Other questions that pop to mind: What does oBizMedia know about this, why is the graphic on the website of Nissan of Auburn, and would anyone really want to be the next Silicon Valley anyhow?
Never mind these details! The answer to the big question – “What makes Seattle appealing to entrepreneurs” – is:
Madrona Venture Group
TechStars and Founders Co-op
UW CSE
Read all about it here. GeekWire post here.… Read more →
Twenty great 15-minute talks about Computer Science futures
On Feb. 16th, over 150 attendees packed a room overlooking the United States Capitol to mark two decades of coordinated Federal investment in networking and information technology research and development with a daylong symposium exploring progress and prospects in the field.
A website has now gone live with complete materials from this extraordinary day — including videos, photos, slides, and written summaries from the 19 15-minute presentations by leaders of the field, plus a luncheon keynote by former Vice President… Read more →
UW CSE’s Adrian Sampson discusses green computing on KUOW
UW CSE 3rd year Ph.D. student (and newly-crowned Facebook Fellow) Adrian Sampson discusses green computing, Harvey Mudd College as a h(e)aven for geeks, the value to industry of fundamental research, graduate student recruiting, and the State of Washington’s failure to invest in computer science educational capacity on KUOW’s “Weekday” with Steve Scher.
The interview begins at 21:45 here.… Read more →
Math Academy students visit Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory
Roughly 20 students from last summer’s UW College of Engineering Math Academy program returned to campus and visited the Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory in CSE.
Lots of photographs here.… Read more →
CSE’s Carl Ebeling wins “Top 25 in 20” from FPGA
For the 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in 2012, a program committee has assembled a special volume to highlight the most significant papers from the conferences – 25 papers across all years and all major FPGA topics that best exemplify the contributions from the conference. These 25 papers represent roughly 5% of the 400-500 papers that have appeared in the conference to date.
The paper “PathFinder: A Negotiation-Based Performance-Driven Router for FPGAs” by… Read more →
CSE’s Tom Anderson wins “Top 20 in 20” from HPDC
The International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) has identified 20 “most influential” papers from the past 20 years. Among them is the paper “WebOS: Operating System Services For Wide Area Applications” by Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, Mike Dahlin, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham, and Chad Yoshikawa.
Says Tom: “Perhaps a lesson in this – this paper was serially rejected from every conference we submitted it to, except the last one (HPDC). After all,… Read more →
“Want to catalyze innovation? Look to the gamers”
In the Washington Post, DARPA Director Regina Dugan highlights UW’s Foldit game, in which 100,000+ gamers contribute to protein folding and protein structure calculation.
“We have a program — a game — called Foldit. It was originally sponsored at DARPA, and it is essentially the Tetris of protein folding. Understanding the three-dimensional folded structure of a protein is very important for understanding disease and for developing treatments for diseases. A gamer said, ‘Oh, look, lots of small manipulations, lots of… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Notkin wins ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
David Notkin – Bradley Chair in Computer Science & Engineering – has been honored with the Influential Educator Award from SIGSOFT, the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
David is being recognized for “tremendous impact in graduate-level education, in mentoring junior researchers, and in nurturing future researchers.”
The award was initiated in 2009, and in the first year was awarded posthumously to David’s Ph.D. advisor, CMU’s Nico Habermann. David will receive the award at the International Conference on… Read more →
STEM Out! @ UW CSE
On Saturday February 18, 48 girls in grades 8-12 gathered in UW CSE for STEM Out! organized by Amazon.com Hoppers.
Computer science is a great “change the world” field for everyone! Come join us!… Read more →
UW CSE at the NITRD Symposium
On February 16th, a technical symposium in Washington DC marked the 20th anniversary of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program – the multi-agency coordinated R&D program that was set in motion by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, sponsored by then-Senator Al Gore.
Among the speakers were UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage (now on the faculty at UC San Diego), UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), and… Read more →