“Amazon, Google und Microsoft reißen sich um die IT-Absolventen der University of Washington in Seattle. Die Hochschule gehört zu den besten öffentlichen Universitäten weltweit.”
(We have no idea what these people are saying about us, but you can read more here.)… Read more →
Abie Flaxman wins TR35
Abie Flaxman, professor of Global Health at UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering, is the latest in a long line of CSE-related researchers to be recognized as a member of Technology Review‘s TR35 – an annual listing of 35 top innovators under the age of 35.
Abie is the research lead for the Computational Algorithms research team at IHME. He is the primary architect of a software tool known as… Read more →
World Lab Summer Institute Brings Chinese & Western Students Together to Attack Grand Challenge Problems
There are many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, healthcare systems in crisis, and educational systems that are inadequately training innovative thinkers to solve the problems of tomorrow. A balanced approach is required to solve these problems: balanced between design and technology, between human-centered and technology-centered approaches, and between different world cultures and ways of thinking.
The World Lab is a new research and educational institution that is ideally suited to tackle these grand challenges. The World Lab… Read more →
CSE’s Mike Piatek, Aruna Balasubramanian recognized in SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Mike Piatek (now at Google Seattle) and UW CSE postdoc Aruna Balasubramanian (who completed her Ph.D. at UMass-Amherst) have been named co-runners-up for the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award of SIGCOMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on communications and computer networks. Their awards were presented on August 14 at the annual SIGCOMM conference in Helsinki. Congratulations to Mike and Aruna!… Read more →
“Augmented reality kitchens keep novice chefs on track”
An article in New Scientist describes the work of UW CSE Ph.D. student Jinna Lei:
“Celebrity chef apps, online how-to videos and recipe-sharing websites have all joined traditional cookbooks as guides for the amateur epicurean. But wouldn’t it be nice if your kitchen could help you prepare a meal? …
“Jinna Lei at the University of Washington has also installed cameras in the kitchen to watch over novice chefs. Lei and colleagues used Kinect-like depth-sensing cameras capable of… Read more →
“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”
A Computing Community Consortium blog post concerning as session at last month’s CRA Conference at Snowbird chaired by CSE’s Ed Lazowska and featuring CSE’s Shwetak Patel as well as Stanford’s Daphne Koller:
“Our field has exhibited an ever-changing balance of “technology push” and “demand pull” over the years. Many currently sense a movement of the pendulum in the “demand pull” direction. I’d like to argue that this is fantastic — it’s great news for our field, great news for society,… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide.com in UW Daily
A wonderful profile of the four students who worked with UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni to create Decide.com:
“Brian and Ian Ma, along with Han Hsu and Ken Hsu, all UW alumni, started Decide.com after dreaming up an idea several years ago in between their day jobs at Google, Zillow, Microsoft, and Zaaz, respectively.
“‘I noticed my girlfriend went back dozens of times a day to check prices on websites,’ Brian Ma said. ‘I thought that was such a… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yanping Huang wins HHMI International Predoctoral Fellowship
Yanping Huang, a UW CSE Ph.D. student, is one of 50 recipients of International Predoctoral Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
HHMI launched the International Student Research Fellowships Program last year to support international students during their third to fifth years of graduate school in the United States. “We are pleased to be able to support some of the world’s most outstanding graduate students in the biomedical sciences” says William R. Galey, program director for HHMI’s graduate and… Read more →
“How Big Data Became So Big”
An excellent article by Steve Lohr in Sunday’s New York Times.
“This has been the crossover year for Big Data …
“Big Data is a shorthand label that typically means applying the tools of artificial intelligence, like machine learning, to vast new troves of data beyond that captured in standard databases. The new data sources include Web-browsing data trails, social network communications, sensor data and surveillance data …
“‘The term itself is vague, but it is getting at something that… Read more →
CS4HS 2012
This week, nearly 100 middle school and upper school teachers and counselors joined UW CSE for CS4HS – a Google-sponsored program to expose them to computer science and computational thinking.
CS4HS was launched 6 years ago by UW, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon. Today, CS4HS programs are held at dozens of colleges and universities across the country. Participant feedback is hugely positive.
Many thanks to Google (both “central” and Seattle) for its sponsorship of our program. And many thanks to Tom… Read more →