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
The… Read more →
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.”
CSE’s David… Read more →
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 →
“Help wanted for tech jobs and our schools: Economy moved on, but education hasn’t kept up in Washington”
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska regarding STEM education in Washington State:
“A document Lazowska gave me has a statement from Washington’s Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education: ‘We will reduce employers’ need to import people with advanced degrees or specialized skills from other states and countries. The best jobs in Washington will go to Washingtonians educated in our colleges and universities.’
“A different report last week found Washington among top 10 states in cuts to… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten and Affiliate Professor Eric Horvitz elected to National Academy of Engineering
Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and of Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for contributions to the privacy and security of computer systems, and for impact on public policy.” Election to NAE – which has roughly 2,000 members across a dozen fields – is one of the highest professional honors accorded to engineers in academia, industry and government.
Ed received his… Read more →
Microsoft’s Roger Barga on UW’s “Data Science” certificate program
In this terrific new video, Microsoft’s Roger Barga discusses UW’s Certificate Program in “Data Science.”
The certificate, offered in both online and face-to-face versions, is comprised of three courses:
Introduction to Data Science
Methods for Data Analysis
Deriving Knowledge from Data at Scale
Roger is one of the instructors. Creation of the program was driven by Bill Howe of UW CSE and the eScience Institute. Learn more and watch the video here.… Read more →
TerraSwarm Research Center launched
The TerraSwarm Research Center is addressing the huge potential (and the associated risks) of pervasive integration of smart, networked sensors and actuators into our connected world. The center is funded at $27.5 million over five years by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP) administered by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). Funding comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the SRC industry partners, including Applied Materials, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, Intel Corporation, Micron Technology, Raytheon, Texas… Read more →
Foldit wins 2012 Katerva Behavioral Change Award
Foldit – a hugely successful protein folding video game created by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science – has won the 2012 Katerva Behavioral Change Award.
The Katerva Awards shine a global spotlight on the world’s most promising sustainability ideas and serves as a means to gather together the world’s best sustainability innovators. Awards are given in 10 categories. See the announcement of winners here.… Read more →