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CSE undergraduates Julia Moore and Kathy Wei have been awarded 2008 Goldwater Scholarships. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences. Read more →
“‘CSI’ sleuths out Microsoft’s latest technology”
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Photosynth, a collaboration between UW CSE’s computer graphics group and Microsoft, has been featured in an episode of CBS’s hit crime drama CSI: NY.
This is a significant move uptown from the graphics group’s other recent television exposure: visualization of “drafting” as part of NASCAR coverage.
Seattle Times article here
Seattle PI article here
Washington Times here
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Technology Review on Photosynth
“Photosynth was born from … the marriage of Seadragon and Photo Tourism, a Microsoft project intended to revolutionize the way photo sets are packaged and displayed. Photo Tourism had begun as the doctoral thesis of a zealous 26-year-old University of Washington graduate student named Noah Snavely. One of Snavely’s advisors was Rick Szeliski, a computer-vision researcher at Microsoft Research, the company’s R&D arm … Working with Szeliski and a University of Washington professor named Steve Seitz, Snavely was intent on coding a way forward through a computationally forbidding challenge: how to get photos to merge, on the basis of their similarities, into a physical 3-D model that human eyes could recognize as part of an authentic, real-world landscape.”
KUOW (NPR) interviews CSE’s Steve Gribble concerning spyware
“Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna wants to better protect computer users from spyware. He’s called for legislation to close loopholes in existing law. KUOW’s Joshua McNichols has more.”
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UW CSE / UW Oceanography / Microsoft Research collaboration featured at 2008 Microsoft Research TechFest
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UW CSE, UW Oceanography, and Microsoft Research are collaborating to create an 
“Ocean Scientists’ Workbench” in connection with the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. This work was featured prominently in press coverage of the 2008 Microsoft Research TechFest.
UW oceanographers Debbie Kelley and Mark Stoermer appeared in ComputerWorld. CSE’s Keith Grochow and Microsoft’s Jared Jackson appear in Microsoft’s own coverage of the event. Other coverage in Scientific American, AppScout, and CosmicLog. Read more →
“Hackers can attack heart devices”
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“A Seattle computer scientist who helped expose how hackers can mess with electronic voting machines is part of a team that has shown how new, wireless cardiac devices implanted in thousands of heart patients also are vulnerable to electronic attack … “[UW CSE’s Yoshi] Kohno and others have shown they can wirelessly extract personal medical information from an implantable cardiac defibrillator as well as reprogram or disrupt the device. The team includes Harvard University cardiologist Dr. William Maisel and Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, also a computer scientist.”
Additional information here
UW press release here
New York Times here
Wall Street Journal here
Boston Globe here
Science Daily here
University Week here
The Osgood File (CBS Radio) here
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“Tracking technology in the corridors of learning: An American university is testing a system that allows participants to follow others’ movements around campus”
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“‘Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people’s privacy at the same time,’ says Magda Balazinska, the project leader and assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UW. ‘We want to get a handle on the privacy issues that will crop up if these systems become a reality.'” Read more →
“Hacking the Heart” (KOMO-TV News)
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“A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that could stop the devices from delivering a lifesaving shock …” Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis featured in College of Engineering “Campaign Update”
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“Alexei Czeskis … is one of the initial recipients of the new Students First fellowships — the Hacherl Endowed Graduate Fellowship established by alumnus Don Hacherl (’85) … Czeskis is now immersed in computer security research under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Yoshi Kohno, who last fall was recognized by Technology Review as one ofthe nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35.” Read more →
“Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional”
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Wired riffs on CSE professor Yoshi Kohno’s undergraduate computer security course. “Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail … I’ve often speculated about how much of this is innate, and how much is teachable … Which is why CSE 484, an undergraduate computer-security course taught this quarter at the University of Washington, is so interesting to watch. Professor Tadayoshi Kohno is trying to teach a security mindset …” Read more →