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.
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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 →
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 →