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 →
“Robots are stealing our jobs and the love of our children”
Another report on the work of UW’s Andy Meltzoff, Rechele Brooks, Aaron Shon, and Raj Rao.
“So yeah, it looks like the first wave of the robot uprising won’t be skull-headed killbots — the initial deployment will be adorable cyber-dwarf saboteurs, whose adorable, belly-pointing antics will win the hearts and minds of the youth.”
How can you not love the press? Read the article here. Read the paper here.… Read more →
“UW tech students in high demand”
KING 5 News discusses the phenomenal job prospects of UW Computer Science & Engineering grads.
“The job market may be tough for most, but not if you’re a University of Washington computer science student. As KING 5’s Chris Daniels reports, the expertise of computer science majors is a hot commodity.”
Watch the video here.
(If only we had the capacity to offer a UW CSE education to more great students …)… Read more →
Babies treat ‘social robots’ as senient beings
What causes a baby to decide a robot is more than bits of metal? As it turns out, it takes more than humanoid looks— babies that witness a robot engaged in social interaction with adults are much more likely to themselves treat it as a social entity. UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao and UW psychologists published the study starring the Rao lab robot Morphy. Rao’s team designed the computer programs that make Morphy appear social.
Read the UW News article… Read more →
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer at UW CSE
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer headlined the UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series on October 14.
See a Seattle PI summary here.
Watch the video here.
Photographs here.
CIO Magazine. PCWorld. The Register. TechFlash.… Read more →