The current issue of SIGCSE Bulletin (the publication of the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education) features the Computer Science Education Week outreach activities of six colleges and universities, including UW.
UW’s activities included an Open House that attracted more than 750 middle school and high school attendees, and a programming competition (organized in conjunction with the local chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association, and sponsored by Microsoft) that featured 74 teams representing 26 different schools.
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Center for Future Architectures Research launched
Many of the nation’s leading researchers in advanced computer architectures – including UW CSE professors Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman – have joined together to form C-FAR, the Center for Future Architectures Research.
C-FAR is focused on innovation to create future generation scalable computing systems. The center is working on research that maximally leverages emerging circuit fabrics to enable whole new application areas. It accomplishes this goal through a highly collaborative research agenda that brings together researchers from many… Read more →
UW CSE + PATH: “Banking breast milk for babies”
One project resulting from a collaboration between UW CSE and Seattle-based global health organization PATH is a lifesaving low-cost intervention to save newborn babies using mobile phones and donated breast milk.
Each year, more than 3.3 million newborns die within their first month of life. Working with UW CSE Ph.D. student Rohit Chaudhri, PATH has developed a unique, low-cost system that uses mobile phones to manage safe pasteurization of breast milk.
Heat pasteurization kills potential pathogens in donated milk,… Read more →
“New tech tools aim to bring health care home”
The Seattle Times profiles Julie Kientz – UW professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering, adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and wife of UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel.
“Kientz … is setting out to improve public health by giving people tools to track their own habits and share more complete data with their doctors.
“More than that, she’s one of a growing number of researchers and entrepreneurs working to bridge the increasingly conspicuous gap between the centralized,… Read more →
UW tech-related Professional Masters Programs in GeekWire
UW offers a host of Professional Masters Programs in technology fields – programs geared to the needs of fully-employed professionals.
An ad in today’s GeekWire highlights these programs. Check out the full list here. Learn more about UW CSE’s Professional Masters Program – one of these offerings – here.
Why would you seek a professional masters degree from a different institution when you can benefit from UW’s top-ranked programs?… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage describes his experiences with Viagra on NPR
Well, sort of … In Episode 430, “Black Market Pharmacies And The Spam Empire Behind Them,” NPR’s “Planet Money” features UW CSE Ph.D. alum and UCSD professor Stefan Savage:
“Chances are you’ve received an email with a subject line like this ‘The hottest method to please your beloved one’ …
“You’ve probably wondered — who is sending these emails? Does anyone actually click on these links? What happens when they do?
“On today’s show, we go deep inside the world… Read more →
Google X showcase at UW CSE: January 28, 6 p.m., and February 1, 2 p.m.
Friends from Google X – Google’s “skunkworks” – will speak in UW CSE on January 28th from 6:00-7:30 p.m. in room EEB 125, and on February 1 from 2:00-2:30 p.m. in room CSE 403.
On January 28, 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… Read more →
Continued record enrollment in introductory Computer Science courses
Students are busting down the doors at all of the nation’s top computer science programs.
At UW, Winter Quarter enrollment in CSE 142 (“CS-1,” the first introductory course) is 810; the previous all-time high was 659. And 1/3 of the students are women, also an all-time high. Enrollment in CSE 143 (“CS-2,” the second introductory course) is 530, also an all-time high.
Enrollment varies from quarter to quarter. One way to understand the long-term picture is to graph a 1-year… Read more →
KOMO TV news: “New tech allows computers to sense gestures without camera”
SoundWave – research by UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and Sidhant Gupta, and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and Desney Tan.
Thrill to the KOMO TV weather guy attempting to explain the Doppler effect! Watch it here.… Read more →
UW CSE launches Coursera MOOCs
Two UW CSE MOOCs launch this week on Coursera.
Programming Languages, taught by UW CSE professor Dan Grossman, has roughly 60,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 341.
Introduction to Computer Networks, taught by UW CSE professors Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan, has roughly 50,000 registered students. This course is roughly equivalent to CSE 461.
Hey, what can possibly go wrong??… Read more →