TechFlash has named its Top 10 startup stories of 2010 – including “UW prof, 27, sells home-energy monitoring startup to Belkin.”… Read more →
“Time for Christmas presents”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska gets a nod in the Christmas issue of Crosscut, in the same breath as UW CSE friends Tom Alberg, Jeremy Jaech, Paul Allen, Scott Oki, and the Gates family. “There are way too few such bridge figures … but they are absolutely critical if we are to relocate our civic blueprints.”… Read more →
MSB – “All the news that fits, we print!”
Check out the latest issue of Most Significant Bits, the UW CSE alumni magazine. Among the high points in this issue:
Center for Game Science
Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound Project
CRA Undergraduate Award Competition
CSE Alumnus Ed Felten Named Chief Technologist of FTC
Josh Smith joins CSE and EE faculty
Gaetano Borriello, Steve Seitz, and Fran Berman are 2011 IEEE Fellows
2010 UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting
2010 UW CSE Bay Area alumni event
Larry Snyder’s valedictory lecture
Introducing Ms.… Read more →
“A Journey of Discovery”
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 →