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.”
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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 →
CSE’s Elisa Celis, Emad Soroush, Michael Toomim win Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” awards
UW CSE Ph.D. students Elisa Celis, Emad Soroush, and Michael Toomim are among 22 students from across the nation to win 2011 awards in the Yahoo! “Key Scientific Challenges” program.
Elisa works with UW CSE professor Anna Karlin on algorithmic game theory, internet economics, and social networks.
Emad works with UW CSE faculty member Magda Balazinska on data management.
Michael works with UW CSE professor James Landay on human-computer interaction.
In 2010, UW CSE Ph.D. students Yaw Anokwa and Yingyi… Read more →
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum wins NDSEG Fellowship
UW CSE’s David Rosenbaum, a first year grad student studying quantum computing with Dave Bacon and Aram Harrow, has received a 2011 National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship. He is the department’s 14th recipient of this fellowship.
David also recently won an NSF Graduate Fellowship, as reported here.
Congratulations to David!… Read more →
Yaw Anokwa: Changing The World
UW CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa discusses his work on information technology for the developing world in this terrific UW College of Engineering video.
“Computer scientists and computer engineers change the world by designing, building, and deploying innovative solutions to real-world problems …”
Watch the video here. Learn more about Yaw and his research here.… Read more →
Lazowska on GeekWire
Todd Bishop and John Cook host UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire:
“This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a ’60 Minutes’ crew, the opening of Zynga’s new office in Pioneer Square, and the city’s plan to bring better Internet connectivity to the Seattle neighborhood, to the potential benefit of the many startups headquartered there.
“Our guest in the studio is Ed Lazowska, the longtime University of Washington computer science professor, who talks… Read more →
Joe Devietti wins Intel Graduate Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Joe Devietti has been recognized with a 2011-12 Intel Graduate Fellowship.
Devietti works with UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman on the Sampa project, seeking to make multiprocessors easier to program by leveraging changes in both computer architectures and parallel programming models.… Read more →
MIT150
Computerworld reports on the symposium “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,” held in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article (here) includes extensive references to a talk by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska – slides here.… Read more →