Many thanks to Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times for wonderful coverage of today’s UW Computer Science & Engineering Industry Affiliates Meeting!
“Qi Shan was remarkably calm demonstrating his advanced photo-manipulation research Wednesday at the University of Washington.
“Shan’s ‘photo uncrop’ technology was among dozens of demos that students presented during the Computer Science & Engineering Department’s annual showcase for industry partners. The audience included recruiters, investors and researchers, including representatives of big tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Samsung. Some flew across the country to see what and who are emerging from the labs.
“Demos were just part of the event. The agenda included several recruiting session and activities highlighting research that seems ready for commercialization …
“As part of Ph.D. work he expects to complete in early 2015, Shan developed technology that can assemble a panoramic image, pixel by pixel, with ‘computational photography.’ He worked on the project with UW CSE faculty members Brian Curless and Steve Seitz, along with Google employee Carlos Hernandez and Yasutaka Furukawa, a former UW researcher who worked on Google Maps and is now an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
“With the technology, an image of a person standing in the doorway of a cathedral could be expanded to include the rest of the building and the block on which it sits. The expanded picture would be generated through an analysis of imagery found online, including aerial images and photo collections such as Flickr …
“When I asked Shan whether the technology could end up with a company such as Adobe, Google or Microsoft, he said Google is a possibility – especially since he was heading there for a job interview a few hours after finishing the demo.”
Read more – and watch a video – here. Read more →
Foldit , a protein folding and protein structure game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in collaboration with the Baker Lab in UW Biochemistry, has reached 1000 puzzles today, thanks to the hard work of CGS’s scientists and community. CGS’s scientists have posted a few past puzzles in which they have asked players to design peptides and small proteins that are able to bind to a binding site on the Ebola binding protein.
Read up on Foldit’s continuing commitment to Ebola in this excellent summary post by scientist Vikram Mulligan discussing the current status of research, as well as a spotlight on previous puzzles tackled by the hard-working Foldit community.
Get familiar with Foldit’s 1000th puzzle titled, “Breach Ebola’s Defences!” and join the research efforts today! Read more →
GeekWire writes:
“Inside a small office on the sixth floor of the University of Washington’s computer science building, Richard Ladner starts talking about Google’s self-driving cars. The longtime professor is so excited about the innovation that he lets out a big laugh.
“But Ladner isn’t joking around – rather, he’s jazzed up about a better future for people with disabilities.”
Read more here. Read more →
Some interesting visualizations of data drawn from the Washington State Employment Security Department.
And the winner is … Software Applications Developers.
Duh.
Check it out here. Read more →
Thanks to Jason Tan and Zorah Lea Fung of Sift Science for dessert and conversation on the startup life! Read more →
Many thanks to Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group) for keynoting this evening’s UW CSE “Startup Gong Show,” and to all the startups who participated! Read more →
Today’s the first day of UW CSE’s annual 3-day Industry Affiliates Meeting – a recruiting day for startup companies. 37 startups and two venture firms (each representing multiple startups) are crowded into the Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, along with hundreds of UW CSE students.
Tomorrow: research presentations and an evening open house for affiliates, alumni, and friends, plus awarding of the Madrona Prize.
Thursday: recruiting by more than 60 established companies (way beyond our ostensible capacity!).
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Patrick Chiang (iSchool), Gantulga Balgan (iSchool), Angelica Cupat (Interaction Design) and Kevin Liang (CSE) celebrate first place at the first-ever DubHacks 24-hour hackathon. Photo by Ashley Stewart.
GeekWire reports:
“Nearly 400 students from the Pacific Northwest and beyond took over the third floor of the University of Washington’s Husky Union Building for the first-ever DubHacks, a 24-hour collegiate hackathon and the first of its kind in the region for college students …
“Angelica Cupat, Gantulga Balgan, Kevin Liang and Patrick Chiang didn’t know each other before forming a team and taking home the hackathon’s largest prize – cash, software, hardware and an opportunity to compete in Facebook’s upcoming hackathon.
“The four UW students created LimeLight, a speed-reading app for news articles that allows the average user to read as much as five times faster, they say.”
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Friday and Saturday marked the 24-hour DubHacks hackathon on the UW campus. More than 300 students from colleges and universities throughout the Northwest participated, including many from UW CSE. KIRO News 7 broadcast reports before and during the event.
Nice GeekWire article here. Read more →
UW CSE startup GraphLab is one of four Startup Showcase Winners at Strata+Hadoop World, part of NYC Data Week.
It’s the first cut in getting selected to compete as the “best of the best” at Strata.
Go GraphLab! Read more →
