A belated post celebrating the second annual UW CSE Women’s Research Day, held on Saturday January 23.
Undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty women from UW CSE, as well as colleagues from regional companies, spent the day in research presentations, panel discussions, lab tours, and a poster session – all celebrating the role of women in the computing research ecosystem in UW CSE and the region.
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NSF CAREER Award to UW CSE’s Shayan Oveis Gharan
UW CSE’s Shayan Oveis Gharan has received an NSF CAREER Award – the 29th UW CSE faculty member to have been recognized through this program and its predecessors.
The NSF CAREER Program “offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.”
Shayan is one of the most recent additions to UW CSE’s Theoretical Computer Science Group. His… Read more →
Computer Science For All
This morning President Obama announced Computer Science For All, a $4 billion initiative to empower all American students from Kindergarten through high school to learn computer science and computational thinking.
Congratulations to Jan Cuny (NSF), Hadi Partovi (Code.org), Megan Smith (US CTO), and the many others who have worked so hard over so many years to get us to this point.
Now the question is: Will Washington State up its game?
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UW computer scientists are working on a way for you to talk to the dead
Advances in computing have disrupted many industries, from financial services and retail, to travel and real estate. Could psychic readings be next?
In a story posted on MyNorthwest.com, KIRO Radio reporter Rachel Belle foresees the day when you will be able to interact with a 3-D model of your dearly departed. And it will all be thanks to members of UW CSE’s GRAIL Group. From the article:
“Five years ago I sat down with my Grandma Sue and a… Read more →
At Davos, Microsoft President Brad Smith highlights UW’s role
At a Davos event hosted by his alma mater Princeton University, Microsoft President Brad Smith used the Seattle Tech Universe map to illustrate “the connection between leading universities and innovation ecosystems, using the University of Washington as an example.”
GeekWire article here. More information on the Seattle Tech Universe map here.… Read more →
Daphne Koller delivers first annual Ben Taskar Memorial Lecture
UW CSE professor Ben Taskar passed away tragically, in his 30’s, in 2013, of sudden and severe heart failure.
UW CSE has commemorated Ben in a number of ways, including the establishment of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, and of the annual Ben Taskar Memorial Lecture.
Today, the inaugural Ben Taskar Memorial Lecture was delivered to a packed house by Ben’s Stanford Ph.D. advisor and founder of Coursera, Daphne Koller.
The event began with remarks honoring… Read more →
AAAI shows UW CSE’s Dieter Fox some love with its Classic Paper Award
A paper co-authored by UW CSE professor Dieter Fox in his graduate student days was one of two papers selected this year for special recognition by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) with its Classic Paper Award, which recognizes papers that have been the most influential in the field. AAAI will show Fox and his colleagues the love during the opening ceremony of its 2016 conference on February 14th in Phoenix, Arizona.
The winning paper, “The … Read more →
Business Insider: Washington’s economy ranks No. 1 in the nation
“We ranked the economies of all the states and DC on seven measures: Unemployment rates; GDP per capital; average weekly wages; recent growth rates for nonfarm payroll jobs; GDP; house prices; and wages,” Business Insider explained.
In ranking Washington state #1, Business Insider said:
“Washington state scored extremely well on most of our metrics. Its Q2 annualized Gross Domestic Product growth was a stunning 8.0 percent, by far the highest among the states and D.C. The November 2015, average weekly… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Anderson talks to KPLU about digital financial services for the developing world
UW CSE professor Richard Anderson recently spoke to KPLU’s Jennifer Wing about our new Digital Financial Services Research Group that was announced last week. The new group, which aims to accelerate the development of secure mobile banking services for people in the developing world, is a collaboration between UW CSE’s Information & Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) Lab, Security and Privacy Research Lab, and the iSchool.
From the radio segment:
“In developing and third-world countries, moving money… Read more →
UW CSE alum Ben Hindman, co-creator of Mesos, wins UW College of Engineering Diamond Award
Each year, the UW College of Engineering honors a select group of alumni for their contributions to the field of engineering and to society with its Diamond Awards. Among the 2016 honorees is CSE alum Ben Hindman (B.S., ’07), Founder of Mesosphere, Inc. – an outgrowth of his graduate work at UC Berkeley – who is recognized with the “Early Career” award.
From the citation:
“Few people outside the tech industry have heard of Apache Mesos, software that provides essential… Read more →