“‘It always comes back to what you are passionate about,’ said Mr. Allen, 62. Through philanthropy, he said, ‘you are transmitting your hopes, and keeping them going in the future.'”
Oren Etzioni – UW CSE professor and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence – is quoted.
Terrific article – read it here.… Read more →
UW’s eScience Institute to co-lead new big data innovation hub
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that the University of Washington – a recognized leader in data management and visualization and data-intensive discovery – will co-lead the new Big Data Regional Innovation Hub for the western United States. Members of the UW’s eScience Institute and UW CSE faculty will partner with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and UC Berkeley on the new initiative, which is one of four university-led hubs established by NSF to catalyze big data… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family among Seattle Magazine’s “Most Influential People of 2015”
The November issue of Seattle Magazine contains its annual list of “Seattle’s Most Influential People” – a list that was particularly kind to UW CSE friends and family this year. Among those recognized:
“Nurturing Knowledge” – Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft
“Game Changer” – Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington
“Leading the Causes” – Paul G. Allen, Benefactor
“Package Deal” – Amazon
“The Trailblazer” – David Brewster, Civic Activist
“Sick Leave” – Chris… Read more →
The Most Common Job in Each State
Here’s a terrific interactive map produced by NPR’s “Planet Money” based on US Bureau of Labor Statistics data. It shows the most common job in each state, biennially from 1978 through 2014.
As of 2014, in Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Virginia, it’s “Software Developer.” (In the majority of the states, it’s “Truck Driver.”
Check it out here! And think about what we need to do in order to sustain this advantage, and ensure that our own kids are the… Read more →
Catch part two of “Lunch Break” featuring UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska
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 →