Farnam Jahanian, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will visit UW CSE on Thursday May 23.
Dr. Jahanian will deliver the CSE Colloquium at 3:30 in EEB 105: “Innovating for Society: Realizing the Transformative Impact of Computing and Communication.”
Please join us! Additional information here. Read more →
More than 50 Seattle-area UW CSE alums met for happy hour at Feierabend (South Lake Union) on Thursday May 2 – along with faculty members Gaetano Borriello, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska.
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The newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. Google has partnered with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources, support and advocacy they need to succeed in higher education and throughout their careers.
Incredibly, two of the eight winners of inaugural Google SVA Scholarships are UW CSE students: undergraduate student Mike Hotan (USA Special Forces 2008-present) and graduate student Jim Youngquist (USAF, 2002-08). (Interesting aside: Jim is currently Mike’s TA in the undergraduate Operating Systems course.)
Congratulations to Mike and Jim! Read more →
The UW Daily memorializes UW CSE professor David Notkin:
“David Notkin was known by many as a willing mentor and a leader in the field of software engineering. His bushy beard and wide smile made him a face of the department.
“His talent, charisma, and investment in his students made him an integral part of the UW Computer Science & Engineering community.
“Notkin passed away last Monday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer.”
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The work of Josh Smith (UW CSE and EE) is described:
“But how do you charge something so small? ‘The vision of blanketing the world with smart sensors is very compelling,’ says Joshua Smith, head of the Sensor Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. ‘But a lot of sensor networks researchers found themselves surrounded by mountains of depleted batteries and dead sensor nodes.’
“So, like microscopic Robinson Crusoes, the motes will live off the power they can scavenge from their surroundings. A mote near a light source might use a tiny solar panel, while a mote running somewhere with greater temperature extremes can be built to tap into that, by converting the heat energy that flows between hot and cold into electricity.”
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OneBusAway began as a student project at the University of Washington. It became so widely used by transit commuters that after the students graduated, three area agencies (King County Metro, Sound Transit, and Pierce Transit) contracted with the University of Washington to continue running the service. There are now over 100,000 users per week in Puget Sound. At the same time, instances of OneBusAway have been brought up in other regions, including Atlanta, Detroit, and Tampa; the OneBusAway Enterprise system (derived from the core OneBusAway) is the basis for the BusTime system in the greater New York region.
In mid-May, Sound Transit will be taking over running it. (Sound Transit already has an experimental version of OneBusAway running in parallel with the production system.) We hope that the transition will be relatively seamless.
Read more here. Try OneBusAway here.
Belkin today launched Echo Electricity and Echo Water – technologies licensed from the lab of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel that provide single-point-of-attachment fully-disaggregated monitoring of the electricity and water consumption in a home or business.
Read a GigaOM post here. Wall Street Journal here. Echo Electricity information here. Echo Water information here. Read more →
Today is the final day to vote in the GeekWire Awards.
In addition to voting for UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni as “Geek of the Year” here (see earlier post below), please vote for UW CSE alum and UW CSE startup CEO Jeremy Jaech as “Hire of the Year” here.
“We thank you for your support.” Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni is one of five nominees for GeekWire’s “Geek of the Year” – to be presented at the GeekWire Awards event on May 9 at EMP.
And remember, only one vote per IP address. (How many IP addresses do you have?) Read more →
Friday and Saturday April 26 and 27 marked UW’s Engineering Discovery Days. More than 9,000 guests – school-age students, plus parents and teachers – visited UW … and it sometimes sounded as if they were all in the Allen Center at once!
See photos here. Read more →