UW CSE Ph.D. alum Scott Saponas has been named to this year’s Technology Review TR-35. “Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work –spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more — is changing our world.”
“Fingers flicking through the air, T. Scott Saponas is rocking a solo… Read more →
UW budget cuts vs. tuition increases
In a post last December, we provided some “straight talk” regarding the impact of state budget cuts on the University of Washington in general, and on UW Computer Science & Engineering in particular. It was covered in Crosscut and elsewhere.
UW has now issued a short document that puts budget cuts and tuition increases in perspective. A significant shift in financial responsibility from the state to individuals is taking place. The increase in tuition, however, falls far short… Read more →
UW CSE startup Corensic rolls out Jinx
Corensic, a startup founded in 2008 by UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze and Mark Oskin and backed by Madrona Ventures, the Washington Research Foundation, and Perkins Coie, has rolled out the first release of Jinx, its software quality tool for Linux and Windows that helps developers, testers, and IT organizations improve the reliability of multi-core applications by surfacing hard-to-find concurrency bugs.… Read more →
“Despite Gains, Women Still Underrepresented in Technology Workforce”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is interviewed, and UW CSE alums Karen Liu and Hakim Weatherspoon are profiled, in this article on diversity in the computing field.
“’While there are many reasons for striving to increase the representation of women in our field, the selfish reason is the most compelling one: the quality of the solutions we achieve is enhanced by the diversity of the individuals contributing to these solutions.’ Lazowska added, ‘Computer science is a great field for everyone,… Read more →
Deaf, hard-of-hearing students do first test of sign language by cell phone
UW’s MobileASL team is developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks.
The tool is completing its initial field test, which allows the team to see how people use the tool in their daily lives and what obstacles they encounter. Eleven participants — all students in the UW Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing — are testing the phones for three weeks. They meet periodically with the research team… Read more →
Foldit in New York Times
A recent article in Nature concerning the protein folding videogame Foldit — a collaboration between UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic, UW Biochemistry professor David Baker, and their students — has stimulated a great deal of coverage in the popular press. A superb article appears in today’s New York Times.
“The Foldit project was inspired by the volunteers who were contributing the downtime on their home computers to power a protein-folding program called Rosetta@home. The computer donors could see the… Read more →
“Teachers Explore how to Integrate Computer Science into K-12 Curriculum at UW Conference”
Xconomy reports on UW’s “CS4HS” workshop for high school teachers — including a great synopsis of the “Careers Panel” featuring UW CSE alums Tam Armstrong (Bungie), Krista Davis (Google), Margaux Eng (Amazon.com), and Crystal Hoyer (Microsoft).
“Figuring out how to entice student, parents, and school districts to embrace and support computer science curricula in public education was a topic at center stage at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering CS4HS event last week.”
Read the full… Read more →
“Amazing Innovation: Mobile Apps for the Disabled”
The New York Times chronicles UW CSE undergraduate student projects from Professor Richard Ladner’s “Accessibility Capstone.”
New York Times article here. KOMO News story and video (which inspired the New York Times post) here.… Read more →
Nathan Myhrvold’s “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking”
For several years, Nathan Myhrvold has been working on a 6-volume, 2400-page cookbook that “reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food.”
Myhrvold and co-author Chris Young spoke in UW CSE’s 2009-10 Distinguished Lecturer Series — and brought along a crew of chefs who treated attendees to some amazing ice cream (resulting from the confluence of pistachios, a centrifuge, liquid nitrogen, and a few other ingredients). TechFlash, in describing the unveiling of the website for the cookbook today, links to the video … Read more →
CSE/HCDE “Developing World” Capstone
In 2009-10, for the third year, Computer Science & Engineering joined with Human Centered Design & Engineering to offer a year-long senior undergraduate capstone design course on “Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments.”
Students in this year’s course worked to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use portable ultrasound for midwives that will be tested in Uganda — the Midwives’ Ultrasound Project. The course has been featured by the College of Engineering in a video, website, and mailing to promote the College’s “Capstone Fund.”… Read more →