A terrific 8-minute piece on PBS NewsHour describing the research of UW CSE adjunct professor (and UW Biology professor) Tom Daniel:
“Aviation technology continues to evolve, and in recent years, there’s been a big push by both private companies and the military to make more sophisticated pilotless aircraft or drones.
“A new research project led by the University of Washington is part of that effort and it aims to uncover the aeronautical secrets of some of nature’s best designed flyers,… Read more →
CS4HS 2015
This is the 9th year of UW CSE’s CS4HS, a 3-day summer workshop on computer science for middle school and upper school math and science teachers from the Puget Sound region.
In the photos, Tom Cortina, our long-time collaborator from Carnegie Mellon University (co-originator of CS4HS, along with UW and UCLA) walks the teachers through the basics of sorting networks!
Learn all about CS4HS here. Learn about DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), UW CSE’s extensive K-12 outreach program,… Read more →
UW Daily: “CSE applicants at all-time high”
The UW Daily reports on exploding interest in Computer Science & Engineering on the part of UW applicants, incoming freshmen, and current students.
“The number of incoming freshmen choosing CSE as their intended major increased by approximately 900 people this year, with 3,679 applicants total. Of those applicants, 2,264 were admitted to the UW for the 2015-16 academic year, making CSE the second most popular major at UW behind business …
“While applications to the CSE major are at an… Read more →
UW CSE’s GRAPPA wins Best Paper Award at 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
The paper Latency-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory describing UW CSE’s GRAPPA system was recognized today as a Best Paper at the 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
GRAPPA is a modern take on software distributed shared memory (DSM) for in-memory data-intensive applications. GRAPPA enables users to program a cluster as if it were a single, large, non-uniform memory access (NUMA) machine. Performance scales up even for applications that have poor locality and input-dependent load distribution. GRAPPA addresses deficiencies of previous… Read more →
Jake Wobbrock profiled in NY Times
Jake Wobbrock – iSchool professor, CSE adjunct professor, and founding CEO and now chief scientist of AnswerDash, a provider of automated customer service for websites – is profiled in today’s New York Times in the “Corner Office” feature. A few excerpts:
“There’s no genuine opportunity to be a hero without the opportunity to be a goat, too. So if you’re on the free throw line at the end of the basketball game with one second left and two shots… Read more →
UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos, Geoff Hulten win KDD2015 Test of Time Award
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos and his Ph.D. alum Geoff Hulten (now at Microsoft Research) have received the KDD2015 Test of Time Award – presented at the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to a paper from a KDD conference beyond the last decade that has had an important impact on the data mining research community.
KDD is the flagship conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and the top… Read more →
UW CSE’s computer science summer day camps kick off!
This week marked the kickoff of UW CSE’s extensive set of computer science summer day camps for elementary, middle, and high school students.
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 7 we’ll again host “Physical Computing.”
During the weeks of July 21 and August 11 we’ll host students entering grades 7-9 for “Building Android Apps.”
During the… Read more →
Washington State invests in Computer Science education!
All-in-all, the Washington State legislature’s session that draws to a close this week (after its second overtime period – thank god they didn’t have to resort to penalty kicks) was a great one for Computer Science!
With extraordinary leadership from Reps. Drew Hansen and Chad Magendanz, and with strong backing from Code.org, Microsoft, the Washington Tech Industry Association, and many others, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1813, establishing standards for learning and teaching computer science in K-12.
In the… Read more →
The fastest growing AP exam in the past 5 years: Computer Science!
Granted, we had (and still have) a pretty deep hole to climb out of, but between 2010 and 2015, Computer Science AP exams are up by 150% – from 20,000/year to 50,000/year.
This is particularly remarkable since only 5% of schools offer AP Computer Science. Let’s fix that!
Visit the Code.org website here; check out their blog post on AP growth here.… Read more →
What does the founder of a tech startup look like?
What does the founder of a tech startup look like? Not like the photo to on the right!
Claire Cain Miller reports in the New York Times on a study by researchers at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The average founder is 38, with a master’s degree and 16 years of work experience.
And while only 12 percent of current founders are women, when the researchers searched for potential founders based on matches with other characteristics of successful founders, 20… Read more →