UW CSE Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner and UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage (now on the faculty at UCSD) are extensively quoted in this ComputerWorld article:
“It’s not time for full-on panic, but researchers have already successfully applied brakes remotely, listened into conversations and more.”
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Jon Froehlich – a 2011 UW CSE Ph.D. alum now on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Maryland – has been named the recipient of the 2012 University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Froehlich’s dissertation, Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote Environmental Behaviors, was advised by James Landay and Shwetak Patel. It focuses on creating new types of sensors to monitor and infer everyday human activity such as driving to work or taking a shower and then taking this sensed information and feeding it back to the user in novel, engaging, and informative ways with the goal of increasing awareness and promoting environmentally responsible behavior. UbiGreen and HydroSense were two key contributions.
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“Decide.com already tells consumers when they should buy cameras, phones, refrigerators and other gadgets and appliances, analyzing price drops and increases. Now, the Seattle startup and brainchild of University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni and others is getting into the recommendation business, assigning a score of 1 to 100 on more than 22,000 products that it tracks.”
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