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 →
Science: “Want a Great Scientific Career? Choose Computer Science”
Science – flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science – extensively quotes UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska in this article about job opportunities in scientific fields:
“Lazowska notes that the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) examined similar data from 2 years earlier and produced a report, signed by John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; Eric Lander, president and… Read more →
Washington Roundtable: “Increase computer science, engineering and health care capacity in Washington”
A new report from the Washington Roundtable focuses on the need to increase educational capacity in computer science, other engineering fields, and health care (in that order!) in order to respond to student demand and employer demand in Washington State.
Duh … but it’s good to have another sane report that identifies the true “high impact” fields.
The new report is entirely consistent with a report 18 months ago from the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Board which placed computer science… Read more →
UW wins Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for 6th consecutive year!
For the sixth year in a row, the University of Washington has won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Next month the team will head to San Antonio in an attempt to win their third consecutive National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition crown.
Members of this year’s Team Hillarious (hey, that’s how they spell it …):
Alexei Czeskis, CSE
Morgan Hein, iSchool
Atanas Kirilov, CSE
Karl Koscher, CSE
David Mah, CSE
Michael McKerinan, pre-engineering
Jordyn Puryear, iSchool
Ed Samson,… Read more →
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat win ACM – Infosys Foundation Award
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and Google Fellow Jeff Dean, along with MIT CSAIL Ph.D. alumnus and Google Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, have been honored with this year’s ACM – Infosys Foundation Award “For their leadership in the science and engineering of Internet-scale distributed systems.” The citation goes on to say:
“Dean and Ghemawat led the conception, design, and implementation of much of Google’s revolutionary software infrastructure, which has transformed the practice and understanding of Internet-scale computing. Their efforts, along with those… Read more →