DawgBytes – “A Taste of CSE,” UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program – will be hosting one-day midwinter break workshops for high school students on February 16 and 20.
Learn more here.
Learn more about the wide range of DawgBytes here.; lots of news on the DawgBytes Facebook page here.… Read more →
Qi Lu and Harry Shum @ UW CSE
Qi Lu and Harry Shum, two of the four engineering members of Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team, spent the day at UW CSE today participating in a wide variety of research interactions.
In the photo, Qi and Harry join Ed Lazowska in the wetlab housing a joint project between UW (principally Luis Ceze and Georg Seelig) and Microsoft Research (principally Doug Carmean and Karin Strauss) concerning extremely high density DNA-based data storage.… Read more →
UW CSE Women’s Research Day, Saturday January 23
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.
Facebook page here.… Read more →
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?
Learn more here.… Read more →
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 →