UW CSE faculty member James Lee has received a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards available to younger faculty in the sciences. James is UW CSE’s 16th Sloan Research Fellowship recipient.
[Coverage in University Week is here. -SMR]… Read more →
CSE’s Pavan Vaswani is UW Junior Medalist
At a February 23rd reception at the home of University of Washington President Mark Emmert, CSE’s Pavan Vaswani will be recognized as the University of Washington Junior Medalist — the top student in last year’s junior class (of 7,000+ students). Pavan knows the drill — last year he was UW’s Sophomore Medalist. Congratulations Pavan! (University Week article here.)… Read more →
Where’s that bus?!? Sweat no more
KOMO News reports on One Bus Away in this February 12 broadcast television story, Where’s that bus?!? Sweat no more. One Bus Away is a web site and a collection of bus-locating services created and run by UW CSE grad student Brian Ferris. It allows transit users in King County to track the buses they are interested in five different ways, most available from a cellphone (voice, text, or web). You can view the broadcast video segment on… Read more →
“Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field”
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska is organizing a public symposium on “Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field,” to be held on March 17th as part of a Regional Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. A number of the talks — for example one on the Smart Grid — should be of interest to CSE students, faculty, and friends. Further information is available at http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/nae2009/.… Read more →
Trends in UW CSE Introductory Course Enrollment
Stimulated by a request from our friends at Google, I plotted enrollment in UW CSE’s introductory course (“CS-1” — called “CSE-142” at UW) over the past 4.5 years. We offer this course every quarter (that is, four times a year); I plotted a 4-quarter rolling sum of course enrollment to smooth the data. (In other words, each point on the graph shows total enrollment during the most recent four academic quarters.)
The results show a dramatic growth in total enrollment,… Read more →
TechFlash: Google reaches out, treads carefully with startup community
TechFlash reporter John Cook writes about the Seattle Startup Weekend held at Google‘s Fremont engineering office last weekend, and quotes UW CSE professor and graduate (PhD ’90) Brian Bershad, currently on leave to serve as site manager at the Fremont facility.
We are trying to be good neighbors. We don’t want to stomp on people. We don’t want to go raiding people of their employees. We want people to feel like they can come to us and talk… Read more →
Xconomy Talks with UW Tech Transfer Head Linden Rhoads
Six months after Linden Rhoads took the reins as Vice Provost at UW Tech Transfer, Xconomy Seattle reporter Luke Timmerman has done a two-part interview with her to find out what’s been accomplished so far and what lies on the road ahead.
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska had this to say about the Rhoads era at Tech Transfer:
There’s been a dramatic change since Linden’s arrival. The tech transfer officers are crawling all over our building working with students… Read more →
“Today’s Research is Tomorrow’s Infrastructure”
An op-ed by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Sun Microsystems’ Bob Sproull appears today on the website of Scientists and Engineers for America. They write:
“Congress is now debating the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Included in this package is over 10 billion dollars for science facilities, research, and instrumentation.
“The reason for this inclusion is simple: today’s research is tomorrow’s infrastructure.
“When our nation faces immediate challenges, the feasible solutions depend upon the ideas, resources, and… Read more →
Jeff Dean elected to National Academy of Engineering
Jeff Dean, 1996 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering — one of the highest honors accorded to engineers. Jeff was one of 65 individuals — 12 in the Computer Science & Engineering section — elected to membership in the 2009 class, announced on February 6.
Jeff began his career at DEC WRL, and moved to Google in 1999. At Google, Jeff and MIT EECS Ph.D. alumnus Sanjay Ghemawat — also elected to… Read more →
Eggsprout – how ‘hot’ a job prospect are you?
Former UW whizzes Brian Ma, 22, a graduate of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Hsu Ken Ooi, 25, a graduate of Mathematics and Statistics, are launching Eggsprout with the help of CSE’s Oren Etzioni. The Bellevue startup is planning to transform the way people find jobs online.
Read the TechFlash article here.
Read the Techvibes entry here.
Read the Cheezhead article here.… Read more →