This evening, the University of Washington College of Engineering honored five extraordinary alums with 2012 Diamond Awards. Among the honorees were two UW CSE Ph.D. alums: Greg Badros and Anne Condon.
Read about the accomplishments of Greg and Anne – and the other Diamond Award recipients – here.
Watch a tribute video to Greg here.
Watch a tribute video to Anne here.… Read more →
UW CSE Spring BBQ
A good time was had by all!
Especially by Luis Ceze, Ed Lazowska and Mark Oskin who – discouraged by the undergraduates’ ineptitude at tossing creme pies at them, took the law into their own hands.
More Bruce Hemingway photographs here.… Read more →
UW CSE Yahoo! Hack-U contest, Spring 2012
Last weekend, Marty Stepp and the student ACM officers hosted our annual Hack-U competition, sponsored by Yahoo! The contest gives undergraduate groups of 3-4 up to 24 hours to come up with interesting web applications. We had a total of 88 students compete on 28 teams, with many of the students pulling an all-nighter in the Gates Commons to finish their work.
There were lots of fun entries this year, such as: A role-playing game called DevKnull that runs in… Read more →
Kim Polese, Thursday at 3:30 in EEB 105
Kim Polese is a leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur and innovator. She will speak on Thursday at 3:30 in EEB 105 on “The Journey of the Entrepreneur.” She will discuss her experiences from 25 years in Silicon Valley founding and leading groundbreaking technology projects and software companies, sharing stories from the trenches, lessons learned, and insights about what it takes for a promising technology to become an innovation that changes the world.
Ms. Polese earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biophysics from… Read more →
UW CSE alum Willy Cheung wins Fulbright Scholarship
UW CSE bachelors alumnus Willy Cheung has won a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholarship.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given approximately 300,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity… Read more →
UW CSE “Inspirational Teacher” dinner
Each of us looks back on a small number of particularly inspirational K-12l or community college teachers who gave us a sense of academic purpose and direction. Each year, UW CSE invites our students to nominate these teachers for recognition. We host the teachers, their partners, and the students who nominated them at a dinner in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
Congratulations and thanks to the 2011-12 UW CSE Inspirational Teachers… Read more →
Eric Larson is UW College of Engineering “Student Innovator: Research”
Eric Larson, a Ph.D. student working with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel, will receive the UW College of Engineering “Student Innovator: Research” Award at the Community of Innovators award celebration on May 29.
Eric’s research concerns sensing and signal processing for health care and sustainability applications.
Congratulations Eric!… Read more →
Google MapReduce Bootcamp
Many thanks to UW CSE alum and Google engineer Shen Lee for running a 3-session MapReduce Bootcamp for UW CSE students. There was overwhelming interest in this 3-evening bootcamp, just concluded.… Read more →
Microsoft TouchDevelop Hackathon at UW CSE
TouchDevelop is a new programming environment for Windows Phone – a typed, structured programming language built around the idea of only using a touchscreen as the input device to author code, with built-in primitives that make it easy to access the rich sensor data available on a mobile device.
On Friday and Saturday, 30 UW CSE students participated in a TouchDevelop Hackathon. The event started on Friday evening with a short tutorial about TouchDevelop. Throughout Friday night and Saturday,… Read more →
SoundWave in the news!
PCWorld writes: “Most gesture-based control systems we use today rely on either motion-capture cameras – like the Kinect – or a touchscreen device. But researchers from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington are developing a system that can detect object with sound waves, like how a bat does with echolocation. With the SoundWave project, the researchers aim to bring gesture controls to any computer that has a set of speakers and microphone. The program uses the Doppler Effect… Read more →