“Catch and Release,” UW CSE’s 2011 animation capstone film, has been selected for screening at th DC Shorts Film Festivals, the largest short film event on the East Coast. Catch and Release will be screened in the Family Friendly Showcase on September 8th and again on September 15th. More information may be viewed here.
“Catch and Release” and “Nebbish,” the 2010 animation capstone film, will be screened at Bumbershoot’s 1 Reel Film Festival curated by SIFF (September 1-3, 2012).… Read more →
Welcome to the UW CSE summer daycamp for middle school students!
UW CSE, in collaboration with UW’s Women in Computer Science & Engineering and Society of Women Engineers organizations, is sponsoring three weeklong daycamps for middle school and high school students. The first is underway this week.
Learn more about the daycamps here. Learn about DawgBytes, UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, here.… Read more →
Bill Gates on ‘Game-based’ learning
The School Leadership 2.0 blog reports on an interview with Bill Gates and Vicki Philips (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) during a recent visit to Atlanta.
“Now the foundation is working with the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington on a free, online game called Refraction. As students play, their progress is visible to the teacher on his or her computer, allowing the educator to see instantly what concepts students understand.
“The idea is that in coming… Read more →
San Francisco Chronicle: “University of Washington a tech talent pipeline”
The San Francisco Chronicle picks up Nick Wingfield’s New York Times profile of UW Computer Science & Engineering:
“Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley …
“Although Stanford is considered the Hogwarts of techdom, UW has quietly established itself as the other West Coast nexus of the information economy. And while Seattle-area tech icons like Microsoft and Amazon have long relied on UW – pronounced “U-dub” by… Read more →
Decide.com in New York Times
Decide.com, a Seattle startup created by UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni and four students, is featured in today’s New York Times:
“If you are thinking about buying a new laptop, stop thinking and do it. At least that’s what the algorithms at Decide.com say to do.
“Decide.com is a Web site created by artificial intelligence experts that tracks millions of price changes on consumer electronics and appliances and uses algorithms to to predict when buyers are most likely to… Read more →
Bill Gates praises UW CSE Center for Game Science at Education Commission of the States conference in Atlanta
“Imagine if kids poured their time and passion into a video game that taught them math concepts while they barely noticed because it was so enjoyable. We’ve been supporting the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, which has developed a free, on-line game called Refraction. The goal of the game is to rescue animals whose ships are stuck in outer space. The ships require different amounts of fuel, powered by lasers. So the players have to manipulate… Read more →
The Oregonian: “University of Washington sends Seattle high-tech on high road”
“For decades, Silicon Valley has provided Oregonians a powerful demonstration of the impact of higher education muscle on high-tech economic outcomes …
“Now, Oregon is seeing another massive expansion much closer.
“As The New York Times reported Sunday, the University of Washington computer science and engineering program – with substantial assistance from corporations such as Microsoft and Amazon and individuals such as Bill Gates and Paul Allen – has become the seventh-ranked graduate program in the country …… Read more →
CSE’s Dan Weld named UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow
University of Washington President Michael Young has recognized 11 professors for their innovative spirit, naming them as Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows.
The 11 new Fellows, who will serve two-year terms, were chosen for their abilities to turn research into products and therapies, initiate groundbreaking programs for commercialization, collaborate with industry, and share knowledge with other researchers.
Dan Weld, WRF / Thomas J. Cable Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, is one of the 11. Dan’s superb research and teaching… Read more →
Xconomy on UW CSE
“With a recent string of hires, the university has seriously beefed up its faculty in the area broadly known as ‘Big Data,’ becoming increasingly important in as the Web continues to grow and spread via mobile computing …
“A New York Times profile of the department published last weekend … paints a picture of a computer science department on the rise, adding big names in academic circles to its previously established group of leaders like department chairman Hank Levy, Bill… Read more →