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 →
UW CSE 2015 new hires – 8 phenomenal additions!
UW CSE continues its phenomenal record in hiring!
The addition of Ras Bodik – formerly a full professor at UC Berkeley – builds on other recent hires to give UW what is arguably the top programming languages group in the world.
Sham Kakade – formerly at Microsoft Research New England – augments other faculty in machine learning in CSE and other departments to make UW a true powerhouse in this critically important field.
Kurtis Heimerl, a UW CSE bachelors alum… Read more →
AI breakthrough by Allen Institute and UW: GeoS system matches student performance on 11th grade SAT geometry problems
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) today announced a significant breakthrough in AI research in the form of GeoS, a new AI system that is capable of solving SAT geometry problems as well as the average American 11th grade student through a combination of visual processing and textual analysis. The creation of GeoS was led by AI2, in collaboration with UW faculty and students with expertise in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and computer vision at the University… Read more →
Check out the latest from DawgBytes!
DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), UW CSE’s vibrant K-12 outreach program, has just concluded a summer of daycamps for elementary, middle school, and high school students, and the 9th year of our CS4HS teacher workshop. The academic year will be just as exciting. Check it out here!… Read more →
UW CSE to host Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings vs. QANTA in trivia showdown
It’s man vs. machine when Ken Jennings, a former UW student and the most successful Jeopardy! player of all time, returns to campus to take on QANTA, a cutting-edge computer question-answering system, in a quiz bowl showdown. UW CSE is hosting the event at Kane Hall on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus on Friday, October 2.
This is not the first time Jennings has gone head-to-CPU with a computer: he came in second on Jeopardy! – which… Read more →
Join the quest for the “Master Algorithm” with UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos is generating considerable buzz with his new book, The Master Algorithm, “a popular science romp through one of today’s hottest scientific topics.” In the book, Pedro explores how machine learning is increasingly shaping the way we live and what he and his colleagues are doing to find the “Master Algorithm” – the ultimate learning algorithm that will be able to do what we want before we even have to ask.
UW Today has a… Read more →
The University of Washington: One of the 5 most innovative universities in the world
Stanford…MIT…Harvard…University of Washington!
That’s right, UW is ranked #4 among the most innovative universities in the world according to Reuters, which examined hundreds of universities and ranked them based on the strength of their research and patent activity. In its assessment of UW’s performance, Reuters noted our competitiveness for federal research funding (UW consistently dominates among public institutions), the number of students pursuing STEM majors (roughly 37% of the entire student body), and our record-high commercialization activity.
From Reuters’ announcement:… Read more →
UW’s wearable sensor technology featured in GeekWire
Earlier this month, we reported on MagnifiSense, a new low-power, wearable sensor system that tracks an individual’s usage of various devices that was developed by a team of UW CSE and EE researchers in the Ubiquitous Computing Lab led by professor Shwetak Patel.
Today, GeekWire published an excellent article showcasing MagnifiSense that quotes Shwetak and EE graduate student Edward Wang, who presented the team’s research at UbiComp 2015 in Osaka, Japan last week.
From the article:
“The coolest… Read more →