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.
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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 →
UW CSE alum Kevin Ross to receive College of Engineering Diamond Award for Distinguished Service
Each year, the University of Washington College of Engineering confers “Diamond Awards” on alumni in four categories: Distinguished Achievement in Industry, Distinguished Achievement in Academia, Entrepreneurial Excellence, and Distinguished Service.
The recipient of the 2013 Diamond Award for Distinguished Service – to be conferred at an award banquet on May 31 – is 1988 UW CSE bachelors alum Kevin Ross.
In 2002, while working as a senior design engineer at Microsoft, Kevin became concerned that enthusiasm seemed to be declining… Read more →
Videos of the Gigabit Seattle announcement
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 →