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With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world’s largest organization of computer professionals. Founded in 1946, it is the largest of the 39 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Read more →
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CSE’s Ed Lazowska on the presidential election in Xconomy:
“Washington’s economy is one of the most technology-intensive in the nation. Software. Precision agriculture. Aerospace. Biomedicine. E-tailing. New media. Alternative energy. Public and private research institutions. Even narrowly defined, the technology sector is responsible, directly or indirectly, for nearly 50 percent of the jobs in Washington. East to west, north to south, we are driven by innovation. It benefits all of our citizens. It defines our future.
“That’s why this year’s Presidential election, and tonight’s debate, are so important to Washington. There are stark differences between how John McCain and Barack Obama would steer our nation’s science and technology enterprise and how those differences will affect our economy …” Read more →
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“The new Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering will host the 2008 Workshop on Neural Engineering— co-sponsored by the University of Washington, Microsoft Research, and the National Science Foundation— from Thursday October 9 through Saturday October 11 on the Microsoft campus.” Read more →
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“Say ‘ahh’ and the cursor zips toward the northeast corner of the computer screen. ‘Ooo’ sends it shooting straight south. Want it to head southeast? Say ‘ohh.’ To make the cursor do a circle or figure eight, let vowel sounds bleed into one another, like eee into ahh into aww and so on. You can make it hurry or slow by regulating the volume of your voice. To open a link, make a soft clicking sound.
“So goes the University of Washington’s ‘Vocal Joystick’ software, which uses sounds to help people with disabilities use their computers.
“Its development has been a multidisciplinary task with faculty and students from several university departments – electrical engineering, linguistics, computer science, as well as the Information School blending their expertise. (It is just one of a series of UW-generated assistive-technology projects ranging from enabling the blind to use touch screens to developing an alternative to the point-and-click method of computer navigation).” Read more →
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“Kohno and his colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have developed Adeona, a free piece of software that records location information in such a way that only a legitimate user should ever be able to gain access to it.” Read more →
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Xconomy interviews UW CSE’s David Wetherall, Director of Intel Research Seattle. “‘Our strongest ties are with the University,’ he replies, citing joint projects with faculty in computer science, electrical engineering, public health, and aeronautics and astronautics.” Read more →
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“An application for household registration of births and deaths is being developed in a project under the umbrella of the UN Millennium Project.
“Brian DeRenzi, a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington in the US, is helping test the application as it is being fine tuned at a health facility in Uganda.
“In Uganda, DeRenzi says, there are community health workers who go from house to house to collect health information and do health promotion. The goal is to enable those health workers to use the service to register births and deaths on their mobiles and send the information to a central database via GPRS.” Read more →
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CSE Affiliate Dave Cutler received the National Medal of Technology & Innovation at a White House ceremony on September 29, “for having designed and implemented standards for real-time, personal, and server-based operating systems, carrying these projects from conception through design, engineering, and production for Digital Equipment Corporation’s RSX-11 and VAX/VMS, and for Microsoft’s Windows NT-based computer operating systems; and for his fundamental contributions to computer architecture, compilers, operating systems, and software engineering.” Read more →
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“As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room … Researchers at the University of Washington and at the University of California, San Diego have created a new laptop theft-protection tool. The software not only provides a virtual watchdog on your precious machine – reporting the laptop’s location when it connects to the Internet – but does so without letting anybody but you monitor the whereabouts.”
Adeona website here. Read more →
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Nature profiles four MacArthur “Genius” Award winners, including UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka. Read more →