Communications of the ACM profiles UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska in January’s last byte feature.
“As an undergraduate student at Brown University, Ed Lazowska hardly seemed destined to become a leader in computer science. Actually, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. He started as an engineering student, switched to physics, and briefly considered chemistry. Essentially, he was ‘adrift.’ (His description, not ours.)
“It wasn’t until he fell under the tutelage of computer science professor Andy van Dam that he… Read more →
“Smarter, Not Faster, Is the Future of Computing Research”
The New York Times reports on a new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, including extensive comments from UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
“Priorities for computing research, according to the report, should include new techniques for exploring large-scale data sets, and algorithms for machine learning. Indeed, a section of the report states that progress in software algorithms has been more important than faster computers in applications like speech recognition, natural language translation and logistics planning.… Read more →
NY Times on computational photography
UW CSE’s Steve Seitz is quoted extensively. Article here.… Read more →
“Designing a Digital Future”
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) this afternoon released a report – Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology — assessing the status and direction of the government’s 14-agency, $4.3 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program.
The report was presented by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and his PCAST Working Group co-chair David E. Shaw. Also participating in the program – held at AAAS in Washington… Read more →
“Inspiring High School Developers”
A TechFlash post by UW CSE alumna Hélène Martin, who teaches computer science at Seattle’s Garfield High School.
“What does it take to inspire teenagers to consider computing careers? RSA encryption, a large supply of fruit snacks and a healthy competitive atmosphere may be part of the answer.
“Last Saturday, students from around the Puget Sound gathered at the University of Washington for a battle of the minds: the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association’s biannual programming competition. Over 70… Read more →
FIRST Robotics Competition workshop, Python workshop for high school teachers, CSTA programming contest
On Saturday December 11, the Allen Center was hopping with high school students and teachers.
UW CSE undergraduate Peter Brook, a FIRST Robotics Competition stalwart in high school, worked with undergraduate Ashoat Tevosyan, alumnus Kevin Ross, and a number of CSE undergraduate volunteers to present a FIRST Robotics Competition programming workshop for about 70 team members from the region. A follow-on workshop, focused on autonomous mode, will take place on December 18.
UW CSE alum Hélène Martin, now the computer… Read more →
“Go to Market”
UW CSE professors Oren Etzioni and Shwetak Patel are featured in this article concerning University of Washington entrepreneurship in the latest issue of Columns, the UW alumni magazine.
The “best quote in the article” award goes to Oren – who has started multiple companies and holds the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering: “The obligation of venture capitalists is to make money. My professional obligation is to satisfy my curiosity. Curiosity-driven research – it’s a… Read more →
New ACM Fellows
Among the 41 distinguished computer scientists named ACM Fellows today:
Affiliate professor Doug Burger, Microsoft Research, “For contributions to distributed microprocessor architectures and memory systems”
Ph.D. alumna Anne Condon, University of British Columbia, “For contributions to complexity theory and leadership in advancing women in computing”
Ph.D. stepchild Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin, “For contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems” (Mike was a student of Tom Anderson’s when Tom was a faculty member at… Read more →
We’re Number One!
US News has a new college ranking category this year: “Best Colleges for Shoppers.” We have only one thing to say: “Who Da Man?!?!”
(Actually, we have something else to say: The National Academies would have crapped this up.)
See here and here.… Read more →
Dot Diva profiles UW CSE alums Siobhan Quinn, Kendal Sager
Dot Diva is a website built by WGBH Boston to expose high school women to the power of computer science to change the world.
Dot Diva has just rolled out fifteen great profiles of young women using their computer science education in interesting ways. Two of them are UW CSE alums: Siobhan Quinn and Kendal Sager.
Siobhan works at Foursquare in New York City, following several years at Google and Blogger.com. She says she didn’t think she’d be interested… Read more →