USAID has announced four new grants to winners of the joint USAID-Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention. The grants will help recipients partner with an operational NGO or an established human rights group to further develop and pilot their innovations to document atrocities and facilitate communication for those at risk.
The award to UW CSE focuses on the work of Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha, supervised by professor Gaetano Borriello. The project – Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Junction –… Read more →
Welcome to Seattle, Belkin’s WeMo Labs!
Several years ago, Belkin International acquired Zensi, a “smart home” energy and water sensing startup from the lab of UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel. Zensi’s technology became the heart of Belkin’s WeMo home automation ecosystem.
Today, Belkin announced the creation of WeMo Labs in Seattle.
“‘With a thriving tech industry and an immense talent pool surrounding UW’s world-renowned Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs, Seattle is ground zero for recruiting the top data scientists, software engineers, and… Read more →
GeekWire’s “Seattle 10” – including UW CSE startup GraphLab!
“Education. Big data. Health. Telecommunications. Clean tech.
“Seattle is producing groundbreaking startups in a host of industries, generating a crop of impressive entrepreneurs who are truly attempting to change the world.
“Getting to tell these startup stories at GeekWire is an honor and a privilege, and that’s one of the reasons why we are so excited to once again partner with the Museum of History & Industry to bring you The Seattle 10.
“This list showcases 10 of the most… Read more →
Welcome to Seattle, Apple!
Apple is the latest leading-edge tech company to open a Seattle engineering office, joining Google, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Oracle, LinkedIn, Groupon, eBay, and (just last week) Alibaba.
What’s going on?
First, Seattle is the software capital of the world. That’s literally – numerically – true: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports more “Software Developers” (“Applications” + “Systems”) in Seattle (Seattle-Everett-Bellevue) than in Silicon Valley (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara).
Second, Seattle the cloud capital of the world. That’s also literally true… Read more →
CBS “Innovation Nation” features UW CSE’s age progression software
UW CSE professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman demonstrates her amazing age progression software on CBS TV’s “Innovation Nation.”
Want to know what you or your child will look like a few decades from now? Check it out!
CBS interview here. Research web page here.
(Quoting UW CSE’s Steve Seitz: “I love when they showed the ‘code’ behind the algorithm. Hand scrawled with lots of integrals :-)”)… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Anderson keynotes ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
UW CSE professor Tom Anderson delivered the opening keynote this morning at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing.
Tom’s topic was “High Performance Data Center Operating Systems and Networks” – specifically, UW CSE’s new Arrakis data center operating system and F10/Subways approach to data center network configuration.
“Recent device hardware trends enable new approaches to the design of data center operating systems and networks, yielding substantial benefits for application performance. In a traditional operating system, the kernel mediates access… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire Radio
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska joins GeekWire‘s Todd Bishop and John Cook for a conversation on GeekWire Radio. Topics include:
Regular GeekWire content:
The Microsoft Band (Todd had a review model – way cool!)
Starbucks home delivery (John thinks they’re transforming into a technology company)
Interview with Ed (9:00-16:25)
What’s cool in computer science?
How much is this reflected in education?
What about student demand for computer science? What’s driving the dramatic increase?
What can we do to meet our local… Read more →
CSE’s “Dress Like Your Research” Halloween Party
(For most of these, your guess is as good as ours … but see if you can find “tail effects,” “barrelfish,” “non-volatile RAM,” “BiliCam,” …)… Read more →
Jacob Nelson’s Ph.D. defense
Apparently Jacob didn’t get the memo regarding appropriate attire for a Ph.D. defense on Halloween.… Read more →
UW CSE and Microsoft Band
Let’s hear it for Microsoft Research – UW CSE affiliate professor Desney Tan, UW CSE affiliate professor Dan Morris, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Scott Saponas, and the rest of the team!
Read about Microsoft Band in the New York Times here.… Read more →