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 →
Bill Gates hearts UW CSE’s Living Voters Guide
In today’s Gates Notes, Bill highlights four projects presented at Social Venture Partners’ recent “Social Innovation Fast Pitch,” including Living Voters Guide, a joint project of UW CSE and Seattle’s City Club:
“As government in the U.S. becomes more polarized, debate among politicians has migrated to simplistic views about what government should do or not, with no middle ground for compromise. In contrast, SIFP finalist City Club finds that voters are open to nuanced debate: 41% listen… Read more →
CSE’s Magda Balazinska: Top “Lightning Talk” at XLDB
UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska‘s “Lightning Talk” at September’s 6th Extremely Large Databases Conference has been voted one of the top two “Lightning Talks.” The prize? An invitation to talk longer at next year’s XLDB!
The topic of Magda’s talk was “Big Data Analytics Usability.” Learn more about her CQMS project here.… Read more →
“The Myth of the Black Friday Deal”
The Wall Street Journal partners with UW CSE startup Decide.com to explore pricing trends for gifts during the holiday shopping season:
“The fast rise of online shopping has presented a wealth of data for researchers looking to uncover retailers’ strategies and pinpoint when prices are lowest. Decide aims to use that data to tell its member consumers whether to buy any of a number of products now or wait until later. The company is run by veterans of Farecast, a… Read more →
“Best Paper” for CSE’s Shulin Yang
UW CSE Ph.D. student Shulin (Lynn) Yang has won a “best paper” award for her paper “Skull Retrieval for Craniosynostosis Using Sparse Logistic Regression Models” (Shulin Yang, Linda Shapiro, Michael Cunningham, Matthew Speltz, Craig Birgfeld, Indriyati Atmosukarto, and Su-In Lee) at the MICCAI Workshop on Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support.
Lynn is advised by Linda Shapiro and Su-In Lee. The paper was presented (in Nice, France!) by co-author (and CSE/Shapiro Ph.D. alum) Indri Atmosukarto, who is… Read more →
GeekWire: “Big data startup with UW ties lands cash from Accel”
Trifacta, a San Francisco big data company co-founded by incoming University of Washington computer science professor Jeffrey Heer and University of California-Berkeley computer scientist Joe Hellerstein, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.3 million in funding from Accel Partners.
Read more here.… Read more →
UW CSE alum startup Sift Science in GigaOm
Sift Science, a Bay Area startup involving UW CSE alums Brandon Ballinger, Jason Tan, and Grace Kim, is featured in GigaOm:
“The problem of online fraud, fake reviews and sock puppetry is only going to get worse, according to recent research. But there are ways to identify likely perpetrators and that’s what Sift Science aims to do.
“The 8-person San Francisco startup uses machine learning to analyze user interaction with web sites and create a digital profile of who… Read more →