UW CSE professor Susan Eggers has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as a member of the Class of 2013.
The Academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its Constitution. Its purpose was to provide a forum for a select group of scholars, members of the learned professions, and government… Read more →
David Notkin, 1955-2013
Our dear friend and colleague David Notkin passed away at home at 3:30 a.m. on April 22 2013 following a long battle with cancer. Our hearts go out to David’s wife Cathy, his children Emma and Akiva, his sister Debbie, and all who knew him and loved him.
Information may be found on David’s CaringBridge page here.
In February, hundreds of David’s friends honored him at Notkinfest – a tribute to his extraordinary personal and professional contributions – where… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Bigham in NY Times
The New York Times focuses the article “An Instant Path to an Online Army” on the work of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Bigham, now on the faculty at the University of Rochester but about to join the faculty at Carnegie Mellon.
“Computer science researchers have been trying to build systems that summon online workers on demand and produce immediate results. Much initial work has focused on completing tasks for people with disabilities, because that is where the need is… Read more →
UW CSE launches two new Coursera MOOCs
With Coursera MOOCs on Programming Languages and Computer Networks under our belts, we’ve just launched two new MOOCS:
The Hardware/Software Interface, taught by CSE professors Gaetano Borriello and Luis Ceze, examines key computational abstraction levels below modern high-level languages: number representation, assembly language, introduction to C, memory management, the operating-system process model, high-level machine architecture including the memory hierarchy, and how high-level languages are implemented.
Computational Neuroscience, taught by CSE professor Raj Rao and Physiology & Biophysics professor… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dieter Fox in Seattle Weekly, UW Daily
“In ‘The Jetsons,’ a cartoon about a space-age nuclear family, the robot Rosie seamlessly understands and performs the commands of the Jetson family, easily completes household chores like vacuuming and dusting, while effortlessly caring for the Jetson children.
“Although this sort of technology remains out of our reach, UW researchers are bringing us one step closer.”
Read more in The Daily here. Read more in Seattle Weekly here.… Read more →
Xconomy: “University Grants Could Aid Data Science Push in New York, Seattle”
“The New York Times turned its attention last weekend toward education of data scientists, highlighting a budding ‘rivalry’ between New York City and Seattle.
“The paper’s Education Life section focused on the relative merits of the two cities as big data hubs, and efforts to build curricula in this field at universities around the country. But what the coverage didn’t mention is that universities in New York and Seattle are also competing for a major grant aimed at… Read more →
CSE’s Raymond Zhang wins 2013 UW Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence
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 →