UW’s eScience Institute, led by CSE faculty members Bill Howe and Ed Lazowska, kicked off its new summer program, Data Science for Social Good, this week. Focusing on the theme of urban science, the program enables teams of students, faculty and community stakeholders to tap into eScience members’ expertise and powerful data analysis and visualization tools to address issues affecting urban environments, including public health and safety, sustainability, transportation, education and social justice.
Two participating projects have… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dan Grossman receives ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
UW CSE faculty member Dan Grossman was recognized with the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award at yesterday’s ACM SIGPLAN Awards Banquet, which is held each year during the PLDI conference. Dan received the award in recognition of his leadership in developing undergraduate curriculum for programming languages while serving on the steering committee for the ACM IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013. As part of that effort, Dan led a group responsible for rewriting the sections on programming languages from… Read more →
Zorah Fung to join UW CSE faculty
Zorah Fung took UW’s introductory computer science course, CSE142, as an incoming freshman in the fall of 2010. She was surprised to find how much she enjoyed the course. According to Zorah, “CS wasn’t even something on my radar for me to consider until I took the course.” She only signed up for it because she couldn’t get into a psychology class that was full.
Five years later she has received Bachelors and Masters degrees from CSE. Along the way… Read more →
UW CSE awards a record 364 degrees
UW CSE awarded 364 degrees at our department graduation ceremony on Friday evening – an event that was moved this year to Hec Edmundson Pavilion (UW’s basketball stadium) because our students, families, friends, and faculty no longer fit in 1200-seat Meany Theater, UW’s largest auditorium.
234 Bachelors degrees were awarded in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. One third of the Computer Science Bachelors recipients were women – still not nearly at parity, but substantially more than double the national average… Read more →
Tim Paterson, Kevin Jeffay receive 2015 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Awards
At UW CSE’s graduation ceremony on Friday evening, 1978 Bachelors alum Tim Paterson and 1989 Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay will be recognized as the recipients of UW CSE’s 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards.
We inaugurated this award for two purposes: first, to recognize some of our most accomplished alumni; second, to make it clear to each year’s new graduates that they are joining a long line of men and women who have built upon their UW CSE education to change the… Read more →
Microsoft commits $10 million to a second building for UW CSE
At this evening’s UW CSE graduation ceremony, Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith will announce a commitment from the company of $10 million to kick-start a campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering building on the UW campus.
Microsoft’s gift represents the first corporate commitment to a public-private partnership to assemble $110 million in funding to construct a new 130,000-square-foot CSE building. The new facility will provide the capacity needed to double the number of… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska receives UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, received UW’s David B. Thorud Leadership Award at today’s ceremony recognizing the 2015 recipients of the annual UW Awards of Excellence. In the words of the nomination:
“Ed has been a truly extraordinary leader for many years and in many settings – national, regional, institutional, and departmental. I will touch on all four in this letter, but the recent leadership accomplishment that stimulates this nomination is Ed’s… Read more →
Scott Hauck named to Gaetano Borriello Professorship for Educational Excellence
On Thursday, in the run-up to this year’s graduation ceremonies, EE professor (and CSE Ph.D. alum) Scott Hauck was named to the newly-created Gaetano Borriello Professorship for Educational Excellence – a professorship created jointly by EE and CSE to commemorate Gaetano’s enormous contributions.
In nominating Scott to this position, EE chair Radha Poovendran and CSE chair Hank Levy wrote:
“Gaetano joined the University of Washington faculty in 1988, and passed away decades before his time in 2015, following an extended… Read more →
Tea time!
This afternoon, UW CSE graduate student and faculty women took advantage of another ho-hum we’re-so-tired-of-this sunny 80 degree afternoon for a group tea / happy hour that filled the patio of the UW Club.… Read more →
Join UW CSE’s Raj Rao and NBC Learn for a Twitter chat on the mysteries of the brain
On Wednesday, June 10th, CSE professor Raj Rao, director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, will participate in a Twitter chat hosted by NBC Learn as part of its “Mysteries of the Brain” series.
Raj spoke to NBC Learn about brain-computer interfaces as part of a collection of eight videos, produced in partnership with the NSF, that explore the latest research into how the brain works with the help of leading scientists in the… Read more →