Each year, the Computing Research Association recognizes stellar undergraduate students throughout North America in its Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards program. This year, three UW CSE students – Krittika D’Silva, Darby Losey and Daryl Zuniga – were cited by CRA for excellence in research as part of its 2016 competition.
Krittika D’Silva, who was named a finalist by CRA, is completing a double major in computer engineering and bioengineering. She worked with the late professor Gaetano Borriello and Ph.D. alum… Read more →
UW CSE helps launch new professional master’s degree program in data science
UW CSE has partnered with the iSchool and the departments of Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and Statistics – under the auspices of the eScience Institute – on the creation of a master’s degree program in the growing field of data science. The new program, which will begin in fall 2016, was developed with input from industry leaders and will combine statistical modeling, machine learning, software engineering, data management and visualization, and user interface design.
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UW CSE faculty star in typically brilliant holiday party skit …
Video here!
(The faculty skits weren’t always “family entertainment” – see, for example, here, in Hank Levy’s basement in the early 1980s.)… Read more →
UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner guides business and civic leaders along “the invisible trail” of online tracking
UW CSE professor Franzi Roesner, co-director of the Security and Privacy Research Lab, delivered a presentation today on the topic of online tracking and smartphone security to an audience of local business and civic leaders as part of the Technology Alliance’s Science & Technology Discovery Series in downtown Seattle.
Roesner’s work is based on the premise that security and privacy issues arise when there is a mismatch between user expectations as to how systems operate and actual systems… Read more →
UW CSE alum Skarpi Hedinsson named CTO of Disney|ABC Television Group
1994 UW CSE bachelors alum Skarpi Hedinsson has been named Chief Technology Officer of Disney|ABC Television Group.
Skarpi’s career path took him from Geoworks to Starwave to ESPN to Disney.
Congratulations Skarpi!
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Think bolder, aim higher: Microsoft Research leader Jeannette Wing at UW CSE
“Think bolder, aim higher.” That’s the message that Jeannette Wing delivered to the world-class scientists and technologists in Microsoft Research, and the message she delivered to a packed lecture hall during the latest installment of UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series.
With more than 1,000 researchers around the globe, Wing likes to describe Microsoft Research as “the largest computer science department in the universe.” During her presentation, Wing talked about MSR’s impact on science, on technology and on society, and… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Brandon Lucia wins 2015 Bell Labs Prize
The Bell Labs Prize is a competition for innovators from around the globe that seeks to recognize proposals that “change the game” in the field of information and communications technologies by a factor of 10.
In the 2015 Bell Labs Prize competition, more than 250 applicants from 33 different contries submitted proposals for consideration. Of those applicants, 17 were selected to move on to the next stage of the competition and were given the chance to collaborate with Bell Labs… Read more →
Scuba diving in the stratosphere: Record-setting space jumper Alan Eustace at UW CSE
Students, faculty and guests packed the Allen Center atrium today to hear former Google executive Alan Eustace tell the exciting story of his world record-setting space jump and the technical challenges he had to overcome to, in his words, “scuba dive in the stratosphere,” as part of UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Eustace broke the altitude record and traveled faster than the speed of sound, reaching 822 miles per hour at one stage of his jump from a balloon… Read more →
Join UW CSE, UW President Ana Mari Cauce and 400+ novice programmers in doing the Hour of Code!
UW CSE has organized a series of events on campus this week to engage UW students and their friends and family members in the Hour of Code, an annual event organized by Code.org to engage people in computer programming. More than 190,000 Hour of Code events are being held around the world to celebrate Computer Science Education Week.
As UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska noted in a column published today in Xconomy:
“CS Ed Week was kind of… Read more →
What makes Tom Hanks look like Tom Hanks? UW CSE researchers can show you!
This week, UW CSE’s GRAIL Group demonstrated the ability to construct digital models of celebrities such as Tom Hanks by applying a novel combination of 3-D face reconstruction, tracking, alignment and multi-texture modeling to photos and videos mined from the Internet. The research team, which includes graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn and professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz, also engaged in some high-tech puppeteering, using footage of one person to control another’s expressions while preserving the latter’s own character.… Read more →