From The New York Times:
“The Internet likes you, really likes you. It offers you so much, just a mouse click or finger tap away. Go Christmas shopping, find restaurants, locate partying friends, tell the world what you’re up to. Some of the finest minds in computer science, working at start-ups and big companies, are obsessed with tracking your online habits to offer targeted ads and coupons, just for you …
“But now — nothing personal, mind you — the… Read more →
Chris Kemp on UW CSE in GeekWire
“At 34 years old, Chris Kemp has a resume that many would call a career — Silicon Graphics systems engineer, Classmates.com chief architect, founder of online grocery technology company Netran and online travel company Escapia, CIO at NASA’s Ames Research Center and most recently the space agency’s first CTO for information technology …
“Now Kemp is back in the private sector, taking more risks and applying the lessons he’s learned along the way … Kemp is the CEO and co-founder… Read more →
“Xconomist of the Week: Stefan Savage on Computer Security”
Xconomy interviews UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, as “Xconomist of the Week”:
“Last year, a team led by Savage and UW’s Tadayoshi Kohno showed that a hacker with physical access to an automotive electronic control unit could alter software to stop the engine, disable the brakes, and carry out other nefarious tasks. In follow-up research published earlier this year, Savage and company said they had succeeded in performing… Read more →
UW CSE hosts high school programming contest as finale to Computer Science Education Week
On Saturday December 10th, the Atrium of the Allen Center was the scene of delightful bedlam as more than 150 students from 43 teams representing 15 high schools competed in a day-long programming contest sponsored by UW CSE as the regional finale to the national Computer Science Education Week.
Results and photos can be found on the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association (PSCSTA) website here. Additional photos on the Garfield High School Computer Science website here and… Read more →
UW 360 (UWTV) features Shwetak Patel
The December 2011 edition of UW 360 – a UW TV magazine-style show profiling the fascinating people, programs and community connections that define the University of Washington – features UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel. The segment shows how he combines computer science and engineering to solve health and energy problems.
“‘You can’t really come up with new solutions unless you try to attack the problem from a different angle.'”
Watch the video here. Learn more about his research here… Read more →
Danny Westneat (Seattle Times) on UW CSE
On Friday, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat visited the final session of Stuart Reges‘s CSE 143. His report:
“There may be no place where the gap between politics and reality is wider right now than the UW’s computer science department.
“Politics these days is all about shrinking. How can we retrench, reduce or reset.
“But even the lecture halls aren’t big enough to contain what’s actually going on in high-tech education.
“An intro to computer programming section was… Read more →
CSE’s Greg Badros, Anne Condon honored with UW College of Engineering Diamond Awards for 2012
Each year the University of Washington College of Engineering recognizes five alums with Diamond Awards – the highest honor conferred by the College.
We are thrilled to announce that UW CSE alums have received two of the 2012 Diamond Awards – to be conferred at a ceremony on May 18.
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Greg Badros, an Engineering Director at Facebook responsible for advertising, search, data science and data infrastructure, will receive the UW College of Engineering Diamond Award… Read more →
Columns (UW alumni magazine) features Shwetak Patel
“Shwetak Patel, a UW assistant professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering for the past three years, has been honored as one of this year’s MacArthur Fellows. Patel is the 15th UW faculty member to receive the prestigious ‘genius grant,’ which comes with a no-strings-attached award of $500,000 …
“Besides his time teaching at the UW, Patel, 29, already founded and sold a start-up company, Zensi, Inc., a demand-side, energy-monitoring solutions provider; he has been named a Microsoft… Read more →
The quantum crew
Michael Nielsen, Dave Bacon, Scott Aaronson, Steve Flammia, and Aram Harrow relax in the Allen Center atrium following Michael’s UW CSE Distinguished Lecture on “open science.”
Photos of Michael’s UW CSE Distinguished Lecture, by Bruce Hemingway, here.… Read more →
The G-GIVE brain trust
G-GIVE is an initiative by Google Seattle/Kirkland to encourage employee philanthropy. During the first two weeks of December, gifts to nine different causes were matched not only by Google, but by a generous Googler. Google Seattle/Kirkland already leads all Google sites in employee participation in the Google philanthropic matching program; the goal of G-GIVE is to drive participation even higher.
On the kickoff day – Tuesday December 6 – 100 Seattle/Kirkland Googlers made gifts to the UW CSE Google Endowed… Read more →