Another team of UW CSE researchers has captured Best Paper honors. This time, postdoc Richard Newcombe, professor Dieter Fox of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab and professor Steve Seitz of CSE’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) are bringing home the glory with their paper “DynamicFusion: Reconstruction and Tracking of Non-rigid Scenes in Real-Time” at IEEE’s International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) currently taking place in Boston, MA.
DynamicFusion is the first dense SLAM (simultaneous… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Newcombe, Dieter Fox and Steve Seitz win Best Paper Award for DynamicFusion at CVPR
UW CSE and EE researchers generate buzz with new “power over Wi-Fi”
Last week, the CSE blog reported on an exciting new research project led by Shyam Gollakota, who heads UW CSE’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab, and CSE & EE professor Josh Smith of the Sensor Systems Lab, plus a team of CSE and EE graduate students and postdocs. The project, affectionately dubbed “PoWiFi,” harnessed energy from Wi-Fi signals to wirelessly power battery-free devices – in this case, temperature and camera sensors – and to wirelessly recharge batteries.… Read more →
Katharina Reinecke joins UW CSE
Katharina Reinecke, currently Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, will be joining UW CSE next fall.
Katharina’s research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, specifically on understanding the cultural implications of user interfaces and designing interfaces that are culturally adaptive. She is particularly known for developing LabInTheWild, an online virtual lab for conducting behavioral studies, which she has used to obtain data from over 2.5 million visitors from over 200 countries. Before joining Michigan,… Read more →
Tom Alberg, Steve Singh on UW CSE
At today’s annual “State of Technology” luncheon sponsored by the Tech Alliance and attended by 750+ regional leaders, Madrona Venture Group’s Tom Alberg interviewed Steve Singh of Seattle’s Concur Technologies, acquired by SAP in late 2014 for $8.3 billion.
UW CSE came up several times in the conversation:
Regarding funding for increased enrollment: “UW CSE could double its degree production and Concur would hire all of them!”
Regarding funding for a new building: “It’s a few tens of millions… Read more →
15th annual UW CSE Symposium on Potentially Computer Science (PoCSci ’15)
Today marked the 15th annual UW CSE Symposium on Potentially Computer Science (PoCSci ’15) “The Premier Sham Conference for Potentially Computer Science Research.”
PoCSci is the conference that in 2002 – its second year – revolutionized the field of Potentially Computer Science research through Doug Zongker’s work “Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken” (YouTube video of Zongker’s presentation at AAAS 2007 here). Fittingly, Zongker was honored this year with the PoCSci “Test of Time” award.
The keynote was… Read more →
The next paradigm of computing: UW’s Shwetak Patel and Mayank Goel featured in UW Daily
UW Daily reporter Arunabh Satpathy writes:
“A house that knows when you’re inside. A cellphone that doubles as a spirometer. A sensor that gauges how much energy is being consumed and by what device. These are some of the applications of a developing field of computing called ‘ubiquitous computing,’ or ‘ubicomp.’
“Shwetak Patel, professor in the Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, defines ubicomp as ‘the next paradigm of computing.’
“‘Computing is going to be pushed into… Read more →
UW’s “PoWiFi” could power the Internet of Things, says MIT Technology Review
A UW research project that seeks to power the Internet of Things using Wi-Fi signals – dubbed “power over Wi-Fi” or “PoWiFi” for short – is the topic of a recent paper and an article in MIT Technology Review. The project was developed by a team that includes CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, CSE and EE professor Josh Smith, EE Ph.D. student Vamsi Talla, CSE alum (and current EE Ph.D. student) Bryce Kellogg, former CSE postdoc Ben … Read more →
Seattle Times: “Legislature should fund UW computer science expansion”
The Seattle Times editorial board writes:
“WHILE computer science and engineering jobs boom in Washington, the state is graduating too few of its own residents in this field, which plays such a crucial role in the state’s fortunes.
“The University of Washington argues persuasively that it needs more space to address the demand both from students and employers.
“The state Legislature should appropriate funds this year to help pay for a new 130,000-square-foot computer science and engineering building.
“The university… Read more →
TUNE and Seattle Women in Tech team up in support of UW CSE’s DawgBytes program
UW CSE’s DawgBytes is one of three programs recently selected by mobile marketing company TUNE (formerly HasOffers) and Seattle Women in Technology as beneficiaries of a new partnership that aims to cultivate more women leaders in technology fields. DawgBytes, which hosts girls-only and co-ed summer day camps in computing, in addition to engaging in teacher support, community partnerships and other outreach activities, is part of a long tradition at UW CSE of encouraging women to pursue computer science education… Read more →
Seattle: Tops for well-read cities, opportunities for new STEM grads
Amazon ranks Seattle as the #1 “well-read city.”
NerdWallet ranks Seattle top 5 in opportunities for new STEM grads (but you wouldn’t want to live in the other 4).
Read more here and here.… Read more →