“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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Seattle Times: “Supporters of interim president Ana Mari Cauce say look no further for UW’s next leader”
“Can this most casual of women be a strong president of a major university? Lazowska, the computer-science professor, thinks she can.
“The day after she was named interim president, Cauce gave a town hall address to the faculty, one that had been scheduled months in advance. She was still speaking as the provost, but she was soon to wear the mantle of president.
“Here’s what Lazowska heard that day in February:
“‘Every bit of it was a president speaking. She… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gail Murphy elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1996 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gail Murphy – Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia, and co-founder and Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Class of 2015.
Gail’s research interests are in software engineering with a particular interest in improving the productivity of knowledge workers, including software developers. Her UW… Read more →
“Great with math; spelling, not so much”
York University (near Toronto) plasters commuter trains with advertisements stating “THIS IS ENGINERING.”
Unfortunately, yes, it is …… Read more →
NY Times: “Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood”
Nick Wingfield writes in the New York Times:
“Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
“There were the obvious features, like a roadside assistance service that communicates to a satellite. But Dr. Patel, a computer science professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, flipped up the hood to show the real brains of the operation: the engine control unit, a computer attached to the side… Read more →
UW CSE’s Sam Elliott wins Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Project Award
UW CSE Ph.D. student Sam Elliott was recently recognized by ScotlandIS, the trade association representing Scotland’s digital technologies industry, with the Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Project Award. Sam accepted the award last week at an event in Edinburgh celebrating the 26th annual Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards, which recognize the best undergraduate software projects nominated by universities across Scotland.
Sam received the award for his bachelor’s dissertation project, A Concurrency System for Idris and Erlang,… Read more →
6-course Machine Learning Specialization from Coursera, UW, Dato
We’re thrilled to announce a new 6-course Machine Learning Specialization available on Coursera, taught by faculty from UW CSE and UW Statistics, and offered in conjunction with UW CSE startup Dato.
Course 1 – “Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach” – begins on September 22.
Course 2 – “Regression” – starts in November.
Course 3 – “Classification” – starts in December.
Course 4 – “Clustering & Retrieval” – starts in February.
Course 5 – “Recommender Systems & Dimensionality Reduction”… Read more →