Congratulations to the Nanocrafter team at UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, who picked up the award for “Best Serious Game, Special Emphasis Category, Use of Social Media” at the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge. The event, taking place today in Orlando, Florida, celebrates excellence in the field of serious games development.
Players of Nanocrafter build nanoscale devices using pieces of DNA. The game, in addition to being fun and educational, is helping to advance scientific discovery in… Read more →
UW CSE dominates Allen Distinguished Investigator Awards in AI
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) program seeks to fund a select group of investigators to pursue new, pioneering research in academic settings that collectively move the needle towards answering broad scientific questions. ADIs approach their research in novel, creative and ambitious ways to shed light on the curious, the unconventional and the unexpected.
Today the first cohort of Allen Distinguished Investigators in Artificial Intelligence were announced. The focus is on three fundamental artificial intelligence… Read more →
Gov. Inslee proclaims Dec. 8-14 “Computer Science Education Week” in Washington
Middle and high school students and families: Don’t miss UW’s Computing Open House, 1-5 p.m. on Saturday December 6 – a great way to launch the week!
And don’t forget to do The Hour of Code – it’s easy and fun!… Read more →
Rev. Jesse Jackson in Seattle
“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 →