The December issue of Seattle Business magazine identifies “The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid” for 2011.
“The Good” include:
Oren Etzioni & Mike Fridgen, Decide.com. The gurus behind Farecast have done it again …
Luis Ceze, UW/Corensic. Computer architect Luis Ceze is revamping the philosophy of computing by devising new programming techniques that save energy …
Desney Tan, Microsoft [and UW CSE Affiliate Professor]. Driven by his varied background—aerospace engineer, philosopher, theologian, computer scientist—Desney Tan has been working with… Read more →
UW CSE’s James Landay featured in “Programmer”
Quoting from the article:
“Programmer … The Computer for the 21st Century … UbiComp … Xerox PARC … Mark Weiser … Scientific American … James Landay …”
After that, you’re on your own, here.… Read more →
It’s Computer Science Education Week!
The United States House of Representatives has declared the week of Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday as Computer Science Education Week. Given how little Congress can agree on these days, that’s a big deal!
The idea behind CSEdWeek is to spend some time reflecting on and celebrating existing K-12 computing programs while dreaming up new ways to support kids’ CS learning.
UW CSE will be hosting a programming competition for high school students on Saturday – more information here. … Read more →
GeekWire reprises Steve Yegge as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011″
Today, a fourth UW CSE family member has been highlighted as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011”: UW CSE alumnus and Google engineer Steve Yegge, “the accidental newsmaker,” who ” made news this year by accident, when an exceptionally insightful rant that he intended for internal consumption was inadvertently made public through the Google+ social network — generating widespread headlines for its brutal candor …”
Read the rest here.
And see GeekWire on other CSE 2011 Newsmakers Yoky Matsuoka,… Read more →
UW CSE 2011 Holiday Party
More than 200 graduate students, staff, faculty, and family members gathered on Friday evening for the annual UW CSE Holiday Party.
The critics have already weighed in regarding the faculty skit (see photos):
Mike Ernst’s 5-year-old: “They’re not actually acting, they’re just standing there talking.”
Steve Seitz’s 6-year-old: “When does the real play start?”
Oren Etzioni has delivered the faculty response:
“Years ago, my 6 year-old said the same thing when I took him to see Waiting for Godot.”… Read more →
Foldit is TechFlash 2011 “Innovation of the Year”
Foldit, the massive multiplayer protein folding game created by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, has been named by TechFlash as the 2011 “Innovation of the Year” for its role in cracking an AIDS-related problem whose solution had eluded scientists for a decade.… Read more →
GeekWire reprises Yoky Matsuoka as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011″
We love John and Todd at GeekWire! A third UW CSE family member has been singled out as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011”: Yoky Matsuoka.
“Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous system to work in conjunction with robotics and other mechanical devices …
“Matsuoka, a past MacArthur Genius award winner from UW Computer Science & Engineering, this year became the director of a new Engineering… Read more →
Brossard, Bryan, Dietzel, and Worden recognized in 2012 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition
The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition recognizes undergraduates in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Universities may nominate as many as four students annually.
In the 2012 competition (results announced today), all four UW CSE nominees were recognized – extending UW CSE’s record of having the largest number of students recognized in the most recent ten years of this competition!
Congratulations to Elliott Brossard, Matt Bryan, Stephanie… Read more →
NPR interviews Oren Etzioni on “big data”
As the lead-off for a series on “big data,” NPR features UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni:
“Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, says this trend is fueling intense demand for mathematics and computing talent.
“‘We have seen the industrial revolution, and we are witnessing a data revolution,’ Etzioni says.
“He has started three big-data companies. One of them, Decide.com, employs four Ph.D.s to design better programs to forecast prices on consumer electronics.”
Check out… Read more →
“UW Students Developing Bus App For The Blind”
The UW Daily apparently watches KING5 News (see post from a week ago here) to get their campus information … but hey, we’ll take it:
“OneBusAway, a smartphone application developed by students in the UW’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), provides public transit riders with bus schedules, maps, and real-time updates as to when buses arrive at stops. But now, another team of CSE students are developing a similar app for blind transit riders.”
Read the article… Read more →