UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka was selected as one of “10 Women to Watch in 2010” by Mattel, in connection with a Barbie promotion. (You’ll recall that Mattel is rolling out “Computer Engineer Barbie” later this year.) The 10 are an amazing group — check it out here.
In connection with this, and in support of “Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day,” Yoky mentored Illinois high school student Ciara Proctor on April 14. Representatives… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska wins ACM Distinguished Service Award
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska has received the 2009 ACM Distinguished Service Award “for his wide-ranging service to the computing community and his long-standing advocacy for this community at the national level.”
ACM’s press release goes on to note: “Lazowska served as co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 2003-05, where he championed the importance of computing in achieving federal priorities. He served for six years on the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and… Read more →
Yaw Anokwa, Yingyi Bu score in Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
UW CSE Ph.D. students Yaw Anokwa and Yingyi Bu are among twenty-two exceptional Ph.D. students from across the nation selected to be part of Yahoo!’s 2010 Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program.
Congratulations to Yaw and Yingyi!
Addendum: It has been observed that Yahoo! appears to favor students whose names begin with Y. In future years we will adjust our nomination process accordingly.… Read more →
Yoky and Barbie
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka has been highlighted as one of “The Barbie® ’10 Women to Watch in 2010.'” In connection with this, Yoky will mentor high school student Ciara Proctor in support of “Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® Day” on April 14.… Read more →
Senate Resolution 8725 honors Will Johnson
On Monday April 12, the Washington State Senate took a few minutes away from cutting the University of Washington’s budget to honor UW CSE and mathematics senior Will Johnson for his extraordinary performance in this year’s William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Congratulations, once again, to Will, to the other UW Putnam competitors, and to the team coaches, UW Mathematics professors Ioana Dumitriu and Julia Pevtsova.
And many thanks to Senators Rosemary McAuliffe, Ed Murray, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Margarita Prentice, Joe… Read more →
The Seattle Times celebrates Will Johnson
This weekend’s lead editorial in the Seattle Times celebrates UW CSE and Mathematics senior Will Johnson’s remarkable accomplishment in being named a Putnam Fellow, for finishing among the top 5 of 4,036 competitors in this year’s William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
“William Johnson, a University of Washington mathematics and computer science major, is the pride of the university, his hometown Kenmore, and Inglemoor High School. He is the absolute, undisguised envy of a lot of very smart people around the… Read more →
CSE’s Yaw Anokwa wins Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest
UW CSE Ph.D. student Yaw Anokwa today received the 2010 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest for his work on Open Data Kit.
“This year’s Pizzigati Prize winner, Yaw Anokwa, will be accepting the award on behalf of a team of University of Washington doctoral students who have crafted, in Open Data Kit, an open source application that unleashes the mobile phone’s social change potential.
“The 28-year-old Anokwa and his fellow developers Carl Hartung and Waylon Brunette… Read more →
Annual Scholarship/Fellowship Luncheon
UW CSE celebrated the donors and recipients of 27 endowed undergraduate scholarships and 17 endowed graduate fellowships at a luncheon on April 7. In the photos at right, graduate student Franzi Roesner and undergraduate student Eric Arendt address the throng.
See more photographs of the event here. Commemorative brochure here.… Read more →
Adrien Treuille profiled in Carnegie Mellon Today
Carnegie Mellon Today, the CMU alumni magazine, has run a wonderful profile on UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Adrien Treuille, now a faculty member in CMU’s School of Computer Science.
“Steam evaporating. A shirt creasing. Hair mussed up. Wind blowing. Crowds moving. These are physical minutiae of the human experience that go largely unnoticed in our daily lives. Yet, what if you are trying to recreate those experiences on a computer so the virtual world you construct seems absolutely faithful… Read more →
Will Johnson’s Putnam Fellowship in Seattle Times
The Seattle Times wakes up to Will Johnson’s Putnam Fellowship.
“The University of Washington has its first Putnam Fellow since the elite college-math competition began some 72 years ago.
“Will Johnson, 21, was one of five students from more than 4,000 who competed this year to win a fellowship. The other students came from MIT (which had two winners), Harvard and Yale.”
Read the complete article here. Read our post from two weeks ago on the superb performance of… Read more →