“Exploring Photobios” – a SIGGRAPH 2011 paper by UW CSE postdoc Ira Kemelmacher along with Eli Shechtman (Adobe Systems), Rahul Garg (UW CSE and Google), and Steve Seitz (UW CSE and Google) – is featured in this story on KING5 news.
The research, which automatically integrates sequences of images of the same person over time, is the basis of the Face Movie feature in Google’s Picasa.
Watch the KING5 video here. Read about the research here. See a UW press release here.
Rick Szeliski, a Microsoft Research staff member and long-time Affiliate Professor in UW CSE, has been named the recipient of the 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award “given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.”
Rick’s extensive involvement with UW CSE includes, most recently, co-advising Ph.D. student Noah Snavely, whose thesis research included the technology underpinning Photosynth.
Previous UW CSE “friends and family” recipients of the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award include Ph.D. alumnus Hugues Hoppe (2004), faculty member David Salesin (2000), faculty member Tony DeRose (1999), Affiliate faculty member Michael Cohen (1998), and Ph.D. alumnus Loren Carpenter (1985).
Congratulations Rick! Read more →
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing is reporting on UW CSE grad student Franzi Roesner‘s latest project, ShareMeNot. Cory writes: “[ShareMeNot is] a Firefox Add-On that defangs social media buttons like the Facebook ‘Like’ button (and others) so that they don’t transmit any information about your browsing habits to these services until (and unless) you click on them. That means that merely visiting a page with a Like or a Tweet or a +1 button (like this one) doesn’t generate a data-trail for the companies that operate those services, but you still get the benefit of the buttons, that is, if you click them, they still work. Smart.”
Also involved are UW CSE faculty members Yoshi Kohno and David Wetherall. Read more →
The “Dark Silicon” paper presented in June at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture is profiled in the New York Times:
“Even today, the most advanced microprocessor chips have so many transistors that it is impractical to supply power to all of them at the same time. So some of the transistors are left unpowered … The phenomenon is known as dark silicon. As early as next year, these advanced chips will need 21 percent of their transistors to go dark at any one time … And in just three more chip generations — a little more than a half-decade — … as many as half of them will have to be turned off to avoid overheating.”
Dave Patterson has the last word: “It’s one of those ‘If we don’t innovate, we’re all going to die’ papers … I’m pretty sure it means we need to innovate, since we don’t want to die!”
The paper was written by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renée St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, and Doug Burger. The work began when Burger was a faculty member at UT Austin; he is now at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Professor in UW CSE; Esmaeilzadeh is a UW CSE graduate student.
Read the New York Times article here. Read more →
The paper Proactive Detection of Collaboration Conflicts by UW CSE’s Yuriy Brun, Mike Ernst, and David Notkin, along with Reid Holmes from the University of Waterloo, has received a SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. The paper will be presented in September at ESEC/FSE 2011: The 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).
Congratulations to Yuriy, Mike, David, and Reid!
(This is the 5th ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for Ernst!) Read more →
UW CSE professor Mike Ernst and postdoctoral research associate Werner Dietl have won the Best Paper Award at ECOOP 2011, the 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, for their paper Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe Types.
Congratulations to Mike and Werner!
Also at ECOOP 2011, UW CSE faculty alumnus Craig Chambers won the Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
Congratulations to Craig!
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Each year, UW Computer Science & Engineering and Microsoft Research host a Summer Research Institute in Computer Science, bringing together dozens of the world’s top researchers for several days to discuss an important emerging topic.
This year’s UW-MSR Summer Research Institute is taking place July 24-27 at Suncadia Resort, located in the Cascades, ninety minutes southeast of Seattle. The topic is “Security and Privacy for a Consumer, Cloud World.” The goal is to identify new directions for consumer and cloud computing, discuss the challenges for protecting security and privacy in a consumer and cloud computing world, and explore directions for mitigating those challenges. The Institute brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse but relevant areas such as computer security, cryptography, mobile systems, cloud computing, systems and networking, and HCI. The organizers are Yoshi Kohno (UW CSE), David Molnar (MSR), and Helen Wang (MSR).
This is the fifteenth UW-MSR Summer Research Institute. The pattern of forward-looking interdisciplinary topics was established in the very beginning: “Data Mining” in 1997, “Intelligent Systems: Biological and Computational Perspectives” in 1998, and “Technologies for Invisible Computing” in 1999.
Learn more about this year’s UW-MSR Summer Research Institute here. Learn about previous Institutes here. Trying to decide whether to do computer science on the east coast or the west coast? Read today’s blog post from our UW Atmospheric Sciences colleague Cliff Mass here. Read more →
The Institute has profiled UW CSE professor Raj Rao, stimulated by his TED ’11 presentation on his work deciphering Indus script. “‘This analysis, along with other pieces of evidence, led us to conclude that the script might be versatile enough to encode an unknown language,’ Rao says.”
Read the profile here. Watch the TED ’11 talk here. Learn about the research here. Read more →
UW CSE’s and EE’s Shwetak Patel is the guest on this week’s GeekWire Radio broadcast.
“Our guest in the studio is Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Washington, who has figured out how to use voltage noise on home electrical systems to monitor the energy usage of specific appliances and devices, and also how to use home wiring as an antenna to receive signals from sensors around the home.”
Give it a listen here. Read more →