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 →
Kiddon, Roesner, Schiller win NSF Graduate Fellowships
CSE graduate students Chloe Kiddon, Franzi Roesner, and Todd Schiller have won prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships, along with CSE research staff member Justin Samuel.
Morgan Dixon, Sunil Garg, Peter Hornyack, Yun-En Liu, and Nell O’Rourke received Honorable Mention.
Congratulations!… Read more →
CSE’s Mark Bun, Dan Gnanapragasam, Milda Zizyte excel in Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Each year, roughly 1,000 3-person undergraduate teams from across the nation compete in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This year, a UW team including CSE’s Mark Bun was named “Outstanding Winner.” Additionally, two UW teams, one including CSE’s Dan Gnanapragasam and one including CSE’s Milda Zizyte, were declared “Meritorious.”
Congratulations to Mark, Dan, Milda, their UW teammates, and long-time team coach and professor of Mathematics Jim Morrow.… Read more →
Help! I’m a prisoner in an anachronism!
April Fools Day in CSE dawned to a stuffed Husky trapped inside the museum-piece VAX-11/780 that graces our atrium.
(Computer Engineer Barbie also joined the rogues’ gallery of former CSE chairs.)… Read more →
Ceremony honors UW Medalists Will Johnson, Mark Bun
Each year the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,000) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
In January, in a double-header, CSE’s Mark Bun was named the University of Washington Sophomore Medalist, and CSE’s Will Johnson was named the University of Washington Junior Medalist.
Will and Mark were honored on Wednesday March 31 at the home of University of Washington President Mark Emmert. CSE faculty members Dave Bacon, Richard Ladner, and… Read more →