It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Computer Science Education Week, when we bring the joy of computing to people of all ages through community outreach, events and hands-on activities. Last year, we featured an Hour of Code with UW President Ana Mari Cauce; this year, we are joining the White House and organizations across the country in pursuing a variety of strategies to make computer science education available to all.
We kicked off the festivities with our… Read more →
Microsoft JobsBlog features CSE undergrad TA alum Kasey Champion
“In his 25 years at Microsoft, Bjorn Rettig has never felt compelled to offer someone a job during an informational interview. But that all changed after he met Kasey Champion …
“For Champion, who just celebrated her fourth anniversary with the company, joining Rettig’s team has been the fulfillment of everything she’s worked toward at Microsoft. She’s able to combine her passion for teaching and her enthusiasm for computer science. In fact, Champion’s talk at this year’s Grace Hopper conference… Read more →
UW researchers hit the right note with new machine learning tool for music
A team of UW CSE and UW Statistics researchers have released MusicNet, a collection of 330 classical music recordings accompanied by more than one million annotated labels indicating the precise timing, instrument and position of every note. As the first large-scale public dataset of its kind, MusicNet could be music to the ears of machine learning researchers and composers alike.
From the UW News release:
“The composer Johann Sebastian Bach left behind an incomplete fugue upon his death,… Read more →
UW CSE undergraduate TA’s reunite and celebrate!
UW CSE’s introductory courses have seen extraordinary growth in size and in quality – growth that’s powered by an amazing corps of undergraduate teaching assistants.
More than 150 current and former CSE142 and CSE143 undergraduate TAs participated in a reunion event in the Paul G. Allen Center on November 22nd. A timeline created for the event highlighted how much the program has changed in the last ten years.
In the fall of 2006, CSE142 had 425 students and CSE143 had… Read more →
UW CSE alum Peter Brook and Snap Spectacles
Peter Brook spent his undergraduate days in Joshua Smith’s Sensor Systems Laboratory and at Facebook. In 2013 he took his newly-minted Computer Engineering bachelors degree to Vergence Labs, where he was lead software engineer on Epiphany Eyewear – fashion-conscious eyewear that captures video snippets with the touch of a button. Vergence was acquired by Snapchat, where Peter has led the software side of Snap Spectacles from early prototypes through mass production.
Snap Spectacles have now hit the big time –… Read more →
UW startup WiBotic among GeekWire’s 2016 “Seattle 10” hot startups
“From the brick walkways of Pioneer Square to the funky facades of Fremont, there’s a lot of startup action in Seattle.
“So trying to identify the 10 hottest entrepreneurial ventures in the region is no easy task. But that’s what we’ve set out to do with this year’s class of The Seattle 10, which we’re hosting again in partnership with the Museum of History & Industry …
“We’re putting our entrepreneurs to work, asking each of The Seattle 10 winners… Read more →
Cybercrime-fighters of Batman’s Kitchen cook up a 3rd place finish at CSAW ’16
Last week, a team of UW undergraduates known as Batman’s Kitchen became cybersecurity superheroes when they earned third place at the U.S. finals of Capture the Flag at Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW ’16). The CSAW CTF competition, which was hosted by New York University’s Tanton School of Engineering, featured 15 teams battling it out in response to a series of computer security challenges inspired by real-world scenarios that tested their cybercrime-fighting mettle. The New York competition was… Read more →
UW CSE earns yet another Best Paper Award at OSDI
UW CSE continued our winning ways this week with a Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16). The winning paper, Push-Button Verification of File Systems via Crash Refinement, was co-authored by a team of researchers from UW CSE’s Computer Systems Lab and Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group that includes Ph.D. students Helgi Sigurbjarnarson and James Bornholt, and professors Emina Torlak and Xi Wang.
The… Read more →
Seattle Business explores the region’s – and UW CSE’s – emergence as a high-tech magnet
For its November cover article, Seattle Business magazine examines the factors that contribute to our region’s growing attractiveness to tech companies looking to expand or open new engineering operations outside of their hometowns. The list of firms who have put down roots in and around the Emerald City is a who’s who of fast-growing firms, multi-national powerhouses, and household names, including Airbnb, Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Magic Leap, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Uber. In some cases, the newcomers’ local workforce has… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska named to Seattle magazine’s 50th anniversary Hall of Fame
“Every city possesses its own, unique spirit — its zeitgeist. It’s what makes a metropolis move, defines its identity and propels it forward. We owe much of ours to our city’s shapers — those leaders, trendsetters and trailblazers who, over the past 50 years, have transformed the town in extraordinary ways…
“The people on these pages — living legends who have made a major contribution during the past five decades — are influential in their own right, but are also… Read more →