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 →
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 →