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 →
Washington State University logo wallpaper
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 →
Neural Acceleration for General- Purpose Approximate Programs
CACM features exciting work by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (UW CSE Ph.D. alum now on the faculty at Georgia Tech), Adrian Sampson (UW CSE graduating Ph.D. student), Luis Ceze (UW CSE faculty), and Doug Burger (Microsoft Research and UW CSE affiliate faculty).
CMOS scaling is no longer providing gains in efficiency commensurate with increases in transistor density. Today, we can choose any two of performance, energy efficiency, and generality at the expense of the third. One approach to gaining performance and energy… Read more →
A salute to “Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2014”
As the new year approaches, we salute some of those recognized by Seattle Magazine as among “Seattle’s Most Influential People of 2014” – individuals who have particularly impacted UW Computer Science & Engineering through their words and deeds:
Nick Hanauer, “Person of the Year,” a Seattle-raised entrepreneur and venture capitalist, the first non-family investor in Amazon.com, and a prime mover behind many forward-looking regional and national civic initiatives.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, transforming Seattle and the world.
Ed … Read more →
UW CSE’s annual Christmas Hallway Bowling Spectacular
You can’t actually expect much work to get done on December 24 …
Grand Prize Winner: Chris “Strong Arm” Cunnington
First Runner Up: Hank “The Watchdog” Levy
Best Form: Rebecca “High Kick” DeGaris
Most Creative (if unhelpful) Form: Sophie “This’ll Work, I Swear” Ostlund
Best Action Shot: Kathy “Big Shot” Swan
Best Attitude/Sportsmanship: Raven “Miss Congeniality” Alexander
Coolest Uniform: Crystal “Shades” Eney
Best Scorekeeper, pin re-setter, and referee: Kayla “Multitasking really IS my middle name” Mackenzie… Read more →
Caltech hacks UW at the 1961 Rose Bowl
“For decades, every time a visitor heads downstairs into the Caltech Athenaeum Rathskellar for a burger and a brew, s/he has been confronted with a poster-size, blown-up, grainy but still magnificent black-and-white photograph of one of the greatest of the Caltech pranks …
“At the center of the picture, where the Washington fans had meant to spell out their own brand in a mosaic of thousands of hand-held cards, the word ‘Caltech’ appears instead …
“Thirty million viewers on NBC… Read more →