At UW CSE’s graduation ceremony on Friday evening, 1978 Bachelors alum Tim Paterson and 1989 Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay will be recognized as the recipients of UW CSE’s 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards.
We inaugurated this award for two purposes: first, to recognize some of our most accomplished alumni; second, to make it clear to each year’s new graduates that they are joining a long line of men and women who have built upon their UW CSE education to change the… Read more →
Microsoft commits $10 million to a second building for UW CSE
At this evening’s UW CSE graduation ceremony, Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith will announce a commitment from the company of $10 million to kick-start a campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering building on the UW campus.
Microsoft’s gift represents the first corporate commitment to a public-private partnership to assemble $110 million in funding to construct a new 130,000-square-foot CSE building. The new facility will provide the capacity needed to double the number of… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska receives UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, received UW’s David B. Thorud Leadership Award at today’s ceremony recognizing the 2015 recipients of the annual UW Awards of Excellence. In the words of the nomination:
“Ed has been a truly extraordinary leader for many years and in many settings – national, regional, institutional, and departmental. I will touch on all four in this letter, but the recent leadership accomplishment that stimulates this nomination is Ed’s… Read more →
Scott Hauck named to Gaetano Borriello Professorship for Educational Excellence
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 →