CSE alum Dan Goldman’s paper at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2008), Interactive Video Manipulation, is featured on the front page of digg. See here.

Read his paper here.

ReadWriteWeb staff writer Sarah Perez writes about Zoetrope in Zoetrope: New Web Crawler Allows For Searching, Analyzing The Ever-Changing Web. She makes the point that the project brings archival web searching to the masses, quoting CSE professor Dan Weld: “Zoetrope is aimed at the casual researcher. It’s really for anyone who has a question.”

A joint project with Adobe Systems, other researchers working on the project include CSE professor James Fogarty, CSE graduate student Eytan Adar, and Adobe researcher and CSE alumna Mira Dontcheva.

We reported earlier on UW News coverage of Zoetrope here. You can view a five-minute video on Zoetrope at UW News here.

King5 News reports on Friendbo in this video.

“Sharing photos online can be a bit scary for Facebook and MySpace
users because they don’t necessarily want everyone to see
everything. But new technology developed by UW students [including CSE graduate student Michael Toomim ] could soon change online social
networking.”

“Opportunities for social networking abound on the Internet, but not when it comes to one standard job: using a browser and search engine to comb the Web for information. That task is still typically done solo, because browser displays and search procedures have traditionally been designed for a single user.

“Now tools are being developed by Microsoft and other companies that let people at different computers search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations in a shared Web space on the browser display as they plan a family vacation, for instance, or research a medical problem.

“[UW CSE Affiliate Professor] Meredith Ringel Morris, a computer scientist at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash., has created one of these collaborative tools, SearchTogether.”

“When the federal government needs the best scientific information on any subject, it turns to the National Academy of Sciences.

“Now, the state of Washington will be able to do the same thing with a group of local luminaries.  …  The Washington group is modeled after the National Academy of Sciences, established by President Lincoln in 1863 to ‘investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art.’ …

“‘An increasing number of public-policy questions require scientific input,’ UW computer scientist and founding board member Ed Lazowska said in an e-mail.  ‘WSAS is a place for the governor and the legislature to turn for this advice when they need it.’”

Read the article here.

Washington State Academy of Sciences website.

KING5 HealthLink reports on UbiFit, a joint project of the University of Washington Design, Use, Build Laboratory and Intel Research Seattle in Use your cell phone to lose weight.

“Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created a new cell phone application that could help you keep those holiday pounds off. UbiFit helps you track your workouts using a colorful display… [using] a sensing device, clipped to the user’s waist, which determines what the user is doing based on how it gets jiggled around.”

“Planning on gobbling a few extra treats this holiday season?  Soon, your cell phone may be able to help you maintain your exercise routine and keep the pounds off over the winter months, without your having to lift a finger to keep track.”

“Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbitFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation.  The programs display motivational pictures on the phone’s background screen that change the more the user works out or uses eco-friendly means of transportation.”

See press release here.

UW CSE welcomes new faculty members Luis Ceze, Michael Ernst, Mausam, Shwetak Patel, Georg Seeling, and Emo Todorov.

See brochure here.

“The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole — many pages change rapidly or disappear completely, and the old data gets lost forever.”

” ‘Your browser is really just a window into the Web as it exists today,’ said Eytan Adar, University of Washington computer science and engineering doctoral student. ‘When you search for something online, you’re only getting today’s results.’ “

“Now, Adar and his colleagues at UW and Adobe Systems Inc. are grabbing hold of the fleeting Web and storing historical sites that users can easily search using an intuitive application called Zoetrope.”

Read the press release here .

Project Lead The Way is offered in nearly 3,000 schools in fifty states and the District of Columbia. The 2008 Model Schools Yearbook highlights the programs in fourteen schools, including Seattle’s Roosevelt High School, where PLTW students paid a visit to UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka’s Neurobotics Laboratory.

Read the (PDF) excerpt here and the (PDF) full Model Schools Yearbook here.