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 →
ACM Fellows – The More The Merrier!
We had previously announced UW CSE professor Anna Karlin as a 2012 ACM Fellow.
The full list is out today, and in addition to Anna, we note UW CSE bachelors alumnus and one-time faculty member Hans Boehm (now at HP Labs), and UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus David Grove (now at IBM Research) – plus many friends of UW CSE.
Congratulations one and all! See the full list of new ACM Fellows here.… Read more →
UW CSE spinoff SNUPI Technologies launches
SNUPI (Sensor Network Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure) Technologies announced Tuesday that it has received $1.5 million in funding from venture capital firms Madrona Venture Group and Radar Partners, as well as several of the company’s founders.
The company’s key technology is a wireless sensor that can go decades before it needs a battery changed. The sensor can detect environmental hazards, such as mold, carbon monoxide and radon. It could also be used to monitor humidity or mechanical motion. It was developed… Read more →
Stanford changes its wordmark to keep pace with the University of California
We reported recently on the fact that the University of California has changed its logo from an institutional seal, which had served it well for more than a century, to a pull-tab.
Not to be left in the dust, Stanford has decided to modernize its wordmark, changing the font from “appropriate” to “bleh.”
The California Department of Health has launched an investigation in an attempt to learn what the hell is in the water they’re drinking in the… Read more →
NSF on CSEdWeek: 1/3 UW CSE
The National Science Foundation celebrates Computer Science Education Week with a video profiling six high-impact computer scientists, including UW faculty member Shwetak Patel and UW Ph.D. alumna Fran Berman.
Read about it in NSF’s CS Bits & Bytes here.
Watch the video here.
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Washington ranks 3rd in ITIF’s 2012 State New Economy Index
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 →