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 →
Local boy makes good!
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Greg Badros has emerged as one of five technical team leaders reporting to Facebook Founder, President, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a re-organization announced by Facebook today. Read more here.
Congratulations Greg!… Read more →
“A New Secret Weapon for Electronics Shoppers”
The New York Times profiles UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni and his most recent company, Decide.com:
“Perhaps the biggest consumer weapon arrived this year in the form of Decide.com. It is a Web site, and more recently an app for mobile devices, that collects and mines billions of transactions to determine what the best price is and whether there will be an even better price soon …
“For example, Decide.com said last week with 81 percent confidence that the Panasonic… Read more →
UW in 14-team Facebook College Hackathon
Pre-major freshman Nick Barnwell, CSE major Bill Cauchois, ACMS major Ryan Ewing, and math major Alex Juarez represented UW at the Facebook College Hackathon.
Read about their app and their plans in Geekwire here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage in NY Times
Today’s New York Times Science section consists of a bevy of essays on the future of computing. One, on computer security, is by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage – here. UW CSE’s Foldit protein folding game is prominently featured in an essay by Berkeley’s Dave Patterson on the role of computer scientists in tackling diseases – here.
All of the essays are terrific! See:
Drew Endy, “Taking Faster and Smarter to New Physical Frontiers”
Sebastian Thrun, “Leave … Read more →
“Seattle Business” lauds Etzioni, Fridgen, Ceze, Tan, and Anokwa
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 →