“We did not realize how good baseball could be until everybody could play.”
Indeed.
Read more in GeekWire here.… Read more →
UW CSE at the 2014 Washington STEM Summit
UW CSE undergraduate Karolina Pyszkiewicz and UW Bothell undergraduate Yarelly Gomez are interviewed on stage by Patrick D’Amelio at the 2014 Washington STEM Summit.
UW CSE professor Dan Grossman will participate in a panel later in the day. UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska is in attendance as a member of the Governor’s STEM Alliance.… Read more →
Google’s G-Give ’14 begins today!
G-Give is a phenomenal Google-wide initiative launched 4 years ago by several UW CSE alums working at Google’s Seattle engineering office. During the week, gifts by Googler’s to specific causes are matched twice – once by Google, and once by sponsors of those causes.
We’re delighted that UW CSE’s Google Endowed Scholarship will be part of G-Give for the 4th year, and will be featured today at the Seattle and Kirkland engineering offices! Many thanks to our sponsors: Jeff Dean,… Read more →
Wi-Fi Gesture Recognition on Existing Devices
The Register reports on recent work by UW CSE’s Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Bryce Kellogg, and Shyam Gollakota – the first wireless gesture recognition design that operates using ambient Wi-Fi signals and devices. Leveraging their design, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of non line-of-sight gesture interaction on commodity devices. Given the ubiquity of Wi-Fi on mobile devices, the work takes a significant step towards always-available interaction.
Read the article in The Register here. Check out the research paper here. Learn… Read more →
Seattle Times: “Don’t rob higher education”
A Seattle Times op-ed by attorney and former UW Regent Stan Barer and UW Law professor Hugh Spitzer argues that the state has a constitutional funding obligation to its universities, as well as to K-12 education.
“What this means, from a practical standpoint, is that the Legislature cannot lawfully throw our public universities under the bus …”
“But since the 1980s, we have witnessed a massive reduction in state per-student funding for higher education. For example, in the 2009-2011 biennium,… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent 90 minutes in UW CSE this morning – discussing our trajectory with Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy, and interacting with four groups of faculty and students: Ubiquitous Computing (Shwetak Patel and students), Data Visualization (Jeff Heer), Datacenter Systems (Arvind Krishnamurthy, Franzi Roesner and students), and Computer Vision (Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, Steve Seitz, and students).
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Dieter Fox is UW CSE’s 14th IEEE Fellow
Dieter Fox has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – the 14th UW CSE faculty member to be honored in this way by IEEE.
Dieter, whose research interests lie in artificial intelligence, robotics and probabilistic state estimation, was recognized “for contributions to Bayesian state estimation and robotic perception.”
Dieter is the director of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab. From 2009 to 2011, Dieter was director of the Intel Research Lab Seattle,… Read more →
UW’s SideSwipe makes waves across the pond
Euronews recently featured an article on SideSwipe, a new sensor technology developed by Chen Zhao and Matt Reynolds that enables smartphones to recognize hand gestures. As Matt Reynolds explains in the article:
“‘If you think about a radar on an aircraft or a boat or something like that … you have a transmitter that is sending energy out into the environment and it is being reflected by objects nearby … what we do is use a machine learning algorithm to… Read more →
NY Times: “What Cloud Computing Means to Your Job”
An interesting New York Times article by Quentin Hardy, quoting UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
“‘Technology shapes styles of work,’ said Ed Lazowska, who holds a chair in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. ‘One critical advantage of the cloud is that sharing becomes dramatically easier.’ He foresees more collaboration and outsourcing of work, and more specialization into whatever a worker, team or company does well.”
[The quote he liked better but that didn’t fit the eventual article,… Read more →
UW CSE hearts UNC CS
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay – chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – is in Seattle raising money for his department.
Kevin is in a hurry, noting the potential impact on alumni loyalty of the impending change of UNC’s motto from “Lux libertas” to “Accredited until early 2015” (or, if one is to believe Google Latin, “Adprobatum usque mane MMXV”).
Hank “Ever-Helpful” Levy got things off to… Read more →