Congratulations to UW CSE’s Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, who will be one of two recipients of the UC Berkeley Computer Science Division’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Gaetano joins an extraordinary list of Berkeley alums who have been recognized with this award – a list that includes UW CSE professor Susan Eggers (a 2009 recipient) and former UW CSE professor Tony DeRose (a 2011 recipient).
Congratulations Gaetano!… Read more →
“Cars: The Next Victims of Cyberattacks”
IEEE Spectrum, a bit late to the party, report on the automotive security work carried out jointly by the security groups at UW and UCSD:
“Researchers at the University of California at San Diego and the University of Washington say that in their tinkering research, they hit upon a cyberattack method by which thieves could cause large groups of cars to report their vehicle identification numbers (from which it is easy to determine the cars’ years, makes, and models)… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Hinshaw blows his own horn
The Stranger reviews Orkestar Zirkonium’s new album “Too Hot for Sleep”:
“Orkestar Zirkonium is a 13-piece marching band with bouncy tuba rhythms, circus-y horn flourishes, and a killer clarinetist ([UW CSE Ph.D. alum] Kevin Hinshaw) who sounds like he’s been airlifted from a concert of Rhapsody in Blue and dropped into a Bulgarian brass band playing around a campfire.”
Read the review here. Learn about Orkestar Zirkonium here. Buy the album here. Read Dan Savage’s latest column… Read more →
“Higher-ed woes tied to state ‘leadership vacuum'”
The Seattle Times reports on a new study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education that highlights Washington State’s lack of bachelors capacity, which “forces employers to go out of state — and even out of the country — to find skilled workers.” The report “puts the blame largely on state leadership — especially Gov. Chris Gregoire, but also state legislators — for what the authors call a ‘policy leadership vacuum.'” The authors also “noted Washington’s four-year schools… Read more →
“Let’s give it the old NYC college try”
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes:
“It doesn’t take college-level math to figure that a growing state also needs to continually expand its college system. So why not try what New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did? Throw out a little carrot. See who would compete to build a new college here.”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska responds:
“Here’s the conundrum:
“Public universities have traditionally been ‘accessible’ in two important respects: they are large, and they have low tuition… Read more →
Alon Halevy on “The Infinite Emotions of Coffee,” January 12, 10:30, CSE 691
UW CSE Affiliate Professor Alon Halevy, who leads the Structured Data Group of Google Research in Mountain View, California, has been moonlighting for the past few years as a coffee aficionado. The result of this effort is a just-published book, The Infinite Emotions of Coffee. Alon will discuss the book on Thursday January 12 at 10:30 in CSE 691 (the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons).
Based on travel to over 30 countries on 6 continents, Alon tells of the… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Lauren Bricker is GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“Lakeside School in Seattle produced a couple of the most famous computer scientists in the world four decades ago, and the subject is still an important one for many students at the school today. One reason is Lakeside computer science faculty member Lauren Bricker, our latest Geek of the Week.
“The University of Washington computer science alum thinks of herself as a ‘geek generator,’ as she explains in her answers to our questions below. Continue reading for more about Bricker,… Read more →
UW CSE in NCWIT “Sit With Me” videos
UW CSE is one of two dozen “Pacesetter” organizations of the National Center for Women in Information Technology – a fast-track program in which senior executives from universities and corporations commit to increasing their numbers of technical women by working to recruit previously untapped talent pools of technical women and retain women who are at risk of leaving, resulting in “net new” women for their organizations.
In the “Sit With Me” series of video interviews, representatives of the… Read more →
RNIB Insight Radio interviews UW CSE’s Sanjana Prasain
UW CSE undergraduate Sanjana Prasain is interviewed by RNIB Insight Radio in connection with her research on providing transit information to blind, low-vision, and deaf-blind users.
“A student from the University of Washington has developed an application which could dramatically improve the experience of blind bus users.”
RNIB, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, is the UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people in the region with sight loss.
Listen to the podcast… Read more →
“I love teaching the students to teach themselves”
An India Abroad cover story on UW CSE/EE’s MacArthur Award winner Shwetak Patel discusses Shwetak’s formative years in Birmingham, Alabama. Then there’s the bit about how he proposed to UW HCDE and iSchool professor Julie Kientz:
“He proposed to her at a ski resort in January of 2009, near Mt Rainier. The two sat down on the side of the slope overlooking Mt. Rainier.
“‘He then popped the question; he still had his snowboard gear on, so there wasn’t… Read more →