UW CSE’s Center for Game Science has partnered with the Technology Alliance to launch the first Washington State Algebra Challenge.
During the week of June 3-7, students in Washington State K-12 classrooms will attempt to complete 250,000 algebra equations, using the school-adapted algebra learning game DragonBox. Even students who have never been exposed to algebra before will be encouraged to participate!
Learn more about the Washington State Algebra Challenge here. Read a press release here. Learn about… Read more →
And the GeekWire “Geek of the Year” is …
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni! (Along with a real live geeky physician, in an unprecedented GeekWire Awards tie vote.)… Read more →
Startup Seattle
Today, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn launched Startup Seattle, a multi-pronged initiative to further enhance Seattle’s climate for tech startups. GeekWire reports:
“As part of the Startup Initiative, the City does plan on centering its first ‘innovation hub’ around the UW. Lazowska said that, given the critical role of research universities in innovation, he and his colleagues have worked hard to get more tech companies to open up their HQs in the U-District. But because the surrounding area is ‘an ocean… Read more →
CSE alums Albert Wong, Hannah Tang in GeekWire for Google breakthough
“Albert Wong had spent his whole life trying —and failing — to type Cantonese characters on a computer.
“But now, thanks to time allowed by Google’s 20-percent projects, some terrific teamwork and a whole lot of effort, he’s helped build an answer.
“A year’s worth of work has come to fruition today, as Google just released the first tool ever that allows users to easily input Cantonese into a web browser using English phonetics, solving a problem that’s existed for… Read more →
Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss join informal “ISCA Hall of Fame”
For a number of years, Mark Hill and Guri Sohi of the University of Wisconsin have maintained an informal “Hall of Fame” for the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, based on the (admittedly imperfect) metric of having co-authored 8 or more papers that have appeared in this premier venue for computer architecture research.
CSE professor Luis Ceze and CSE affiliate professor (and Microsoft Research staff member, as well as Luis’s partner) Karin Strauss have just been “inducted.”
Stanford, the University… Read more →
CSE’s Shyam Gollakota wins 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has received the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award – presented annually to the author of the best doctoral dissertation, worldwide, in computer science – for his MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems.”
Congratulations to Shyam, and to his MIT Ph.D. advisor Dina Katabi!
Read the ACM press release here.
(UW CSE just got five papers into SIGCOMM 2013, two of which were co-authored by Shyam!)
Scrolling back through time:… Read more →
UW CSE hosts AP Computer Science test review and ice cream social
On Saturday, UW CSE demonstrated that ice cream and Java go hand in hand! Around 50 local students who will be taking the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam came to UW to eat ice cream and do some last-minute review.
Thanks to the many UW students and faculty who led review sessions on different AP CS topics and who took pictures! And good luck to all the high school students on the AP exam!
See photographs of the event here… Read more →
Martin Tompa, Jeremy Buhler win RECOMB “Test of Time” Award
UW CSE professor Martin Tompa and his Ph.D. alum Jeremy Buhler (now a faculty member at Washington University) have received the 2013 “Test of Time” Award from RECOMB – the Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology – for their paper “Finding Motifs Using Random Projections” which was presented at RECOMB 2001 and published in full length in the Journal of Computational Biology.
Congratulations to Martin and Jeremy!… Read more →
CSE undergraduates Matt Bryan, Kevin Clark, and Grace Muzny recognized in 2013 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Competition
The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition recognizes undergraduates in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Universities may nominate as many as four students annually.
In the 2013 competition (results announced today), three UW CSE nominees were recognized – extending UW CSE’s record of having the largest number of students recognized in the most recent ten years of this competition!
Congratulations to 2013 national winner Matt Bryan, and… Read more →
NSF CISE AD Farnam Jahanian visits UW CSE on May 23
Farnam Jahanian, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will visit UW CSE on Thursday May 23.
Dr. Jahanian will deliver the CSE Colloquium at 3:30 in EEB 105: “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication.”
Please join us! Additional information here.… Read more →