Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, has been selected to receive a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Fox is among 102 scientists and engineers (only 19 via the National Science Foundation) who are being recognized by the White House for advancing the frontiers of science and technology and serving… Read more →
Seattle-based Zillow Group commits $5 million to expand UW CSE
Zillow Group has pledged $5 million to support the construction of a second computer science building on the UW’s Seattle campus. The gift is the first-ever corporate donation made by the company and will provide the space needed for UW CSE to double annual degree production in response to growing student and employer demand. Zillow Group COO Amy Bohutinsky highlighted UW CSE’s vital role in the region’s technology ecosystem and its leadership in education and diversity in announcing the gift.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar recognized in Forbes’ “30 Under 30”
UW CSE alums Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar feature prominently in the 2017 edition of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30—which recognizes change-makers and innovators spanning 20 different industries. The pair are recognized for their contributions to enterprise tech through their company, San Francisco-based HashiCorp.
Hashimoto and Dadgar earned their bachelor’s degrees in computer science from UW CSE in 2011. They co-founded HashiCorp a year after graduation with the aim of revolutionizing data center management, including application development, delivery, and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota named a Forbes “30 Under 30” All-Star
What do UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, basketball player LeBron James, and singer Taylor Swift have in common?
They all were named among Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” All-Star Alumni — a who’s-who of luminaries in technology, sport, the arts, and more who are “leading the millennial revolution of game changers.”
Gollakota was previously recognized by Forbes on its list of “30 Under 30” in energy for his work on ambient backscatter, which turns existing wireless signals into a… Read more →
WSU socks proclaim “Go Dawgs”
The Seattle Times reports:
“Washington State University Cougar fans are going to want to spend a bit of time staring at their feet this morning.
“Bartell Drugs issued a recall this week for an $18 Christmas pair of Strideline WSU College ‘Cougar Socks.’ The red-and-white socks have a not-so-Cougarish slogan printed on the inside cuff. It reads, ‘Go Dawgs’ …
“Using the rival University of Washington’s ‘Go Dawgs’ slogan for WSU socks was a quality-control error, co-founder Jake Director said… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. student Irene Zhang is GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
Irene Zhang is UW CSE’s Geek of the Year, but we’ll settle for GeekWire’s Geek of the Week:
“I’m really a Midwestern girl at heart.” (Give me a break!)
“I do research in distributed programming platforms for mobile/cloud applications. Application programmers today are writing code that runs on mobile device and cloud servers, so they are really tackling a lot of hard distributed systems problems. Companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google have figured out how to build these kinds of… Read more →
For UW CSE’s Johan Michalove, “teaching to the test” means inspiring a love of learning
To mark the end of finals week, the next installment of our Undergrad Spotlight features a member of the UW CSE community who devotes his spare time to helping other students to succeed. Meet Johan Michalove, a senior from Bellevue, Washington who has spent the past three years tutoring students and currently serves as chair of the UW ACM, the campus chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Michalove is double-majoring in Computer Science and Philosophy. As ACM… Read more →
Crosscut: Why tech companies aren’t hiring more local grads
“So what distinguishes the UW from other Washington schools? Aside from its obvious geographical advantage of being smack dab in the center of a global tech hub, the University has made use of several strategies to routinely get its grads into top-notch jobs. ‘The University has been tuning its computer science curriculum to the needs of software development companies for decades now,’ says [Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) CEO Michael] Schutzler.
“The challenging curriculum and internship program also play a… Read more →
UW CSE undergraduates recognized as outstanding researchers by the Computing Research Association
Carrying on UW CSE’s tradition of excellence in undergraduate research, three students — Christopher Mackie, Nathaniel Yazdani, and Sarah Yu — have been recognized by the Computing Research Association as part of its 2017 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Since the year 2000, 55 UW CSE undergraduates have earned accolades from CRA for excellence in research — more than any other institution in North America.
Mackie and Yazdani are members of CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) … Read more →
Lots of silliness at the annual UW CSE holiday party
The annual UW CSE holiday party is always a fun event for students, staff, and faculty. And then there’s the faculty skit … “rehearsal” shots below …
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