OK, we admit it – it’s not news. But how can you not love this UW-themed hot dog????? (From a collection of Seattle PI photographs of the May 5 “Opening Day” (of the boating season) activities on the Montlake Cut.)… Read more →
CSE’s Stuart Reges joins CSTA Board of Directors
CSE’s Stuart Reges has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computer Science Teachers Association, as one of two “University Faculty Representatives.” CSTA is a national organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science in K-12.
Stuart has a long record of engagement with both the national CSTA organization and the Puget Sound chapter, PS CSTA.
Learn more about UW CSE’s K-12 outreach activities – DawgBytes – here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Open Data Kit” in Alaska Airlines flight magazine
The feature article in the most recent Alaska Airlines flight magazine, “Data Delivery: Researchers tap the potential of mobile technologies to gather and interpret information,” contains an extensive discussion of UW CSE’s “Open Data Kit,” an open source toolkit that turns mobile phones into data collection devices.
Read the article here.… Read more →
“The Cost of Engineering’s Capacity Problem”
UW’s Trend in Engineering interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW Dean of Engineering Matt O’Donnell regarding the impact on students and employers of the longstanding failure to invest in engineering capacity at the University of Washington.
“‘It’s heartbreaking,’ said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering. ‘We are turning away outstanding students who would absolutely succeed in the program. It’s depriving students of the preparation they need, and it’s depriving employers of the… Read more →
CMU SCS “The Link” features Carlos Guestrin
Carlos will soon become the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in UW CSE.
Read the profile here. Full issue of The Link here.
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Blast from the past: CMU SCS “The Link” features the young Carl Ebeling
A lovely article on Hans Berliner in the Spring 2012 issue of The Link – the alumni newsletter of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science – includes an early 1980’s photograph of Carl Ebeling, now a UW CSE faculty member but then a CMU Ph.D. student working with Hans. Ebeling’s Hitech chess machine was the top chess-playing computer in the United States.
Photo here. Full issue of The Link here.… Read more →
“Is this data scientist a consumer’s best friend?”
GigaOM profiles UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni:
“In Oren Etzioni’s world, telling you where to buy a product is so 20 years ago. He did that with his first startup, Netbot, in 1996. Today, Etzioni wants to tell you when to buy — that ideal moment when the price won’t fall for a while and you won’t get burned by the release of a new model a week later. Tomorrow, well, maybe he can let you know when you’re… Read more →
CSE’s Kate Matsudaira, Decide.com, is Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards “Hire of the Year”
Quoth GeekWire:
“Startup Decide [a UW CSE company] hired Kate Matsudaira as its vice president of engineering earlier this year, as she shifted from her previous position as vice president of engineering post at SEOmoz.
“The University of Washington computer science grad prevailed in the voting over a strong field of finalists — Daryn Nakhuda of Amazon, Dan Shapiro of Google, Wibe Wagemans of Big Fish Games and Mitch Hill of Opscode.”
Read all about the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards… Read more →
CSE’s Peng Dai receives Honorable Mention in ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation Award competition
Peng Dai, a 2011 UW CSE Ph.D. now working at Google, has received Honorable Mention in the 2012 Best Dissertation Award competition of ICAPS, the International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling.
Peng’s dissertation, “Decision Making under Uncertainty: Scalability and Applications,” was supervised by Dan Weld and Mausam.
Congratulations Peng!… Read more →
CSE’s Jenny Abrahamson, Nicki Dell win Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships!
UW CSE graduate students Jenny Abrahamson and Nicki Dell are among 25 outstanding young women from across the U.S. named today as winners of 2012 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships.
The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship honors the memory of Dr. Anita Borg, who devoted her life to encouraging the presence of women in computing and founded the Institute for Women in Technology in 1997. Anita passed away in 2003, and the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was established in 2004… Read more →