“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 →
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 →