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 →
UW CSE computer security card game “Control-Alt-Hack” released
Control-Alt-Hack is a computer security-themed card game designed to be entertaining, give a glimpse into white hat hacking, and highlight some of the more surprising aspects of computer security. It targets kids age 14 and up. It’s fun, and also educational / awareness-building. The game designers – Tamara Denning, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Adam Shostack from UW CSE – are computer security experts, and took care to include as much juicy and accurate(ish) content as possible. Game mechanics were provided by… Read more →
“Big Data” at 2012 Washington Innovation Summit
The morning session at Thursday’s Washington Innovation Summit focused on “big data.” It began with a keynote by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith – a rousing call for greater focus on computer science education. UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska then introduced the “big data” topic. Lazowska then emceed a panel with Christian Chabot (CEO, Tableau Software), Mike Fridgen (CEO, UW CSE startup Decide.com), Cameron Myhrvold (Founding Partner, Ignition Partners), and UW CSE alum Ruben Ortega (Engineering Director, Google). This was followed… Read more →
CSE startup Decide.com makes it to Kansas City
Well, to the Kansas City Star, at least …
“Online price changes are driven by software that enables retailers to react to competitors in real time and make personalized pitches to consumers based on their browsing and purchase histories. Complex algorithms calculate factors such as inventory levels, how many sellers are carrying a product, how long it’s been on the market and when a new model is expected …
“The good news is that consumers have a growing number of… Read more →
Tom Daniel elected Fellow of AAAS
Tom Daniel – UW professor of Biology and of Computer Science & Engineering, and Director of UW’s NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Tom joins CSE’s Susan Eggers and Ed Lazowska as AAAS Fellows.
Congratulations Tom!… Read more →
Wen-Hann Wang, David Wetherall named IEEE Fellows
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Wen-Hann Wang and UW CSE professor David Wetherall have been named to the 2013 class of Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Wen-Hann, Vice President of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, was recognized “for contributions to multi-level cache hierarchy and multiprocessor systems.”
David, an expert in computer networking, was recognized “for contributions to the design of flexible, robust, and secure networks.”
Congratulations to Wen-Hann and David! (David is the thirteenth UW CSE faculty … Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille featured on David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW
David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW featured the work of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille – now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University – as the final segment of the episode “What Will the Future Be Like?”
Watch this terrific 12-minute PBS NOVA Science NOW segment!
There’s lot of other great Computer Science content in the full 52-minute show – watch the entire show here.
(Last month, UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohn and his students were featured… Read more →