The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences, dating back to 1994, designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.
UW CSE has consistently been a leader in inclusion, and has consistently had a strong representation of undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and alums at the Hopper conferences. The 2011 conference was conveniently located in Portland Oregon, and UW CSE attendance broke all records.
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“Seattle and UW look to light up 500 miles of fiber to help solve broadband woes”
GeekWire reports on Seattle’s instantiation of the national Gig.U initiative, spearheaded by Blair Levin of the Aspen Institute, who formerly led the FCC’s National Broadband Plan.
“University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska, who will be on hand at Monday’s press conference and is familiar with Gig.U, said that the idea is to try to build unique private-public partnerships that bring true broadband to communities. At the same time, it will attempt to break the stranglehold that telecommunications companies… Read more →
“On Campus, a Law Enforcement System to Itself”
A thought-provoking article from the New York Times, here.
Think it would never happen in Seattle? Read this book.… Read more →
“S is for Security; S is for Spam; S is for Stefan Savage”
S is for “Support UW CSE so we can produce more graduates like this guy.”
Read more here.… Read more →
“Seattle’s tech scene surges”
Reuters reports:
“The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city’s emergence as what some would argue is the West Coast’s second most important hub of technology and entrepreneurship …
“Indeed, the troika of Microsoft, the mobile phone empire built by Craig McCaw, and the strong science and engineering programs at the University of Washington has created a foundation for technology entrepreneurship that is the envy of would-be Silicon Valleys around the world.”
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Kent Schliiter
Kent Schliiter, a 1998 UW CSE Computer Engineering graduate, has passed away suddenly at the young age of 43.
Kent was at UW in 1989 and 1990, left for a while, then returned and finished his degree. He worked at Microsoft after leaving UW, then left Microsoft and with his wife, an M.D., started an urgent care clinic in Issaquah.
He has two little girls 7 and 9.… Read more →
“DARPA Looks to Protect Drones From Hack Attacks”
Wired reports on DARPA research conducted by UW CSE’s Mike Ernst and Zoran Popovic:
“DARPA’s next big cybersecurity initiative, unveiled on Monday, is … a program to crowdsource the detection and removal of buggy or malicious lines of code. Possibly as a videogame.
“‘We want to ‘game-ify’ geeky formal verification,’ announced Drew Dean, another DARPA program manager. Dean’s brand-new effort, Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, would replace the expensive, slow model of a single expert or security company taking a fine… Read more →
Melody Kadenko’s 15 minutes of fame!
Seventeen years ago, long-time CSE staff member Melody Kadenko’s car was ransacked when she was on a camping trip.
This week, construction workers who were demolishing the Elwha River Dam as part of a salmon habitat restoration project found her purse – along with all of its contents!
Did she try the Dentyne? You’ll have to ask her yourself.
See a KING5 News report here.… Read more →
Melissa Winstanley wins Facebook Grace Hopper Scholarship
“After reviewing hundreds of applications from talented women engineers around the world, we now have the final list of [20] amazing women to receive full scholarships to this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Portland, Oregon.”
Congratulations Melissa, and thank you Facebook! Announcement here.… Read more →