Thursday marked the public open house at Facebook’s new Seattle office – Facebook opened in Seattle in August 2010, outgrew their original space, and has moved to new digs with room for 170 engineers.
Cullen Walsh is one of many UW CSE alums working at Facebook Seattle. But he was the only one whose photo appeared in the Seattle Times riding his RipStik through the office during the open house.
More photos here. Read more →
An article in Technology Review cites the work of UW CSE’s Josh Smith:
“As one of many examples of what is becoming possible using ultra-low-power computing, consider the wireless no-battery sensors created by Joshua R. Smith of the University of Washington. These sensors harvest energy from stray television and radio signals and transmit data from a weather station to an indoor display every five seconds. They use so little power (50 microwatts, on average) that they don’t need any other power source.”
Interesting factoid from the article:
“If a modern-day MacBook Air operated at the energy efficiency of computers from 1991, its fully charged battery would last all of 2.5 seconds.”
Read the article here.
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Many major computer science conferences have established the tradition of annually identifying the most influential paper from the conference ten years ago. UW CSE authors have received a number of these awards – a clear indication of the lasting impact of our research.
The most recent winner is the paper “ArchJava: Connecting Software Architecture to Implementation” which has just been named the “Most Influential Paper from ICSE 2002” – the International Conference on Software Engineering. The ArchJava paper was co-authored by UW CSE Ph.D. student Jonathan Aldrich (now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon) and UW CSE professors Craig Chambers (now at Google Seattle) and David Notkin. The award will be presented at ICSE 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland in June.
Congratulations to Jonathan, Craig, and David! Read more →
An article in the Puget Sound Business Journal on UW initiatives in technology transfer leads with a discussion of the work of UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and his students. Read the article here. Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. students Tom Lin and Yoav Artzi have received awards in Yahoo!’s 2012 Key Scientific Challenges program. From an outstanding group of 208 proposals, 30 exceptional Ph.D. students were selected. See the complete list of winners here.
Congratulations Tom and Yoav!
Today marked the 2012 edition of the annual UW CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon, celebrating the donors and recipients of UW CSE endowed scholarships and fellowships.
Graduate fellowship recipient Ray Cheng and undergraduate scholarship recipient Mariana Zanella addressed the attendees, representing dozens of CSE students whose education is made possible through the generosity of UW CSE alumni and friends.
Many photographs here. And, see the booklet from the event here. Read more →
An outstanding interview on KCTS TV with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel.
“About the Episode: University of Washington assistant professor Shwetak Patel talks about being named a 2011 MacArthur Genius Award recipient which includes $500,000—no strings attached. Patel has figured out novel ways of using home electrical systems. We talk with Patel about his work and what the MacArthur Award means to him.
“About Shwetak Patel: Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known for his work on developing novel sensing solutions and ubiquitous computing. He joined the University of Washington in 2008 as an assistant professor in both Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. In 2011, he was named a MacArthur Fellow, at the age of 29. His technology start-up company on energy sensing, Zensi, was acquired by Belkin International, Inc. in 2010.”
Watch the interview here. Read more →
On March 27, a dozen friends of UW CSE joined us for an evening of conversation with Shwetak Patel and his students. Shwetak – UW CSE’s most recent MacArthur “genius” Award winner – described his sustainability sensing research to guests including Jim Allchin, Emer Dooley, Bob Fries, Ron Howell, Jeremy & Jacqueline Jaech, Matt & Cathy O’Donnell, Sujal Patel, Rob Short, and Charles Simonyi. Read more →
CSE undergraduate Raymond Zhang is one of 282 top undergraduates from across the nation to have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year. The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,123 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.
Raymond is the 8th recent CSE student to be recognized with a Goldwater Scholarship.
Congratulations Raymond! Read more →