More than 50 Seattle-area UW CSE alums met for happy hour at Feierabend (South Lake Union) on Thursday May 2 – along with faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska.
Didn’t hear about it? Read your damned email, or sign up for our Facebook group!… Read more →
CSE’s Mike Hotan, Jim Youngquist win 2013 Google SVA Scholarships
The newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. Google has partnered with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in higher education and throughout their careers.
Incredibly, two of the eight winners of inaugural Google SVA Scholarships are UW CSE students: undergraduate student Mike Hotan (USA Special Forces 2008-present) and graduate student Jim Youngquist… Read more →
“CSE professor remembered for love of people”
The UW Daily memorializes UW CSE professor David Notkin:
“David Notkin was known by many as a willing mentor and a leader in the field of software engineering. His bushy beard and wide smile made him a face of the department.
“His talent, charisma, and investment in his students made him an integral part of the UW Computer Science & Engineering community.
“Notkin passed away last Monday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer.”
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New Scientist on “smart dust”
The work of Josh Smith (UW CSE and EE) is described:
“But how do you charge something so small? ‘The vision of blanketing the world with smart sensors is very compelling,’ says Joshua Smith, head of the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. ‘But a lot of sensor networks researchers found themselves surrounded by mountains of depleted batteries and dead sensor nodes.’
“So, like microscopic Robinson Crusoes, the motes will live off the power they can… Read more →
OneBusAway transitions to Metro
OneBusAway began as a student project at the University of Washington. It became so widely used by transit commuters that after the students graduated, three area agencies (King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Pierce Transit) contracted with the University of Washington to continue running the service. There are now over 100,000 users per week in Puget Sound. At the same time, instances of OneBusAway have been brought up in other regions, including Atlanta, Detroit, and Tampa; the OneBusAway Enterprise system… Read more →
Belkin launches home energy and water management technology licensed from UW
Belkin today launched Echo Electricity and Echo Water – technologies licensed from the lab of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel that provide single-point-of-attachment fully-disaggregated monitoring of the electricity and water consumption in a home or business.
Read a GigaOM post here. Wall Street Journal here. Echo Electricity information here. Echo Water information here.… Read more →
Vote for Jeremy Jaech and Oren Etzioni TODAY!
Today is the final day to vote in the GeekWire Awards.
In addition to voting for UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni as “Geek of the Year” here (see earlier post below), please vote for UW CSE alum and UW CSE startup CEO Jeremy Jaech as “Hire of the Year” here.
“We thank you for your support.”… Read more →
Vote early and often: Oren Etzioni for GeekWire’s “Geek of the Year”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni is one of five nominees for GeekWire’s “Geek of the Year” – to be presented at the GeekWire Awards event on May 9 at EMP.
Please vote for Oren here!
And remember, only one vote per IP address. (How many IP addresses do you have?)… Read more →
Engineering Discovery Days!
Friday and Saturday April 26 and 27 marked UW’s Engineering Discovery Days. More than 9,000 guests – school-age students, plus parents and teachers – visited UW … and it sometimes sounded as if they were all in the Allen Center at once!
See photos here.… Read more →
CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon
April 25 marked the annual UW CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon, where the donors of our endowed undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships meet the students they are supporting. It’s always a happy event!
Undergraduate scholarships enable top students to obtain a UW CSE education, regardless of means – of ever-increasing importance in these days of relentlessly rising tuition. Graduate fellowships enable CSE to compete successfully with the nation’s other premier programs for the top graduate students from across the… Read more →