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CSE’s Ed Lazowska writes: “How can we work together to establish, articulate, and pursue compelling visions for our field – visions that will shape the intellectual future of the field, that will catalyze research investment and public support, and that will attract the best and brightest minds of a new generation? The National Science Foundation asked the Computing Research Association to create the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to address this challenge. The mechanics of the CCC have been described elsewhere; in this column, I focus on the substance …” Read more →
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Press coverage of the SIGCOMM paper “Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Mobile Vehicles” by John Zahorjan (UW), Ratul Mahajan (UW Ph.D., now at Microsoft Research), and Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani (UMass Amherst).
“‘Today’s Wi-Fi handoff protocols are incredibly fragile in outdoor environments and mobile environments,’ Mahajan said in an interview. Under existing approaches, he explained, computers and devices are ‘artificially limited to talking to only one access point, or only one base station at a time, even though there may be other base stations’ in the area.” Read more →
2005 UW Computer Engineering bachelors alumnus Brett Newlin will represent the United States in the Men’s Four at the Beijing Olympics. A four-time national team member and first-time Olympian, Brett was named USRowing’s Male Athlete of the Year in 2006.
Brett was one of six US Olympic Team members featured in an August 3 NY Times spread, Bodies of Work: “‘In high school, I was kind of a beanpole. Then in college I started rowing, and muscles started popping out from all over the place.'”
See Brett’s USRowing Olympic biography here. Beijing photos by fellow Husky oarsman Scott Gault here. Read more →
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UW CSE Ph.D. student Jeff Bigham describes the WebInSight project on KGO TV San Francisco. Read more →
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“Yoky Matsuoka, professor of computer sciences and engineering at the University of Washington and a 2007 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award, wants robots to function more like human beings. Her lab at the UW – full of mechanical hands, fingers and arm parts – looks like a repair shop for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator.” Read more →
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CSE’s Ed Lazowska writes, “I regularly get contacted by reporters who read the CRA ‘Taulbee Survey’ and inquire about the current state of computer science undergraduate enrollments. Here’s what I said last night to the most recent reporter who inquired …”
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The 2008 Seattle-To-Portland bicycle tour featured the largest-ever gathering of UW CSE bicycling jerseys. The jerseys — for the “Pastry-Powered T(o)uring Machine” bicycle club, were created by UW CSE alumna Lauren Bricker. The theme for the design of the shirts is UW CSE’s infamous “Steam-Powered Turing Machine” mural. Read more →
“Just imagine you’re blind and trying to go online at an internet cafe in Paris. Until now, unless you had $1,000 worth of software installed, it was just about impossible. But in recent weeks hundreds of blind people found their worlds opening up online with help from a web-based program called WebAnywhere.
The program was created by Jeffrey Bigham, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department. He knew that many applications were moving from desktop computers to the web, and thought such a program could help blind people.
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“WebAnywhere, an Internet-based service released last month, boasts an even better price tag: free. The program’s innovation isn’t so much about what it does — no more than existing Web readers that convert written text to digital speech — as it is about its availability on almost any computer.” Read more →
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PC Week describes the Adeona service, created by UW CSE undergraduate Gabriel Maganis.”Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it’s a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.
“But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back …
“Here’s how it works: A user downloads the free client software onto a laptop. That software then starts anonymously sending encrypted notes about the computer’s whereabouts to servers on the Internet. If the laptop ever goes missing, the user downloads another program, enters a username and password, and then picks up this information from the servers …”
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