The work of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Adrien Treuille, now on the computer science faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, is described in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
“A Web-based game that uses the brainpower of biology novices to understand molecules key to life and disease is producing working designs of those molecules …”
The game, EteRNA, is a derivative of Adrien’s UW Ph.D. work on Foldit, a Web-based game for protein folding and protein structure calculation, which… Read more →
UW CSE alum Ian King in WSJ for Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum
“Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen wants an IBM 7094. The elusive data-processing system was taken off the market in 1969 after just seven years and hasn’t been widely used since.
“It’s Ian King’s job to find it.
“Often clad in a kilt, and sporting a Grizzly Adams-like coiffure, Mr. King is traveling the globe in search of the 7094 and other obscure, often huge, old computer gear. The machines will stock Mr. Allen’s appointment-only Living Computer Museum.
“‘I’m like… Read more →
UW CSE Center for Game Science
Seattle Business profiles UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic and his Center for Game Science.
“Housed in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, the Center for Game Science is where scientists and scholars apply gaming principles to projects as diverse as biology, education and nanotechnology.”
Read the article here.… Read more →
Noah Snavely, TR35!
Each year Technology Review honors 35 innovators under the age of 35 “whose work promises to change the world. Candidates from across the globe are chosen for tackling important problems in transformative ways.”
This year’s TR35 includes UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Noah Snavely, now a faculty member at Cornell.
“In 2006, as part of his PhD studies at the University of Washington, Snavely created a system that could assemble such models using an unstructured assortment of images from different… Read more →
UW Tacoma thanks Orlando Baiocchi, welcomes Rob Friedman
The Institute of Technology at UW Tacoma today thanked Orlando Baiocchi for five years of service as Director, and welcomed Rob Friedman, his successor.
Some editorializing by Ed Lazowska:
I worked closely with former UW Tacoma Chancellor Vicky Carwein to obtain legislative support for establishing the Institute of Technology. One of Vicky’s many wonderful qualities was that she clearly understood the mission of UW Tacoma and of the Institute: to serve as a powerful engine of revitalization for the South… Read more →
CS4HS 2011
More than 60 K-12 teachers from the Pacific Northwest joined UW CSE this week for the fifth annual edition of CS4HS, a summer workshop in computer science for teachers of math and science. Sponsored by Google, CS4HS began as a joint initiative of UW, CMU, and UCLA, and has grown over the years to include dozens of campuses.
Special thanks to Google, and also to Tom Cortina from CMU who has joined us every year to contribute to the success… Read more →
Ice Cream Mann
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stephen Mann, a computer graphics faculty member at the University of Waterloo, is celebrated for making ice cream for his students in the Waterloo computer graphics lab.
Brian, Zoran, and Steve: Is there something you could learn from him?
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UW Security and Privacy Research Lab members wear their waivers on their backs
In order to look their best at Defcon and Usenix Security, members of the UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab equipped themselves with t-shirts displaying the text of the waiver they were required to sign before testing their hacked automobile on the runway at Blaine Airport.
We can confirm that no damage was done by the car at Blaine Airport. We are not so sure about the impact of these t-shirts at Defcon and Usenix Security.… Read more →
“Wide gap in skills leaves many unemployed, many open jobs”
This Seattle Times article offers a sad commentary on the job prospects of displaced workers, and on Washington State’s shameful level of investment in Bachelors-level higher education. It should be “must reading” for policymakers:
“An International Monetary Fund (IMF) study estimated that between 2007 and 2010, the skill level of Washington’s work force (measured mainly by years of education) got more out of whack with the available jobs than in any other state except Delaware.
“That mismatch helps explain why… Read more →
“New NSF Engineering Research Center to Pursue Ideal Mind–Machine Interface”
The National Science Foundation press release on the Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, directed by UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka, is out. According to NSF:
“The National Science Foundation announces an award to the University of Washington and its partners to establish a new NSF Engineering Research Center. The ERC will pursue interdisciplinary research and education to address questions important to both human health and robotics, and to provide the foundation for new industries through innovation. NSF… Read more →