Check out Ed Lazowska’s talk to a University of Washington “Math Day” audience — high school students interested in the mathematical sciences. It’s a quick, fun overview of the field.
Slides are linked here.… Read more →
“Go for Computer Science”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is one of eight columnists featured in a New York Times “Room for Debate” essay series on education. Lazowska says:
“There are a few facts about education, employability and economic growth that we should keep in mind.
“A balanced education serves you best …
“The further out you are from college graduation, the less your success is attributable to the field in which you majored, and the more your success is attributable to a set of… Read more →
Anna Karlin, Evan Cohn
UW CSE’s Anna Karlin and her Stanford grad school classmate Evan Cohn stalled 23 years before getting married. But it finally happened tonight!… Read more →
CSE alum Jeremy Jaech in the news
UW CSE alum and winner of a 2006 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award and 2011 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award Jeremy Jaech has stepped down as CEO of Verdiem.
“… Considered one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in the city, it will be interesting to see where he lands,” writes John Cook in GeekWire.
Why the change? “I wanted to get back to the early-stage stuff,” he tells GeekWire. Jaech has been spending time at UW… Read more →
UW team Slashdotted for HackU “Katamari Hack for Chrome”
“Using CSS3 transforms and HTML5 canvas, the Katamari Hack for Google Chrome (and other compatible browsers) allows you to turn any website into a game of Katamari Damacy! The script was created by Alex Leone, [UW CSE undergrad] David Nufer, and [UW CSE undergrad] David Truong, and won the 2011 Yahoo HackU contest at University of Washington.”
The Yahoo! HackU contest give 3-person undergraduate teams 24 hours to come up with interesting web applications. “Katamari Hack” turns any web… Read more →
CSE’s Center for Game Science in Columns
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science is featured in the March 2011 issue of Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine.
“‘We’re focusing not just on scientific discovery games but, in general, games as a primary medium for solving really hard problems that our entire society cares about,’ says Zoran Popović, associate professor at the UW’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering and director of the Center for Game Science. ‘Specifically, problems that people alone or computers alone cannot… Read more →
UW Daily on Hank Levy’s election to NAE
“When Hank Levy, chair of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), walked into a room in early February, he expected to meet with the dean of engineering and the department executive committee for an emergency conference.
“Levy was instead greeted with a champagne celebration when CSE faculty surprised him with news that he had been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), which according to the organization’s website is the highest professional honor given to… Read more →
“Researchers Show How a Car’s Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely”
The New York Times reports on research by UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, UCSD’s (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Stefan Savage, and their colleagues Steve Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, and Franziska Roesner, which was presented on Friday to the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board.
“Because many of today’s cars contain cellular connections and Bluetooth wireless technology, it is possible for a… Read more →
Washington Post features UW CSE’s “Power to Change the World” video
The Washington Post, in a series of articles on computer science enrollment, features UW CSE’s “Power to Change the World” video.
Read the article here. See all of CSE’s award-winning videos here.… Read more →
“‘Quadricopters’ Take Over UW’s Allen Center”
Xconomy covers professor Shwetak Patel’s EE 472 “Embedded Microcomputer Systems” course, in which student teams build controllers for the Parrot AR.Drone.
Read the article (and watch the video) here. Watch course videos here and here.
Seattle Times article here. And don’t miss Dancing with the Drones! GeekWire article here.… Read more →