We admit it – there were more people eating and drinking than there were carving.
The real question is who’s going to be the first to encounter our cleaning staff on Monday morning … Read more →
Annual UW CSE graduate student pumpkin carving TGIF
UW CSE alum Ankur Jain co-leads Emmy-winning team at Google YouTube!
UW CSE alum Ankur Jain is co-tech-lead of the team at Google that builds and operates YouTube’s content distribution network. In awarding Google YouTube a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said:
“Since YouTube’s founding in 2005, the world is surprised on a daily basis by the creativity, inspiration and passion that the planet’s most creative people bring to the YouTube platform. Each month, a billion people watch more than 6 billion hours of video. Each minute, creators upload 100 more hours for the world to watch. To meet this fundamental engineering challenge, the YouTube team has created new, innovative ways to upload, store, manage and deliver all kinds of video programming to viewers the instant they want to watch it …
“Together, these achievements have fundamentally changed the way an entire generation thinks of and experiences television.”
Congratulations, Ankur. Don’t drop it! (Read more here.) Read more →
CSE’s Shwetak Patel at MOHAI’s Bezos Center for Innovation
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel is one of a number of Seattle-area innovators featured in displays at the Bezos Center for Innovation at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry.
In connection with the dedication event for the Bezos Center for Innovation several weeks ago, Shwetak participated in an “Hour of Power” during which he posed provocative questions to Seattleites of all ages.
The newly-relocated and expanded MOHAI is spectacular – you should visit if you haven’t. And in its Bezos Center for Innovation, you’ll see numerous references to Shwetak, Daniela Witten, and other extraordinary UW faculty members. Read more →
Tracy or Tina?
In the wake of the cleanup from UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates meeting, we ask you: Tracy or Tina? Who has the huge iridescent blueberry shoes, and who has the petite iridescent watermelon shoes?
Leave your ballot with Rebecca at the front desk! Read more →
UW CSE Industry Affiliates: Recruiting Day for Established Companies
Fifty six companies and many hundreds of UW CSE students (plus more than a few interlopers) packed the Microsoft Atrium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons today for our “established company” recruiting day. (Startup recruiting day was Tuesday; Industry Affiliates research day was Wednesday.) It was bedlam!
A list of the companies who were recruiting his here – we wish we had the space to accommodate more!
We host recruiting days twice each year – in October and in January. It’s a unique opportunity for CSE students to interact with companies specifically interested in recruiting elite software engineers. Read more →
Madrona Prize and People’s Choice Award recipients
Hank Levy with Madrona Prize recipients and Madrona’s Tim Porter
The Madrona Prize (for the research project presented at the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting that was deemed to have the greatest potential for commercialization) went to Ambient Back Scatter: Battery Free Communication; Aaron Parks, Vincent Liu, and Vamsi Talla.
Runners-up were:
- Personalized SLAs in the Cloud; Jennifer Ortiz and Victor Texeira de Almeida
- iHome 3D: Capturing Indoor Scenes with Smartphone; Aditya Senkar
- WiSee: Whole Home Gesture Recognition Using WiFi; Ruth Ravichandran, Sidhant Gupta, and Qi Fan Pu
Ed Lazowska with People’s Choice Award recipient Vikash Kumar
The People’s Choice Award – chosen by balloting among attendees at the Open House poster session – went to Complex behavior synthesis using minimum instructions; Vikash Kumar. Read more →
The Madrona Prize concludes UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting research day
Each year, Madrona Venture Group awards The Madrona Prize to the student research project presented at UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting that has the greatest commercial potential.
GeekWire reports on this year’s Madrona Prize winner and runners up:
“The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the Paul G. Allen Center.
“As part of the University of Washington’s Industry Affiliates Annual Meeting, nearly 100 research groups made up of more than 200 grad students showed off their work in a poster and demo session. Industry representatives, regional alumni and friends of the department were on hand to see everything from eyes-free yoga to home gesture recognition with Wi-Fi.”
Read more here. Read more →
Jeff Heer keynotes UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting
Jeff Heer delivered a terrific luncheon keynote at today’s UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting. Representatives from more than 100 member companies have joined us for a day of technical discussions, followed by an evening open house that adds regional alums to the mix. The meeting also includes a recruiting day for startups, and a recruiting day for established companies. See the complete agenda here.
Jeff was one of four phenomenal hires in data science in Spring 2012; he and his wife – Daniela Rosner, a faculty member in UW’s Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering – arrived this fall. Read more →
Happy Birthday Melody Kadenko!
Long-time CSE staff member Melody Kadenko celebrated an unspecified birthday today.
Among other duties, Melody serves as advisor to Team Hilarious, which won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in 2011 and 2012. Team members presented her with the cake in the photo, but were mum when asked about its significance. Read more →
UW CSE’s uProxy unveiled at Google Ideas Summit in NYC
uProxy is a new Web-browser extension that uses peer-to-peer technology to let people around the world provide one another with a trusted Internet connection. uProxy is designed to protect the Internet connection of users in, say, Iran, from state surveillance or filtering.
Google Ideas is providing funding and technical assistance for uProxy, which was developed by UW CSE graduate students Ray Cheng and Will Scott, undergraduate student Paul Ellenbogen, and faculty members Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy in UW CSE’s Systems and Networking research group, assisted by Brave New Software.
uProxy received a great deal of attention at the Google Ideas Summit in NYC this week:
On and on …
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