GeekWire describes UW CSE alum Greg Linden’s Code Monster programming site for kids:
“Greg Linden is a veteran software engineer and startup entrepreneur in Seattle who developed Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, started the personalized news website Findory.com and worked for Microsoft’s Live Labs, among other tech ventures and companies.
“He’s also a parent who wants to make sure his kids learn a little about computer programming languages.
“But when he initially looked around for something helpful online, all he could find… Read more →
CSE’s Tamara Denning wins 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Tamara Denning, who works with professor Yoshi Kohno in UW’s Security and Privacy Research Lab, has been named on of 18 recipients of 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowships. Tamara was one of 3 of the 18 to win special recognition of her research at a technical poster session for all of the awardees.
Meet Tamara and the other 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship winners here. Learn about Tamara’s work here.
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UW CSE summer daycamps for secondary school students
This summer, UW CSE hosted three week-long summer daycamps for secondary school students – two for middle schoolers and one for upper schoolers.
Here’s a terrific short video featuring one of the middle school daycamps.
Watch the video here. Learn about all of UW CSE’s K-12 outreach activities here.… Read more →
“Jeremy Jaech, Shwetak Patel form UW home sensor spin out WatchFrog”
GeekWire describes new UW CSE startup WatchFrog:
“WatchFrog, which is in the process of raising cash, is building off of Patel’s research as well as the research of Duke University assistant professor Matt Reynolds and UW PhD student Gabe Cohn. The first engineers will start at the company October 1.
“Jaech tells GeekWire that WatchFrog’s ultra-low-power sensing technologies, currently in the prototype phase, could be used to monitor conditions around the home; and detect home hazards such as radon or… Read more →
“To test lungs, just blow into your iPhone”
UW CSE’s SpiroSmart is featured by Futurity.
SpiroSmart is a mobile phone platform that acoustically analyzes lip reverberation, making it possible to monitor pulmonary ailments such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis. Accuracy is within 5% of expensive purpose-built commercial devices, meeting the medical community’s standards for accuracy.
Read the Futurity post here. Learn more about SpiroSmart here.… Read more →
Jeremy Jaech named to UW Board of Regents
UW CSE alum Jeremy Jaech has been named to the University of Washington Board of Regents by Governor Christine Gregoire, replacing Bill Gates Sr., whose term expires at the end of the month.
Jeremy is our region’s leading serial software entrepreneur. He co-founded Aldus Corporation – the inventor of desktop publishing – which was acquired by Adobe. He then co-founded Visio Corporation – constraint-based drawing – which was acquired by Microsoft. He currently serves as co-founder and CEO of WatchFrog,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science featured at NBC News “Education Nation” National Summit in NYC
On September 23-25, NBC News hosted its third “Education Nation” National Summit, convening more than 300 of the country’s thought leaders in education, government, business, philanthropy and media to discuss successful examples of innovation in education.
In an amazing feat, UW CSE’s Center for Game Science created and launched a brand new educational game in less than 48 hours, based on specifications provided by the audience at the Summit. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams closed the Summit with a… Read more →
Google Seattle summer intern t-shirt
Zorah Lea Fung models the 2012 Google Seattle summer intern t-shirt, featuring Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy as the two O’s! “How cool is that?” say Ed and Hank!
Nice GeekWire post here: “It is typical to see star athletes immortalized in this way on campus, but pretty rare for the geeks to get their due. We’re not sure who made the shirt, but seeing Lazowska and Levy in the middle of the Google logo certainly cracked us up.”… Read more →
“Why some of the best universities are giving away their courses”
An article on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in the Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine leads with UW CSE alum Greg Linden and quotes UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska:
“Seattle tech entrepreneur Greg Linden … decided to go to college – without leaving home.
“Through Stanford University, he took a class on robotic-car programming from professor Sebastian Thrun, who led the team that designed Google’s self-driving car.
“He also scarfed down a class on computer program design from Google Research… Read more →
“Innovation requires creative leadership”
A terrific Seattle Times opinion piece – a companion piece to the article cited in the previous post:
“A modest proposal: Stop gutting one of the state and region’s most important competitive assets: higher education, especially the University of Washington.”
Read it here. (See a post on a related article here.)… Read more →