On Thursday UW CSE hosted an alumni event at Amazon’s still-under-construction new buildings on 7th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Amazon is one of the largest employers of UW CSE graduates, and UW CSE is one of the largest sources of new graduates to Amazon.
Can’t wait for those domes to be finished!… Read more →
GeekWire: “Ruling on University of Washington building paves way for computer science program expansion”
GeekWire reports on a King County Superior Court ruling that UW may replace More Hall Annex – an abandoned research nuclear reactor building that a local preservation group has tried to nominate as a landmark under a city ordinance – with a facility that will enable the expansion of UW Computer Science & Engineering.
“On Thursday, Judge Suzanne Parisien ruled that the ordinance does not apply to the UW, adding that ‘public purpose requires that the campus continue to be… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota: powering the Internet of Things and making magic through collaboration
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota of the Networks & Mobile Systems Lab recently shared with Medium details about the development of Passive Wi-Fi—the breakthrough technology that could usher in a new era of mobile computing and power the Internet of Things—with industry blog Inside Frequency Control.
In the interview, Gollakota talked about how Passive Wi-Fi could eliminate power consumption as a barrier to creating a truly smart environment in which every device and every object can communicate. He… Read more →
UW students set sail with Microsoft
Last night, Microsoft treated UW students who will join the company this year as either full-time employees or interns to a dinner cruise on Lake Union and Lake Washington. More than 60 of the more than 100 UW recruits heading to Microsoft this year—the majority from CSE—joined in the fun, including a spectacular Seattle sunset.
Thanks to Microsoft for its continuing support of UW CSE and our students! (And special thanks to our phenomenal Microsoft recruiter, Becky Tucker!)
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UW Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture: General Kevin Chilton on deterrence in the 21st century
The UW Tech Policy Lab will welcome General Kevin Chilton, retired head of U.S. Strategic Command, to campus next week as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. General Chilton will address the topic “Deterrence in the 21st Century: From Nuclear, to Space, to Cyberspace.”
General Chilton served for nearly 35 years as a member of the U.S. Air Force. As Commander of U.S. Strategic Command from 2007 until his retirement in 2011, he directed planning and operations… Read more →
UW CSE’s Austin Stromme wins Goldwater Scholarship
UW sophomore Austin Stromme, who is pursuing a double major in computer science and mathematics, has been selected as a 2016 Goldwater Scholar.
Stromme worked with professor James Lee of UW CSE’s Theory group last year on graph theoretic methods in computational linear algebra. Currently, he is working with math professor Jim Morrow on the use of discrete harmonic cohomology modules to understand the geometry of boundary graphs, and with Ph.D. student Matthew Junge to analyze the frog… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao wins 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao, an expert in brain-computer interfaces, has been recognized with a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Rao, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, was chosen based on his past achievements and exceptional potential to make future contributions in the field of neuroscience. He is the third UW CSE faculty member to receive this prestigious award.
The Guggenheim Fellowship is designed for mid-career scientists, scholars and artists… Read more →
UW CSE’s Krittika D’Silva named Gates Cambridge Scholar
UW senior Krittika D’Silva has been named a 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar, one of the most prestigious international scholarships in the world. D’Silva, who will graduate from the UW this June with a degree in computer engineering and bioengineering, will pursue her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Cambridge’s Jesus College starting in the fall.
D’Silva currently works with UW CSE professor Luis Ceze in the Molecular Information Systems Lab, where she is assisting the development… Read more →
UW and Microsoft researchers create system to store and retrieve digital images using DNA
Researchers from the UW’s Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) have created one of the first systems that uses DNA molecules to store digital images — and successfully demonstrated the ability to retrieve the encoded images intact.
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze, joint CSE and EE professor Georg Seelig, CSE affiliate faculty members Doug Carmean and Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research, CSE Ph.D. student James Bornholt, and BioE Ph.D. student Randolph Lopez are the authors of an ASPLOS… Read more →
Bill Howe explains the technology behind the Panama Papers leak
UW CSE affiliate professor Bill Howe, associate director of the UW’s eScience Institute, was interviewed for a USA Today story on the recent Panama Papers leak. Howe explained the way in which today’s data science tools—from low-cost cloud services to easily available translation and data mining software—made it possible to rapidly untangle and analyze the contents of more than 11 million documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
From the article:
“Dealing with a data drop like the… Read more →