Each year, CSE’s graduating students recognize a faculty member for exemplary teaching. This year’s winner of the UW CSE ACM Teaching Award, announced at this morning’s UW CSE commencement ceremony, is Hal Perkins.
Congratulations, Hal, and thanks for all you do to help CSE’s students succeed!
(Past winners of the award include Stuart Reges, Luis Ceze, Marty Stepp, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, Steve Gribble, Brian Curless, Carl Ebeling, Ben Dugan, Steve Wolfman, and Martin Tompa.)… Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis on American Public Media’s “Marketplace”
UW CSE Ph.D. student Alexei Czeskis was interviewed on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” concerning a program in San Antonio to track students within their high schools using RFID.
“Alexei Czeskis studies RFID privacy issues at the University of Washington’s Security and Privacy Research Lab. He says it’s hard to predict the consequences of collecting all this data on our children.
“‘We don’t know what it could be used for in the future,’ he says, ‘and that could be… Read more →
CSE’s Paul Beame elected to chair ACM SIGACT
Congratulations to UW CSE professor Paul Beame, who has just been elected Chair of SIGACT, the ACM special interest group on the theory of computing.
UW CSE has a long history of ACM SIG leadership – including Jean-Loup Baer as Chair of SIGARCH (computer architecture), Ed Lazowska as Chair of SIGMETRICS (computer system performance evaluation), Hank Levy as Chair of SIGOPS (operating systems), and David Notkin as Chair of SIGSOFT (software engineering).… Read more →
Ben Taskar joins UW CSE, consolidating UW’s position in the top tier of machine learning
Ben Taskar, currently the Magerman Term Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania, will be joining the UW CSE faculty in early 2013.
Ben is an outstanding researcher in machine learning, particularly in its applications to natural language processing and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford and is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an NSF CAREER Award.
The addition of… Read more →
“Meet the future: These 21 UW computer science grads are ready to change the world”
A really wonderful GeekWire profile of 21 graduating UW CSE students:
“It’s a good time to have a degree in computer science. And it’s not just because Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft are paying big bucks to hire the best-and-brightest software developers and engineers.
“Computer science is transforming the world, radically changing industries as diverse as health, transportation, media and communications.
“With that in mind (and with the University of Washington commencement set for this weekend), we decided to check in… Read more →
Faye Allen
Condolences to our friend Paul Allen and his sister Jody, whose mother Faye passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Faye Allen taught fourth grade at Seattle’s Ravenna School. Her husband, Kenneth, was the longtime associate director of the University of Washington library system. Further information here and here.… Read more →
Who ya gonna hire???
University of Washington recruiters from Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft shared information on the majors of the students they hired from UW in 2011-12 for both internship and permanent positions. This includes all students (every degree level, every major, every UW campus), and all positions (from developer to accountant).
The results are amazing, even to us – see the attached charts. (Capsule summary: 85% are from CSE!)
The University of Washington has many outstanding degree programs. (There are more… Read more →
Intel Science & Technology Center in Big Data
The Intel Science & Technology Center in Big Data has launched!
ISTC-Big Data is the sixth Intel Science & Technology Center. The concept was formulated by faculty from across the nation who are participating in the SciDB project focused on open source data management and analytics software for scientific research. It is led by MIT, and includes faculty from 5 other universities, including Magda Balazinska, Carlos Guestrin, and Jeff Heer from UW CSE.
In addition to our involvement in the… Read more →
NPR: “Seattle Area Lacks Computer Science Majors”
A terrific piece by NPR reporter Wendy Kaufman on the market for computer science graduates in the Seattle area, intense student interest, and UW’s recent efforts to respond.
UW President Michael Young states: “If you actually look at what’s happened in the world, we have an enormous amount of information available to us, and dealing with this big data is incredibly important. Computer science is the absolute epicenter of this. So we have to have more compute scientists.”
Listen to… Read more →
Ali Farhadi joins UW CSE
In the second half of today’s double-header, we are thrilled to announce that Ali Farhadi will be joining the UW CSE faculty this fall, bringing leadership in object recognition to our already-superb efforts in computer graphics, computer vision, games, and animation.
Ali received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois in 2011 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He has made significant contributions to computer vision, specifically in the improvement… Read more →