MerchantCircle, co-founded by UW CSE alum Wayne Yamamoto, has been acquired by Reply! Inc. MerchantCircle is the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, combining social networking features with free marketing tools that enable merchants to maximize their online visibility. Press release here.… Read more →
“Spammers and Their Bankers”
An editorial in today’s New York Times follows up on an article ten days ago describing work led by UW CSE Ph.D. alums Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker. Savage, Voelker, and 13 collaborators carry out an end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain, and determine that 95% of spam-advertised pharmaceutical, replica and software products are monetized using merchant services from just a handful of banks.
The New York Times editorial states: “The Times’s John Markoff reported that computer scientists… Read more →
Will Johnson wins UW A&S Dean’s Medal for the Sciences
Will Johnson, a senior majoring in Computer Science and in Mathematics, has been awarded the 2011 UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal for the Sciences, recognizing the most accomplished graduating student in the natural sciences.
Will has a remarkable record of accomplishment and recognition: he recently won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; he was celebrated in the Washington State Senate and in the Seattle Times for being named a Putnam Fellow (for finishing among the top five… Read more →
ACM TechNews, ITBusinessEdge on Computer Science job market
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 →