During his State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new College Scorecard to help students and parents make better decisions about which college to attend.
How does the University of Washington stack up compared to other Washington State public institutions, and compared to its state-defined Global Challenge Peer Institutions (a selection of flagship universities with medical schools)?
Check it out! “Net cost” is shown below. Additional metrics here.
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CSE’s Oren Etzioni on “Dinner Dialogs: The Next Big Ideas”
“Dinner Dialogs” is an innovative video series featuring top Seattle entrepreneurs. UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni is one of four discussants in the first episode. Watch it here.… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska testifies to House Science Committee on innovation in information technology
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, along with Kathryn McKinley (Microsoft Research) and Kelly Gaither (Texas Advanced Computing Center), testified today to the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on the topic of innovation in information technology.
Lazowska sang a familiar refrain:
Research often takes a long time before it pays off – often 15 years or more.
Research often pays off in unanticipated ways – we can’t predict what the biggest impact will be.
Advances in one sector… Read more →
Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: “Seattle is the promised land in startup America!”
GeekWire reports on an interview with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot:
“Building a company here in Seattle over the last 10 years has made us realize that in many ways, I think Seattle is the promised land in startup America. It’s one of the best decisions we ever made.
“We did not make the decision for business reasons. We moved because we wanted to live here. There were a few of us that were best described as Bay Area Burnouts and… Read more →
Insecurity of the ORCA regional transit not-so-smart card
Since its inception, UW CSE researchers have raised concerns regarding the security and privacy aspects of Seattle’s ORCA (“One Regional Card for All”) regional transit smartcard.
Now “there’s an app for that” – FareBot, which enables any NFC-equipped Android phone to extract the data from ORCA (and similar transit smartcards in San Francisco, Singapore, and Japan).
FareBot, created by Seattle software developer Eric Butler, builds upon work by UW CSE’s Karl Koscher.
Crosscut reports on the app today in… Read more →
STEM Out!
On Saturday, UW CSE once again hosted STEM Out!, a terrific event to get young women excited about STEM careers. We had more than 50 participants from grades 7-12 representing schools from all over the area. The event was organized primarily by women engineers from Amazon.com led by 2004 UW CSE alumna Margaux Eng. Google engineers also assisted, as did a UW CSE DawgBytes team including outreach coordinator Hélène Martin and students Nicole Ford, Caitlin Bonnar, and Patricia McKenzie
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David Notkin featured in NCWIT’s “Sit With Me” campaign
“Sometimes you have to sit to take a stand.” That’s the slogan of the “Sit With Me” campaign of the National Center for Women & Information Technology:
“We sit to inspire women in computing and IT.
“We sit to recognize the value of women’s technical contributions.
“We sit to embrace women’s important perspectives and increase their participation.
“Imagine designing technology that is as broad and creative as the people it serves.
“We won’t stand for anything less.”
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New York Times: “Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States”
“For years — and especially since 2005, when Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard, made his notorious comments about women’s aptitude — researchers have been searching for ways to explain why there are so many more men than women in the top ranks of science.
“Now comes an intriguing clue, in the form of a test given in 65 developed countries by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It finds that among a representative sample of 15-year-olds around… Read more →
CSE’s Lilian de Greef wins 2013 Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship
The Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students, designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a Ph.D. This program supports women in the second year of their graduate studies.
Lilian de Greef, a Harvey Mudd College undergraduate in her first year as a UW CSE Ph.D. student in Shwetak Patel’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab, has been named one of 10 recipients of 2013 Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarships.
Lilian joins… Read more →
Seattle’s Pioneer Square – New center of the tech universe
GeekWire ran a great story today on a map of tech companies in the Pioneer Square area, produced by Bryan Rush and Stephen Cugier of Colliers. Pretty impressive! Take a look at the map, and read the GeekWire post. And, hats off to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn for his successful efforts to revitalize Pioneer Square!… Read more →