Western Washington University has placed its Computer Science Department on the chopping block in a budget reduction effort.
This move seems particularly goofy – even by the standards of education policy in Washington State – given the extreme demand for computer science graduates regionally and nationally, the fine record of WWU’s program, the fact that major programs such as those at the University of Washington, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon are reporting all-time-record student interest, and reports that newly-minted University of… Read more →
Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra at “State of Technology” luncheon
Aneesh Chopra, the Federal Chief Technology Officer, was interviewed by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska at the Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon on Tuesday.
From GeekWire: “Chopra discussed everything from how to increase the number of women entrepreneurs to the expansion of broadband services to President Obama’s policy on net neutrality to cybersecurity efforts. But it was Chopra’s passion for the entrepreneurial process which stood out.”
Chopra also participated in roundtables with regional tech leaders on “Innovation in Customer Relations,”… Read more →
Shwetak Patel wins UW College of Engineering “Community of Innovators” Award
Shwetak Patel, a faculty member in CSE and EE, will receive a 2011 University of Washington College of Engineering “Community of Innovators” Award.
Each year, these awards recognize UW College of Engineering faculty, students, and staff who have gone “above and beyond.” Shwetak shares the Junior Faculty Innovator Award with EE’s Brian Otis.
See all the award winners here. Learn about Shwetak’s work here.
(CSE staff members Tracy Erbeck and Melody Kadenko were nominated in the professional… Read more →
“Talking to the Wall”
Technology Review highlights work by UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and Microsoft Research’s Desney Tan.
“Our lives are awash with ambient electromagnetic radiation, from the fields generated by power lines to the signals used to send data between Wi-Fi transmitters. Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington have found a way to harness this radiation for a computer interface that turns any wall in a building into a touch-sensitive surface.”
Read the article here. NewScientist here. Gizmodo here… Read more →
“Considering a Career in Biotech? How About Trying Computer Science Instead?”
Duh.
Xconomy reports on a conversation with UW Dean of Engineering (and bioengineer) Matt O’Donnell.
“Read all about it” – here.… Read more →
Technology industry rocks in Harris Interactive survey
For the 12th consecutive year, Harris Interactive has measured the reputations of the most visible companies in the United States. The technology industry continues to hold a large lead in terms of overall reputation – 75% positive vs. #2 Retail at 57% positive. Many of the companies ranked “Excellent” or “Very Good” are technology companies.
The Harris Interactive “12th Annual RQ Study” can be downloaded after registering, here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Janara Christensen, Katie Kuksenok win Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was launched in 2004 when a group of Googlers decided to establish a program that would honor the work of their friend and colleague Dr. Anita Borg.
UW CSE graduate students Janara Christensen and Katie Kuksenok have been named 2011 recipients.
UW CSE students recognized in previous years’ competitions include Kristi Morton, Lydia Chilton, Kyle Rector, Juliet Bernstein, Sanjana Prasain, Saleema Amershi, Julia Schwarz, Julie Letchner, Kate Everitt, Martha Mercaldi, Bao Nguyen, Michele Banko,… Read more →
Spring 2011 UW “Trend in Engineering”
Yeah, it’s a house organ, but we’ll take whatever coverage we can get …
“Steve Rabin’s Game is Artificial Intelligence”
“NAE Honors Hank Levy”
“Four Engineering Faculty Named UW Entrepreneurial Fellows”
“Low-cost ultrasound system wins Gates grant”
“Energy Monitoring Innovations Put Shwetak Patel in Media Spotlight”
2011 Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF Career Award recipients
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“Identifying innuendo no joke for comp sci researchers”
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 →