2011 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Seth Cooper, now Creative Director of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, has been named the winner of the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
The award is presented annually to the top Ph.D. dissertation in the field. (Roughly 1,500 Ph.D.s in computer science were awarded last year in the United States alone.)
Seth’s dissertation, “A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games,” was advised by UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic. The… Read more →
Congratulations to the Spring CSTA programming contest winners!
This past Saturday, the Puget Sound region Spring CSTA high school programming competition was hosted by Amazon.com – following the Winter competition, hosted at the University of Washington.
Andy Davidson, the computer science instructor at Roosevelt High School, says:
It’s instructive to look at the list of winners this year and see how many of their teachers got their CS pedagogical training from the UW CSE program:
Winter
Novice – 1st Place – Lakeside School
Novice – 2nd Place – … Read more →
David Notkin named Acting Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies
UW Dean of Engineering Matt O’Donnell has named CSE’s David Notkin as Acting Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the coming year.
In announcing Notkin’s appointment to faculty in the College of Engineering, O’Donnell stated: “He has won numerous awards including most recently, the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award in 2012. … In this role, David will foster multidisciplinary collaborations within and outside the college, work with new faculty to develop successful research programs, and strengthen programs to… Read more →
Carlos Guestrin and Emily Fox join the University of Washington
Carlos Guestrin and Emily Fox, experts in machine learning, will join the University of Washington in the fall, driving us to a new level of excellence and impact in this hugely important field.
Carlos is currently the Finmeccanica Associate Professor in the departments of Machine Learning and Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, with courtesy appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Robotics Institute. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading… Read more →
UW President Michael Young attends dub retreat
dub – short for “design … use … build” – is the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary effort in human-computer interaction and design, including faculty and students from across the campus.
Over 100 UW faculty, students, and industrial collaborators came out for the 4th annual dub retreat. The meeting included a celebration of awards, short research talks, and poster sessions. The excitement of the event was bolstered by the attendance of UW President Michael Young. President Young saw talks on topics… Read more →
Georg Seelig wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
UW CSE and EE professor Georg Seelig, an expert in quantitative biology and DNA nanotechnology, has been named a recipient of a 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award.
The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process.
Research in Seelig’s lab focuses on understanding how biological organisms process information using… Read more →
August Workshop for High School and Middle School Teachers at UW CSE
The University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department is running a workshop this summer targeted at high school or middle school teachers of math, science and computer science. This year we are also offering a one day option for school counselors or administrators who would like to learn a little more about the exciting field of Computer Science.
We’d love to have you join us!
Specifically, CS4HS aims to:
Expose participants to exciting examples of computer science operating in… Read more →
CSE’s Eric Lei is UW Freshman Medalist
Each year, the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,500) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
This year’s UW Freshman Medalist is CSE’s Eric Lei. Eric entered the UW after 10th grade through the Robinson Center’s UW Academy.
CSE has an extraordinary record of UW Medalists: Eric is the fifteenth CSE student to be recognized as a University of Washington medalist since 2000.
Congratulations, Eric!
Announcement from the office of… Read more →
Google Maps “Photo Tours”
“Photo Tours” is a spectacular addition to Google Maps, created by the Google Seattle computer vision group led by UW CSE’s Steve Seitz, and inspired by Photo Tourism (Seitz, Noah Snavely, and Rick Szeliski).
“Every year, millions of people pack their bags and head to far-off places to enjoy sites and cultures different from their own. While there, they snap photos to document their trip and share their excursions online. Yet none of these individual… Read more →
“UW CSE To Admit More Students Into Competitive Majors”
The UW Daily reports on an anticipated enrollment increase of roughly 80 degrees per year in CSE.
“Hank Levy, UW CSE department chair, explained the significance … ‘There’s really extreme demand from our students,’ he said. ‘We have not been able to expand our program since 1999. Think about how much has changed in tech since then. So this is enormous.’ …
“In addition to growing the computer science major, Levy is looking to develop more courses for students outside… Read more →