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Allen School’s TVM deep-learning compiler framework transitions to Apache

The team behind the Allen School’s TVM framework, an end-to-end compiler stack which enables the rapid deployment of deep learning on a variety of platforms and devices, is marking a new milestone in the project’s development with its transition to the non-profit Apache Software Foundation. The Apache open-source developer community focuses on incubating open-source software projects for the public good. By adding TVM to its incubator portfolio, Apache will ensure that the already popular framework will continue… Read more →
March 18, 2019

Venkatesh Potluri recognized with 2019 Google Lime Scholarship

Allen School Ph.D. student Venkatesh Potluri has earned a 2019 Google Lime Scholarship, which recognizes and supports students with disabilities who demonstrate the qualities of leadership, commitment to academic excellence, and passion for computer science and technology. Potluri, who is blind, is in his first year at the Allen School working on human-computer interaction (HCI) and accessibility research as a member of both the Makeability Lab and Make4All Group. While most fledgling Ph.D. students ease into research in… Read more →
March 13, 2019

Richard Ladner earns Best Paper Award at SIGCSE 2019 for efforts to improve accessibility of computer science curriculum

Left to right: co-authors Andreas Stefik, Richard Ladner, and Sean Mealin pose with Simba the dog at SIGCSE 2019 (not pictured: William Allee).
Allen School professor Richard Ladner, a leading advocate for making computer science education accessible to all, and a team of collaborators earned a Best Paper Award for their work on “Computer Science Principles for Teachers of Blind and Visually Impaired Students” at the recent SIGCSE 2019, the flagship conference of the Association for… Read more →
March 12, 2019

Minjoon Seo recognized with 2019 Facebook Fellowship

Allen School Ph.D. student Minjoon Seo has earned a 2019 Facebook Fellowship for his research in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. Seo develops systems for end-to-end question answering, reasoning-based question answering, and scalable deep-learning architectures in collaboration with Hanna Hajishirzi and Ali Farhadi, professors at the Allen School and researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). “Minjoon is a rising star in NLP and has made substantial contributions to the field of question answering, one of… Read more →
March 11, 2019

Allen School undergraduates recognized for excellence in research

Each year, the Computing Research Association (CRA) recognizes rising young research talent at colleges and universities across North America through its Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. As part of its 2019 competition, the CRA honored four Allen School undergraduates — Nelson Liu, Kimberly Ruth, Pathirat Kosakanchit, and Rowan Phipps — for their contributions in natural language processing, security and privacy, and technology for development and for demonstrating the potential to have an even greater impact in their future careers.
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March 8, 2019

Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows

Allen School professors Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan were named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows in Computer Science by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes early-career scientists and engineers who have already distinguished themselves through their research and exhibit the potential to make substantial contributions in their respective fields. Alvin Cheung engages in cross-disciplinary research as a member of the Allen School’s Database and Programming Languages & Software Engineering groups. In his young career,… Read more →
March 4, 2019

Allen School celebrates dedication of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering

Photo credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington
Yesterday, nearly 300 friends of the Paul G. Allen School gathered to celebrate the dedication of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering on the UW Seattle campus. UW and Allen School leadership were joined onstage by special guests Bill Gates, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and Microsoft President & Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith in thanking the more than 500 individual donors, local technology companies, and state taxpayers for… Read more →
March 1, 2019

Remembering Ted Kehl

The Allen School family mourns the passing of professor emeritus Ted Kehl, one of the original group of seven faculty members who founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington in the 1960s, and someone who was instrumental in introducing Seattle to a hardware revolution in the form of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design — a development that transformed computing and modern society. Kehl earned his Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1961 and joined the… Read more →
February 27, 2019

Explore the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center at the Allen School’s March 1st open house!

On Friday, March 1st, the Paul G. Allen School will open the doors of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering to the community. Friends, alumni, and campus and regional partners are invited to join us for an afternoon of building tours, demos, and interactive media that will showcase how the Bill & Melinda Gates Center will enable us to educate more of Washington’s students for high-impact careers, advance scientific discovery and innovation, and make… Read more →
February 16, 2019

UW’s Jennifer Mankoff, Batya Friedman and Jacob Wobbrock elected to CHI Academy

Allen School professor Jennifer Mankoff
Three University of Washington faculty who are recognized leaders in human-computer interaction (HCI) research — Allen School professor Jennifer Mankoff and Information School professors (and Allen School adjunct professors) Batya Friedman and Jacob Wobbrock — have been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) with election to the CHI Academy. The CHI Academy is composed of individuals who have made substantial, cumulative contributions to the field of… Read more →
February 13, 2019

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