Saturday marked the retirement celebration for long-time UW CSE professor Susan Eggers.
Susan, a leading computer architect and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, was honored by CSE faculty and staff, former students, her Berkeley Ph.D. advisor Randy Katz (Susan was Randy’s second Ph.D. student; his first, Gaetano Borriello, is also on the UW CSE faculty), and former Berkeley graduate school colleagues including Jim Larus.
Thank you, Susan, for all you’ve done to make UW CSE a special … Read more →
Bing celebrates UW’s 150th anniversary
November 4 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the University of Washington (not to mention the 62nd birthday of UW President Michael Young). Our friends at Bing have chosen a photograph of the Graduate Reading Room of Suzzallo Library to commemorate the day. Thanks Bing! And congratulations UW!
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TechFlash “Startup of the Week” – Decide.com
“Should you buy that new camera now, or wait and see if the price drops a little more? That’s the decision Seattle startup Decide.com wants to help you answer…
“The startup was co-founded by Oren Etzioni, founder of Farecast and a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and two sets of [UW alumni] brothers, Brian and Ian Ma, and Hsu Han and Hsu Ken Ooi.”
Read more here.… Read more →
TechCrunch on UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia’s startup Odiago
“Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia is debuting his new startup today, called Odiago. Odiago develops a product called WibiData, which leverages Apache Hadoop to manage and analyze large amounts of data. And the company is launching with a number of major backers including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and SV Angel.”
Christophe received his Bachelors degree from UW CSE in 2003 and joined Google. In 2007, he returned to UW on his Google 20% time to… Read more →
“Why Northeastern University chose Seattle, and what the UW’s Ed Lazowska thinks about it”
Following up on a Seattle Times article announcing that Northeastern University is contemplating opening a campus in Seattle to offer master’s degrees in information assurance, health informatics and computer science, GeekWire interviews Northeastern’s senior strategist and market development officer, Sean Gallagher, and UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
Gallagher: “The Seattle metro area has been a leader in job creation and the growth of its knowledge economy … There has been rapid and sustained growth in Seattle and in the state… Read more →
200 students participate in Google Halloween costume contest
Desperate to come up with an encore to showing up at UW CSE’s Affiliates recruiting day in a Cookie Monster costume, Yin Lu, Google Seattle’s new UW liaison, sponsored a Halloween costume contest for our undergraduates. More than 200 students turned out, in various stages of dress and undress.
Thanks to Yin and Google for this great idea!… Read more →
UW ACM International Intercollegiate Programming Contest
On Saturday, Google sponsored the UW round of the ACM International Intercollegiate Programming Contest.
30 teams competed in the contest, organized by UW CSE’s Stuart Reges, assisted by UW CSE faculty colleagues Marty Stepp and Helene Martin; UW CSE students Victoria Wagner, Janette Sui, Shiny Yang, and Catriona Scott; and UW CSE Google alums Kevin Wallace and Ethan Apter. Google provide food, prizes, and swag.
The top five teams have won the honor of representing UW at the regional contest,… Read more →
Shwetak goes to Washington
Hot on the heels of his Saturday night appearance on the field and scoreboard of Husky Stadium, UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel found his way to Washington DC to demonstrate his ElectriSense and HydroSense sustainability sensing technology to Secretary of Energy (and Nobel Laureate) Steven Chu.
Back-channel from a Department of Energy person at the meeting: “Had the Secretary interested – made him 15 minutes late for his next meeting! Good opportunity to discuss learning algorithms and other CS issues.”… Read more →
Shwetak Patel on the Husky Stadium scoreboard!
Huskies over Wildcats 42-30? Nice.
Shwetak Patel on the Husky Stadium scoreboard? Priceless!
UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel was recognized at this evening’s game as the University of Washington’s newest MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” winner.
Congratulations Shwetak!
Additional photos here.
And a note from CMU MacArthur winner Luis von Ahn:
From: Luis von Ahn
Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM
Subject: Shwetak
To: Ed Lazowska
Husky stadium for Shwetak? Man, you guys do it right.
When I got… Read more →
James Hamilton in UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series, Tuesday
The task of following Bill Gates falls to James Hamilton. James is a superb database, data center, and Internet-scale services R&D leader, as well as a superb speaker. Currently Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, he previously spent a decade with Microsoft, and before that a decade with IBM. James also maintains two extremely interesting blogs: one on all things related to technology (here), and one on all things related to cruising and living aboard… Read more →