“A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain and asked him pointedly to name one missing ingredient that’s holding back Seattle’s technology community. The veteran venture capitalist didn’t hesitate, suggesting that outsiders (and even Seattleites to some degree) don’t fully appreciate what’s being built around them …
“Well, at least some in New York City are paying attention. The New York Times published a fabulous piece today on The University of Washington’s computer science and engineering department,… Read more →
The New York Times profiles UW CSE
“Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.
“They are professors and students at the University of Washington, home to what may be the best computer science department you’ve never heard of.
“Although Stanford is considered the Hogwarts of techdom, U.W. 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… Read more →
Middle school girls visit UW CSE
On Friday June 29, a group of middle school girls spent the morning in UW CSE, followed by an afternoon visit to Amazon.com. In UW CSE, the students were hosted by Crystal Eney, Caitlin Harding, and Victoria Wagner, and participated in activities including “Computer Science Unplugged” (Allison Obourn), sustainability sensing (Eric Larson), and computer security (Karl Koscher).
The girls were participating in G2CS – Girls Gather for Computer Science – a 4-week summer program.… Read more →
Shwetak Patel wins India Abroad “Face Of The Future Award”
Since its inception in 2002, the awards presented by India Abroad – the oldest and most widely-circulated Indian-American weekly newspaper – have become the most coveted community honor in the country, celebrating achievements across a wide spectrum.
This year’s winner in the “Face Of The Future” category is UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel, “For being a technological genius; for developing innovative sensor systems for improving daily life; and for being a brilliant, young visionary.”
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UW CSE’s Tom Anderson wins 2013 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Tom Anderson, Robert E. Dinning Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, “For contributions to understanding and improving the performance, reliability, and security of the Internet.”
The Kobayashi Award, established in 1986, is the top international award in the networking field, and its recipients are a “Who’s Who” of contributors – recently including Jean Walrand, Larry Peterson, Nick McKeown, Don Towsley, Nick Maxemchuk, Frank… Read more →
UW CSE in the Bay Area
On June 28, more than 100 UW CSE alums joined faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Luis Ceze, Steve Gribble, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska for a reception at the California Academy of Sciences.
Keep in touch – follow CSE online!… Read more →
Bloomberg Businessweek: “Zoran Popović: Recruiting Gamers to Fight Disease”
“Proteins are the workhorses of our cells: They turn food into energy and determine our health. Each one is a chain of molecules—sometimes thousands of links long—that folds in a distinctive way. Understanding how they fold can help scientists block diseases, but there are so many variables involved that even powerful computers struggle to do it.
“Enter Zoran Popović.”
Read the post here.
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Seattle named “America’s Top Tech Metro” by Richard Florida
We disavow all rankings except those where we come out smelling like a rose (no matter how implausible it may be).
Here’s a ranking that’s clearly authoritative: Richard Florida, a senior editor of The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, and author of Rise of the Creative Class, has released his latest index ranking the top tech hubs in the U.S. And Seattle is #1. (Silicon Valley is #2; San Francisco is #3.)
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Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman joins UW CSE
We are thrilled to announce that Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman will be joining the UW CSE faculty this fall.
Ira works in computer vision and computer graphics, with a particular interest in developing computational tools to enable capturing, modeling and rendering a person’s appearance and behavior from the billions of photos that can be now found online or in personal photo collections. As a consultant to Google, she transitioned her recent work “Exploring Photobios” into “Face Movie,” the… Read more →
Wired: “New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess with RNA”
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 →