Foldit, the massive multiplayer protein folding game created by UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, has been named by TechFlash as the 2011 “Innovation of the Year” for its role in cracking an AIDS-related problem whose solution had eluded scientists for a decade. Read more →
Foldit is TechFlash 2011 “Innovation of the Year”
GeekWire reprises Yoky Matsuoka as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011″
We love John and Todd at GeekWire! A third UW CSE family member has been singled out as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011”: Yoky Matsuoka.
“Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous system to work in conjunction with robotics and other mechanical devices …
“Matsuoka, a past MacArthur Genius award winner from UW Computer Science & Engineering, this year became the director of a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, funded with an $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
“She’s also vice president of technology at Nest, a Palo Alto-based startup marketing an intelligent, connected home thermostat that learns from the user’s habits as a means of programming itself.”
Read the rest here.
And see GeekWire on CSE 2011 Newsmakers Shwetak Patel and Daniil Kulchenko.