Computerworld highlights research by UW CSE Ph.D. student Chloe Kiddon and postdoc Yuriy Brun.
“As it turns out, identifying humour through software is hard … as the meaning of a sentence will often vary based on the context in which it is presented, and this is something that is difficult to implement in software. When you add humour and puns — when words can have multiple meanings — this can get substantially harder.
“Two researchers at the University of… Read more →
Gates Foundation funds VillageReach, UW CSE
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations program fosters creative projects that show great promise to improve the health of people in the developing world.
In the latest round of funding, Allen Wilcox of VillageReach, working with UW CSE’s Nicki Dell, Gaetano Borriello, and Linda Shapiro, received a $100,000 grant for their “Digitizing Paper-Based Data Via Mobile Image Technologies” project.
The team will refine and field test a mobile scanning application to transform paper data into a… Read more →
New UW President Michael Young meets the press in CSE
UW CSE is honored that the University of Washington introduced its President-designate, Michael Young, at a press event this morning in the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is quoted in this KOMO-TV story: “This is like any organization. The leadership comes from the top. The tone comes from the top. So having someone with tremendous academic achievement, which he has; tremendous leadership experience; entrepreneurial… Read more →
Warren Jessop retires
After more than 30 years as a UW CSE graduate student and staff member (mostly as a staff member – he’s not one of those!), Warren Jessop has retired!
In announcing Warren’s retirement, Erik Lundberg, CSE’s Laboratory Director, said: “Not many of you were around when Warren joined the department as a graduate student in the early 1980s. Starting in 1982, he worked for the VLSI Consortium for a number of years, and later joined the CSE Lab staff to… Read more →
CSE’s Yaw Anokwa wins UW Graduate School Medal
CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa has been named the 2011 recipient of the University of Washington Graduate School Medal.
The Graduate School Medal is awarded annually to a PhD, DMA, AuD, DNP, DPT, or EdD candidate who displays an exemplary commitment to both the University and its larger community. The Graduate School Medal recognizes the “scholar-citizens” whose academic expertise and social awareness are integrated in a way that demonstrates active civic engagement and a capacity to promote political, cultural and… Read more →
CSE startup Corensic is Gartner Group “Cool Vendor in Application Development” for 2011
Corensic, founded by UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin, has been named a 2011 “Cool Vendor in Application Development” by the Gartner Group.
Corensic’s mission is to deliver tools that enable software developers and software development organizations to build higher quality software, by exposing concurrency errors.… Read more →
CRA on NRC
On April 21, NRC revised certain aspects of its disastrously flawed “Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States,” admitting to a broad range of errors. It’s still a shameful bust. In the words of the Computing Research Association:
The NRC has released “revised” rankings for Ph.D. programs. However, this “revision” does not address any of the substantive issues with both the data collection and the ranking methodology that have been raised by CRA and other organizations. This… Read more →
UW Engineering Discovery Days
Nearly 4,000 K-12 students visited the University of Washington for Engineering Discovery Days, April 22-23. And at times it seemed as if they were all simultaneously crammed into the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. See Bruce Hemingway’s photos here.… Read more →
Urbandipity in GeekWire
Urbandipity is a Seattle social networking startup that “enables you to find [real-world] serendipity more often.” It was launched by four long-time friends, including UW CSE 2007 alum Dustin Conrad. Read the GeekWire profile here.… Read more →
“UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch”
GeekWire summarizes an interview with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska: “Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska … We talked about tons of stuff … But perhaps no subject we talked about was more important than the demand for top engineers, and what it’s going to take for the supply to catch up in the form of increased capacity for computer science education in the state. He also talked about another outcome from the department, the… Read more →