“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 →
“Words of Wisdom to the Graduating Engineers of 2013” from WibiData
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 →