UW CSE awarded a record 391 degrees at our department graduation ceremony on Friday evening. (We are rapidly growing toward a total of 460 degrees per year, and hope to be funded to grow to 600 degrees per year – roughly double the number of just two years ago! An additional building is part of the plan.)
256 Bachelors degrees were awarded in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Thirty percent of the Computer Science Bachelors recipients were women –… Read more →
Demo day for UW CSE’s VR/AR capstone course!
A super GeekWire article:
“What happens when a group of talented computer science students at the University of Washington get to play with a HoloLens device for 10 weeks as part of a first-of-its-kind class?
“Well, a little bit of everything.
“The UW hosted a demo day on Thursday afternoon for its first-ever virtual and augmented reality capstone class that gave students from one of the nation’s top computer science departments a chance to develop apps for Microsoft’s HoloLens device.… Read more →
Albert Greenberg, Stefan Savage receive 2016 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Awards
At UW CSE’s graduation ceremony on Friday evening, 1983 Ph.D. alum Albert Greenberg and 2002 Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage will be recognized as the recipients of UW CSE’s 2016 Alumni Achievement Awards.
We inaugurated this award for two purposes: first, to recognize some of our most accomplished alumni; second, to make it clear to each year’s new graduates that they are joining a long line of men and women who have built upon their UW CSE education to change the… Read more →
UW CSE’s Maya Cakmak receives NSF CAREER Award
UW CSE professor Maya Cakmak, whose research focuses on human-robot interaction, has received a NSF CAREER Award. She is the 31st current CSE professor to be recognized through this program or its predecessors, which is the most prestigious category of awards offered by the National Science Foundation in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars. The award will support Cakmak’s efforts to develop robots that end-users can program to address their specific needs and the environments… Read more →
Oren Etzioni in Forbes: “The Serial Entrepreneur Who Leads Paul Allen’s AI Institute”
Yesterday, Forbes published a terrific interview with UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. During the conversation with magazine contributor Peter High, Etzioni shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including how artificial intelligence can benefit humanity, what he learned from starting multiple companies, and how his own students and interns help him to stay on the cutting edge of a fast-moving field.
Etzioni explained that he and institute founder… Read more →
Bill Gates says “Read Pedro Domingos’s book!”
At this week’s Code conference, Bill Gates had a recommendation for the audience: Read “The Master Algorithm” by UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos.
Read about it in recode here and in Quartz here.
Learn about Pedro and “The Master Algorithm” here.
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UW CSE hosts Youth Apps Challenge
Again this year, UW CSE played host to the finalists in the Technology Alliance’s Youth Apps Challenge.
Youth Apps Challenge is a two-part program that introduces both teachers and students to the power and potential of programming. Youth Apps motivates teams of middle and high school students from across Washington to develop innovative computer applications that address everyday problems.
This year more than 50 teams of students (each with a faculty sponsor) submitted apps to the challenge. Fifteen finalists… Read more →
UW CSE RFID spinoff Impinj files for IPO
Impinj, the Seattle-based RFID solutions company founded by UW CSE professor Chris Diorio and his legendary Caltech Ph.D. mentor Carver Mead, has filed for an IPO.
The RFID market took longer than the company expected to develop, but has taken off in the past few years.
RFID is “The Internet of Everything” (at a recent presentation, Diorio’s “prop” was a belt he had just purchased at Macy’s that sported an RFID tag), and Impinj has a leadership position.
Read… Read more →
New “intelligent water” venture launches with technology from UW’s UbiComp Lab
Electronics company Belkin International and plumbing and HVAC supplier Uponor Corp. recently announced the formation Phyn, a $40 million joint venture to further scale their intelligent water innovations based on technology that was developed by CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel working with students in the UW’s UbiComp Lab.
The Belkin technology is based on HydroSense—a pressure-based sensor for monitoring home water usage developed by Patel, CSE Ph.D. alum Jon Froehlich, and EE Ph.D. alum Eric … Read more →
DNA data storage project by UW and Microsoft researchers featured in Scientific American
Scientific American published a terrific article this week highlighting the work of UW and Microsoft researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) as part of a broader examination of efforts to re-purpose DNA as a digital data storage medium. The magazine spoke with UW CSE and Electrical Engineering professor Georg Seelig and Microsoft researcher and CSE affiliate professor Karin Strauss about the project, which is generating a lot of buzz for its potential to revolutionize digital storage—offering massive expansion… Read more →