Sam Hopkins, a senior majoring in Computer Science and in Mathematics, has been selected to receive the 2013 University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences Deans Medal for the Natural Sciences.
Four senior medals are awarded annually by the College of Arts & Sciences: to the top graduating student in the Arts, the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences.
Sam – incidentally the son of long-time UW Chemistry chair Paul Hopkins – will be a Computer Science… Read more →
GeekWire: “UW’s Ed Lazowska: ‘Washington is the ass end of the donkey in just about every aspect of education'”
“The incredible talent that the University of Washington pumps out every year was on display during Tuesday’s Seattle Tech Meetup, as five startups with UW ties gave five-minute pitches to the crowd at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
“But unfortunately for the state, the UW is one of the few bright spots amidst an otherwise struggling education system with regard to producing tech talent. While Washington ranks fourth in the nation for tech-related companies, the… Read more →
Seattle Tech Meetup @ UW CSE
God-knows-how-many-hundreds of mostly-young Seattle technologists visited UW CSE on Tuesday evening for Seattle Tech Meetup – a monthly gathering of the younger Seattle tech community clan, organized by Red Russak and Brett Greene.
See UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska’s presentation here.… Read more →
Ars Technica: 10th anniversary of UW CSE alum Brad Fitzpatrick’s memcached
“This week, memcached, a piece of software that prevents much of the Internet from melting down, turns 10 years old. Despite its age, memcached is still the go-to solution for many programmers and sysadmins managing heavy workloads. Without memcached, Ars Technica would likely be unable to serve this article to you at all.
“[UW CSE alum] Brad Fitzpatrick wrote memcached for LiveJournal way back in 2003 (check out the initial CVS commit here). While waiting for new… Read more →
Forbes: “A Very Short History of Big Data”
An article in Forbes recognizes the impact of a Computing Community Consortium white paper authored by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, along with Randy Bryant (CMU) and Randy Katz (Berkeley):
“December 2008 Randal E. Bryant, Randy H. Katz, and Edward D. Lazowska publish ‘Big-Data Computing: Creating Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Commerce, Science and Society (PDF).’ They write: ‘Just as search engines have transformed how we access information, other forms of big-data computing can and will transform the activities of companies, scientific… Read more →
Xconomy: Tableau IPO Underscores Seattle Big Data Leadership
“Tableau Software continued producing visually stunning stock charts during its second day of trading, shining a favorable light on both the Seattle tech industry, and on big data companies …
“As a reminder, Tableau’s DNA is Silicon Valley, and Stanford University, in particular. But 10 years ago, the company’s founders decided they needed a change of scenery and chose the ‘mountains and salmon and coffee and rain’ of Seattle, in what CEO Christian Chabot has called one of the best… Read more →
NCWIT establishes David Notkin Mentorship Award
At its meeting today, the Board of Directors of the National Center for Women & Information Technology passed unanimously the following resolution:
“NCWIT will create the David Notkin Mentorship Award in memorial to Professor David Notkin, late of the University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering. David Notkin’s career was emblematic of the principles that guide NCWIT. Among many other initiatives, David was the founding co-director of the NCWIT Academic Alliance. The David Notkin Mentorship Award will be… Read more →
New York Times: “How to Be a ‘Woman Programmer'”
This is really thoughtful opinion piece that should be required reading for at least three reasons:
Threaded throughout are wonderful nuggets that clearly differentiate “software engineering” from “coding” – nuggets such as:
“The first requirement for programming is a passion for the work, a deep need to probe the mysterious space between human thoughts and what a machine can understand; between human desires and how machines might satisfy them.
“The second requirement is a high tolerance for failure. Programming is… Read more →
CSE’s Michael Kutz elected ASUW President
Who says computer scientists are apolitical?
ASUW – the Associated Students of the University of Washington – is UW’s undergraduate student governing body. In the recently-concluded ASUW elections, CSE major Michael Kutz was elected ASUW President for the coming year.
Congratulations to Michael! UW Daily article here.… Read more →
Congratulations to Tableau!
Seattle has a new billion dollar tech IPO: Tableau Software.
The photo shows co-founders Chris Stolte (Chief Development Officer), Christian Chabot (CEO and Chairman), and Pat Hanrahan (Chief Scientist), along with board member Scott Sandel (NEA), at the NYSE bell-ringing this morning.
There’s a lovely interview with Christian in GeekWire:
“We’ve been working our whole lives to become an overnight success … This has been a journey, and it started when I moved the company from Silicon Valley to Seattle… Read more →