Last week, UW CSE was the site of a press conference at which Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn was joined by Gig.U Executive Director (and former author of the National Broadband Plan) Blair Levin, Gigabit Squared President and co-founder Mark Ansboury, and UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, to announce a collaborative initiative – Gigabit Seattle – to develop and operate an ultra-high-speed fiber and wifi broadband network in Seattle.
Videos of the event have now been posted – Lazowska’s remarks here… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family awarded National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology
President Barack Obama today announced that Lee Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, will receive the National Medal of Science. Hood and his lab have invented five instruments that are central to the modern era of biotechnology, including the gene sequencer.
President Obama also announced that Art Rosenfeld, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and father-in-law of UW CSE professor Dan… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide.com on American Public Media’s Marketplace
Mike Fridgen, CEO of UW CSE startup Decide.com, discusses dynamic pricing, and how consumers can turn it into a benefit.
“In today’s lackluster economy, dynamic pricing often works for the consumer, says Fridgen of Decide.com. ‘It’s never been a better time to be an online consumer,’ he says. ‘You literally have retailers changing their prices minute by minute competing with each other for your business.'”
Listen to the story here.… Read more →
Tiny ToCS
Are you no longer sufficiently challenged by the requirement of squeezing your research into a 10-page conference paper? Try Tiny ToCS – Tiny Transactions on Computer Science!
“Tiny Transactions on Computer Science seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer science. Tiny ToCS is the premier venue for computer science research of 140 characters or less.”
Remember … if it takes more than 140 characters to explain, it’s not a Big Idea!
(For better or… Read more →
Magda Balazinska: As American as apple pie
CSE professor Magda Balazinska celebrates her brand-spanking-new U.S. citizenship with fried chicken, apple pie, baked beans, okra, questions from the web-based citizenship test cram course, and the UW CSE data management and big data groups.… Read more →
Fall 2012 issue of MSB published before Christmas!
The Fall 2012 issue of Most Significant Bits – the UW CSE alumni magazine – is available!
Industry Affiliates Meeting (including a new Startup Day)
World Lab initiative
Phenomenal faculty hires
Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing
CSE 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series
Google’s G-Give campaign
Datagrams – news about you!
A spellbinding letter from Hank
Read the Fall 2012 issue here. Complete archive here. Keep in touch here.… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Puget Sound high school programming competition
On Saturday, 74 teams representing 26 Puget Sound area high schools – more than 200 students in all – participated in a programming competition hosted by UW CSE and the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association, and sponsored by Microsoft TEALS. The Allen Center was humming!
Thanks to Hélène Martin, Stuart Reges, Magda Balazinska, and a host of volunteers for making the day a huge success!
Photographs here. Results here. CSTA post here.
Learn more about UW… Read more →
Seattle Times on Google’s G-Give
“Two Google employees who graduated from the University of Washington have come up with a simplified way for their fellow workers to give money to social causes — an idea that raised about $120,000 for an endowed scholarship at the UW just this week … The program also raised money for the Seattle office of Solid Ground and the Kirkland office of Hopelink, as well as the Vittana Foundation, Social Justice Fund Northwest and the Post-Prison Education Program. Each program… Read more →
UW CSE has three finalist teams in Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship competition
Qualcomm has announced 33 finalist teams – from among 138 applications from 15 participating US schools – for the 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships. The winning teams – which will be selected in March – each will receive a $100,000 Fellowship.
Congratulations to UW CSE’s 3 finalist teams:
“Approximate Acceleration,” Adrian Sampson and Thierry Moreau, advised by Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman.
“Triceratops: Securing Mobile Apps,” Ravi Bhoraskar and Edward Wu, advised by Mike Ernst and David Wetherall… Read more →
Los Angeles Times: “UC drops its new, much-reviled logo”
Responding to pressure from the UW CSE News blog, subsequently echoed by the Daily Californian, the University of California has reversed course and abandoned its “flushing toilet” logo.
“While I believe the design element in question would win wide acceptance over time, it also is important that we listen to and respect the snarky response from UW Computer Science & Engineering” Daniel M. Dooley, UC’s senior vice president for external relations, said in a statement Friday morning. “There’s… Read more →