On Wednesday, 75 women Ph.D. students from UW Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the iSchool spent the afternoon at Microsoft Research discussing research with women Ph.D.s working at Microsoft.
Among the 9 Microsoft participants were UW CSE Ph.D. alums Saleema Amershi, Kate Everitt, Julie Letchner, and Maya Rodrig, and UW CSE affiliate professors Merrie Morris; and Karin Strauss (who is also the partner of UW CSE professor Luis Ceze).
Thanks to Microsoft (particularly… Read more →
“Award-Winning Living Voters Guide 2012 Launched in Washington & California”
UW News, Seattle’s CityClub, the Sacramento Bee, and the Seattle Times report on the 2012 edition of UW CSE’s Living Voters Guide:
“Living Voters Guide invites participants to discuss ballot measures together, to explore one another’s positions, and to build a personal, customized platform that will inform their final vote. This voters’ guide is co-created by everyone who participates. It evolves as you and neighbors across our state consider the tradeoffs for each measure. It requires participants to pledge… Read more →
Brad Smith, Microsoft General Counsel: UW CSE Distinguished Lecture on October 30
The next CSE Distinguished Lecture – co-sponsored with the UW School of Law – will be given on Tuesday October 30 at 3:30 by Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft and a long-time advocate, regionally and nationally, for education and innovation.
Brad’s talk is titled “Creating an Environment for Innovation.”
Please join us! Additional information here.… Read more →
HMC @ CSE
Eighteen Seattle-area Harvey Mudd College alums socialized last night with HMC President Maria Klawe in the Jaech Gallery at UW Computer Science & Engineering. Many are UW CSE Ph.D. students – HMC sent us four students just this year!
CSE-ers in the photo: (back row) Adrian Sampson, Dan Halperin, Stuart Pernsteiner, Eric Mullen, (middle row) Lilian de Greef, (front row) Will Scott, (missing in action) Megan Campbell.
Hear Maria’s CSE Distinguished Lecture Tuesday at 3:30 in the Microsoft Atrium at… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno to be featured Wednesday on PBS TV NOVA scienceNOW
The Seattle Times describes this Wednesday’s PBS TV NOVA scienceNOW:
“For most people, computer security means just that: Keeping viruses off your desktop or laptop, your PC or your Mac.
“But when Tadayoshi Kohno thinks of computers and security, he thinks about the vulnerabilities inherent in a whole range of devices that are increasingly connected wirelessly to the Internet, to cellphones or to each other.
“A computer scientist at the University of Washington, Kohno has proved that you can hack… Read more →
Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College, kicks off CSE 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series
Maria Klawe, renowned computer scientist and President of Harvey Mudd College, will speak Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 3:30 p.m. in the Microsoft Atrium of the UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Her talk, “The Harvey Mudd Story: From 10 percent to 40 percent female in computer science in three years,” will explore how her institution began an effort in 2006 that quadrupled its female representation in computer science majors to 40 percent – the same percentage… Read more →
“Colleges Incorporate Data Science Into Curriculums”
An article in CIO Magazine profiles initiatives at UNC, Northwestern, and UW:
“An immediate and strong demand for a new kind of data analyst led the University of Washington in Seattle to introduce a data science certificate program this October. These analysts use their strong math and technology backgrounds to build data analysis tools and then use that data to make business decisions, says Ed Lazowska, the director of the University of Washington eScience Institute …
“The nine-month, three-course program… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean wins 2012 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by the computer systems research community, to be given annually to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in computer systems research. The recipient must have begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC.
This week, the 2012 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award was… Read more →
Bursting at the seams at the UW CSE resume workshop
A resume workshop for CSE majors is one of the events that precedes the annual UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting, which includes a recruiting day for startups on October 23, a research interaction day on October 24, and a recruiting day for established companies on October 25.
Tuesday’s resume workshop was bursting at the seams. More than 150 CSE students were coached by 16 volunteers from the local tech industry, who conducted 280 total resume reviews. … Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis interviewed about White House network breach
Alexei Czeskis, a Ph.D. student in UW CSE’s Security and Privacy Research Lab, is interviewed by The Voice of Russia – American Edition.
“After news surfaced over the weekend that a U.S. government computer network was breached by hackers, computer security experts have weighed on the situation, calling it ‘a game between defenders and attackers.’ …
“Host Jessica Jordan spoke with Alexei Czeskis, a Ph.D. candidate in the Security and Privacy Research Lab at the University of Washington,… Read more →