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 →
CSE takes to the seas!
Not to be outdone by Stanford’s infamous yacht, UW CSE took to the seas on Wednesday on Tom Alberg’s spectacular 77′ sloop Cascadia. In addition to Tom and Cascadia’s master Erik Soper, the crew included UW President Michael Young, UW Dean of Engineering Matt O’Donnell, UW CSE faculty Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy, Jan Labyak (charged with keeping Ed and Hank in line), and UW CSE friends Emer Dooley, Brett Helsel, Ron Howell, Brian MacDonald, Matt McIlwain, Sujal Patel, Jack… Read more →
American Public Media features Oren Etzioni, Mike Fridgen on “dynamic pricing”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni was featured today on American Public Media, along with Mike Fridgen, CEO of Oren’s latest startup Decide.com.
“Etzioni started collecting online price data from all the airlines – then he created his own formula that could predict when the airlines would raise or lower their prices. His company was bought by Microsoft. And today, when you search for flights on Microsoft’s Bing search engine, you’ll see an arrow letting you know you if the price of… Read more →
“Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Couldn’t”
Zoran Popovic’s research continues to go where CSE has never been before – this time, The Onion.… Read more →
UW CSE celebrates Shwetak Patel
At the CSE departmental retreat today, Shwetak Patel was surprised with a mondo chocolate cake celebrating his recent MacArthur Fellowship (“Genius Award”). Once again, congratulations Shwetak!… Read more →