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 →
UW rocks in “Best Paper” awards!
Brown University computer science professor Jeff Huang maintains a list of “Best Paper” awards at the major computer science conferences, going back to 1996. The list displays the award papers at each conference for each year, and the total number of award papers from each institution (with appropriate treatment of papers with co-authors from multiple institutions).
The 2015 update has just been posted.
UW has always ranked well … but we are now the #1 academic institution – bested… Read more →
UW CSE launches Digital Financial Services Research Group to accelerate innovative banking solutions for developing regions
UW CSE revolutionized data collection and analysis in low-resource settings with the creation of the Open Data Kit (ODK), a suite of free, open-source mobile tools. ODK – a project spearheaded by the late professor Gaetano Borriello – has been deployed in more than 40 countries to monitor elections, to conserve natural resources, to track health care outcomes, and much more.
Now, UW CSE is poised to do for money management what we did for data with the launch of… Read more →
UW CSE’s Martin Tompa welcomes students to weekly Schnapsen-fest
UW CSE professor Martin Tompa welcomed “a veritable horde” of undergraduate students to the first weekly Schnapsen game of the winter quarter. Schnapsen is the national card game of Austria, which Tompa uses to illustrate many probability topics in his CSE 312 course. Tompa published the definitive guide to winning at Schnapsen last September.
The very active UW Schnapsen Club provided pizza and hand-made cookies in the shapes of the Austrian card suits. Club members partnered with novice Schnapsen players… Read more →
UW CSE’s Aditya Vashistha wins Facebook Graduate Fellowship
Aditya Vashistha, a third-year Ph.D. student working in the Information & Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) Lab led by UW CSE professor Richard Anderson, has been selected as a Facebook Graduate Fellow for 2016-2017. The highly competitive program is designed to support emerging leaders who demonstrate the potential to advance Facebook’s mission of making the world more open and connected.
Social media platforms play an essential role in people’s lives, and they are an increasingly vital tool for… Read more →
Doug Walker, 1950-2015
We remember Doug Walker, a long-time friend of UW CSE and co-founder in 1981 of WRQ, a top-20 software company in its day. Doug went missing Thursday afternoon while snowshoeing with friends on Granite Mountain in the Cascades, and was found dead on Friday by a search and rescue team.
It’s impossible to convey what Doug (always along with his wife Maggie) has meant to the Seattle community. Obviously WRQ. Philanthropy – to the University of Washington, the Seattle Parks… Read more →
UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos talks to the Seattle Times about the future of work
Economics columnist Jon Talton wrote an interesting piece for the Seattle Times exploring how our economy has changed and the complexion of the future job market given globalization, automation and the rise of the “gig economy,” among other forces that are reshaping how people work and live. UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos provided his take on the potentially radical changes in store, a topic to which he gave much thought in writing his recent book, The Master Algorithm.
From… Read more →
UW CSE generates three of the 10 “Best of UW” news stories of 2015
We love data here at UW CSE – especially when it makes us look good. And we’re looking pretty good as 2015 comes to a close: according to our friends in UW’s Office of News & Information, UW CSE research inspired three of their 10 most viewed news stories over the past year. So join us in raising a toast to the amazing year that was – and to our amazing faculty and students!
Here are the ways UW CSE… Read more →
UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering scores major NSF funding to reanimate paralyzed limbs
The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, led by UW CSE professor Raj Rao, will receive $16 million over the next four years from the National Science Foundation to support the development of implantable devices that will enable patients who have suffered stroke or spinal cord injury to move again. The new funding will enable CSNE to continue its groundbreaking work on bi-directional brain-computer interfaces that interpret and wirelessly transmit brain signals across damaged regions of the nervous system.… Read more →