A new City of Seattle video highlights a “Smart Cities” urban data science partnership between the city and the University of Washington. UW CSE’s Anat Caspi, Bill Howe, and Ed Lazowska are featured in the video, as well as a host of researchers from the UW eScience Institute, which is spearheading the initiative on the UW end.
Watch the video here.… Read more →
Join UW CSE faculty, students and Rosie the Robot in celebrating Computer Science Education Week!
Each year, UW CSE throws open the doors of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering to middle and high school students and their families as part of Computer Science Education Week. This year, students and parents are invited to join us on Saturday, December 5th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm at our computing open house, which features interactive demonstrations and hands-on activities that celebrate the wonderful world of computing.
Try your hand at games for… Read more →
UW CSE students compete in ACM’s International Collegiate Programming Contest
Five teams of UW CSE students competed at the Pacific Northwest regional for the ACM’s annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) last weekend. Once again, our students made a strong showing, sweeping the top five spots at the Puget Sound competition site and holding their own against some formidable opponents from other top institutions in the broader regional contest. Twelve CSE undergraduates and three graduate students participated.
Puget Sound was one of six sites that determined which teams from the… Read more →
UW’s “Power Over WiFi” named a top innovation of 2015 by Popular Science
Researchers from UW CSE and EE announced in June that they had developed Power Over WiFi, “PoWiFi” for short, to harvest energy from Wi-Fi routers to wirelessly power devices. The technology, which has appeared in MIT Technology Review, Wired, BBC News, and several other media outlets, was chosen this week as one of Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New 2015” – a list of the top 100 innovations that the magazine believes will shape the future and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Alvin Cheung wins Sprowls Award from MIT
UW CSE professor Alvin Cheung was honored by his alma mater this week with the George M. Sprowls Award, which recognizes the most outstanding Ph.D. theses in computer science submitted to MIT each year.
Cheung received the award for his dissertation titled “Rethinking the Application-Database Interface,” in which he puts forward a novel approach for optimizing the performance of applications that interact with database management systems (DBMSs). Cheung showed that real-world applications are sped up by multiple orders… Read more →
Let’s lead the nation in Hour of Code participation!
Can Washington State lead the nation in Hour of Code participation in 2015?
A message to the state’s students, parents, teachers, and superintendents from the Governor’s STEM Education Innovation Alliance, on which UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska serves, reads:
I’m contacting you with an exciting opportunity for Washington’s students – to lead the nation in Hour of Code participation. Students are guaranteed to have FUN while learning the building blocks of computer science.
WHY: Every time we check a text on… Read more →
Happy 90th Birthday, Bill Gates Sr.!
UW CSE was honored to host a very special gathering this morning to celebrate the contributions of Bill Gates Sr. to our university, the community, the world, and countless lives on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Bill is a UW double-alum (Bachelors and Law School), a giant in the legal profession and in the community, and long-time co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Throughout his life, Bill has been hands-on in his support for education, reproductive and… Read more →
Vote for UW CSE’s Nanocrafter to win a Vizzie!
We’re so good we’re competing against ourselves! Not only is Ph.D. student Ricardo Martin nominated in the Video category for time-lapse mining from internet photos, but Nanocrafter, the game developed by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science to advance synthetic biology research, is nominated in the Interactive category.
While theoretically only one can win the “People’s Choice” award, we are hoping there will be a tie and both UW CSE projects will be able to share bragging rights… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Igor Mordatch and his “robot toddler” featured in MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review recently published a nice article about robotics research led by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Igor Mordatch, who worked with UW CSE professor Emo Todorov in the Movement Control Laboratory before taking up a postdoc position with Pieter Abbeel at UC Berkeley. Igor is the lead researcher on a project in which Darwin, a humanoid robot with simulated neural networks, learns how to move by “imagining” how to do it, and to adjust its movements based on… Read more →
UW CSE’s René Just earns ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2015
UW CSE is a recognized powerhouse in software engineering research. Our strength was once again on display at ASE 2015, the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, where postdoc René Just captured the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for the paper, “Do Automatically Generated Unit Tests Find Real Faults? An Empirical Study of Effectiveness and Challenges.”
Just and colleagues at the University of Sheffield and University of Luxembourg analyzed the effectiveness of three automated unit… Read more →