VizioMetrix—the world’s first visual search engine for scientific diagrams, developed by a team at the UW’s eScience Institute—was the subject of a great article that appeared in MIT Technology Review over the weekend. The article reports on researchers’ efforts to understand the presentation of visual information in scientific literature, or viziometrics, based on a paper co-authored by Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student Po-Shen Lee, iSchool professor and Data Science Fellow Jevin West, and Associate Director, Senior Data Science… Read more →
Lazowska featured on @techvitamin podcast
“Are our Tesla’s going to band together in the Costco lot and attack us? Find out. In this episode Ed Lazowska (@lazowska), the eminent and long-time member of UW’s Computer Science faculty, joins Facebook’s Michael Cohen and me to discuss everything from big data, deep learning, to how Universities are responding to the massive demand for computer savvy graduates.”
Listen here.… Read more →
UW CSE faculty, staff, alums and friends @ Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum
More than 200 UW CSE faculty, staff, alums, and friends gathered at Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum on Wednesday for a meetup.
If you haven’t been to the LCM … it’s phenomenal.
Bay Area alums and friends: See you at the Computer History Museum at the end of June!… Read more →
Yin Tat Lee to join the UW CSE faculty
We are thrilled to announce that Yin Tat Lee, who works in algorithms and optimization, will join the UW CSE faculty.
Lee’s research focuses on the design of fast algorithms for fundamental optimization problems. Leaders in convex optimization acknowledge that his work has yielded the most important breakthroughs in interior point methods in the past two decades. Together with his co-authors, Lee has developed the fastest known algorithms for linear programming, submodular function minimization, and the maximum flow problem. … Read more →
UW CSE’s Dan Weld on “the real AI threat”
UW CSE professor Dan Weld wrote a thought-provoking column for GeekWire on “the real AI threat,” just in time for the White House-sponsored workshop on AI law and policy taking place on the University of Washington campus today.
Casting aside the sensational imaginings of Hollywood directors, Weld insists that we need not fear the day that AI systems willfully turn against humanity, as “computers have no hidden goals or secret motivations.” Instead, it is the action of human beings in… Read more →
UW CSE’s celebration of “Inspirational Teachers”
Every year, we in Computer Science & Engineering invite our new majors to identify their most inspirational high school or community college teacher – the teacher (each of us had one!) who changed their perception of what they should aspire to. We host these teachers, their partners, and the students who nominated them for dinner in the Allen Center (plus a bit of propaganda designed to encourage the teachers to send us more great students!).
From early learning through graduate… Read more →
UW CSE ACM Student Chapter spring picnic
Perfect weather on Friday for the UW CSE ACM Student Chapter spring picnic! (As usual, faculty pie-throwing was the highlight …)… Read more →
Workforce gaps in Washington State: It’s all Computer Science
The latest update of the authoritative Washington State workforce gap analysis was released in April by the Washington Student Achievement Council, the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, and the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board.
The report – A Skilled and Educated Workforce: 2015 Update – examines supply and demand in roughly 500 occupations divided into a dozen major categories.
At the Bachelors level, four fields are identified as having significant gaps between annual completors entering the workforce… Read more →
UW CSE team wins Best Robotic Manipulation Paper Award at ICRA 2016
UW CSE Ph.D. student Vikash Kumar and professors Emo Todorov and Sergey Levine captured the Best Robotic Manipulation Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2016) in Stockholm, Sweden this week. Their submission, “Optimal Control with Learned Local Models: Application to Dexterous Manipulation,” presents the results of their work on a dexterous robot hand that learns from experience. The paper details how the researchers achieved local learning, demonstrating the ability of the robot hand… Read more →
UW CSE’s Irene Zhang, Richard Ladner @ 2016 NCWIT Summit
At this week’s 2016 Summit of NCWIT – the National Center for Women & Information Technology – UW CSE Ph.D. student Irene Zhang was recognized as a Runner Up for the 2016 NCWIT Collegiate Award (honoring the outstanding technical accomplishments of collegiate women at all levels), and UW CSE professor Richard Ladner spoke on including people with disabilities.
UW CSE is an NCWIT Pacesetter School, and in 2015 received the inaugural NCWIT Award for Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate … Read more →