UW CSE alum and soon-to-be faculty member Kurtis Heimerl (UW CSE B.S. ’07, UC Berkeley Ph.D. ’13) co-founded startup company Endaga to help under-served communities in remote areas of the world to build small-scale, independent cellular networks that they own and run themselves. The company – which was spun out of UC Berkeley, where Kurtis completed his Master’s, Ph.D. and postdoc working with another UW CSE alum, Tapan Parikh (Ph.D., ’07) – epitomizes the potential for technology to meaningfully improve… Read more →
UW CSE news “back to school” edition
Classes started this week on the beautiful UW campus – and in K-12 schools across the region. To mark the occasion, UW CSE professor James Fogarty and his son posed for the traditional back-to-school photo.
As James said, “Excited for the first day of classes. Awesome staff, awesome students. Let’s make stuff!”
Welcome back, everyone – we hope you had a great first week!… Read more →
Friends of UW CSE take to the high seas!
Well, it was actually more of a drifting match, but a good time was had by all!
Spencer Rascoff, Michael and Cari Schutzler, Rob Short, Brad Smith, and John and Patti Torode join Tom Alberg, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, and Judy Mahoney aboard Tom’s 77′ sloop Cascadia for a lovely evening on Puget Sound!
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Study rates UW CSE software engineering research most practically relevant of the past five years
A UW CSE research paper on proactive conflict detection, part of the speculative analysis project led by professors Michael Ernst and David Notkin, was rated the most practically relevant software engineering research of the last five years in a recent industrial relevance study.
The study, which was conducted by Microsoft Research and Singapore Management University, asked more than 500 software developers to rate the relevance of 571 research papers in order to determine how relevant software engineering… Read more →
Washington Post: “Paul Allen’s $500 million quest to dissect the mind and code a new one from scratch”
A phenomenal Washington Post article on Paul Allen’s attempt to understand the human mind, working from two directions: the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (led by UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni).
“Paul Allen has been waiting for the emergence of intelligent machines for a very long time. As a young boy, Allen spent much of his time in the library reading science-fiction novels in which robots manage our homes, perform surgery and fly around… Read more →
UW CSE’s Martin Tompa publishes the definitive guide to winning at Schnapsen
When it comes to Schnapsen – the national card game of Austria – UW CSE professor Martin Tompa’s got game. And now the rest of us can, too, with the help of his new book, Winning Schnapsen. Like the title suggests, it is the definitive guide to mastering the 300+ year-old game that enjoys a popular following in continental Europe.
Schnapsen is a two-person card game that has some similarities with another well-known game, Bridge. It is the perfect… Read more →
“UW 360” program highlights the need to expand UW CSE
“UW 360,” a magazine-style television show produced by UW TV that profiles people and programs that define the university, recently aired a segment on the need to significantly expand UW Computer Science & Engineering. The segment, which includes interviews with undergraduate students Awet Alazar and Jessica Tsang, professor Ed Lazowska, and Microsoft recruiter Becky Tucker, highlights the growing demand on the part of students and employers for UW CSE.
As the segment explains, “Awet and Jessica are part… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Chris Re wins MacArthur “Genius” Award
2009 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Chris Ré is one of 24 recipients of 2015 MacArthur Fellowships – colloquially referred to as “genius awards.”
Chris – a student of Dan Suciu – is a star in data management/analysis, currently on the computer science faculty at Stanford. Quoting from the MacArthur Foundation:
“Christopher Ré is a computer scientist democratizing big data analytics through theoretical advances in statistics and logic and groundbreaking data-processing applications for solving practical problems. Ré has leveraged his training… Read more →
UW CSE alum Mark DeLoura trades one Washington for another in support of K-12 computer science education
Last week, UW CSE alum Mark DeLoura (B.S., ’92) joined CSE principal lecturer Stuart Reges as part of a group of stakeholders from across Washington state who are defining new standards for certification of K-12 teachers in computer science – a critical effort aimed at increasing student access to high quality computer science education in our schools.
Mark has held leadership positions at Sony, Nintendo, Google and Ubisoft, to name only a few, and he was instrumental in the development… Read more →
Donald Tsang, again remembered
The many intersecting circles of Donald Tsang’s life celebrated that life today at UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture – including a large number of Donald’s UW CSE graduate student classmates from the early 1990s.
Donald – one of the earliest developers at Amazon.com after his time at UW – passed away unexpectedly on September 2 at age 47, leaving behind his wife Daisy, his two daughters Daniella and Constantina, a large extended family, and an enormous network of friends.
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