Today, UW CSE’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab released an alpha version of uProxy, a new browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that leverages social networks and trust between friends to provide web surfers with safe and unfettered passage through the internet.
Users of uProxy are able to share a trusted Internet connection with friends or to route their own traffic through a friend’s computer, essentially creating a personalized VPN (virtual private network) that makes it more difficult for… Read more →
Hadi Partovi on today’s Seattle tech ecosystem
Code.org’s Hadi Partovi writes in TechCrunch on today’s Seattle tech ecosystem, and the dramatic changes in the past 5-10 years:
“The last 10 years have seen a sea-change in Seattle, caused by two forces.
“The first part of the change has been the rise of a new breed of large Seattle-based tech companies – companies that are still smaller than the two local titans, Microsoft and Amazon, yet large enough to fill out the middle tier of the tech ecosystem… Read more →
ApneaApp developed at UW CSE and UW Medicine provides a non-invasive alternative for diagnosing sleep disorder affecting millions of Americans
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota and PhD student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar have been working with Dr. Nathaniel Watson of the UW Medicine Sleep Center to develop and test a new smartphone app that enables wireless diagnosis of sleep apnea.
ApneaApp turns an Android smartphone into an inexpensive and non-invasive diagnostic tool for a potentially life-threatening condition that affects more than 25 million people in the United States alone. The app employs sonar – “similar to the way bats navigate,” lead author… Read more →
Seattle Times: 50 years of Moore’s Law
A nice article by Jon Talton in the Seattle Times, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law and its impact on Seattle – with extensive quotes by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
“It’s Gordon Moore’s world. We just live in it.
“Moore, born in 1929, was one of the ‘Traitorous Eight’ who left Shockley Semiconductor to start Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1968, he co-founded Intel. And the rest is Silicon Valley history.
“He is also the originator of ‘Moore’s Law,’ which turned… Read more →
CSE students are top Code Hunters with Microsoft
Microsoft Research brought its Code Hunt team to UW with an online programming contest for students. The winner was CSE senior Siwakorn “Ping” Srisakaoku, seen here receiving a Microsoft Band from Microsoft’s Judith Bishop with Runner-Up Vladimir Korukov, also a CSE student. Others in the top four were CSE student Alex Tsun and Mathematics major (and CSE teaching assistant) Caitlin Schaefer. Congratulations to all the participants, and thanks for an enjoyable evening. Everyone can continue to play… Read more →
The view from the Allen Center deck …
A lovely rainbow this afternoon, looking northeast from the Alberg Terrace of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. (Thanks to Jim Youngquist for the photo.)… Read more →
High-five a PR2 at Engineering Discovery Days!
UW CSE and UW’s other Engineering programs open the doors to several thousand K-12 students each year on Engineering Discovery Days – today and tomorrow.
The PR2 is always a hit! But there’s lots more!
Learn more here.… Read more →
Smithsonian: “Why Brain-to-Brain Communication Is No Longer Unthinkable”
Smithsonian magazine features the work of UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao and the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering:
“Telepathy, circa 23rd century: The Vulcan mind meld, accomplished by touching the temples with the fingertips, is an accepted technique for advancing the plot of a ‘Star Trek’ episode with a minimum of dialogue, by sharing sensory impressions, memories and thoughts between nonhuman characters.
“Telepathy, 2015: At the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering of the University of Washington, a young woman dons… Read more →
Washington State Algebra Challenge deadline extended
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science announced today that it is extending the dates of the 2015 Algebra Challenge in response to feedback from teachers. Under the new schedule, K-12 classrooms are invited to register online to participate in the challenge beginning April 27 and then to proceed at their own pace until June 5. Any classroom with access to a PC, Mac or Chromebook can participate in the challenge.
Read the Center for Game Science’s update here.
Learn… Read more →
SRO for New Tech Seattle Meetup @ UW CSE
This is the third year that UW CSE has been privileged to host New Tech Seattle Meetup – the most vibrant and fastest growing tech meetup in the nation! Thanks to Red and Greene – Red Russak and Brett Greene for supporting UW CSE!… Read more →