A video illustrating UW CSE Ph.D. student Ricardo Martin’s AMAZING research on “Time-Lapse Mining from Internet Photos” has been nominated for a Vizzie award from the National Science Foundation.
Vote for the Ricardo of your choice, but vote! HERE!… Read more →
UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos in the WSJ: “Time to start getting acquainted with our digital alter egos”
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos recently penned a column for The Wall Street Journal envisioning a not-too-distant future in which machine learning will enable us to build and control a digital model of ourselves, transforming how we approach everything from shopping, to job-hunting, to finding a mate.
From the column:
“Entrusting your money to a bank once seemed strange and risky. Similarly, entrusting all of your data to a company and letting its algorithms build a detailed model of you… Read more →
“Where Does Technological Innovation Come From?”
Many thanks to Nathan Myhrvold for providing a deeply substantive rebuttal to a nonsensical Wall Street Journal piece by Matt Ridley. Nathan writes, in email:
Matt Ridley wrote a recent piece in the WSJ (to promote a new book) arguing that basic science has nothing to do with technology and that the government should stop funding it. It’s natural for writers to want to come out with a contrarian piece that reverses all conventional wisdom, but it tends to work… Read more →
“Dear GeekWire: A coding bootcamp is not a replacement for a computer science degree”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska responds to an article in GeekWire by Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering Daily, titled “Coding bootcamps question the need for computer science degrees.”
“One of the many great things about the tech industry is that it creates all kinds of jobs for all kinds of people with all kinds of preparation.
“But students, their parents, and adults seeking to re-direct their careers shouldn’t kid themselves about what sort of preparation is most likely to lead to… Read more →
Loki Lego Launcher girls visit UW CSE
In September, our friends at GeekWire reported an amazing feat by Seattle Country Day School students Kimberly and Rebecca Yeung (ages 8 and 10, respectively): launching a weather balloon filled with helium and equipped with a flight computer, two GoPro cameras, and a picture of their cat next to a Lego R2-D2 (the “Loki Lego Launcher”) to a height of 78,000 feet, and recovering it next to a cow pie in Stratford, WA. Read the terrific GeekWire article here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Nell O’Rourke to address Rising Stars workshop at MIT
UW CSE Ph.D. candidate Nell O’Rourke will be a featured speaker at the annual Rising Stars career-building workshop for women in computer science and electrical engineering. More than 60 promising graduate students and postdocs from around the world will gather at MIT next week for a series of research talks, career advice and networking aimed at supporting young female scholars interested in pursuing careers in academia.
Nell, who works with professor Zoran Popović in UW CSE’s Center for Game Science… Read more →
Amazon Catalyst: Inspiring grassroots innovation at UW
Today our friend and neighbor Amazon announced Amazon Catalyst, a grant program to inspire grassroots innovation at the University of Washington.
The program is open to all members of the UW community – all people, all fields.
It’s a partnership with huge potential! Thank you Amazon!
Learn more here.
GeekWire here. Seattle Times here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, Franzi Roesner and Tamara Denning co-author policy primer on augmented reality
UW CSE professors Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner and Ph.D. alum Tamara Denning (now on the faculty at the University of Utah) are among the lead authors of a new white paper that examines policy issues associated with emerging augmented reality technologies. The paper is the first of its kind published by the UW’s Tech Policy Lab, which brings together faculty and students from UW CSE, the School of Law, the iSchool and other units on campus to explore… Read more →
Seattle Times on UW faculty unionization effort
The Seattle Times reports opinions pro and con on the effort by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to unionize UW’s faculty. The article quotes CSE’s Ed Lazowska, and references a website created by Lazowska and Chemistry professor Paul Hopkins. Read the article here.
CampusReform.org focuses on the con, again quoting Lazowska. Read the article here.
A complex issue. While individual UW CSE faculty members have opinions and voice them, UW CSE itself is careful to express… Read more →
UW CSE alum Brandon Lucia recognized for “Valor” at OOPSLA 2015
UW CSE alum Brandon Lucia (Ph.D., ’13), now on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, collected a Distinguished Paper Award and a Distinguished Artifact Award at OOPSLA 2015 last week for the paper, “Valor: Efficient, Software-Only Region Conflict Exceptions.”
Valor is a novel, software-only region conflict detection analysis that achieves high performance by eliminating the costly analysis on each read operation required by previous approaches. Existing techniques either modify hardware or slow programs dramatically, precluding always-on use. As the … Read more →