An Xconomy post on a symposium on “Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field” held in conjunction with a regional meeting of the National Academy of Engineering organized by CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
Xconomy article here.
Symposium agenda and presentations here.… Read more →
CS enrollment rebounds nationally and at UW
After reading The New Times report on increasing enrollment in the nation’s computer science programs (reporting on the latest CRA Taulbee Survey), The Seattle Times’ Ben Romano pinged UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska to hear how things are looking here.
“‘Our numbers are in fact much stronger than the national numbers,’ he said via e-mail, introducing a chart, which plots rolling enrollment in the UW’s introductory computer science course over the last four and a half years. (Incidentally, the data… Read more →
Skytap taps $7 million
UW CSE startup Skytap successfully completed a second round of funding in this difficult venture capital market. Founded by UW CSE faculty members Brian Bershad, Hank Levy, and Steve Gribble and UW CSE graduate student Dave Richardson, and funded by our friends at Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, WRF Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, Skytap offers an online service that allows corporations to easily test software and hardware configuration in the cloud.
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Cloudera in NY Times
Cloudera, a Silicon Valley startup, was founded by UW CSE bachelors alumnus and ex-Googler Christophe Bisciglia. (See a wonderful December 2007 Business Week cover story on Christophe here.) UW CSE on-leave graduate student Aaron Kimball was the first employee. In many ways, it’s an outgrowth of Google’s academic Hadoop initiative that Christophe launched at UW, currently reflected in courses such as CSE490H. Hadoop was co-created by Doug Cutting and graduating UW CSE Ph.D. student Mike Cafarella. … Read more →
Maria Klawe, new Microsoft board member, on Pacific Northwest innovation
Xconomy interviews Maria Klawe, a new addition to the Board of Directors of Microsoft Corporation.
Klawe, the President of Harvey Mudd College, is a computer scientist who was previously Dean of Engineering at Princeton University, Vice President and CS head at the University of British Columbia, and a group leader at IBM Research.
Klawe makes a number of interesting comments on innovation in the Pacific Northwest. “I had an interesting conversation with Google. Google wanted to invest more in… Read more →
Helping the Blind and Deaf Feel at Home in a Wired World
Columns, the magazine of the University of Washington Alumni Association, reports on the long and fruitful work that Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Richard Ladner has done making technology and opportunity more available to blind and deaf people.
Dr. Ladner had two deaf parents, which helped him understand the challenges faced by those with sensory disabilities and motivated him to work to help lower barriers
A notable project to come out of Ladner’s advocacy work is WebAnywhere… Read more →
Making Seattle transit connections on time with OneBusAway.org
TechFlash contributor Roni Ayalla reports on recent developments with UW CSE graduate student Brian Ferris‘ OneBusAway project. The open-source project now has a home at Google Code, is seeking grant funding, and has attracted faculty sponsorship from UW CSE’s Alan Borning, one of the principal investigators on the cross-disciplinary Urbansim Project. Ferris is quoted
We’re working on building a complete open-source transit traveler information system that would combine route maps/timetables, trip-planning, real-time tracking, and real-time service… Read more →
Local boy makes good
Going to UW certainly has its advantages, but at registration time, it can be exhausting and frustration. UW CSE’s senior Rylan Hawkins understands this too well. Hawkins created a web site called Visual Schedule Finder (VSF) — at vsfinder.com — to help students find available classes. VSF began as an engineering class group project last spring. Rylan now manages the site, making it much more than a class project, using his summer and holiday breaks to tweak the program.
The… Read more →
‘Solving AI’
We need a new language for artificial intelligence, writes UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos. He proposes a new mathematical language that combines logic and probability.
“The goal of artificial intelligence (at least according to the field’s founders) is to create computers whose intelligence equals or surpasses humans’. Achieving this goal is the famous ‘AI problem.’ To some, AI is the manifest destiny of computer science. To others, it’s a failure: clearly, the AI problem is nowhere near being solved. Why?… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tamara Denning wins inaugural Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship
UW CSE graduate student Tamara Denning has been named one of ten winners of the inaugural Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship. Congratulations Tamara!… Read more →