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.
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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 →
UW CSE @ Coursera … one month and counting …
Last summer, the University of Washington partnered with Coursera to make variants of some courses available for free. (In case you’ve been sleeping for the past year, these “MOOCs” have been widely discussed inside and outside of academia.)
CSE is excited about this opportunity and to date is responsible for about half of UW’s announced course offerings. The first two will begin in one month — on January 14, 2013. They are a programming-languages course similar to CSE341 taught by… Read more →
City of Seattle, UW, Gig.U, and Gigabit Squared announce gigabit broadband initiative
UW CSE was the site of a press conference this morning 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.
Press release here. GeekWire article here. Xconomy post here. … Read more →
“‘Tis the season: Google’s unique Seattle-born G-Give charity program raising thousands this week”
GeekWire profiles Google Seattle’s G-Give initiative, created by UW CSE alums:
“Life can get hectic for a mid-twenties software engineer at a big company. You’re working long hours at an exciting, fast-paced job and when you’re not grinding away at the computer, eating and sleeping likely take up your remaining time.
“It’s only natural that there’s not much time to think about philanthropy and giving back. What two University of Washington alumni and Google Seattle engineers have done to fix… Read more →
HUFFPOST TV: “‘Homeland’: Brody Helps Nazir Kill Someone; Producers Talk Shocking Exit And What’s Next”
We swear, we’re not making this up:
Season 2, Episode 10 of Showtime’s “Homeland,” titled “Broken Hearts,” was inspired by Yoshi Kohno’s research demonstrating that implantable pacemaker/defibrillators can be hacked.
Read all about it here.… Read more →
“GeekWire’s Gift Guide: 13 great geeky gifts from Seattle”
You decide: a rehash of a 1968 IBM flowcharting template, a rain globe, or UW CSE’s Control-Alt-Hack computer security card game? Read all about it here.… Read more →