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 →
UW CSE startup Impinj files for IPO
UW CSE startup Impinj, the world’s leading innovator in UHF Gen 2 RFID solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging, has filed for an IPO.
Impinj was co-founded by UW CSE professor Chris Diorio and his Ph.D. mentor Carver Mead, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, and was originally funded by our friends at Madrona Venture Group.
Read a GeekWire post here. Xconomy here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Stuart Reges Receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
UW CSE’s Stuart Reges has won this year’s University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, which is given to faculty who show “a mastery of their subject matter, intellectual rigor and a passion for teaching.” Stuart is the 5th CSE faculty member to receive this honor. A list of previous winners here.
This makes a hat trick for Stuart – adding to the teaching awards he has won at Stanford and Arizona.
Read the announcement here.
Congratulations Stuart!… Read more →
UW CSE Cyber Defense Team on KIRO Radio
A terrific interview regarding the UW CSE team’s recent win in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Listen to the story here. Read more about the competition here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yaw Anokwa: Geek of the Week
CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa is GeekWire‘s “Geek of the Week.”
“One of the goals of GeekWire’s ‘Geek of the Week’ feature is to shine is a light on extraordinary people in the Pacific Northwest technology community. Yaw Anokwa, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Washington, certainly fits that profile — from his Open Data Kit research project to his work as a co-founder of the Change group at the UW.”
The Geek of the Week… Read more →
K-12 teachers: Register for CS4HS!
UW CSE’s annual summer workshop for K-12 teachers, CS4HS, is open for registration! This year’s workshop, once again sponsored by our friends at Google, will be held from August 10-12 in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering on the UW campus.
CS4HS aims to:
Earn you either 20 clock hours from WSTA OR 2 units of university credit from the University of Washington.
Expose you to exciting examples of computer science operating in close relationships with… Read more →
UW CSE’s Mark Zbikowski in Seattle Times
Mark Zbikowski, a 25-year Microsoft employee now in the UW CSE Ph.D. program, is interviewed by the Seattle Times in connection with Paul Allen’s new book.
“‘Paul was pushing to take the state of the art and move it forward a bit.’ In the end, they devised a system that paved the way for future advances to give PCs much more storage. ‘It was prescient of Paul to see that we’d need this organizational ability so far in advance of… Read more →
Ed Felten elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten – currently on leave from Princeton University to serve as the first Chief Technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission – has been elected as a member of the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Academy was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other leaders who contributed prominently to the establishment of the new nation, its government, and its… Read more →