A Wired profile of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille – now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon – and his videogame EteRNA, in which players manipulate nucleotides, the fundamental building blocks of RNA, to coax molecules into specific shapes. The work is an outgrowth of the protein folding and protein structure calculation game Foldit, which Adrien developed in the UW Center for Game Science along with fellow student Seth Cooper.
Read this terrific profile here.… Read more →
GeekWire: “Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of ‘big data’ and ‘machine learning’”
“Computer science is very much a discipline that revolves around numbers. But it was something a little less mathematical that led to the University of Washington strengthening its computer science department in recent months: Love, marriage and friendship.
“In no fewer than three separate situations, the UW’s computer science department was able to attract world-class professors in ‘big data,’ ‘machine learning’ and ‘visual data analysis’ by finding work at the UW or other opportunities for their spouses.
“The new hires… Read more →
Seattle Times: “UW recruits superstars of computer science world”
The Seattle Times reports on UW’s recruiting of four mid-career stars in Machine Learning and “big data” from Carnegie Mellon, Penn and Stanford:
“They’re a kind of dream team of the computer science world: Four of the brightest academics in the fields of “big data” and machine learning have been wooed away from top schools to join the University of Washington over the next year.
“It’s part of a push by the UW to develop expertise in a field of… Read more →
Will the real Josh Smith please stand up?
UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith was featured yesterday as the “Disruptor of the Day” in the Daily Disruption tech blog:
“Sensors are everywhere around us from smartphone touchscreens to elevator buttons to thermostats. These sensor devices, which receive and respond to a signal, are a linchpin of the so-called “Internet of Things.” As they become smaller, cheaper and require less power they are being deployed in more places that we encounter every day — whether we are aware… Read more →
UW CSE’s Melissa Winstanley: GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
Until today, receiving the 2012 University of Washington President’s Medal as the top student in UW’s 7,500-person senior class was the biggest feather in Melissa Winstanley’s cap. But not any longer! Now she has been named GeekWire‘s “Geek of the Week”!
This interview is so terrific that you really have to read the whole thing. A few excerpts, though:
“My first computer science class was one I was required to take for another major. I didn’t expect to like… Read more →
UW CSE alum Paul Javid’s startup Cody in GeekWire
As a UW CSE undergraduate, Paul Javid spent six months in rural India under the supervision of Ed Lazowska and Tapan Parikh conducting field trials of information and communication technology for developing regions. Subsequently, he received an MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and worked at Microsoft. He and Microsoft colleague Pejman Pour-Moezzi are now leading the startup Cody, profiled in GeekWire today:
“Would you take your fitness advice from a robotic looking character named Cody? Some former Microsoft… Read more →
“Washington State’s broken model for higher education funding”
A terrific Seattle Times op-ed by University of Washington regents Kristi Blake and Craig Cole:
“The cost of educating a student at the University of Washington is about $400 less today, in inflation adjusted dollars, than it was 20 years ago … The next time anyone questions why public university tuition is rising faster than inflation, remember this: Twenty years ago, the state government paid 80 percent of the cost of a student’s education and a student paid 20 percent. … Read more →
CSE’s Hadi Esmaeilzadeh scores big in computer architecture
When University of Texas faculty stars Doug Burger and Kathryn McKinley moved to Microsoft Research, they brought with them graduate student Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, who transferred to UW CSE and added CSE’s Luis Ceze as an advisor.
Hadi has had an amazing streak of high-profile results recently:
A “Research Highlight” in CACM: “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Power, Performance, and Upheaval” (full paper from ASPLOS here), July 2012.
Two “Research Highlights” in IEEE Micro: “Dark Silicon … Read more →
CSE’s Hank Levy turns 60!
Time flies when you’re having fun … Hank Levy, CSE department chair and Wissner-Slivka Chair, celebrated his 60th today at a French-themed (don’t ask …) luncheon.
Happy birthday Hank, and thanks for all you’ve done for CSE and for your many friends!
More Bruce Hemingway photographs of the event here.
(One of the high points of the luncheon: University of Washington Provost Ana Mari Cauce, ever a great friend of CSE and ever a good sport, drew herself… Read more →
Seattle: #1 in Forbes “Best Cities For Tech Jobs”
“No. 1: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue.
“The Seattle metro area has posted 12% tech job growth over the past two years and 7.6% STEM growth, handily beating the performance of Silicon Valley. More important still to potential job-seekers, the Puget Sound regions has grown consistently in good times and bad, boasting a remarkable 43% increase in tech employment from 2001 through 2011 and an 18% expansion in STEM.”
Read the Seattle page here.
Read the full article here.… Read more →