Last week, we shared a video of Brad Anderson, corporate vice president at Microsoft, conducting a lunchtime interview on the go with UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska. That was part one; today, we bring you part two, which covered topics ranging from preparing students to succeed in a technology-driven world, to changing the world through computer science (and many other topics in between).
Watch this week’s episode of Lunch Break here, and check out Brad’s blog… Read more →
UW CSE’s software verification research proves a hot topic at JavaOne
UW CSE professor Michael Ernst and former postdoc Werner Dietl (now a professor at the University of Waterloo) killed it at Oracle’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, delivering three well-received talks that drew upon UW CSE research: “Preventing Errors Before They Happen,” “Collaborative Verification of the Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store” (about the SPARTA project), and “Using Type Annotations to Improve Your Code.”
The common theme of the three talks was lightweight software verification. Ernst,… Read more →
UW CSE accessibility research earns Best Paper accolades at ASSETS 2015
The 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2015) is taking place this week in Lisbon, Portugal, and UW CSE is in the thick of the action. First, Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha captured the Best Student Paper award for “Social Media Platforms for Low-income Blind People in India.” The paper, which presents the first-ever analysis of how visually impaired users in rural and peri-urban India benefit from social media platforms such as Facebook,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Luis Ceze receives Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from CS@Illinois
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze, who earned his Ph.D. in 2007 from the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was recognized by his alma mater with its Distinguished Alumni Educator Award. The award, which is based on nominations by members of the UIUC computer science community, recognizes faculty and alumni “who have made outstanding contributions to computer science education and research, and…who excel at motivating computer science students.”
That certainly describes Luis, who has… Read more →
Seattle Times explores the data-driven commute, with a little help from UW CSE
The Seattle Times published an article yesterday examining how developers are using data to tame traffic and aid commuters in the region. One of the featured apps, OneBusAway, originated as a UW CSE research project to help public transit users plan their trip by providing real-time system information. Another, Access Map, was developed by a team of students advised by UW CSE professor Alan Borning and Anat Caspi, executive director of UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible … Read more →
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science and University of Michigan announce new protein folding challenge
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science has invited players of its popular protein folding game, Foldit, to engage in a little friendly competition with students at the University of Michigan.
After crystallographers in Michigan’s Bardwell Lab solved the structure of a protein, they put off publishing the results in order to give a class of undergraduate biochemistry students a chance to do the same. Knowing the Foldit community loves a good challenge, the Bardwell Lab invited our players to… Read more →
UW CSE alums Jeremy Brudvik and Allen Chen featured in GeekWire’s “Startup Spotlight”
DataBlade, a cloud-based data analytics company co-founded by UW CSE alumni Jeremy Brudvik (B.S., ’08) and Allen Chen (B.S., ’07), was recently profiled by GeekWire as part of its “Startup Spotlight” series. DataBlade, which bills itself as “data insights without the overhead,” is one of 11 emerging companies that make up local incubator Techstars’ class of 2015.
Chen, who is DataBlade’s CEO, identified the company’s secret sauce as, “The strength of our team and the depth… Read more →
Seattle Times reporter visits UW CSE recruiting fair, lives to tell the tale
Seattle Times reporter Rachel Lerman stopped by the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering on Wednesday to witness firsthand the magic and the mayhem that is established company recruiting day for UW CSE students.
As she notes in her article, “It was nearly impossible to walk unimpeded through the huge atrium of the University of Washington’s computer science building Wednesday. The space had been taken over by dozens of booths run by companies hungry for engineering talent,… Read more →
UW CSE featured in national story on strategies to increase gender diversity in computing
An Associated Press story that is being picked up by hundreds of outlets nationwide highlights the efforts of UW CSE and others to recruit and retain more women in the computing field. The article features UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska and students Megan Hopp, Meredith Lampe, Aishwarya Mandyam and Karishma Mandyam sharing their perspectives on what works when it comes to encouraging women to consider a career in computer science.
From the article:
“Last June, 31 percent of UW’s computer… Read more →
Brad Smith at the Seattle Metro Chamber Leadership Conference: “We need a second CSE building at UW”
Microsoft President Brad Smith is an extraordinary civic leader in so many ways – including serving as chair of the committee tasked with raising the private funding for a second building that will enable UW CSE to double its enrollment, responding to student demand, employer demand, and intellectual opportunity.
His message at today’s Seattle Metro Chamber Leadership Conference: “We need a second CSE building at UW.”
Thank you Brad!… Read more →