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 →
UW CSE hosts WA NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing
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 →