E4C (Engineering for Change) writes:
“These are our picks for 10 promising technologies for global development that made headlines in 2014 …
“BiliCam is a smartphone application that diagnoses jaundice in newborns. It is still in development and available now only for clinicians, but in the future it could be a low-cost, powerful tool for parents and rural clinics in developing countries and anywhere in the world.”
BiliCam is the work of UbiComp lab members Lilian de Greef, Mayank … Read more →
UW CSE introductory course enrollment continues to explode
CSE 142, our first introductory course, had 995 students during Autumn Quarter, and has 1,011 students this quarter. In the past year, 2,892 students have taken the course – 35% of them women.
CSE 143, our second introductory course, has 807 students this quarter; in the past year, 1,802 students have taken the course.
That’s a total of 4,694 student enrollments in these courses in the past year!
(During fall quarter, CSE’s remarkable Stuart Reges taught both 142… Read more →
UW CSE alums Yaw Anokwa, Christophe Bisciglia win College of Engineering Diamond Awards
The University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Awards honor outstanding alumni and friends who have made significant contributions to the field of engineering. This year’s Diamond Awards will be presented at a dinner gala on May 8. Two of the four recipients are CSE alums!
The recipient of the 2015 Diamond Award for Distinguished Service is 2012 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa. In places where there is no clean water or reliable power, one will often find mobile… Read more →
UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta wins WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award
2014 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Sidhant Gupta – now at Microsoft Research – has been honored with this year’s Innovation in Technology Award from the Western Association of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International.
Sidhant invents new sensing techniques and builds innovative hardware and software systems to address hard challenges in sustainability sensing and human computer interaction. His research often requires identifying and exploiting physical phenomena around us in unique ways to continually redefine what, and how, signals can be… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota named one of Forbes’ 2015 “30-Under-30” in energy
The accolades keep rolling in for UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota.
In August, he captured one of MIT Technology Review’s coveted TR35 Awards recognizing 35 innovators under the age of 35 for the originality and impact of their work. Today, he joins the Forbes list of 30-Under-30 in energy for his work on ambient backscatter, which uses existing wireless signals to power battery-free communications.
Forbes characterizes Shyam as a “standout” among the list of young inventors and entrepreneurs who… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao achieves one of “5 Amazing Advances In Brain Research In 2014”
Huffington Post Science cites the brain-to-brain communication achieved by UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao and collaborators as one of “5 Amazing Advances In Brain Research In 2014.”
“The idea of telepathy may not be as far-fetched as it seems. This year, scientists achieved direct brain-to-brain communication between humans.
“Building upon early research started in 2013, this fall, researchers from the University of Washington were able to repeatedly transmit signals from one person’s brain via the Internet, and used these signals… Read more →
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As we’ve said twice before recently (here and here), you can’t just make up stuff this good!
2015 is off to a great start!… Read more →
Winter 2014-15 Most Significant Bits
Put down whatever you’re reading and turn your attention to the hot-off-the-digital-presses Winter 2014/15 issue of Most Significant Bits, the UW CSE alumni newsletter! In this issue:
Low-power computing
Hank’s view of the world: a new building for CSE … Stuart “Cookie Monster” Reges … new faculty hires
The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology
Pedro Domingos wins KDD 2014 Innovation Award
Profiles of six super new faculty
Alum Kuang Chen and his startup Captricity
Age progression software from the UW… Read more →
Remembering Bill Gerberding
William P. Gerberding, the University of Washington’s longest-serving President (1979-1995), passed away on Saturday at age 85.
Bill was a superb leader of UW, a true friend of Computer Science & Engineering, an extraordinary human being, and, along with his wife Ruth, delightful company. Our thoughts are with Ruth and the rest of the Gerberding family.
Two particularly nice tributes appeared in the Puget Sound Business Journal authored by Patti Payne, here, and in Crosscut authored by Ted Van… Read more →
End-of-year gratitude to UW CSE’s alumni and friends!
Today’s arrival in the mail of the University of Washington’s 2013-14 Report to Contributors triggers this end-of-year message of deep gratitude to the thousands of UW CSE alumni and friends who support us in so many ways, including contributing time, financial support, and political support.
UW CSE is public in spirit – UW is, after all, The University of Washington, and we in CSE embrace this role and all that it entails. But private support is essential to fulfilling our… Read more →