“‘The first rule of thumb is that privacy is hard to get right,’ says Dan Grossman … ‘Don’t do anything online you don’t want people to see.’ That said, here are his tips for keeping your passwords to yourself when using somebody else’s computer.
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Tom Daniel
Yoky Matsuoka
The National Science Foundation today announced an $18.5 million grant to establish a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) based at the University of Washington.
The Director of CSNE is UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka. Deputy Director is UW Biology professor Tom Daniel. Partner institutions are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and San Diego State University. (Joel Voldman from MIT and Kee Moon from SDSU are co-PIs.) Also partnering are historically minority-serving institutions Spelman College and Morehouse College, both in Atlanta, and Southwestern College in Chula Vista, Calif. International partners are the University of British Columbia and the University of Tokyo.
Matsuoka comments, “The center will work on devices that interact with, assist, and understand the human sensory and nervous systems. It will combine advances in robotics, neuroscience and computer science to restore or augment the body’s ability for sensation and movement.”
Daniel comments, “I think the really interesting development is literally where the silicon meets the collagen. It remains an open challenge.”
Learn about CSNE on its web page, here. Read the UW press release here. Read the NSF press release here. Read more →
An Xconomy post by UW CSE alum Jeremy Jaech, who has spent the past few months in CSE as an entrepreneurship coach.
“Together we can create a culture that values and informs the commercialization of ideas, always remembering that faculty members and outsiders are not often the miners of these gems. Students are.”
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UW Today reports on the research of UW CSE’s Josh Smith and his collaborators, on inductive methods for powering implantable medical electronics. Today, the power cord that protrudes through the patient’s belly is cumbersome and prone to infection over time. Infections occur in close to 40 percent of patients, are the leading cause of rehospitalization, and can be fatal.
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Ph.D. alums Anthony “legs” LaMarca and Lauren Bricker, and CSE research staff member Stephen Spencer, are all decked out in their UW CSE Pastry Powered T(o)uring Machine jerseys midway through the 10,000-rider Seattle-To-Portland bicycle ride on Saturday. Shirtless faculty member Steve Gribble took the photo.
Overheard at one of the rest stops: “That’s the nerdiest jersey I’ve ever seen.”
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Jeff Huang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington’s Information School, has tallied the total number of “Best Paper Awards” won by various research organizations in recent years at a number of leading conferences: AAAI (Artificial Intelligence), ACL (Natural Language Processing), CHI (Human-Computer Interaction), CIKM (Knowledge Management), FOCS (Theory), ICML (Machine Learning), IJCAI (Artificial Intelligence), KDD (Data Mining), OSDI (Operating Systems), SIGIR (Information Retrieval), SIGMOD (Databases), SOSP (Operating Systems), STOC (Theory), UIST (User Interface), VLDB (Databases), and WWW (World Wide Web).
We know: Beauty contests such as this are a complete crock. However, since we came out smelling like a rose this time, we wholeheartedly endorse this particular ranking as definitive, and we enthusiastically draw your attention to it.
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UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao spoke at the 2011 TED conference on his research concerning deciphering Indus script. A video of this spectacular talk has just been posted on the TED website here. Learn more about the research here. Read more →
Hank Levy & Ed Lazowska
Tony DeRose
More than 100 UW CSE alums in the Bay Area joined Brian Curless, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, Barbara Mones, and Matt O’Donnell at Pixar on June 30 for an alumni event hosted by Tony DeRose. Great time!!!!!
Alums: Be sure your current address is on file to ensure you’re notified of events in your area!!!!! Read more →
MIT Technology Review profiles the research of UW graduate student Gabe Cohn:
“Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington demonstrated that the human body can be used as an antenna to direct electromagnetic ‘noise,’ or ambient radiation—in this case from wiring in a wall. The resulting signal could be used to control a gesture-based interface.”
A recent paper, “Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna,” received a Best Paper award at this spring’s CHI conference.
UW Learning & Scholarly Technologies profiles UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
On the PCAST report
“During the summer of 2010, Lazowska co-chaired the Working Group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) that prepared a report titled Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. According to Lazowska, the main messages of the report include:
On workforce
“The PCAST report documents that computer science is by far the dominant factor in all U.S. science and technology employment. Job projections over the next eight years show 2/3 of all newly-created jobs in all fields of engineering and science (including the social sciences) will be computing jobs. Lazowska summarizes the situation bluntly, ‘The truth is there is no science and technology workforce gap; there is a computer science workforce gap.‘”
On “computational thinking”
“Lazowska argues that computational thinking, whether or not you’re computing, is becoming absolutely pervasive. … ‘No matter what they intend on studying or doing, students need to have a grounding in modern computational concepts.'”
Read the profile here. Read more →