Washington Monthly’s College Guide and Rankings ranks four-year colleges in America on “three measures that would make the whole system better, if only schools would compete on them.” The first is upward mobility: Are schools enrolling and graduating students of modest means and charging them a reasonable price? The second is research: Are they preparing undergraduates to earn PhDs, and creating the new technologies and ideas that will drive economic growth and advance human knowledge? The third is service: Are… Read more →
Paul G. Allen receives 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
UW CSE friend and benefactor Paul G. Allen will receive a 2015 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
The Carnegie Medal goes to those who use their private wealth to improve the greater public good. Paul was selected for his work to protect the oceans, fight Ebola, save endangered species, help expand educational opportunities for girls, research the human brain and support the arts, according to the Carnegie statement.
Plus, of course, there’s our building …
Congratulations Paul!
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UW eScience Institute’s data science do-gooders featured in Xconomy
“What did you do on your summer vacation?” is a common refrain as students and faculty return to campus. For the students who took part in the UW eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good program, they can honestly say they spent their summer trying to make the world a better place – and they did it with data.
DSSG gave students from a range of disciplines the opportunity to work with data scientists and public stakeholders to apply the… Read more →
Justine Sherry wins Best Student Paper Award at SIGCOMM 2015
2010 UW CSE bachelors alum Justine Sherry – now completing her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley – is first author on this year’s Best Student Paper at SIGCOMM 2015, the premier conference in computer networking.
The paper – “Rollback-Recovery for Middleboxes” – is part of Justine’s Berkeley thesis work. Network middleboxes must offer high availability, with automatic failover when a device fails. Unlike routers, when middleboxes fail they most recover lost state about active network connections to perform… Read more →
A super summer of UW CSE computer science day camps for K-12 students!
This week marked 2015’s 9th and final UW CSE summer computer science day camp for K-12 students.
During the week of June 29 we hosted a co-ed camp for students entering grades 3-5 for “Scratch Adventures,” and a co-ed camp for students entering grades 10-12 for “Physical Computing.”
During the week of July 6 we again hosted “Physical Computing.”
During the weeks of July 20 and August 10 we hosted students entering grades 7-9 for “Building Android Apps.”
During the… Read more →
Summer 2015 Google Faculty Research Awards
Another great performance by UW CSE faculty and alums in the most recent Google Faculty Research Awards:
Human-Computer Interaction
UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and former Creative Director of the UW Center for Game Science) Seth Cooper (Northeastern University)
UW CSE affiliate professor Sean Munson (UW Human Centered Design & Engineering)
UW CSE affiliate professor and Ph.D. grandchild Jessica Hullman (UW Information School, and the University of Michigan Ph.D. alum of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Eytan Adar)
Networking
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UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher in Wired: “Think twice about what you’re plugging into your car”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher, of 60 Minutes car hacking fame, is in the news once again for exposing the vulnerabilities of motor vehicle systems with a team at University of California, San Diego, where he is doing a postdoc with UCSD CSE professors and UW CSE Ph.D. alums Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker.
This time, Karl and his fellow researchers demonstrate for Wired magazine and the USENIX security conference a new threat for motorists: common plug-in devices… Read more →
UW CSE postdoc alum Alexandra Meliou wins NSF CAREER Award
Alexandra Meliou, an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst who completed a postdoc under the guidance of UW CSE professor Dan Suciu in 2012, has earned the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award.
Alexandra’s research focuses on reverse-engineering data transformations to understand, diagnose and manipulate data. She is interested in enhancing data management systems to compute and use data provenance information to identify errors, diagnose the causes of errors, and improve data quality. Learn more about her NSF-supported… Read more →
The Wall Street Journal “hearts” UW CSE alum Brandon Ballinger’s new app
The Wall Street Journal has a great article on UW CSE bachelor’s alum Brandon Ballinger (’06) and his new heart rate tracking app, Cardiogram. Brandon, who is currently working as a data scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, built the app to assist researchers with gathering data for UCSF’s Health eHeart study. But first, he decided to test the app on two things that are near and dear to many people’s hearts: Mexican food and Game of Thrones.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos and Abe Friesen capture top prize at IJCAI with “magical” new algorithm
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos and Ph.D. student Abe Friesen brought home the Distinguished Paper Award from the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) last month in Buenos Aires.
Pedro and Abe developed a new algorithm, Recursive Decomposition into locally Independent Subspaces (RDIS), capable of solving a broad class of nonconvex optimization problems. The duo demonstrated that RDIS significantly outperforms standard optimization techniques when applied to complex problems such as protein folding and mapping three-dimensional space from two-dimensional… Read more →