On June 15 and 16, 34 ACM A.M. Turing Award Winners come together for the first time, to honor the 100th Anniversary of Alan Turing and reflect on his contributions, as well as on the past and future of computing.
Three UW CSE programming languages and software engineering graduate students – Ivan Beschastnikh, Brian Burg, and Stephanie Dietzel – have been awarded scholarships by ACM SIGSOFT (the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) to attend this extraordinary event.
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UW CSE at Northwest Regional Women in Computing Celebration 2012
NWrWIC is a Northwest regional Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, including tech-oriented women from Oregon and Washington colleges and universities, professional organizations, and the high school women and teachers from the NCWIT Oregon and SW Washington Regional Awards.
NWrWIC 2012 was held on Saturday in Portland OR. UW CSE was represented by faculty member Helene Martin and students Zorah Fung, Emily Harmell and Rachel Sobel.… Read more →
CSE’s Oren Etzioni on Wavii in NY Times
“Facebook has transformed how we keep tabs on friends, by training people to constantly publish short status updates about the delicious meal they just ate or the killer vacation they just took. A site called Wavii opened to the public earlier this week that wants to do the same thing for topics, with short bursts of news on everything from corporate acquisitions to celebrities.
“Wavii, based in Seattle, works by scouring the Web, including news sites, Twitter and… Read more →
StudentRND on KING 5 TV News
StudentRND – a workplace for student tech innovation created and led by UW CSE undergraduate Ed Jiang – was featured on KING 5 News.
“Demand for talent in the technology industry is so great that some companies are offering six-figure salaries to college students before they even graduate. Seizing on that demand, a student-run non-profit in Bellevue, called StudentRND, is giving young people in high school and college a chance to get valuable hands-on experience … On Wednesdays and Saturdays,… Read more →
CSE alum Cullen Walsh helps to christen Facebook’s new office
Thursday marked the public open house at Facebook’s new Seattle office – Facebook opened in Seattle in August 2010, outgrew their original space, and has moved to new digs with room for 170 engineers.
Cullen Walsh is one of many UW CSE alums working at Facebook Seattle. But he was the only one whose photo appeared in the Seattle Times riding his RipStik through the office during the open house.
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CSE’s Josh Smith in Technology Review
An article in Technology Review cites the work of UW CSE’s Josh Smith:
“As one of many examples of what is becoming possible using ultra-low-power computing, consider the wireless no-battery sensors created by Joshua R. Smith of the University of Washington. These sensors harvest energy from stray television and radio signals and transmit data from a weather station to an indoor display every five seconds. They use so little power (50 microwatts, on average) that they don’t need any… Read more →
Vote online in the GeekWire Awards!
Choose “Cast Your Vote” here. and vote the CSE ticket:
Startup of the Year: Decide.com
Geek of the Year: Oren Etzioni
Mobile App of the Year: OneBusAway
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Aldrich, Chambers, and Notkin win ICSE “Test of Time” Award
Many major computer science conferences have established the tradition of annually identifying the most influential paper from the conference ten years ago. UW CSE authors have received a number of these awards – a clear indication of the lasting impact of our research.
The most recent winner is the paper “ArchJava: Connecting Software Architecture to Implementation” which has just been named the “Most Influential Paper from ICSE 2002” – the International Conference on Software Engineering. The ArchJava paper… Read more →
“Unlocking the lab and launching companies”
An article in the Puget Sound Business Journal on UW initiatives in technology transfer leads with a discussion of the work of UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and his students. Read the article here.… Read more →
CSE’s Tom Lin, Yoav Artzi recognized in Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” competition
UW CSE Ph.D. students Tom Lin and Yoav Artzi have received awards in Yahoo!’s 2012 Key Scientific Challenges program. From an outstanding group of 208 proposals, 30 exceptional Ph.D. students were selected. See the complete list of winners here.
Congratulations Tom and Yoav!
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