ACM TechNews and ITBusinessEdge have both picked up UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska’s recent Xconomy article on the Computer Science job market.
“Meanwhile, in this post at Xconomy, Lazowska reports that his seniors are being offered salaries straight out of college as high as $105,000. The emails he quotes in that piece will just blow you away at the opportunities these kids are offered, such as this:
“‘I’m a senior who transferred to UW from Shoreline Community College.… Read more →
OneBusAway in Seattle Times
OneBusAway, a transit app by UW CSE’s Brian Ferris and collaborators, is praised in this Seattle Times article:
“One of Seattle’s least-known secrets is a magical app for your phone.
“It can make you more efficient, reduce stress, give you more time, save you money and help the environment.
“Best of all, it’s free.
“You don’t even need an expensive smartphone or one of those wireless plans that cost as much as a car payment.
“I’m talking about OneBusAway… Read more →
UW CSE ACM Spring BBQ
UW CSE faculty, staff, and students gathered in the Sylvan Grove on Friday for the annual ACM Spring BBQ. As if on cue, the Seattle temperature reached 70 for the first time during this most miserable Spring in recent memory. (But by 6 a.m. on Saturday it was raining again …)
Many terrific Bruce Hemingway photographs are here, including the annual pieing of Luis Ceze.… Read more →
CSE’s Dieter Fox elected Fellow of AAAI
UW CSE professor Dieter Fox is one of six AI researchers elected in 2011 as Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Dieter was elected “for significant contributions to probabilistic state estimation and its application to the fields of robotics and ubiquitous computing.” He joins UW CSE faculty members Dan Weld, Oren Etzioni, and Pedro Domingos as Fellows of AAAI.
Dieter’s research interests lie in artificial intelligence, robotics, and probabilistic state estimation. He grew up… Read more →
UW Interim President Phyllis Wise hosts “Community Conversation” in Allen Center
UW Interim President Phyllis Wise today hosted a “Community Conversation” on the future of the University of Washington in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. There was a strong turnout.
We’re delighted that the Allen Center continues to be a prime venue for campus events such as this, and the recent inaugural press conference of incoming UW President Michael Young.… Read more →
High school student Akash Badshah wins “Best of CHI” award!
Akash Badshah has scored a triple-first: Akash is the first high school student in the nearly 30-year history of the CHI conference (human factors in computing) to serve as lead author, present a paper, or win a “Best of CHI” award.
Akash presented his paper on a self-powered haptic feedback device to a huge crowd at CHI 2011 in Vancouver BC last week. The session was standing-room-only, and the organizers even had to set up an overflow room and pipe… Read more →
“Red Hot: The Computer Science Job Market”
An Xconomy article on the Seattle area job market for computer scientists, with lots of UW CSE examples, such as this quote from an undergraduate:
“I’ve been completely blown away by how well interns are treated within our industry. It’s incredible that CSE students still in school can earn summer salaries twice as high as students from other majors can expect to earn after graduation. My most unique experience has been my opportunity to travel. Last summer I worked… Read more →
Yet more on WWU Computer Science
Here’s an excellent letter from the Technology Alliance to the President of Western Washington University:
“Closing down a well-respected computer science program that prepares students for high-impact, rewarding careers and that supplies our innovative industries with high-caliber talent that enables them to grow and thrive does not serve the people of Washington or the students of WWU. It clearly will harm our communities by eroding access to high-demand programs for our students and further depriving our fast-growing technology industries of… Read more →
Eric Lander on “Biology as Information”
A two-day symposium “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” was held on April 11-12 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of MIT (April 10 2011). There were more than two dozen phenomenal talks (plus one by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska). The most phenomenal, though, was given by Eric Lander – Professor of Biology at MIT, Professor of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School, Founding Director of The Broad Institute at MIT, and Co-Chair of the President’s… Read more →
More on WWU Computer Science
You’ve read about the threatened demise of Western Washington University’s Computer Science Department, here and on GeekWire.
You’ve watched the KING5 video on the red-hot computer science job market in the Puget Sound region.
You’ve marveled at the bureaucratic gibberish from the administrative brainiacs at WWU in an email and a GeekWire interview.
In the “What’s new?” department, here’s an excellent letter to WWU from the Washington Technology Industry Association. The email message transmitting it said:
“Washington’s… Read more →