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 →
“Kate Starbird returns to Seattle, as a Husky”
Kate will be a professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering, and an adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering. Nice Seattle Times article here.… Read more →
“In The Plex”
From the book In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy:
“Google profiled people by which college they had attended. As Page said, ‘We hired people like us’ … Google sought its employees from Stanford, Berkeley, University of Washington, MIT – the regulars.”… Read more →
UW CSE repeats as National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Champs!
UW CSE has just won the 2012 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, repeating 2011’s performance.
Team members Mick Ayzenberg, Henry Baba-Weiss, Ian Finder, Karl Koscher, Landon Meernik, Miles Sackler, Cullen Walsh, and Lars Zornes – coached by Jake Appelbaum and advised by Melody Kadenko – qualified for the National competition by winning the Pacific Rim Regionals last month. Hearty congratulations to these folks, and also to Barbara Endicott-Popovsky of UW’s iSchool for encouraging a UW-wide focus on cybersecurity.… Read more →
“UW cyber stars defending their title”
The Seattle Times previews the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition:
“Somewhere in Texas right now, 30 hackers known as the Red Team are attacking a computer network called Go Mommy, using every trick to try to bring it to its knees.
“Among the defenders: Eight computer-science students from the University of Washington, working to repel the attack — quite possibly while humming the ‘Angry Birds’ theme song.
“This is the world of college cybersecurity competitions, where a dose of black… Read more →
CSE’s Adrian Sampson on energy-efficient computing
Greenpeace is releasing today its ratings on how clean or dirty tech companies’ clouds are. The Seattle Times quotes UW CSE Ph.D. student Adrian Sampson in their article on the Greenpeace report:
“‘Only in the last few years have we started using more energy in the cloud than we are on the devices we have,’ said Adrian Sampson, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington who specializes in energy-efficient computing.
“Energy-conscious consumers should be aware that when they operate,… Read more →