This article in ITWorld reports on a recently-revealed 2005 patent application by the National Security Agency for a newly-described technique for detecting tampering with network communication, based upon network delays. CSE’s Tadayoshi Kohno is quoted.
“The neat thing about this particular patent is that they look at the differences between the network layers… This whole problem space has a lot of potential, [although] I don’t know if this is going to be the final solution that people end up using.” Read more →
In October, CSE Professor Yoky Matsuoka presented a lecture called Where Humans and Robots Connect in the University of Washington College of Engineering Fall Lecture Series. UWTV will air video of the talk three times in early January (Monday,January 5 at 5:00 PM, Thursday, January 8 at 9:00 AM, and Saturday, January 10 at 2:30 AM, all times Pacific).
You can also download MP3 audio or MPEG-4 video from the UWTV site, or stream video in Quicktime or Windows Media. Read more →
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. Read more →
“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.” Read more →
“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.
“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.” Read more →
“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.