Hearty congratulations to Computer Engineering senior Raymond Zhang, who has been named as one of two recipients of the 2013 University of Washington Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence – the top award to graduating seniors in UW’s College of Engineering.
Raymond came to UW in 2008 at age 12 through the Robinson Center for Young Scholars’ early entrance program, and enrolled as a Computer Engineering major at the ripe old age of 13. Since his sophomore year, Raymond has… Read more →
Die macht des spiels – Seth Cooper. Die macht der daten – Yaw Anokwa.
We don’t know what it means either. Except for the title – “Innovation Stuntmen” – the entire book is in German.
But it prominently features UW CSE Ph.D. alums Seth Cooper (for his work on the breakthrough protein folding and protein structure calculation game Foldit) and Yaw Anokwa (for his work on the widely-used mobile data collection platform Open Data Kit).
Yaw provides the following translation of the promotional blurb:
“Batman, Superman and Spiderman can retire. Because the… Read more →
SpiroSmart at TEDMED
UW CSE’s SpiroSmart will be featured next week at TEDMED:
“SpiroSmart is a mobile phone based platform that allows for the analysis of common lung function measures (FEV1, FVC, PEF). By analyzing lip reverberation SpiroSmart is capable of monitoring pulmonary ailments such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis.”
Read more here and here. Read the SpiroSmart research paper here.… Read more →
UW Daily: “UW Cyber Defense Team to defend national title”
“The UW Cyber Defense Team gathered in a small room in Sieg Hall. [Editor’s note: They forgot the adjective “Beautiful.” It’s “Beautiful Sieg Hall.”] The whiteboards were scrawled with strategies for defending against hackers, and each student sat in front of a computer.
“The hum of hardware being tinkered with could barely be heard over the talk of the students, who are less than two weeks away from the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC).
“The UW… Read more →
NY Times: “Geek Appeal: New York vs. Seattle”
The New York Times compares New York and Seattle for Geek Appeal, featuring UW CSE and Carlos Guestrin.
In New York, it’s driven by tens of millions of dollars of civic initiatives led by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
“Meanwhile, in Seattle, with its green hiking trails, coffee culture and tech industry, the University of Washington is making its own pitch. The university has opened the eScience Institute for studying data across disciplines and has a new Ph.D. program in Big… Read more →
CSE’s Adrian Sampson, Thierry Moreau win $100,000 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Qualcomm invited multiple teams from 15 universities to submit proposals for $100,000 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships. From 138 proposals, Qualcomm selected 33 finalist teams who made presentations at Qualcomm’s three R&D Centers. Today, the 8 winners were announced: teams from UW, UCLA, Princeton, Cornell, UIUC, UCSD, UCB, and Columbia.
Hearty congratulations to UW CSE Ph.D. students Adrian Sampson and Thierry Moreau, and to their advisors Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman, for winding up on top in this incredibly intense competition.… Read more →
NY Times: “Data Science: The Numbers of Our Lives”
The New York Times discusses the tremendous demand for data science professionals, and the sources of these professionals. (Mostly computer science programs, of course …)
Bill Howe of UW CSE and the UW eScience Institute gets the last word in the article:
“The question, said Bill Howe, who teaches data science at the University of Washington, is whether it is even possibleto instill in a single person all the skills needed, from statistics to predictive modeling to business strategy. The… Read more →
UW CSE introductory course enrollments continue to boom!
Across the nation, and particularly at the leading programs, student interest in computer science is booming!
UW CSE’s two introductory courses, CSE 142 (“CS 1”) and CSE 143 (“CS 2”), each are offered during all four academic quarters each year. During the most recent four quarters – the past year – 2192 students took CSE 142 and 1417 students took CSE 143 – astonishing numbers! (And fully 1/3 of the students in CSE 142 this quarter are women!)
Take a… Read more →
UW at the IEEE RFID conference
At this month’s IEEE RFID conference, 3 out of the 5 best paper award candidates have UW CSE & EE affiliation:
“Hybrid Analog-Digital Backscatter: A New Approach for Battery-Free Sensing,” by Vamsi Talla and Joshua R. Smith
“Sensor Enabled Wearable RFID Technology for Mitigating the Risk of Falls Near Beds,” by Roberto Luis Shinmoto Torres, Qinfen Shi, Alanson Sample, and Damith C. Ranasinghe
“Minimum Energy Source Coding for Asymmetric Modulation with Application to RFID,” by Farzad Hessar, and Sumit… Read more →
“State falls short in educating for high-tech jobs”
The Bellingham Herald opines:
“To put the problem in a sentence, Washington creates more STEM-related jobs than any other state in the U.S., including California, but ranks in the bottom five states that produce STEM-degree graduates.
“The immediate choke point resides at our two- and four-year higher education institutions. The University of Washington has room to accept only 25 percent of students who apply for its computer science program. It takes only half of those who apply for engineering.”
Read… Read more →