow me to inject a few facts into the conversation. (As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.’)
“It’s indeed the case, both nationwide and in… Read more →