The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing, on behalf of 77 computer scientist signatories, that the justices should review an inexplicable lower court decision finding that application programming interfaces (APIs) are copyrightable. That decision, in a case in which Oracle sought to copyright the Java API, up-ended decades of settled legal precedent and industry practice.
Among the 77 computer scientists on behalf of whom EFF filed the brief are UW CSE professor Ed… Read more →
UW CSE ACM FallFest
Buurrrpppp!!!!!… Read more →
“The 50 Most Innovative Computer Science Departments in the U.S.”
What’s the methodology? We couldn’t care less! We’re Number Four!
Read more here. Or don’t.… Read more →
Packed house for CSE-II Information Meeting
The room was packed with representatives from architectural and engineering firms who came to learn about the CSE-II project – the project formerly known as LevyTown.
Check out reports on the project in GeekWire and the UW Daily. And listen to Ed Lazowska’s statement of the case on GeekWire Radio.… Read more →
Center for Game Science to participate in Life Sciences Research Weekend at Pacific Science Center
Brian Koepnik and Vikram Mulligan – two of the scientists behind FoldIt, the award-winning protein-folding game developed by members of UW CSE’s Center for Game Science and the UW Department of Biochemistry – will be at the Pacific Science Center this Friday through Sunday to help celebrate Life Sciences Research Weekend.
FoldIt is an online game that has effectively crowd-sourced scientific discovery of the 3-D structure of proteins that play a role in diseases such as cancer, AIDS,… Read more →
UW Daily reports on plans for a second building for CSE
The UW Daily reports:
“The UW Computer Science & Engineering department (CSE) recently proposed a dramatic expansion to satisfy the demand for its education and research.
“On Oct. 24, the UW backed the department by submitting an official request to architects for the design of a new, additional CSE building (CSE II) …
“‘We have built one of the best computer science departments in the country and I think we’ll continue to improve, to provide better education and more opportunities… Read more →
Rising Stars in EECS
Rising Stars in EECS is an annual workshop that brings together women who are advanced graduate students and postdocs in electrical engineering and computer science and are interested in careers in academia, for two days of scientific interactions and career-oriented discussions.
Student participants included Tamara Bonaci (UW EE), Nicki Dell (UW CSE), and Justine Sherry (UW CSE Bachelors alum, now a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley). UW CSE professor Anna Karlin participated on a faculty panel.
UW CSE was a… Read more →
Alums and friends tour UW CSE robotics labs
A group of UW CSE alums and friends toured four UW CSE robotics labs this evening: Emo Todorov’s Movement Control Lab, Dieter Fox’s Robotics and State Estimation Lab, Raj Rao’s Neural Systems Lab, and Maya Cakmak’s Human-Centered Robotics Lab.… Read more →
UW CSE researchers co-author exciting new study demonstrating brain-to-brain interaction
Last summer, an interdisciplinary team of UW researchers became the first to demonstrate two human brains communicating directly without using language. Today, having completed a more comprehensive test of its brain-to-brain interface, the team published its results in the journal PLOS ONE. UW CSE professor Raj Rao is lead author of the study.
The researchers used a combination of non-invasive instruments and software to connect two human brains over the Internet in real time. Six participants were paired off, with… Read more →
SenSys 2014 “Best Presentation” Award to UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
Congratulations to UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, who just received the “Best Presentation” Award at SenSys 2014, the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.
The paper, “Feasibility and Limits of Wi-Fi Imaging,” describes work done by Rajalakshmi and fellow UW CSE Ph.D. student Donny Huang as first-year students, working with UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota.… Read more →