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 →
Geoff Voelker teaches UCSD CSE221 in chain mail and gauntlets
I mean, how high can your IQ possibly be if you say to Stefan Savage, “Buy me whatever you want for Christmas and I’ll wear it on the first day of my Winter Quarter OS class”?
(Josh Smith adds: “At least Stefan doesn’t shop at Victoria’s Secret … could have been worse.”)… Read more →
UW CSE launches “Levytown” effort
In late 1999, UW CSE launched the fundraising effort for a marvelous facility that eventually became known as the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Early progress is chronicled here.
Today, less than a decade after we abandoned Beautiful Sieg Hall for the Allen Center, we’re again bursting at the seams.
As a result, we have launched the fundraising effort for Levytown.
Concept drawing:
Progress thus far:
David Notkin (who also kicked off the Allen Center… Read more →
The Least Stressful Job In America
You guessed it – college professor.
Where did we go wrong?
Read more here.… Read more →
CSE’s Eric Lei is University of Washington Junior Medalist
Each year, the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,500) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
This year’s UW Junior Medalist is CSE’s Eric Lei. Eric, who entered the UW after 10th grade through the Robinson Center’s UW Academy, was last year’s Freshman Medalist. (Your correspondent is a systems guy, so is not concerned by the arithmetic implicit in that statement.)
Eric is the eighteenth CSE student to be recognized as… Read more →
UW, PNNL launch Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing
“‘The expanded partnership between UW and PNNL will create tremendous new opportunities for both organizations,’ said Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science and engineering. ‘Big data is transforming the process of discovery in all fields. UW and PNNL have significant and complementary strengths.’ Lazowska leads the eScience Institute, created in 2008 to support data-driven discovery at the UW. Many of the roughly dozen UW faculty who will be involved with the new group at its launch are eScience Institute… Read more →
“UW professor creates crowdsourcing site for ASL-STEM language”
The UW Daily reports on CSE professor Richard Ladner’s work on developing a science-friendly American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary.
“Working with professors at Gallaudet University and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Ladner has created the ASL-STEM Forum, a site on which users can post signs for vocabulary for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
“Due to the broadness of its use, ASL doesn’t have many standardized terms that are common in STEM fields. The forum boasts almost… Read more →
“A Place Comfortable With Boeing, Anarchists, and ‘Frasier'”
A lovely New York Times article on the re-opening of Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry:
“The museum pays tribute, for example, to the many corporate giants that were born and thrived here, so startlingly out of proportion to the city’s modest population (now just over 600,000). There is a 1920s Model T reconfigured to look like an early truck from United Parcel Service, established as the American Messenger Company in Seattle in 1907. There are galleries devoted to… Read more →
CSE students Eric Lei and Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk win Mary Gates Research Scholarships
UW CSE undergraduates Eric Lei and Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk have been honored with Mary Gates Research Scholarships – competitive scholarships intended to enhance the educational experiences of undergraduate students at the University of Washington while they are engaged in research guided by faculty.
Congratulations to Eric and Vaspol. Learn more about the Mary Gates Research Scholarship program here.
… Read more →
Crosscut: “Best of 2012: Seattle’s global health powerhouses turn their attention to south King County”
Each day during the holidays, Crosscut revisits two top stories from the last year. Today’s focus is social services. UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello and his team are featured:
“Gaetano Borriello’s students in the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering are just a few of those good people. In the spring of 2011, several of Borriello’s undergraduates, working with other students in the department’s Human Centered Design program, designed prototypes for new mobile devices to help the G2L… Read more →