Category: News

• Panama Papers Leak

  

  USA Today quoted eScience Associate Director Bill Howe  in an April 5th article about the 11.5 million documents recently leaked from a Panamanian law firm pertaining to hidden offshore accounts and business transactions. Howe notes that cloud computing as well as openly available software for translation, indexing, and data mining now make quick work of…

• Community-level data science and its spheres of influence: beyond novelty squared

  

  Brittany Fiore-Gartland and Anissa Tanweer Data science has many characterizations, but in academia it is often talked about as pushing the limits of both methodological and domain science, what Josh Bloom, a Professor of Astronomy at U.C. Berkeley, has referred to as “novelty squared”. Bloom sees this as the “great challenge of modern interdisciplinary scientific…

• Mayor Murray Signs Historic Open Data Executive Order

  

  On February 26th, Mayor Ed Murray signed an Executive Order instituting a new open data policy for all City of Seattle departments. Bill Howe, Associate Director of the eScience Institute, noted, “The City’s leadership in instituting this transformative new policy — one that balances the need for open data with the critical sensitivities around privacy,…

• A New Innovation Model for the 21st Century

  

  eScience Institute Founding Director Ed Lazowska, Senior Data Science Fellow Tom Daniel, and other UW leaders recently wrote an article describing how the “University of Washington…can serve as a model for research institutions across the country“. They highlight four UW campus institutes that, with support from the Washington Research Foundation, are pursuing cutting-edge research in…

• Call for Proposals – 2022 Data Science for Social Good

  

  WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR UW DSSG 2022. CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT.  Program Overview The UW eScience Institute opened applications on January 4, 2022 for the eighth offering of the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program, which will run from June 13 to August 19, 2022.  This is an opportunity to…

• Bingni Brunton awarded Sloan Fellowship for early-career research

  

  Excerpt from James Urton, UW Today article Four faculty members at the University of Washington been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 23, include Bingni Brunton, assistant professor of biology; Christopher Laumann, assistant professor of physics; Matthew McQuinn, assistant professor of astronomy; and Emina Torlak, assistant…

• Data Science Poster Session Draws Crowds

  

  The eScience Institute hosted a very successful and well-attended Data Science Poster and Networking Session in Mary Gates Hall Commons on February 10th, 2016. As the second (soon to be annual) event of its kind, this session drew participants from over 25 different departments and organizations from across the UW campus and beyond. Anyone engaged…

• Studying The Ocean From Within

  

  A technological door has opened on studying the ocean from within.

• UW Approves Master of Science in Data Science

  

  We’re extremely pleased to announce that UW’s Board of Regents has granted approval for a new Master of Science in Data Science program. Scheduled to begin in fall of 2016, and offering full- and part-time options geared towards working professionals, the 45-credit program will be held on UW’s main campus in Seattle with admissions managed…

• The eScience Institute is Hiring a Grants Manager

  

  The eScience Institute is pleased to announce that we have an outstanding opportunity for a Grants Manager that will independently manage all fiscal components of the eScience Institute. About you: You enjoy a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are capable of handling multiple projects with competing deadlines efficiently and effectively and you find it rewarding…