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 →
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 →