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 →
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 →