Bus riders in the greater Seattle area rely on OneBusAway, using it more than 50,000 times a week. OneBusAway was created by UW CSE Ph.D. student Brian Ferris, who graduated this past summer and now works for Google in Zurich. Ferris built and ran One Bus Away, a collection of phone apps that inform riders when buses are expected to arrive at their stop, using data shared by transit agencies.
UW CSE has continued to run the system… Read more →
Joe Tucci at UW CSE, October 19
Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO of EMC, will deliver the keynote address at the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting, at 2:45 p.m. on October 19 in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The talk, part of the UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series, is open to the public.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Tucci will dedicate a new Pioneer Square facility for Isilon, a Seattle company co-founded by Sujal Patel and UW CSE… Read more →
Bill Gates III at UW CSE, October 27
Bill Gates III will deliver the UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecture at 3:30 p.m. on October 27 in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering:
The Opportunity Ahead: A Conversation with Bill Gates
Thursday, October 27, 2011
3:30pm, Microsoft Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
Reception to follow
Although space is limited, the event will be webcast live, and web archived. Additional information here.
Abstract
Advances… Read more →
The University of Washington’s 150th Anniversary
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the University of Washington, established as the Territorial University of Washington in 1861, only 10 years after Seattle was settled and 18 years before Washington became a state.
UW’s founder and first president, Asa Shinn Mercer, blazed the trail for a proud record of UW entrepreneurship and public service (not to mention hair style): he left his post after only two years, heading east to Massachusetts in 1863 and again in… Read more →
The Living Voters Guide: A citizen-generated guide to the Washington State 2011 election
A team of researchers from UW CSE, the UW Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, and Seattle CityClub has launched an improved and expanded version of the Living Voters Guide for the November 2011 election in Washington State. Its purpose is to bring together Washington voters to discuss and explore their positions on both statewide and local ballot measures for 2011. Unlike traditional voters’ guides issued by governments, advocacy groups, and other organizations, it is co-created solely by its… Read more →
“We’re Number Twenty-Five!”
The new Times Higher Education Rankings are out. UW is ranked 25th in the world, 5th among US public institutions. (All these rankings are bogus. We report the good ones and ignore the bad ones.) Read all about it here.… Read more →
UW “Trend in Engineering” … another CSE issue …
The autumn issue of Trend in Engineering – the UW College of Engineering alumni magazine – features multiple CSE stories:
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, directed by CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka (cover story).
UW’s 14th MacArthur “Genius” Award winner, CSE’s and EE’s Shwetak Patel.
Research on wireless heart pumps, by CSE’s and EE’s Josh Smith.
New members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, including CSE’s Hank Levy.
A new Microsoft Research Faculty … Read more →
Shwetak Patel’s MacArthur in UW Daily
“Shwetak Patel heard the words ‘Are you alone?’ from the other end of the phone line and suddenly knew what was happening. He was about to become half a million dollars richer. A director from the MacArthur Foundation heard a thump, and Patel explained how he was on the floor, shocked that he had just received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the MacArthur Genius Award. ‘It was the typical disbelief — my students… Read more →
UW CSE welcomes the 2011 incoming Ph.D. class
Our annual graduate student welcoming party is still referred to as “The Pit Party” – an allusion to a time 40 years ago when CSE was housed in the basement of Roberts Hall, UW’s former mining building, which included a replica open-pit coal mine. My how times have changed!… Read more →