Why do CSE 142/143 ROCK (more than 2,000 students per year in 142; more than 1,300 per year in 143; off-the-scale student evaluations)?????
Great faculty, yes! But also, 60 PHENOMENAL undergraduate teaching assistants!
Go team!… Read more →
UW CSE alum Ben Hindman profiled in Wired
Star UW CSE bachelors alum Ben Hindman headed off to graduate school at Berkeley, then bailed for Twitter when the company adopted his Mesos system for efficiently parceling work across massive numbers of servers. Wired describes the work in “Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon.” Read it here.… Read more →
CSE’s Dan Grossman on MOOCs
UW CSE professor Dan Grossman is profiled in a UW Provost’s report on enhancing teaching with technology.
Grossman is teaching one of the UW CSE Coursera MOOCs this quarter: Programming Languages. (Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan are teaching Introduction to Computer Networks.)
Says Grossman: “For me, it is largely about being passionate about the course material and how to present it. Given this passion, why would I not want the largest rooftop I can find from… Read more →
“Google Launches Sign Language Interpreter App For Hangouts, Adds Accessibility Features To Gmail, Drive And Chrome”
TechCrunch reports on a new Google accessibility initiative, complete with a photo of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anna Cavender, who works on accessibility at Google’s Seattle engineering office.
“Google announced that it has added a number of accessibility to Chrome, Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Drive that should make using Google suites of web apps a bit easier to use for blind and low-vision users. In addition, Google also launched a new sign language interpreter app and keyboard shortcuts for… Read more →
The world’s most admired companies
Just a small bit of regional crowing: 5 of the top 25 companies on Fortune’s list of the world’s “most admired” companies are Seattle born and raised: Amazon.com (#3), Starbucks (#5), Nordstrom (#16), Microsoft (#17), and Costco Wholesale (#23). Go team! See the list here.… Read more →
Women in Computer Science: UW CSE is a pacesetter
We concluded our article “Broadening Participation: The Why and the How” in the March issue of Computer by saying “Neither UW nor the field as a whole is where it needs to be, but many of us are working hard to get there.”
In the context of David Notkin’s receipt of the 2013 Computing Research Association A. Nico Habermann Award for outstanding contributions to supporting underrepresented groups in the computing research community, Lecia Barker of the National… Read more →
David Notkin wins Computing Research Association A. Nico Habermann Award
The Computing Research Association makes an award, usually annually, to a person who has made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented groups in the computing research community. The award honors the late A. Nico Habermann, who headed NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate and who was deeply committed to increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing research.
UW CSE’s David Notkin has just been announced as the 2013 recipient of… Read more →
Coding is cool! Code.org urges students to learn to code with resources + terrific new video
Code.org, Hadi Partovi’s nationwide effort to encourage students to learn to code, has rolled out an inspirational new video featuring some of the top names from technology and the world at large – from Bill Gates to will.i.am.
Says GeekWire:
“Seattle entrepreneur Hadi Partovi is on a mission to transform computer science education in the U.S. And Partovi is off to a pretty fast start with Code.org, the nonprofit which he formed last month with his twin brother Ali.… Read more →
Forbes ranks Seattle as the best city outside of Texas for good jobs …
Which means it’s the best city for good jobs that’s located in a state where anyone in his or her right mind would want to live.
Read more here.… Read more →
GeekWire: Seattle ranked 2nd for women entrepreneurs
“If you’re a woman and an entrepreneur, there are few better places to be in than Seattle.
“That’s according to a new study from personal finance site Nerd Wallet, who placed Seattle just behind San Francisco as the best place for women entrepreneurs.
“Here’s what they based their rankings on:
Number of businesses per 100 residents from the U.S. Census
Percent of businesses that are women-owned from the U.S. Census
Median income from the U.S. Census (half-weighted)
Unemployment rate from… Read more →