Bill Howe will be in Madison for the Thursday, February 7, 2019 Weston Roundtable, please join us for an informal brown bag (pizza
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provided) to discuss his research interests in data management, curation, analytics, and visualization in the sciences.
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An Associate Professor in the Information School and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science &
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Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Howe was Founding Associate Director of the University of Washington
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eScience Institute, where he played a leadership role in the Data Science Environment program through a $32.8 million grant
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awarded jointly to University of Washington, NYU, and UC Berkeley, and founded University of Washington’s Data Science for Social
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Good Program. With support from the MacArthur Foundation and Microsoft, Howe directs University of Washington’s participation
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in the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, where he focuses on responsible data science. He founded the University of
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Washington Data Science Masters Degree, serving as its inaugural Program Chair, and created a first MOOC on data science that
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attracted over 200,000 students. His research has been featured in the Economist and Nature News. He has a Ph.D. in Computer
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Science from Portland State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.
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All are welcome; the courtesy of an RSVP is requested by February 4 ensure a correct lunch count (mbright@cows.org).