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 →
UW CSE’s Paris Koutris, Alvin Cheung recognized by ACM SIGMOD
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on the Management of Data (SIGMOD) announced that UW CSE Ph.D. alum Paris Koutris is the recipient of this year’s Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award. UW CSE professor Alvin Cheung’s MIT Ph.D. dissertation was recognized with an Honorable Mention. The award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in the data management field.
Koutris, who completed his Ph.D. working with professor Dan Suciu in the UW Database Group before joining the faculty… Read more →
Karin Strauss: One of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”
Karin Strauss – Microsoft researcher and UW CSE affiliate professor – is featured in Fast Company‘s list of “100 Most Creative People in Business,” released today.
“In April 2016, Strauss and a group of computer scientists and molecular biologists unveiled an experimental DNA data storage system … Practical applications for the technology might include deep-storing video archives or recording genomic data, which requires vast amounts of memory.”
Read the Fast Company profile here. Learn more about the… Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni on all things AI …
Oren Etzioni – long-time UW CSE faculty member and CEO of Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has become a GeekWire regular on all things AI.
Most recently, Oren on Georgia Tech’s surreptitious replacement of human teaching assistants with IBM’s Watson. (Can TA unionization be far behind at Georgia Tech?)
In April, Oren on the future of robots and humanity. (No sense in piddling around with small topics.)
A few days before that, Oren on the … Read more →
UW CSE’s Supasorn Suwajanakorn collects GeekWire Innovation of the Year Award
Ph.D. student Supasorn Suwajanakorn of UW CSE’s GRAIL group took home the coveted Innovation of the Year Award at GeekWire’s annual awards bash—a.k.a. “the Oscars of Northwest tech.” He collected the award, which was voted on by members of the local tech community, for his work with with professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz on What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks?, which combines 3-D face reconstruction, tracking, alignment, and multi-texture modeling to create a digital… Read more →
UW CSE/HCDE student Kaitlyn Zhou elected to ASUW
Kaitlyn Zhou, a sophomore majoring in computer science and human-centered design and engineering, has been elected to the board of directors of the Associated Student of the University of Washington (ASUW). The ASUW represents UW Seattle undergraduates and their interests through programming, services and advocacy and has a budget of roughly $1 million.
Zhou, who was elected the new director of university affairs, ran on a student-centered platform focused on accessibility, affordability and translating student priorities into administrative action. She… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajalakshmi Nandakumar wins CoMotion Graduate Innovator Award
UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar has been recognized with the 2016 CoMotion Graduate Innovator Award. The award, which was announced during the College of Engineering Awards ceremony yesterday, honors a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher “who best demonstrates creative problem-solving on the road to moving innovative ideas to real-world impact.”
Nandakumar works with CSE professor Shyam Gollakota in the Networks & Mobile Systems Lab on the development of applications in mobile health and human-computer interaction. According to Gollakota, “Rajalakshmi… Read more →
UW CSE’s Aleesha Wiest recognized with College of Engineering Staff Award
Aleesha Wiest, a program operations specialist with UW CSE, was recognized today with a UW College of Engineering Professional Staff Award. Each year, the College honors faculty, students and staff who go above and beyond—be it through teaching, research, or, in Wiest’s case, their vital work behind the scenes that makes faculty, students and fellow staff members look good.
When Wiest joined UW CSE in 2013, she managed administrative projects and budgets for the UW-hosted Intel Science and Technology … Read more →
UW researchers transform a piece of paper into a smart interface with PaperID
Researchers in the University of Washington’s UbiComp Lab have devised a way to turn a piece of paper into an interactive interface. PaperID—which was developed by UW CSE Ph.D. student Hanchuan Li, EE Ph.D. student Josh Fromm, and CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel in collaboration with colleagues at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University—leverages inexpensive RFID sensors to integrate real-world items into the Internet of Things.
From the UW News release:
“Researchers from the University… Read more →
K-12 Math and Science teachers! Join UW CSE at our CS4HS summer workshop!
Registration is now open for UW CSE’s popular CS4HS professional development workshop for educators to be held July 6-8 on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.
CS4HS is designed for teachers who have no previous computer science knowledge or programming experience. Aimed at middle and high school math and science teachers, CS4HS offers three action-packed days of insights and best practices that empower educators to incorporate computational thinking into their teaching and inspire their students’ curiosity about this rapidly expanding… Read more →