Research Updates
April 21, 2017
Jason Yip made FINALIST for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award 2017. Way to go, Professor Yip! He also had a workshop accepted to the 2017 IDC (16th Interaction Design and Children Conference), to be held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California from June 27th to 30th. His is the Workshop...
April 14, 2017
Jacob O. Wobbrock gave an invited research talk on Ability-Based Design at the University of Michigan School of Information on March 21, 2017. The talk was part of UM’s MISC speaker series. The MISC Group is a multi-departmental group patterned directly after our DUB Group. Wobbrock also...
April 7, 2017
Bill Howe, Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Ed Lazowska, and Shrainik Jain, a Ph.D. student in CSE who led the project, won one of four awards for reproducibility for their SIGMOD paper, SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment. ... Susan Hildreth’s March 2017 saw her...
March 31, 2017
Bill Howe has lots to share! First, he gave a talk about data science education at the UW as part of his role on a National Academy of Sciences roundtable on postsecondary data science education. And he had three paper acceptances: LaraDB: A Minimalist Kernel for Linear and Relational Algebra...
March 24, 2017
Annie Searle served as a featured speaker at “The Great Conversation: Security Risk Management in 2017” conference, which took place at Seattle’s Bell Harbor Conference Center March 6th to 7th. Her topic was “Linking Enterprise Risk Management to Organizational Value.” More...
March 10, 2017
Li Zeng successfully defended her General Exam on March 8th! Congratulations to Li whose area of focus is the intersection between social media studies and machine learning in the growing field of computational social science. Thanks also to her supervisory committee: Emma Spiro (Chair), Josh...
March 3, 2017
Wan-Chen Lee successfully passed her General Exam on February 13! Congratulations to Wan-Chen who answered questions related to classification theory, cultural warrant, and field sites as understood in ethnographic work. Thanks also go to her supervisory committee: Carole Palmer, Nic Weber,...