Xconomy describes a collection of astonishing innovations from UW CSE’s Networks & Wireless Lab, led by Shyam Gollakota:
“The chorus of Hotel California sings out from the mobile phone in Bryce Kellogg’s pocket. He waves his hand to turn down the volume. He flicks his fingers a couple of times and Stairway to Heaven plays. The phone never leaves his pocket.
“It looks like a parlor trick, but the underlying technology, developed by a team of University of Washington electrical engineers and computer scientists, has potential to enable natural gesture control of the broadest range of electronic devices, even those with no batteries.
“The technology – a prototype of which was attached to Kellogg’s off-the-shelf Android phone – is called AllSee. Kellogg and fellow doctoral student Vamsi Talla refined it over the course of the last year with Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering …
“Computer science professor Ed Lazowska describes Gollakota as ‘an idea factory.’ He and his students have won acclaim for recent research projects including WiSee, which measures Doppler shifts in wireless network signals as a medium for gesture controls, and Ambient Backscatter, which harvests small amounts of power from radio signals for communication devices and is being applied in AllSee.”
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are among the most prestigious awards available to graduate students in the STEM fields. The 2014 NSF GSRFs were announced today, and UW CSE has a bumper crop!
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Camille Cobb
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Scott Lundberg
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Lauren Milne
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Greg Nelson
- UW CSE Ph.D. student Trevor Perrier
- UW EE Ph.D. student Edward Wang, who works with CSE/EE faculty member Shwetak Patel
- UW CSE Bachelors alum Michael Lam (now a Ph.D. student at Oregon State)
- UW CSE Bachelors alum Jerry Li (now a Ph.D. student at MIT)
- UW CSE Bachelors alum Grace Muzny
- UW CSE Bachelors alum Laure Thompson (now a Ph.D. student at Cornell)
In addition, Honorable Mentions were received by UW CSE Ph.D. students Meg Campbell, Pavel Panchekha, and Doug Woos.
Go team! Read more →
We firmly believe that you shouldn’t choose a college or a specific degree program based on financial return-on-investment (ROI).
But if you choose to ignore our advice … take a look at The Atlantic‘s article on ROI for colleges and for specific degree programs.
The University of Washington ranks among the nation’s top ten colleges and universities for institutional ROI.
And 9 of the nation’s top 10 specific degree programs in terms of ROI are Computer Science – including UW Computer Science & Engineering.
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Seattle Business magazine reports on UW’s Data Science efforts:
“The University of Washington has launched a new project that could dramatically increase the power of academic research by giving a broad universe of scientists — including astronomers, physicists, chemists and biologists — faster and smarter ways of extracting information and meaning from the increasingly large amounts of data they have available to them.
“The new project is managed by the UW’s newly established eScience Institute and paid for in part by a $37.8 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The UW is sharing the grant with the University of California–Berkeley and New York University.
“The project addresses a common conundrum in the research community: While an enormous amount of data is generated by everything from sensor networks on the ocean floor to measurements of the proteins moving in human cells, there is a shortage of the very data scientists who know how to extract insights from these data.
“‘We are in the very early stages where we are just figuring out what we can do with all of this [data] and we need partnerships between the people inventing methods [of analyzing data] and people using them,’ says Ed Lazowska, the UW data scientist who founded the eScience Institute. He explains that the institute will act as a matchmaker, helping researchers apply the most appropriate technology available to their work. Lazowska sees Seattle as an epicenter of this marriage of data science and research because of the rich combination here of scientists, entrepreneurs and cloud computing resources.”
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The Washington Research Foundation has awarded $9.3 million to the University of Washington eScience Institute to consolidate UW’s leadership position in Data Science. Xconomy reports:
“UW professors and research leaders say the WRF funding will help programs that span some of the campus’ strongest departments become even better. The main focus is attracting and retaining elite faculty and post-doctoral researchers who work across multiple disciplines …
“The WRF money will also help finance new physical spaces at the UW, including … the WRF Data Science Studio, described by computer science professor Ed Lazowska in an e-mail as ‘a hub for inter-disciplinary collaboration.’
“Lazowska, who has led a successful data science push at the UW over the last several years, calls the WRF investment ‘a game-changer for us.’
“’It’s the key to uniting the other pieces we have assembled,’ he says.”
Read more in Xconomy here. Read more →
UW CSE alum Jing Jing Long gets Kai off to an early start at the Mac in a CSE t-shirt!
Video here. Read more →
The Computing Community Consortium has entered a video featuring UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel and his students in the National Academy of Engineering’s “Engineering For You” video contest – a contest designed to surface inspirational engineering-0riented videos as part of NAE’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
Watch the video here.
(Thanks to the Computing Community Consortium and to videographer Patrick Sammon!) Read more →
This spectacular course was taught by Madrona Venture Group’s Greg Gottesman and Matt McIlwain to 40 students: CSE undergraduates, Ph.D. students, and Professional Masters Program students, plus MBA students from the UW’s Foster School of Business.
Today the students – divided into six project teams – presented their final pitches at Madrona’s offices. Afterward they heard from Madrona co-founder Bill Ruckelshaus – twice head of the EPA and hero (along with Elliott Richardson) of the Saturday Night Massacre.
Learn about the course here. Read more →
Every year IEEE Computer publishes an outlook issue that highlights emerging technologies that promise to have a significant impact on computing in the near and distant future.
The 2014 issue – just out – features “The Emergence of RF-Powered Computing” by a quartet of UW CSE/EE faculty: Shyam Gollakota, Matt Reynolds, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall. The article describes small computers, already prototyped, that harvest energy from TV, cellular and other signals to run, sense and communicate. The Internet of Things has arrived!
Also featured in this outlook issue is an article by Karin Strauss and Doug Burger of Microsoft Research – both affiliate professors in CSE – “What the Future Holds for Solid-State Memory.” Read more →
