“Jeff Dean facts aren’t, well, true. But the fact that someone went to the trouble to make up Chuck Norris-esque exploits about Dean is remarkable. That’s because Jeff Dean is a software engineer, and software engineers are not like Chuck Norris. For one thing, they’re not lone rangers—software development is an inherently collaborative enterprise. For another, they rarely shoot cowboys with an Uzi.
“Nevertheless, on April Fool’s Day 2007, some admiring young Google engineers saw fit to bestow upon Jeff… Read more →
Success disaster: Google Self-Driving Car presentation
Hopefully the fire marshal is otherwise occupied …
IMPORTANT: Babak Parviz’s Friday talk about Google Glass has been moved to EE125 to provide additional space. Friday, 2:00-2:30, EE125.… Read more →
Notkinfest! Please join us on Friday February 1
UW CSE invites you to join in celebrating the career of David Notkin at Notkinfest on the afternoon of Friday February 1.
4:00-4:30 – Colloquium, EE 105: Michael Ernst, “Software evolution then and now: the research impact of David Notkin”
4:30-6:00 – Reception, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
5:00-5:20 – Brief remarks
Please join us!
Post-event information – photographs, videos, the establishment of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering… Read more →
UW Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design program seeks Director
UW’s new Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design (MHCI+D) is offered by leading UW faculty from four units: Computer Science & Engineering, Human-Centered Design & Engineering, the Information School, and the Division of Design.
MHCI+D is seeking a Director. Learn more here.… Read more →
T.J. Vassar
We join all of Seattle in remembering an outstanding educator and an extraordinary human being.
Read a lovely Seattle Times article by Katherine Long here.… Read more →
UW CSE big data startup Decide.com in NY Times … again …
“At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, manufacturers tantalized consumers with new electronics soon to hit the shelves. But what does that do to the prices of current models that are being replaced? Is this a golden buying opportunity? …
“Decide.com, which tracks the price of electronics, studied what happened to the cost of TVs and laptops in past years after C.E.S.”
Read more here. Try Decide.com here.… Read more →
Babak Parviz on Google Glass, 2:00 on February 1, EE125
On February 1, UW alum and former UW EE professor Babak Parviz, co-creator of Google’s Project Glass, will describe that project. Babak’s Google colleagues Nirmal Patel and Bob Ryskamp also will participate.
2:00-2:30, EE125.
[CSE Ph.D. students: See separate information sent by email on January 26.]
IMPORTANT: This talk has been moved to EE125 to provide additional space. Friday, 2:00-2:30, EE125.… Read more →
Google X and the Google Driverless Car Project, 6:00 on January 28, EEB 125
On January 28 at 6 p.m. in EEB 125, two Googlers will discuss Google X (Google’s “skunkworks”) and the Google Driverless Car Project.
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille, a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon on leave at Google X, will begin by providing an overview of activities at Google X.
Then Nick Hobbs, a graduate of Olin College and a PM at Google X, will discuss the Driverless Car Project.
Plan on roughly 60 minutes of presentation and 30… Read more →
Ph.D. alum Marc Fiuczynski contributes $1M to Levytown effort
On January 10 we announced the launch of the “Levytown” effort to provide badly-needed additional space for UW CSE.
Imagine our surprise this morning when we opened a small crumpled envelope and discovered, rather than the $40 he had pledged, a $1M bill from Ph.D. alum Marc Fiuczynski.
Unfortunately, the UW development office is closed on weekends, but we’ll be hustling over there first thing on Monday morning.
… Read more →
CSE’s Yaw Anokwa on GeekWire Podcast
“This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re pleased to be joined by one of our former Geeks of the Week, Yaw Anokwa. He’s a graduate of the University of Washington computer science program, co-founder of the software startup Nafundi and one of the computer scientists behind the Open Data Kit project, which provides smart forms for collecting data on mobile devices in rural areas, developing countries and other places with limited connectivity.
“It’s a glimpse into the… Read more →