The “Humantenna” project – joint work by UW CSE’s Gabe Cohn and Shwetak Patel and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and Desney Tan – is featured in today’s Computing Community Consortium blog. The CCC blog post builds on an article in New Scientist describing the research, presented at CHI 2012 earlier this month. There’s also a callout to the SoundWave project in the post – joint work by UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta and Shwetak Patel and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris… Read more →
Men of CSE
It took 13 years for UW CSE graduate students to attempt to top the 2000 “Men of Sieg Hall” calendar. And they failed. Nonetheless, you should support the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research by purchasing the 2013 “Men of CSE” calendar.… Read more →
DawgBytes – UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program
UW CSE has significantly ramped up its K-12 outreach activities. This spring, undergraduate and graduate students taking the K-12 Computing Education seminar have logged over 150 hours volunteering in K-12 classrooms around the greater Seattle area. This week alone, our students have introduced CS to one class at Odle middle school and 3 classes at Shorecrest high school. We will be involved in a programming symposium component of the Seattle Science Festival on June 4th and have been exploring other… Read more →
CSE’s Franzi Roesner wins “Best Practical Paper” award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
UW CSE Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner has been recognized with the “Best Practical Paper” award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The paper, “User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems,” was co-authored with UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno, UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and Microsoft Research staff member Alex Moshchuk, Microsoft Research staff members Bryan Parno and Helen Wang, and Microsoft staff member Crispin Cowan.
Congratulations to Franzi and her co-authors!
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Emma Brunskill wins Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to2000 UW CSE bachelors alumna Emma Brunskill, announced today as the recipient of a 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
Each year, Microsoft Research selects a handful of the most promising young computer science faculty members from around the world for recognition and support through this program.
After graduating from UW CSE, Emma won a Rhodes Scholarship, received a computer science Ph.D. from MIT, did a postdoc at Berkeley, and is now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon… Read more →
Higher Education highlighted at Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon
Higher Education was a recurring theme today at the annual Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon in downtown Seattle.
Technology Alliance chair (and UW CSE alum) Jeremy Jaech presented the results of the most recent Technology Alliance economic impact study. According to GeekWire:
“Jaech also sounded the alarm about education funding, thanking the governor and state legislature for stemming the tide of cuts, but saying that more needs to be done to expand the pool of homegrown engineering talent. ‘I… Read more →
Janet Ash, “nerd magnet”
Janet Ash, an engineering instructor at Green River Community College, has been honored multiple times by UW CSE as an “inspirational teacher” – nominated by her former students who are now UW CSE majors.
“As a kid, Janet Ash listened to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, played Chopin nocturnes on the piano, read anything she could get her hands on.
“The very crucible into which nerds are poured, you say? Yep. And Ash is proud of her lineage. Nerds, she insists,… Read more →
Melissa Winstanley in CSE 451 (Introduction to Operating Systems) …
Only slightly embarrassed at receiving the CSE version of the UW President’s Medal.
Congratulations!… Read more →
Jeff Heer and Daniela Rosner join the University of Washington
Jeff Heer, currently a computer science faculty member at Stanford University, will be joining UW CSE. Jeff is a superb researcher in the design of interactive, visual data-analysis tools, as well as tools for data cleaning and transformation. A UC Berkeley Ph.D. alum, Jeff is the recipient of a Sloan ResearchFellowship and a Technology Review TR35 Award.
In addition, Daniela Rosner, who combines backgrounds in both graphic design and computer science, will be joining the UW Department of… Read more →
CSE’s Melissa Winstanley wins 2012 University of Washington President’s Medal
The University of Washington President’s Medal is awarded annually to the most accomplished student in UW’s 7500-member senior class.
Congratulations to CSE’s Melissa Winstanley, the 2012 University of Washington President’s Medalist!
Melissa – a graduate of Bellevue High School – is a dual major in Computer Science and Music. She began her CSE career as the top student (out of 475) in CSE 142 and the top student (out of 297) in CSE 143. She has managed to continue this… Read more →