The New York Times describes the PocketTouch system – work carried out at Microsoft Research by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Scott Saponas and collaborators. The article quotes UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Bigham, now on the computer science faculty at the University of Rochester, and UW CSE Ph.D. alum Krzysztof Gajos, now on the computer science faculty at Harvard.
“Yes, there are still a few inhibiting social settings where people must forgo that primal urge to pull out… Read more →
“Lots of options for getting students into computing programming”
UW CSE alum Lauren Bricker, who teaches Computer Science at Seattle’s Lakeside School, and UW CSE alum Hélène Martin, who taught Computer Science at Seattle’s Garfield High School and has now returned to UW to drive K-12 outreach, are quoted extensively in this Seattle Times article.
“Computer programming helps develop critical thinking skills, such as how to break down a problem into manageable parts or how to put tasks into a logical sequence, as well as the importance… Read more →
Best Paper Awards in Computer Science
Our friends at Microsoft Research drew our attention to this tally of Best Paper Awards at major Computer Science conferences.
Needless to say, we only post the beauty contests where we place well. To find the others, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But we recommend this one! Check it out here.… Read more →
Who got da jobs?
Yesterday the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) testified, with others, before the House Higher Education Committee about the degree “gap” in Washington, especially with regards to computer science.
A shameful lack of investment by the state and by its universities has caused a huge shortfall in computer science graduates, starving the state’s companies and denying opportunity to the state’s students.
See the WTIA Government Affairs blog post here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska at Microsoft Research 20th Anniversary Symposium
Microsoft Research is releasing a collection of videos from its 20th Anniversary Symposium.
“On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Research, we invited innovators in computer science and related fields to join us for a day to look back and then forward to the next 20 years of computer science. These reflections on advice to young scientists are provided as a gift to the computer science community. We plan to release one set of thoughts per month… Read more →
“Plucking a Strand of Genetic Insight From the Sea”
Vaughn Iverson is a UW CSE Masters alum, now a Ph.D. student working in Ginger Armbrust‘s lab in UW Oceanography. The New York Times writes:
“By filtering through 25 gallons of seawater from Puget Sound, a computer scientist in Washington State has managed to tease out and sequence the DNA of a tiny microbe that has eluded scientists for years.
“The creature is Euryarchaeota, one of the archaea, a class of micro-organisms that were once thought to be bacteria… Read more →
Adrien Treuille on Collaborative Science at Solve for X
UW CSE alum Adrien Treuille, a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, was a featured speaker at the recent Google Solve for X conference.
For three days, fifty scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world came together to discuss and debate radical solutions to some really big problems.
Adrien spoke on “collaborative science,” the subject of his UW CSE Ph.D. thesis, which yielded the hugely successful protein folding game Foldit.
See Adrien’s superb Solve for… Read more →
WibiData raises $5M from Eric Schmidt and NEA
WibiData, the big data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder and UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia and Cloudera early employee and never-to-be-seen-again CSE Ph.D. student Aaron Kimball, is announcing $5 million in new funding from NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Past investors in the company include Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and SV Angel.
Read all about it here! Congratulations to Christophe and Aaron!… Read more →
“EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support”
Says Brett Helsel, EMC Isilon Senior Vice President of Engineering: “Wowee. A couple of UW CSE interns (Conrad Meyer and Allison Obourn) and a couple of UW CSE alums (Jeff Hughes and Darrick Lew) for a couple of months in the summer and look at all the noise you can make.”
Read the EMC Isilon press release here.… Read more →
National Science Foundation 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
And the winner (in the “Interactive Games” category): UW CSE’s Foldit, as usual – the massively multi-player web-based game that, a few months ago, cracked an AIDS-related protein structure problem that had eluded scientists for a decade.
NSF news post here. More information on UW CSE’s Center for Game Science here.… Read more →