U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell spent nearly two hours at UW CSE on Saturday afternoon, along with staffers Dayna Lurie and Nate Caminos. The agenda:
Ed Lazowska: student demand, workforce demand, diversity, and data science.
Yoshi Kohno: cybersecurity.
Alex Mariakakis: smartphone medical diagnostic apps.
Steve Seitz: virtual reality.
Many thanks to Senator Cantwell for taking time from her busy schedule to learn more about what we do. Washington State is blessed with an extraordinary… Read more →
What courses do high school students like “a lot”?
What courses do high school students like “a lot”?
AP Computer Science blows away all other STEM fields! Among 52 fields, its popularity is exceeded only by Dance, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, and Choir.
The study, by Change the Equation, the Amgen Foundation, and C+R Research, was unearthed and analyzed by Code.org’s Hadi Partovi.
Hadi corrected the study for selection bias, and aggregated related fields – the results were just as dramatic!
Read Hadi’s blog post here.… Read more →
Oren Etzioni in Wired: “Deep learning isn’t a dangerous magic genie. It’s just math”
Oren Etzioni – CEO of Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and long-time UW CSE professor – writes in Wired:
“Deep learning is rapidly ‘eating’ artificial intelligence. But let’s not mistake this ascendant form of artificial intelligence for anything more than it really is. The famous author Arthur C. Clarke wrote, ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ And deep learning is certainly an advanced technology – it can identify objects and faces in photos, recognize spoken… Read more →
UW CSE’s Anat Caspi, changemaker, at the United States of Women Summit
Anat Caspi, director of UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, is attending the United States of Women Summit convened by the White House this week. She was invited to participate in recognition of her efforts to lead change on issues important to women and girls.
The summit is bringing together 5,000 people from all industries and walks of life to celebrate the progress that has been made to advance gender equality and identify the actions needed to… Read more →
UW CSE awards a record 391 degrees
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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