In 1997, an IBM Artificial Intelligence system named Deep Blue defeated the human world champion in a chess match.
The game of Jeopardy! – which requires 3-second responses and the understanding of English questions, puns, and a massive knowledge base of facts – is a much harder challenge. On February 14th, 15th, and 16th, an IBM AI system named Watson will be pitted against two human champions.
UW CSE will host a viewing event on the second of these nights… Read more →
I, Algorithm
The January issue of New Scientist features an article on the resurgence of artificial intelligence. Key to the renaissance is combining probabalistic programming with classical AI techniques. UW CSE Professor Pedro Domingos is quoted and UW AI research is featured.
Read the full article here.… Read more →
UW CSE wins awards at CPDP 2011
At the 2011 Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference in Brussels, Belgium, UW CSE PhD students had a strong showing, winning both the Multidisciplinary Privacy Award award and an honorable mention.
The goal of the CPDP multi-disciplinary privacy research award is to promote the need for and reward the results of multidisciplinary research, with the participation of the representative of diverse constituencies engaged in the investigation of the new ideas in data protection. Any paper published or accepted for publication… Read more →
“Robot juggles two ping-pong balls”
This video, from Paul Kulchenko and Emo Todorov in UW CSE’s Movement Control Laboratory, is pretty amazing. The accompanying text provides background.… Read more →
“Higher ed lays golden eggs; don’t strangle it”
An editorial in the Tacoma News Tribune:
“A recent story in The Seattle Times vividly illustrated the tight connection between college opportunity and the state economy.
“The engineering site director for Google in the Seattle region, Brian Bershad, told the Times that he can’t get enough computer scientists and computer engineers from the University of Washington. ‘If the UW could produce 1,000 amazing engineers every year,’ he said, ‘we’d find a way to hire them.’ …
“When a state… Read more →
Katie Kuksenok, Justine Sherry win 2011 Microsoft Research Graduate Women Scholarships
Microsoft Research has announced the ten recipients of its 2011 Graduate Women Scholarships. Among the ten, UW CSE Ph.D. student Katie Kuksenok, and 2010 UW CSE bachelors alum (and current UC Berkeley Ph.D. student) Justine Sherry.
Congratulations Katie and Justine!!… Read more →
“Intel Spreads Its University Research Bets”
The New York Times reports on Intel’s transition from three university-affiliated “lablets” to a larger number of university-based Intel Science and Technology Centers.
“The company said this week that it would pour $100 million over the next five years into projects at universities. Each of the projects will involve a few Intel researchers, typically four, with far-flung teams of researchers from several universities …
“‘This assembling of multi-university dream teams to work on big computer science problems is unusual for… Read more →
2011 Winter Recruiting Fair
UW CSE holds recruiting fairs each October and January for tech companies that are members of our Industrial Affiliates Program. The “buzz” is a great measure of the demand for Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors. On January 25th – as at other recent recruiting fairs – we weren’t able to accommodate all interested companies: we can only squeeze 41 tables into our Atrium.
See a list of the recruiting companies here. See other Bruce Hemingway photographs here… Read more →
CSE’s Morgan Dixon wins Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Morgan Dixon has been awarded one of 12 2011 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships – from among 174 students nominated for the award!
Morgan is a third-year Ph.D. student working with professor James Fogarty, studying Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface Software and Technology. Learn about Morgan and his research here.
Congratulations Morgan!… Read more →
“Are Startup-Hungry MBAs Sleepless in Seattle?”
Xconomy Boston reports on the Seattle-area innovation ecosystem, noting UW CSE, Impinj, Madrona Venture Group, etc.
“The other component in the ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ is the University of Washington … the Computer Science & Engineering program is one of the top ten in the country …”
Read it here.… Read more →