Allen School News Archive

Roughly 40 Seattle-area alums joined UW CSE faculty members Maya Cakmak, Shyam Gollakota, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, and James Lee on Tuesday evening for a happy hour (or three) at Von Trapp’s on Capitol Hill.

UW CSE hosts a variety of alumni events each year in Seattle and in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Want to be in the loop?  Update your address and email (we use regional address pulls to generate email advisories of events; you can configure to receive communications from CSE but not from Mother UW) and follow us on Facebook! Read more →

University of Washington leaders will celebrate a pair of recent grants to support interdisciplinary data science research and collaboration at an all-campus event 2-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in Mary Gates Hall. Faculty and students from all disciplines who are interested in using big data in their research are invited.

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UW CSE alumnus Jeremy Jaech, co-founder and CEO of SNUPI Technologies

UW’s student newspaper, The Daily, wakes up and reports on CSE and EE startup SNUPI Technologies, whose first product will launch in ten days.

We would have posted this earlier but The Daily‘s website was down …

Read the article here. Learn more about Wally, SNUPI Technologies’ first product, here. Read more →

UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota in the New York Times

The New York Times reports on power harvesting technologies, including UW’s “Ambient Backscatter“:

“The next breakthrough smartphone, or maybe the one after that, might not have a traditional battery as its sole source of power. Instead, it could pull energy from the air or power itself through television, cellular or Wi-Fi signals …

“‘Hoping and betting on new battery technology to me is a fool’s errand,’ said [Tony] Fadell, who is now the chief executive of Nest, which makes household technology and was bought by Google last month. ‘Don’t wait for the battery technology to get there, because it’s incredibly slow to move’ …

“Researchers at the University of Washington have also been working on a method for wireless devices to communicate without using any battery power. The technique involves harvesting energy from TV, cellular and Wi-Fi signals that are already in the air, said Shyamnath Gollakota, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering who is working on the project.

“‘The idea is basically you have signals around you,’ Mr. Gollakota said. ‘So why do you have to generate new signals to communicate?’

“In a commercial smartphone, a battery would still be necessary for powering the screen and other functions, but the signal-harvesting method would allow phone calls or text messages to be placed without using any power, he said.”

Read the New York Times article here.  Learn more about Ambient Backscatter here.  (The Ambient Backscatter team includes faculty members Shyam Gollakota, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall, and graduate students Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, and Vamsi Talla.) Read more →

Gotta love it!

Ed Lazowska and Greg Gottesman model ExtraHop‘s UW CSE recruiting fair swag. Read more →

They’re all here – from Amazon to Zillow.  What we need is additional capacity, so that we can enroll all of the great Washington State students who want a UW CSE education and the access it provides to these opportunities. Read more →

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UW CSE runs two recruiting events annually for our students and our industry affiliates – one in October and one in January.

Each lasts two days – one day for startups and small companies, one day for larger established companies.

Today was the winter recruiting event for startups and small companies.  Participating companies ranged from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) to Weebly.  (The winter recruiting event for larger established companies – tomorrow – truly runs from A (Amazon) to Z (Zillow).) Read more →

UW-Tacoma Chancellor Debra Friedman succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning.

At UW-Tacoma, and before that on the Seattle campus, Debra was a leader who understood why we’re here, and who worked tirelessly to facilitate the people and programs that were doing it right.

Debra was special.  She will be sorely missed.

UW Tacoma memorial page, with links to many tributes, here. Read more →

Dave Eaton and his Tesla Model S

UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel and UW Dean of the Graduate School Dave Eaton are two of Washington State’s Tesla Model S owners.  They’re interviewed in today’s Seattle Times:

“‘We’re subsidizing the future car,’ said Shwetak Patel … He never thought he’s spend so much on a car, but that was never the only thing they were buying.”

Read more on the Seattle Times website here.  Pdf here. Read more →