UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage, currently a professor at UCSD, was named the recipient of the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences today. He earned the award, which recognizes individuals whose early contributions in their careers have had a fundamental impact on the field of computing, for his “innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system.”
Savage,… Read more →
UW CSE students shine in 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition
The National Science Foundation announced the recipients of its 2016 Graduate Research Fellowships today and UW boasts the second highest number of fellowship recipients in the nation in the “Computer and Information Science and Engineering” category. A total of eight UW students earned Fellowships in the computing field—including seven from UW CSE—and eight more earned Honorable Mentions.
NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding student researchers pursuing Master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who demonstrate the… Read more →
Crosscut highlights UW CSE’s role in “bringing women back to computer science”
Women historically have played a significant role in computer science. While the field has gone backward in recent decades when it comes to gender diversity, UW CSE has made a concerted effort to buck that trend and attracted national attention as a result.
Seattle online journal Crosscut recently caught up with UW CSE B.S./M.S. student Sonja Khan and Ph.D. student Irene Zhang to find out what makes this program so special. Their experiences reinforce the notion that, when it comes… Read more →
Where the jobs are – 2016 edition
The 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Indicators have recently been released, including data on the numbers of degrees granted in various fields of science and engineering.
Similarly, the 2016 US Bureau of Labor Statistics job projections have recently been released, covering the decade 2014-2024.
The Tale of the Tape: A chart of “annualized jobs available” (from BLS) vs. “annual degrees granted” (from NSF) for various fields.
The story in Washington State is the same. Three state educational agencies… Read more →
Mesosphere raises $73.5 million Series C
Mesosphere, a “data center operating system” company derived from a course project by UW CSE bachelors alum Ben Hindman when he was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, has raised $73.5 million in Series C funding.
Ben will receive the University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement in May.
Check it out in TechCrunch here.… Read more →
Google plans dramatic expansion in Seattle
Google announced today a plan to lease more than 600,000 square feet of space in South Lake Union, dramatically expanding their presence in Seattle. (The Kirkland WA site – across Lake Washington from Seattle – was expanded last year. Expansion space for the current Seattle engineering office in the Fremont neighborhood at the north end of Lake Union was constrained.)
In addition to home-grown companies of all sizes – from Amazon and Microsoft to startups – Seattle is home to… Read more →
20 years in tech: GeekWire talks to UW CSE alumnae about their experiences in a male-dominated field
“There’s no one way to be a woman in technology.”
That’s one of the takeaways from a terrific article published today by GeekWire that explores the experiences of eight UW CSE alumnae since they earned their degrees 20 years ago—and how the industry has progressed over the past two decades when it comes to welcoming and advancing women. Reporter Lisa Stiffler talked with the women about their trials and triumphs as they carved out careers in a male-dominated industry.
Featured… Read more →
UW CSE alum Evan Welbourne’s mobile data crowdsourcing project featured in The New York Times
The New York Times published an excellent article this week about CrowdSignals, a new initiative spearheaded by UW CSE alum Evan Welbourne (Ph.D., ’10) that seeks to build the largest set of rich, longitudinal mobile and sensor data through crowdsourcing. The community data set, which will include user interactions, geo-location and sensor data from a demographically diverse pool of users, would be available to academic and corporate researchers across a variety of disciplines to advance research, teaching and product… Read more →
UW CSE’s Noah Smith receives UW Innovation Award to map the “perspectives landscape”
UW CSE professor Noah Smith, an expert in natural language processing, has received a 2016 Innovation Award from the University of Washington’s Office of Research to create a large-scale visualization of people’s perspectives on current events and issues based on digital text.
By developing tools to map the “perspectives landscape” from the vast amounts of text data available online, Smith will be able to reveal differences in framing that can affect public attitudes. His research will advance the state… Read more →
UW CSE, Microsoft Research bring together the brightest minds in PLSE research in the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is known to be a hotbed of programming language and software engineering (PLSE) innovation. Now, the brightest local minds in PLSE research have a forum in which to share their latest work and discuss emerging topics in the field with their colleagues from throughout the region, thanks to the efforts of professors Ras Bodik and Alvin Cheung of UW CSE’s world-class PLSE group and Rishabh Singh of the RiSE (Research in Software Engineering) group at Microsoft Research.… Read more →