This year marked the 10th anniversary of UW CSE’s CS4HS summer workshop for middle school and high school math and science teachers.
UW, CMU and UCLA pioneered the program in 2007 with support from Google. At UW, we focus on teachers of mathematics and the natural science from the Puget Sound region, hoping to give them the resources to incorporate modern, fun, and accessible computer science elements into their teaching. Of equal importance, we seek to establish a supportive community… Read more →
UW CSE’s Fahad Pervaiz: Predicting disease outbreaks could save millions of lives
An international team of researchers that includes UW CSE Ph.D. student Fahad Pervaiz, who works with professor Richard Anderson in the Information & Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) Lab, has come up with a way to predict outbreaks of dengue fever by analyzing calling activity by members of the public to a telephone hotline. In a paper published today in the journal Science Advances, Pervaiz and collaborators at New York University, the Punjab Information Technology Board and… Read more →
UW and Microsoft researchers set new record in DNA data storage
Researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Lab housed at the University of Washington have achieved a new milestone in their quest to develop the next generation of data storage by encoding a world record-setting 200 megabytes of data in strands of DNA. A team that includes UW CSE professor Luis Ceze and Microsoft researcher (and UW CSE affiliate professor) Karin Strauss announced today that it has successfully stored and retrieved an impressive list of multimedia and literary works, including a… Read more →
Seattle #1 on Glassdoor’s list of best-paying cities for software engineers!
Seattle:
Median base salary: $113,242
7.1 percent above national average cost of living
Real adjusted salary: $105,735
Job openings: 4,205
Followed by San Jose, San Francisco, Madison WI (only 105 job openings …), Raleigh, Austin, Boston, …
Read about it in GeekWire here.… Read more →
Kids get hands-on with computer science at UW CSE’s DawgBytes summer camps
Every summer, UW CSE welcomes students from around Washington state to campus for our DawgBytes day camps. This year, 125 middle school and high school students will enjoy the opportunity to get hands-on with computer science at one of six co-ed camp sessions devoted to robotics, web design, or programming computer games in Quorum.
We kicked off the summer with the first of three sessions on robotics, in which campers work in teams to build and program robots using LEGO… Read more →
UW CSE’s Maaz Ahmad, Julie Newcomb earn accolades at SYNT 2016
UW CSE Ph.D. student Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad, who works with professor Alvin Cheung of UW CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) and Database groups, has captured the inaugural Best Student Paper Award at SYNT 2016 for Leveraging Parallel Data Processing Frameworks with Verified Lifting.
In the winning paper, Ahmad and Cheung demonstrate that verified lifting—which previously has been applied to database applications and stencil computations—also can be used to convert sequential data processing code in order… Read more →
UW CSE invades the Bay Area!
UW CSE took over the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for our annual Bay Area alumni meet-up yesterday. Nearly 200 alumni and guests joined us at one of our favorite events of the year, where we enjoy connecting with old friends and new—and the chance to geek out over the museum’s fantastic exhibits. UW CSE faculty members Luis Ceze, Zorah Fung, Dan Grossman, Yoshi Kohno, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy and Franzi Roesner met up… Read more →
Top 10 First-Choice Majors of UW Confirmed Incoming Freshmen – 2016 Edition
The results are in: CSE is now the first choice major of more of the University of Washington’s confirmed incoming freshmen than any other field.
We need to grow in order to be able to accommodate more of these students! And we’re trying!
Our friends at GeekWire picked this up:
“‘At UW and across the nation, student interest in computer science is booming,’ said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in the UW department of Computer Science &… Read more →
Microsoft President Brad Smith reiterates call to expand UW CSE
The Puget Sound Business Journal posted an article this week in which Microsoft President Brad Smith, a vocal proponent of expanding access to computer science education, reiterated his call for a significant expansion of UW CSE as the leading generator of computing talent in the state.
From the article:
“As Microsoft expands outside the country to mitigate the lack of engineering talent in the Puget Sound region, local technology industry leaders renew a call for investments in the next… Read more →
UW CSE’s Kira Goldner wins Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Kira Goldner has been named a 2016 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholar. Goldner, who works with professor Anna Karlin in UW CSE’s Theory group on algorithmic game theory and approximation algorithms, is one of only 20 student researchers from across the United States selected by Google to receive this award.
Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in honor of Borg’s tireless dedication to advancing women and other underrepresented groups in the field of computing.… Read more →