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 →
UW CSE project wins award from USAID-Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention
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 →