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 →
UW’s eScience Institute launches Data Science for Social Good summer program
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 →