UW CSE 1993 Ph.D. alum Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and of Public Policy at Princeton and for the past two years the first Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, is interviewed extensively in Wired:
“For more than a decade now, Felten has promoted an important idea that has sometimes put him at odds with the music industry and big technology companies: the notion that consumers should be able to take apart and learn about the software and… Read more →
CSE’s Oren Etzioni in NY Times on the future of search
The New York Times explores the future of search – influenced by mobile experience, and by focused search such as shopping. UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni – a leading proponent and inventor of new approaches to search – is quoted:
“No longer do consumers want to search the Web like the index of a book — finding links at which a particular keyword appears. They expect new kinds of customized search, like that on topical sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor… Read more →
CSE’s Richard Anderson in NY Times on ICT for Development
A wonderful New York Times essay on Digital Green – information and communications technology to aid development in rural India – quotes UW CSE professor Richard Anderson, a pioneer in the field:
“What’s intriguing about Digital Green is how it uses videos to start public conversations and elicit leadership within communities. What’s unexpected is that it has been able to produce locally made videos in India’s regional languages at scale, something Gandhi notes is cheaper and faster than using professional… Read more →
CSE faculty and students win 2013 NSDI “Best Paper” Award
NSDI – the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation – is one of the two top conferences in computer systems. In 2013, 170 research papers were submitted. 38 were accepted. 2 were designated “Award Papers.” One of these is the paper “A Fault-Tolerant Engineered Network” by UW CSE graduate students Vincent Liu and Dan Halperin and faculty members Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson.
This marks the 4th time that a UW CSE paper has received the NSDI “Best… Read more →
Seattle Times: “Help schools with more money, not empty chatter”
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes:
“It’s not often that talk gets exposed for being empty as swiftly as it was last week.
“On Wednesday, the state’s business community issued a clarion call to not only stop slashing our college system, but to expand it dramatically …
“But then the very next day, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed ending some tax exemptions to, among other things, boost science and health-care enrollment in the state college system. Yet here’s how the Association… Read more →
7 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to UW CSE students
Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation are among the most prestigious awards available to graduate students in the sciences and engineering.
Three UW CSE graduate students and four UW CSE undergraduates have just been announced as winners of 2013 NSF GRF’s: graduate students Lilian de Greef, Ben Hixon, and Irene Zhang, undergraduate seniors Sam Hopkins and David Colmenares, and former CSE undergraduates Gabriel Pratt (currently a graduate student in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at UC San Diego) and… Read more →
Apps with a Humanitarian Side: Nafundi featured on NPR
On March 27th, NPR’s Morning Edition of all tech considered featured a story on the growing trend of combining business and smartphone apps for social good. Highlighted is the work done by Nafundi, a startup led by UW CSE alums Yaw Anokwa and Carl Hartung. Nafundi develops software for challenging environments and grew from the work done by Yaw and Carl on the Open Data Kit project.
“For those willing to really invest the time,” Anokwa says, “there are… Read more →
Blast from the past!
1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Sager recently discovered this 42-year-old photo of 1972 Ph.D. alum John Torode ministering to CSE’s then-state-of-the-art SDS Sigma 5 computer, whose computational power is undoubtedly dwarfed by your wristwatch.… Read more →
Seattle Times: “Report: 25,000 high-skill jobs unfilled; prompts request for more ed funding”
The Seattle Times reports on the Washington Roundtable’s new workforce study:
“It’s never been easy — and it may be getting harder — to find an unemployed computer-science major in Washington state.
“Just ask Steve Singh, the CEO of a company with 700 job openings worldwide — 300 of them in Washington.
“‘We have a standing discussion with University of Washington computer science — anybody you graduate, we’ll take,’ said Singh, CEO of Redmond-based Concur Technologies.”
Read more here… Read more →
“We Are the World” – Science Career Q&A with Ed Lazowska
But wait! There’s more! Today, Science has an extensive interview with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on careers in computer science. An example:
Q: What’s new and emerging in computer science? If you were in training today, about to choose a thesis area, what subfields would you look at?
E.L.: Computer science is a field of limitless opportunity, and limitless impact. We are terrible at predicting the future: We overestimate what can be achieved in 10 years, and we underestimate what… Read more →