Seattle Magazine has named UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and his UW Biochemistry collaborator David Baker among its 2010 “Most Influential” for their collaboration on the protein folding game Foldit.
“’We’re involving people in science in a way that produces results that you can’t get any other way,’ says Popovic. ‘It’s democratizing science.’”
Read the article here. Play Foldit here.… Read more →
Annual UW CSE pumpkin carving TGIF
Halloween is near, and that means it’s time for the annual UW CSE pumpkin carving TGIF. Eyuccch! Photos here.… Read more →
“Influx of Silicon Valley branch offices churns up hot competition for Puget Sound talent”
The Puget Sound Business Journal and its partner TechFlash report on the computer science job market.
“David Truong, a 21-year-old University of Washington student from Kirkland, faces an uncertain future as he looks ahead to entering the workforce, hoping the remain in the region where he grew up. His biggest challenge: choosing among the multiple companies interested in hiring him. … Truong is a computer science major who has already started making his mark with internships at Intel, Lockheed Martin… Read more →
Photos from the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting
The annual UW Computer Science & Engineering Industrial Affiliates Meeting took place on October 27th and 28th.
On the 27th, more than 100 representatives from Affiliates companies participated in a day of research presentations, as well as a keynote presentation by Linden Rhoads, UW Vice Provost and head of the Center for Commercialization.
That evening, more than 250 Seattle-area alumni joined for an evening of posters, demonstrations, and fellowship.
On the 28th, 42 companies recruited UW CSE undergraduate… Read more →
Got jobs?
It’s a zoo at the UW Computer Science & Engineering Industrial Affililates’ recruiting fair, held on Thursday October 28th in conjunction with the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting. 42 companies, from Adobe to Zynga, all looking to recruit UW CSE students.
See additional photos of the event here. See information on national job projections here.… Read more →
Computer Science is for everyone!
Would you consider a job at a tech startup that posted on Craigslist with the headline:
Need a bikini booth babe for UW Career Fair
If so, then you and LetsDivvy deserve each other. This sort of offensive, degrading, misogynistic, sophomoric nonsense has no place in our society, in our field, or on our campus.
Read the full Craigslist post here (pdf) – it only gets worse. (This is a pdf of the original post, which was dated October 26th. … Read more →
Tom Mitchell, CMU, in UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series
Tom Mitchell, head of the Machine Learning Department in CMU’s School of Computer Science and Ph.D. advisor of UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni, spoke in the UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series on October 21 on the subject of “Never-Ending Learning.”
Talk abstract and video here. New York Times article on Tom’s NELL system here.… Read more →
“Realizing that change takes more than sweat”
UW CSE bachelors alumnus Paul Javid is one of three students profiled by the UW Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs in an article on the impact of international experiences on undergraduates.
Paul worked with UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, UW CSE Ph.D. student Tapan Parikh (now a faculty member at UC Berkeley), and Microsoft Research on a number of projects in rural India. Paul graduated from UW CSE in 2006, and is now completing dual graduate degrees at UC Berkeley… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Top Innovator!
Seattle Business magazine has announced the winners of its 2010 Top Innovators Awards. And the cover boy is … UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel!
“You probably don’t know it yet, but each appliance in your home sings its own particular song. Recognizing that song could help households cut their energy consumption. Shwetak Patel and his students at the University of Washington have developed intelligent in-home sensors that are able to differentiate between different appliances … Using such devices, consumers can… Read more →
UW CSE and the AI Journal
Elsevier’s journal Artificial Intelligence is arguably the top journal venue in the AI field.
Three of the top five “most cited” papers in the past 5 years of the journal have UW CSE authors!
#1: Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study. Volume 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pp 91-134. Etzioni, O. | Cafarella, M. | Downey, D. | Popescu, A.-M. | Shaked, T. | Soderland, S. | Weld, D.S. | Yates, A. (all authors are UW CSE)
#4: … Read more →