We had missed this stupendous talk that Eric Lander (Broad Institute) gave in April at the National Math Festival gala dinner at the Library of Congress:
“There are bills in Congress to ensure the accountability of taxpayer dollars invested in science, to ensure that dollars are stretched efficiently and effectively – I quote from websites here – to ensure ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency.’ There are proposals that the National Science Foundation be required to publish a justification of each and every… Read more →
UW CSE @ Apple
UW CSE professors Dan Grossman and Ed Lazowska plus UW CSE outreach staff Lara Littlefield and Erin Walker engaged in a lunchtime discussion on Friday with some of UW CSE’s alums at Apple: Owen Anderson, Rob Bedichek, Caitlin Bonnar (grad student and summer intern), Susumu Harada, Dave Richardson, Josh Scotland, Peter Stackle, Erik Turnquist, and Jean Wu.
Many thanks to Rob Bedichek for hosting!… Read more →
UW’s Josh Smith and wireless robot recharging featured in The Economist
The latest issue of The Economist asks, “Electronics has already cut the data cord. Can it now cut the power cord as well?” Based in part on the work of CSE and EE professor Joshua Smith, the answer may soon be “yes.” Josh, who heads the UW Sensor Systems Lab, has developed a system for dynamic wireless charging of robots – and started a company, Wibotic, to commercialize the new technology. From the article:
“Drones may one… Read more →
UW CSE Bay Area alumni event – phenomenal!
Nearly 200 UW CSE Bay Area alums turned out on the evening of Thursday June 25 for an event generously hosted by our friends at Twitter.
UW CSE faculty Hank Levy, Ed Lazowska, Luis Ceze, Dan Grossman, Jeff Heer, and Zach Tatlock attended (along with former faculty Bay Area residents Carl Ebeling, Alon Halevy, David Salesin, and Marty Stepp).
Are you a Bay Area alum who didn’t hear about this event? It’s because you don’t check our Bay Area Facebook… Read more →
Trends in the first-choice major of incoming UW freshmen
We’ve just received data on the first-choice major of UW’s Class of 2019 – students who will enter in September 2015.
Interest in CSE among incoming freshmen totally blows away interest in every other major offered by programs in the College of Engineering – triple the second-place major!
Interest in CSE among incoming freshman also blows away every other science major offered by programs in the College of Arts & Sciences – in the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences,… Read more →
Summer camps combine athletics and computer science
A Chicago Tribune article on a new trend: summer athletic camps for youngsters that include computer science as a break between dodgeball and archery:
“Professions from anthropology to zoology are increasingly becoming information fields, so the ability to program a computer for use within a discipline becomes an advantage, said Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
“Lazowska also points to projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which… Read more →
Elson Floyd, March 1 1956 – June 20 2015
Elson Floyd, indeed, “led Washington State University to unparalleled growth and success.”
As UW President Ana Mari Cauce said, “We are all Cougars today.”
Read more here.… Read more →
KUOW: UW CSE recognized for recruiting women to Computer Science
A KUOW interview from last month has finally made it to the web. Ross Reynolds interviews Crystal Eney, UW CSE’s Director of Student Services, about how UW CSE achieved a rate of female enrollment that’s nearly double the national average, which earned recognition from the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Great interview – listen here.… Read more →
UW CSE and the Global Innovation Exchange
Thursday marked the public debut of the Global Innovation Exchange, an exciting partnership between the University of Washington and Tsinghua University, established with $40 million in foundational support from Microsoft.
GIX will bring together students, faculty, professionals and entrepreneurs from around the world to collaborate on real-world technology and design projects. It will be based on a new campus located in Bellevue’s Spring District.
GIX is a long-term play. In the fullness of time there will be many programs.… Read more →
UW CSE’s “art for geeks” nurtures students’ creativity and technical excellence
UW CSE faculty member (and unofficial department photographer) Bruce Hemingway has released his picks among the final projects submitted by students in his Spring 2015 CSE131 course, The Science and Art of Digital Photography.
Interestingly, the major with the greatest number of students enrolled in the course was math, followed by a mix of the sciences, various engineering fields and economics. As Bruce says, it’s “art for geeks!” In total, more than 180 students from 38 different majors or… Read more →