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 →
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 →