Brier Dudley reports on the UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting, in the Seattle Times:
“A boost from the Legislature – plus grants from the likes of Amazon.com – is increasing the size the University of Washington’s computer science program by 25 percent this year …
“The school also has successfully recruited top-tier faculty, including world experts in machine learning, and more hires are in the works.
“‘We’ve had really the most remarkable year in our history,’ [UW CSE chair… Read more →
UW CSE runoff for ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition
Last Saturday, 36 3-person teams competed in UW’s local runoff for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition to determine the 5 teams that will represent UW in the regional ICPC runoff on November 3. The international ICPC finals will be held in St. Peterburg Russia from June 30 – July 4. Unlike the World Series, the ICPC truly is an international competition – it’s been 15 years since a US team won!
Faculty members Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp organized… Read more →
Annual CSE pumpkin carving TGIF
UW CSE’s most successful Industry Affiliates meeting ever was followed by our most successful graduate student pumpkin carving TGIF ever, with 54 jack-o-lanterns produced, and countless pounds of guck on the floor of the atrium. (Thanks to Kyle Rector for organizing the event … and the cleanup.)… Read more →
Microsoft’s Brad Smith @ UW CSE Distinguished Lecture, Tuesday 10/30 @ 3:30
Please join us for the second 2012-13 UW CSE Distinguished Lecture.
On Tuesday October 30 at 3:30, Brad Smith – Microsoft’s General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs – will speak on “Creating an Environment for Innovation.”
Additional information here.… Read more →
Best Paper at ASSETS 2012
CSE Ph.D. students Shiri Azenkot and Kyle Rector, along with CSE professor Richard Ladner and iSchool (and CSE adjuct) professor Jake Wobbrock won the ASSETS 2012 Best Paper Award at the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility for their paper “PassChords: Secure multi-touch authentication for blind people.”
The paper presents a new non-visual technique, PassChords, for user authentication on a touch screen using mult-finger taps, rather than entering a traditional PIN on a virtual keypad. … Read more →
“Mobile app that measures lung functions headlines UW computer science show”
A terrific GeekWire article, with a huge number of great photos, on the UW CSE Open House held on Wednesday evening:
“We all remember school science fairs – lots of posters, people and presentations packed into a large area. Consider Wednesday evening at University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering something similar, but instead a souped-up version hosted by computer science buffs.
“As part of UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Annual Meeting, 89 research groups made up of over 150 grad… Read more →
UW CSE Affiliates Recruiting
Today’s the day – 50 top companies recruiting UW CSE students. It’s a zoo!
Pity poor Google: Somehow they had to top last year’s stunt of Yin Lu running around in a Cookie Monster costume handing out chocolate chip cookies. The brainstorm: Gummy Sushi. (They had to go all the way to Mill Creek to find a bakery that was willing to fabricate the little beauties …)
Tuesday was recruiting day for 50 startup companies. Wednesday was the… Read more →
Congratulations to the winners of the Madrona Prize and the People’s Choice Awards!
The research day of the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting concludes with an open house (reception, posters, lab tours) for Affiliates attendees and regional alumni and friends.
For the 7th year, Madrona Venture Group awarded the Madrona Prize to the students whose research had the greatest commercial potential. In addition, the People’s Choice Awards were given to the most popular research poster or demo in each lab.
Congratulations to all the winners – and to all the participants (89 … Read more →
Carlos Guestrin keynotes 2012 UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting
Carlos Guestrin – UW CSE’s Amazon Professor of Machine Learning – delivered a luncheon keynote on his GraphLab machine learning system at the 2012 UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting.
Learn more about Carlos and his research here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, students featured on David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW
David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW featured the work of UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and the UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab as the final segment of the episode “Can Science Stop Crime?”
In addition to Yoshi, those featured include Yoshi’s wife Taryn Kohno, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Dan Halperin, and UW CSE Ph.D. students Karl Koscher, Franzi Roesner, Alexei “Crash” Czeskis – and the work of these and others.
Watch this terrific 12-minute PBS NOVA… Read more →