On Tuesday, Stanford economist Susan Athey delivered the third UW CSE Distinguished Lecture of the year, “Game Theory Meets Machine Learning: Designing Auction-Based Markets for Online Advertising,” co-sponsored with the Department of Economics.
Previous talks in this year’s CSE Distinguished Lecture Series: Maria Klawe (President of Harvey Mudd College) and Brad Smith (Microsoft General Counsel and Executive Vice President).
Next talk in the series: MIT professor Regina Barzilay, January 8.
Information on the talk, and video archive, here. … Read more →
“How Yoky Matsuoka created the modern robotic hand, and what the rest of us can learn from her”
GeekWire excerpts a portion of the forthcoming book “Mastery” by Robert Greene which profiles former UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka, now VP of Technology at Nest:
“Her mind naturally works better on a larger scale, continually pondering the connections between things on high levels— what makes the human hand so weirdly perfect, how the hand has influenced who we are and how we think. With these large questions governing her research, she avoids becoming narrowly focused on… Read more →
DawgBytes summer daycamp reunion at UW
This past summer, UW CSE hosted three week-long summer daycamps for secondary school students under the umbrella of our DawgBytes (“a taste of UW CSE”) outreach initiative.
On Saturday, the middle school cohort re-connected at UW, where Cheryl Platz from Microsoft provided an overview of interaction design, followed by a workshop and an activity fair coordinated by UW CSE undergraduate Emily Harmell and UW ACMS undergraduate Patricia McKenzie. (Thanks also to UW CSE undergraduates Rachel Sobel, Kevin Wallace, Nicole Ford,… Read more →
Neil Eney
Services were held today for Neil Eney, father of long-time UW CSE undergraduate advisor (and her father’s daughter) Crystal Eney, who passed away on October 27.
A summary of Neil’s life appears here.
Our thoughts are with Crystal, her brother Neilson, and Neil’s wife of 43 years, Page.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Anna Karlin named ACM Fellow
Anna Karlin, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the ACM “for contributions to algorithms and to the boundary with systems, networking, data mining, and microeconomics.”
Anna is known for contributions in the area of algorithms, especially online and randomized algorithms, and for high-impact work at the boundary between algorithms and other areas of computer science. She combines mathematical prowess with a long-standing interest and experience in building and analyzing advanced computer systems. … Read more →
CSE’s Emo Todorov: responding to disasters with a guitar-playing robot hand
OK, we don’t get it either, but it’s the UW Daily – a report on the selection of a team led by CSE professor Emo Todorov to participate in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Read the UW Daily article here. Read a previous CSE News post here.… Read more →
CSE’s Larry Snyder named University of Iowa 2012 Alumni Fellow
Congratulations to UW CSE emeritus professor Larry Snyder, who was named a 2012 Alumni Fellow by the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Snyder received his B.A. in 1968 in Mathematics and Economics. Snyder’s award citation reads, in part:
“Larry Snyder, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, is best known for his work to promote the discipline of computer science and expand computer science education, particularly during the 1990s – a time of… Read more →
CSE’s Ian King: “Senior Vintage Systems Engineer” at Paul Allen’s new Living Computer Museum
A wonderful AP article featuring UW CSE Professional Masters Program alum Ian King:
“For tourists with an interest in Seattle’s role as a high-tech hub, there hasn’t been much here to see, other than driving over to Microsoft headquarters in suburban Redmond to take pictures of a bunch of boring buildings.
“But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has just opened the Living Computer Museum, with displays of old machines — all in working order — along with a geeky wish… Read more →
Susan Athey: CSE Distinguished Lecture, November 13
Renowned economist Susan Athey will deliver the third CSE Distinguished Lecture of the year on Tuesday November 13 at 3:30 in the Atrium of the Allen Center. The title of her talk is “Machine Learning meets Economics: Using Theory, Data, and Experiments to Design Markets.”
Athey is a professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1995 and taught at MIT for six years, at Stanford for five years, and at… Read more →
DawgBytes summer daycamp reunion at Facebook
This past summer, UW CSE hosted three week-long summer daycamps for secondary school girls under the umbrella of our DawgBytes (“a taste of UW CSE”) outreach initiative.
On Saturday, the girls re-connected at the Seattle Facebook office, where engineers Peter Brook, Cullen Walsh and Denise Noyes showed them around the office, taught them how to incorporate the Facebook API in their Processing programs, and participated in a panel where the girls asked phenomenal questions.
Thanks to Peter, Cullen, and Denise… Read more →