Wilma Bradley, a longtime friend and generous supporter of UW CSE, has established a $1 million matching fund aimed at promoting alumni giving toward construction of a second computer science building on the UW campus. The new fund will match, dollar for dollar, multi-year pledges by recent alumni that total between $5,000 and $50,000 — enabling young alumni to double (or more, if a corporate match is applied) the impact of their personal gifts to CSE2.
For more than 20… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson, James Fogarty and Dan Ports win Google Faculty Research Awards
UW CSE professors Tom Anderson, James Fogarty, and Dan R. K. Ports have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards, a competition designed to support world-class faculty conducting cutting-edge research that advances core and emerging areas of computer science.
Anderson, who earned an award in the networking category, focuses on the construction of robust, secure, and efficient computer systems. His recent work concerns the development of next-generation peer-to-peer systems and approaches to dramatically improve internet availability… Read more →
UW CSE professor Ali Farhadi and Ph.D. alum Jon Froehlich win Sloan Research Fellowships
UW CSE professor Ali Farhadi and Ph.D. alum Jon Froehlich have been recognized with 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowships are granted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support outstanding early-career researchers who represent the next generation of scientific leaders. Fellows are nominated by their peers and selected to receive one of these prestigious awards by an independent panel of senior scholars based on their demonstrated potential to make significant contributions in their respective fields.
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UW CSE establishes the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
UW CSE announced today the creation of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support efforts to recruit and retain outstanding faculty in these leading-edge areas of the field. The $1 million endowment, which is named after CSE professor and machine learning expert Carlos Guestrin, was made possible by Apple’s acquisition of CSE spin-out Turi last year.
Guestrin has been a member of the UW CSE since 2012, when he was named the Amazon Professor… Read more →
UW CSE receives $5 million gift from philanthropists, technologists and entrepreneurs Charles and Lisa Simonyi
The campaign to expand UW CSE received a major boost today through a $5 million gift from longtime philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi. The couple’s gift, which will help fund construction of a second building that will enable UW CSE to double annual degree production, is the largest personal donation received toward the project.
“The need for more computer scientists and computer engineers in the Puget Sound region to build on the legacy of innovation here is well known, and… Read more →
UW CSE + EE professor Shwetak Patel to deliver NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture on mobile health
Tune in Wednesday, February 15th, when UW CSE and Electrical Engineering professor Shwetak Patel will deliver a talk on the emerging role of mobile phones in health as part of the National Science Foundation’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series.
In his presentation, Patel will describe how he and his students in the UbiComp Lab have leveraged the increasingly sophisticated sensing capabilities of mobile phones to create palm-sized, yet powerful, health diagnostics and disease management… Read more →
UW CSE undergrad Nate Yazdani’s love of research “PLSE-es” through his veins
In the latest edition of our Undergrad Spotlight, we catch up with Nate Yazdani, a senior computer science major who works as an undergraduate research assistant with professor Ras Bodik of UW CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group. Yazdani, who hails from Battle Ground, Washington, chose to study computer science because of his keen interest in math, logic and programming — a choice he hopes will lead to graduate school and a career in academic research.
He… Read more →
UW’s AccessMap makes navigating Seattle safer and more accessible for all
This week a team of researchers working with UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology rolled out an online travel planner, AccessMap, which enables people to easily map out accessible or pedestrian-friendly routes for getting around Seattle. AccessMap’s customizable routing includes information on gradient, curb ramps, and closures due to construction — features that will make navigating the city easier for all users, including travelers with luggage, parents with strollers, delivery drivers, and people who rely on assistive devices.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Kira Goldner wins Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE graduate student Kira Goldner has been named a 2017 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellow. She is one of only 10 young researchers in North America to be recognized as the “best and brightest” in computer science and related fields in this year’s fellowship competition.
Goldner is a third-year Ph.D. student who works with professor Anna Karlin in UW CSE’s Theory group on algorithmic mechanism design and approximation algorithms. Most of Goldner’s work so far has been focused on… Read more →
UW CSE+EE startup Jeeva Wireless raises $1.2 million for Passive Wi-Fi
Jeeva Wireless, a UW spinoff created by faculty and students in CSE and Electrical Engineering, has raised $1.2 million to commercialize a line of research based on backscatter — a groundbreaking approach that harvests ambient wireless signals to enable devices to communicate without draining battery power. Relevant projects include Passive Wi-Fi, a system that is capable of generating Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, and Interscatter, which enables implanted medical devices to communicate… Read more →