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 →
Photos of the 2010 CSE Holiday Party
A good time was had by … even Pete. See Bruce Hemingway’s photographs here.
Twenty five years ago, the faculty skit was a lot funnier, mostly because it included things you wouldn’t attempt today.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Sorin Lerner recognized by adult entertainment industry
No, we are not making this up. Just exaggerating a bit.
XBIZ newswire, “Adult entertainment industry news for the media” – a division of XBIZ.com, “The leading source for adult industry news” – reports on the paper “An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating Information Flows in JavaScript Web Applications.”
We cannot in good conscience quote from the XBIZ article in this family-oriented blog, but you can read it here. We will note, however, that based upon extensive research,… Read more →