We trumpet the studies whose results we like, and bury the others. This one we like! The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, led by Rob Atkinson, has released the 2012 edition of their State New Economy Index.
The 2012 State New Economy Index builds on prior State New Economy Indexes published in 1999, 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2010. The report uses 26 indicators, divided into five areas that capture what is new about the New Economy: knowledge jobs, globalization, economic… Read more →
G-Give 2012 – Googlers Support UW CSE
This week marks the 2012 edition of G-Give, an innovative giving campaign at Google’s Seattle and Kirkland offices launched last year by Googler alums Jessan Hutchison-Quillan and Krista Davis, assisted by Googler alum Jeff Prouty and others.
During a one-week period, gifts by Googlers to a set of non-profits are tripled – they’re matched by Google, and also by Googler sponsor(s) for each non-profit.
It’s a great way to encourage philanthropy by Googlers to a wide range of good causes.… Read more →
UW CSE Open House kicks off CSEdWeek
UW CSE kicked off CSEdWeek (Computer Science Education Week) on Saturday. 750 K-12 students and parents filled the Allen Center for an Open House featuring demonstrations by many dozens of UW CSE undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff. A huge success! Many thanks to Hélène Martin for conceiving and organizing the event, to all of the CSE participants, and to the sponsors of the event: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
UW CSE will close CSEdWeek next Saturday by hosting… Read more →
University of California changes logo to keep pace with UW
During the previous century, under memorable President Dick McCormick, the University of Washington hired a bunch of consultants who modernized its athletic logo from a husky to a ferret.
The University of California – ever a laggard, but never by too much – is now keeping pace, changing the UC seal to a pull-tab.
We commend UC leadership, and congratulate our colleagues at Berkeley, San Diego, and the other UC campuses, on this important modernization.
Read more here.
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Cloudera!
Cloudera – co-founded by UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia along with Jeff Hammerbacher and Amr Awadallah, and with Mike Olson as CEO – has closed a massive round of funding at a valuation of $700 million!
“The biggest and best known company in the Hadoop world is Cloudera. Started in 2008 by a trio of engineers from Facebook, Google and Yahoo … it has in four years gone from the start-up that few really understood to the company you have… Read more →
Washington State leads the nation in tech job concentration!
According to a study released this week by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Washington State has the greatest concentration of technology jobs in the U.S. A whopping 11.4 percent of jobs in Washington state are tied to the tech economy, more than double the national average.
Go team!
Read a GeekWire post (with a link to the study) here.… Read more →
“Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon”
The New York Times describes the difficulty of learning science in a language that does not include many scientific terms – sign language:
“Gallaudet has tried to take a democratic approach to the problem: it collaborates on the ASL-STEM Forum, a wiki-style Web site dedicated to ‘enabling American Sign Language to grow in science, technology, engineering and mathematics’ that was set up in 2009 by researchers at the University of Washington. Anyone can submit, critique and vote for science… Read more →
CSE’s Rob Gens wins NIPS Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations to Rob Gens, who received the 2012 NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) Best Student Paper Award for his paper “Discriminative Learning of Sum-Product Networks.”
NIPS is one of the top two machine learning conferences, and this is the only award it gives. (UW CSE is two for two with papers on sum-product networks to date – Hoifung Poon won the UAI-11 Best Paper Award for the previous one.)… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family among GeekWire’s 2012 Newsmakers
Congratulations and thanks to:
Greg Gottesman and Matt McIlwain, who have helped us in so many ways at Madrona Venture Group.
Jeff Bezos, who was instrumental this year in our ability to recruit machine learning stars Emily Fox and Carlos Guestrin.
Sunny Gupta, who before he hit the big time was VP of UW CSE startup Performant.
UW President Mike Young – a huge supporter of CSE, Engineering, and entrepreneurship.
Read the GeekWire article here.… Read more →
“Under Seattle’s Cloud, a Big Data Cluster Grows”
Xconomy reports on a session at last Thursday’s Washington Innovation Summit chaired by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska. Other participants quoted in the article include Christian Chabot (Tableau Software), Cameron Myhrvold (Ignition Partners), Ruben Ortega (Google), and Mike Fridgen (Decide.com).
Read it here.… Read more →