The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have featured UW CSE’s Open Data Kit initiative as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free way to do it.”
See the full post here. ODK information here. Read more →
Xconomy previews the top tech events in the Puget Sound region for the remainder of the fall. UW CSE is the headliner:
- October 28th’s TechFlash “Women in Tech” event, a panel that featured UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka.
- October 29th’s UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting panel presentation on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital,” moderated by Ed Lazowska and featuring Mark Ashida (OVP Venture Partners), Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group), Ron Howell (WRF Capital), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), and Cam Myhrvold (Ignition Partners).
- November 5th’s presentation by Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, in the UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series: “Re-Thinking Computing.”
- November 30th’s Xconomy-sponsored panel on “The Future of Search,” moderated by Ed Lazowska and featuring UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni and ex-UW CSE professor Brian Bershad (now Site Director of Google Seattle).
Read the full post here. (Four other events were mentioned in passing …) Read more →
A UW news release concerning the Open Data Kit initiative, led by UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello.
“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free way to do it.”
Read the full article here. Learn more about Open Data Kit here. Learn about the overall UW “Change” developing world research effort here. Read more →
Xconomy reports on the CSE Distinguished Lecture given by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young.
Read the post here.
Watch the video of this terrific talk here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni spoke last night as part of Foster School of Business’s “From Invention to Startup” lecture series. Etzioni, founder of Farecast, “shepherded an auditorium full of fledgling entrepreneurs from research to a start-up.” He talked mostly of his experience starting Farecast, a web service that monitors airfares and then makes recommendations to consumers about when they should make their purchase. Microsoft now owns the service.
Read the full TechFlash blog (John Cook’s Venture blog) here. Read more →
Dr. Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm, was in Seattle to deliver a UW CSE Distinguished Lecture and the 2009 UW EE Dean Lytle Endowed Lecture. Later in the day, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska interviewed Dr. Jacobs at the FiReGlobal: West Coast conference in downtown Seattle. An Xconomy summary of the high points of FireGlobal is here.
Watch the video of Dr. Jacob’s UW CSE Distinguished Lecture (also the UW EE Dean Lytle Endowed Lecture), delivered earlier in the day, here. Read more →
The first “TechFlash Live: Women in Tech” event will be held at the W Hotel on the evening of October 28.
The four panelists at what promises to be an extremely engaging evening are Yoky Matsuoka (UW CSE), Lucinda Stewart (OVP Venture Partners), Lili Cheng (Microsoft), and Trish Millines Dziko (Technology Access Foundation).
Read the TechFlash post here.
The TechFlash “Women in Tech” list – a “who’s who” of women in the Seattle technology ecosystem – includes UW CSE faculty members Emer Dooley, Susan Eggers, Anna Karlin, Yoky Matsuoka, and Linda Shapiro, as well as adjunct professor Eve Riskin (UW EE) and affiliate professor Merrie Morris (Microsoft Research). Read more →
The University of Washington is one of seven colleges and universities participating in a pilot project assessing the suitability of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX electronic reader as a textbook and reprint replacement. In this AP article, UW CSE graduate students Todd Schiller and Franzi Roesner are quoted. Read it here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska writes in Xconomy about the remarkable performance of the University of Washington in securing research funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“Why R&D as part of the stimulus? Because it employs people (that’s what we do with federal research grant funding), but more importantly, because it lays the foundation for America’s world leadership.”
Read the full article here. Read more →
