Earlier this week, we posted about a team of UW students advised by UW CSE’s Alan Borning and Anat Caspi who made it into the final round of the city’s Hack the Commute competition. Last night, the team pitched their app, Access Map, to a panel of judges at City Hall – and they won!
Read all about it courtesy of this great article in GeekWire here and KUOW’s story here.
Congratulations to students Nick Bolten, Allie Deford,… Read more →
Tony Hey at U Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle
Tony Hey – UW CSE Affiliate Professor, Senior Data Science Fellow in the UW eScience Institute, and retired Vice President of Microsoft Research Connections – will discuss his recent book, The Computing Universe: A Journey Through A Revolution, at two events this spring:
Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m., at the University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE. Information here.
Tuesday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue, downstairs. Information here (registration required).
Tony’s book is… Read more →
Team Hackcessible, advised by UW CSE, heading to the finals of Seattle’s Hack the Commute competition
Hackcessible – a team of students advised by UW CSE professor Alan Borning and Anat Caspi, director of the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology – will be one of three groups competing at Seattle City Hall this Wednesday in the championship round of Hack the Commute.
The students, who hail from Electrical Engineering, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and UW Tacoma’s Computer Science & Systems program, developed an app called AccessMap that enables users to plan their route in… Read more →
Privacy-preserving Internet surfing with UW CSE’s uProxy browser extension
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 →