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!)
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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.”
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CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten interviewed in Wired
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 →