Announced in May, the Evergreen Apps Challenge encouraged geeks around Washington State to build apps that could benefit those living here by using government data from data.seattle.gov, data.wa.gov, and datakc.org.
This week, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, King County Executive Dow Constantine, and Washington Governor Chris Gregoire recognized the winners.
Taking the first-place was Living Voters Guide, a non-partisan resource developed by UW CSE students and faculty with a host of collaborators – that fosters civil discussion and provides descriptions… Read more →
UW lands one of 8 NSF/NIH “Big Data” research awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF), with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced 8 awards totaling nearly $15 million in new Big Data fundamental research projects. These awards aim to develop new tools and methods to extract and use knowledge from collections of large data sets to accelerate progress in science and engineering research and innovation.
A UW CSE project led by Magda Balazinska, Bill Howe, and Dan Suciu was among the 8 awardees. In brief:
“The… Read more →
The 2012 election and the innovation economy
Companion GeekWire essays by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain explore the choice faced in the 2012 Presidential election by voters from the innovation sector.
“I have three principles that I hope you share. First, I try to be fact-based. Second, I try to be consistent – to display intellectual integrity. Third, I recognize that my success is due not only to my own efforts, but also to various advantages of circumstance with which I was… Read more →
“The Computer Science Mismatch”
An article on the mismatch between computer science jobs and educational capacity includes various University of Washington examples, including comments by CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
“Until recently, the University of Washington was only able to accommodate 25% of computer science applicants, though it will be expanding somewhat this year due to a recent funding increase …
“At other schools, the numbers are even starker. Carnegie Mellon, for example, enrolled just 130 of the 4,200 applicants this fall to its computer science… Read more →
CSE alum Greg Linden in GeekWire
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 →