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 →
“Sensor Sensation”
Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, features the teaching of UW CSE/EE’s Shwetak Patel:
“The 50 students who enrolled in Shwetak Patel’s Embedded Microcomputer Systems class last winter could not have expected to draw a public spotlight. But once they rose to his challenge, building and programming controllers for a fleet of remotely piloted quadrocopters, a video of their drones’ successful flight leapt from YouTube into the local media.
“Engaging students in exciting practical… Read more →
Vote for Foldit!
MSNBC asks readers to vote among “11 scientific twists from 2011.”
Two are from the field of computer science: Watson’s Jeopardy! triumph, and the cracking of a decade-old AIDS-related protein structure problem by players of UW CSE’s Foldit game.
Read the article here. And vote!… Read more →
The craziest idea out there that just might succeed: That technology can actually play a significant positive role in education
As a New Year’s exercise, Xconomy asked a select group of Xconomists to answer this question: “What’s the craziest idea out there that just might succeed?”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska answers:
“That technology can actually play a significant positive role in education. The false promises go back at least 100 years – to extravagant claims by Thomas Edison. Certainly ‘computers in the classroom’ have contributed relatively little to this point …
“But one has to believe that there is hope,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Alexei Czeskis on The Voice of Russia: “Chinese hack into US Chamber of Commerce”
“The break-in is one of the boldest known infiltrations in what has become a regular confrontation between US companies and Chinese hackers.
“Bradley Shear, George Washington University professor and Attorney At Law with the Law Office of Bradley S. Shear, LLC, Alexei Czeskis, Security and Privacy Research Lab with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and Paul Rosenweig, Principal with Red Branch Consulting and a visiting fellow at Heritage, talk about this complex… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno on American Public Media: “Could that new toy robot be hacked?”
“Look, I’m not trying to freak you out here. Well, OK, maybe a little. But think about it: We have computers all over the place. Your laptop or desktop PC; maybe you have a tablet too, maybe a smartphone. And it doesn’t stop there. Your car might be computerized, your kitchen, the toys your kids got for Christmas. If any of those computers are connected to any kind of network, there exists an issue of security …
“Yoshi Kohno… Read more →