On February 23rd, twenty high school women from Washington state were honored at UW CSE with Awards for Aspirations in Computing from NCWIT, the National Center for Women & Information Technology. We were also joined by Krista Holden, the national award winner from Washington state, and by Ruthe Farmer, Director of Strategic Initiatives at NCWIT.
The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women at the high school level for their computing-related achievements and interests. Awardees are selected… Read more →
Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID
Josh Smith will join the long list of UW CSE book authors when Wirelessly Powered Sensor Networks and Computational RFID is published later this week.
The book describes work by Josh and others at Intel Research Seattle, UW, and other institutions. Josh’s WISP (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform) is the first of a new class of RF-powered sensing and computing systems. Rather than being powered by batteries, these systems are powered by radio waves that are either deliberately broadcast or… Read more →
2013 UW CSE Ski Day!
Continuing a tradition begun in the 1960s by Jerre Noe and Hellmut Golde, UW CSE chair Hank Levy led close to 70 CSE graduate student and faculty skiers and boarders on the annual UW CSE Ski Day on Friday February 22.
Ski Day 2013 was held at Stevens Pass in epic conditions, with a foot of new snow and additional accumulations all day. The highway was closed for an hour at the end of the afternoon, forcing the skiers to… Read more →
“Broadening Participation in Computing: The Why and the How”
The March issue of Computer magazine, published by the IEEE Computer Society, includes a set of articles on gender diversity in computing, including one describing UW CSE’s outreach programs. The UW CSE article – written by Crystal Eney, Ed Lazowska, Hélène Martin, and Stuart Reges – concludes:
Neither UW nor the field as a whole is where it needs to be, but many of us are working hard to get there. Hopefully, the experiences we’ve described here offer some ideas… Read more →
Three short research videos: Refraction, Foldit, and OpenDataKit
Take a minute to check out these three new research project videos from UW CSE. Topics covered are:
Refraction – discovering optimal pathways for learning early mathematics: Refraction is a research project of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science — focused on games for learning and for science. It won the Grand Prize in the Disney Learning Challenge at SIGGRAPH 2010.
Foldit – a problem-solving scientific discovery game: Foldit, a hugely successful protein folding video game created by UW… Read more →
2013 ACM SIGSOFT “Impact Paper Award” to Mike Ernst, Jake Cockrell, Bill Griswold, and David Notkin
SIGSOFT is the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award is presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at a SIGSOFT-sponsored conference held at least 10 years prior to the award year that is judged to have had the greatest impact since its publication.
The 2013 winners: UW CSE professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Mike Ernst, AOL principal software engineer (and UW CSE M.S. alum) Jake Cockrell, UCSD professor… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Notkin wins 2013 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
SIGSOFT is the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on software engineering.
The SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award is presented annually to an individual or individuals who have made significant and lasting research contributions to the theory or practice of software engineering.
And the 2013 winner is: UW CSE’s David Notkin! Congratulations David!
Here’s a wonderful 30-minute talk by David’s Ph.D. student (and UW CSE professor) Mike Ernst describing David’s many software engineering research contributions.
And here’s information on Notkinfest, … Read more →
Crosscut reports on the visit of Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun to NEU-Seattle
Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun is visiting Seattle in connection with the inauguration of Northeastern’s Seattle campus, located in South Lake Union. Read the Crosscut article here.
This is what UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska sent to the reporter, in its entirety. (The article represents it perfectly well, but necessarily omits most of the material.)
Our state has a higher education system designed for our 1970 economy. Today, we rank 2nd among the 50 states in the proportion of our… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Krzysztof Gajos, Chris Re win 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships
Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in the fields of chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics, in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions.
Among the 16 computer scientists selected as 2013 Sloan Research Fellows are two UW CSE Ph.D. alums:
Krzysztof Gajos, an expert in… Read more →
OneBusAway goes national!
OneBusAway, the popular real-time transit information system in the Puget Sound region developed by UW CSE, has gone national, with deployments in New York City and Detroit, along with experimental deployments in Tampa, Atlanta, and Washington DC.
In New York, MTA is using OneBusAway as the basis for its Bus Time service. In Detroit, a CodeForAmerica team used it for a text-messaging system, TextMyBus.
But you live in the Puget Sound region – use the original OneBusAway here… Read more →