Photographs and videos from the 2008 UW Computer Science & Engineering commencement ceremony. Read more →
“Free video game from UW: Wiggling and shaking for science” (Seattle Times)
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“A group at the University of Washington developed a clever new way to get the public’s help with the massive computing challenge of researching cures for conditions such as HIV and Alzheimer’s.
“They created a free, downloadable video game called FoldIt! that ‘turns protein folding into a competitive sport.’
“I was skeptical, too, but after I downloaded it and played for awhile, it became addictive. The game draws out any latent obsessive-compulsive disorder you may have, encouraging you to wiggle, shake and pull 3D proteins to ‘fix’ their shapes.”
Science Daily here
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The Economist here
Technology Review here
Nature here
Howard Hughes Medical Institute here
Mother Jones here
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Yoky Matsuoka at New Yorker “Stories from the Near Future” conference
“The bold visionaries of today share the bright ideas of tomorrow at the second annual New Yorker Conference — newly expanded to two days of forward thinking and eye-opening innovation.”
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Puget Sound Business Journal interviews UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni
“Etzioni’s spinout companies include airfare prediction website Farecast, just bought by Microsoft for a reported $115M.”
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“Vint Cerf: Internet pioneer, coffee drinker” (Seattle PI)
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A conversation between Vint Cerf and CSE’s Ed Lazowska highlights the Technology Alliance annual luncheon.
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CSE’s Prasad Raghavendra wins “Best Paper” at STOC
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UW CSE Ph.D. student Prasad Raghavendra has been named co-winner of the Best Paper Award (and winner of the Best Student Paper Award) at the 2008 ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Read more →
Oren Etzioni praised in Washington CEO
“We can take turns guessing the source of that next great thing. One guy to watch is Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist who has a knack for inventing ideas that become highly valued businesses.”
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“UW software for blind Web users wins Microsoft prize”
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The Imagine Cup is an annual year-long student software competition with awards in 9 major categories. UW CSE’s WebAnywhere project has been named the worldwide winner of the “Interface Design Accessible Technology” division. WebAnywhere is the project of UW CSE Ph.D. student Jeff Bigham. WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. WebAnywhere runs on any machine regardless of what operating system it is running and regardless of what browsers are installed. Read more →
CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, Yoky Matsuoka, Tapan Parikh featured in UW College of Engineering lecture
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“Join us for a fascinating afternoon of lectures by five of the College of Engineering’s rising stars. In an unprecedented year, the MacArthur Foundation and MIT Technology Review honored three faculty members, an alumnus, and a student for their exceptional contributions to society. Learn more about their inspiring work.” (The College of Engineering seems to have ignored CSE Ph.D. alumna Karen Liu and CSE Affiliate faculty member Desney Tan, both of whom also were recognized by Technology Review.) Read more →