On Thursday, in the run-up to this year’s graduation ceremonies, EE professor (and CSE Ph.D. alum) Scott Hauck was named to the newly-created Gaetano Borriello Professorship for Educational Excellence – a professorship created jointly by EE and CSE to commemorate Gaetano’s enormous contributions.
In nominating Scott to this position, EE chair Radha Poovendran and CSE chair Hank Levy wrote:
“Gaetano joined the University of Washington faculty in 1988, and passed away decades before his time in 2015, following an extended… Read more →
Tea time!
This afternoon, UW CSE graduate student and faculty women took advantage of another ho-hum we’re-so-tired-of-this sunny 80 degree afternoon for a group tea / happy hour that filled the patio of the UW Club.… Read more →
Join UW CSE’s Raj Rao and NBC Learn for a Twitter chat on the mysteries of the brain
On Wednesday, June 10th, CSE professor Raj Rao, director of the National Science Foundation’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, will participate in a Twitter chat hosted by NBC Learn as part of its “Mysteries of the Brain” series.
Raj spoke to NBC Learn about brain-computer interfaces as part of a collection of eight videos, produced in partnership with the NSF, that explore the latest research into how the brain works with the help of leading scientists in the… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Newcombe, Dieter Fox and Steve Seitz win Best Paper Award for DynamicFusion at CVPR
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 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 →