John Markoff reports in the New York Times:
“For a little over two hours, the balloon ascended at speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute to an altitude of 135,908 feet, more than 25 miles. Mr. Eustace dangled underneath in a specially designed spacesuit with an elaborate life-support system. He returned to earth just 15 minutes after starting his fall.
“‘It was amazing,’ he said. ‘It was beautiful. You could see the darkness of space and you could see the… Read more →
Seattle Business Magazine: “UW as an Idea Factory”
A wide-ranging article with a great deal of interesting material (if, occasionally, an overly negative tone):
“Now, after years of slow but steady progress, the UW is poised to break out of the old clothing of the research-dominated institution and try on a new outfit as one of the country’s most entrepreneurially focused centers of education …
“Last year, UW was rated the nation’s top university for the number of commercialization agreements and individual technologies under license. It moved to… Read more →
How do you recruit UW CSE students?
Here’s an idea …
Send engineers who are recent UW CSE alums to the recruiting event, and feature them on postcards!
Welcome back, Jenny Abrahamson and Catriona Scott!… Read more →
Xconomy: “The Startup Hall Story – How it Could Transform Seattle’s U District”
Xconomy writes:
“The second floor of what used to be known only as Condon Hall – and the University of Washington’s ugliest building [editorial note: Sieg Hall is offended by this!] – holds seeds of a re-invented neighborhood where students, researchers, and entrepreneurs learn, work, and live; where tech startups and established companies build businesses with the technology and talent flowing from the university; and where professionals zip to jobs downtown on light rail …
“Chris DeVore is barefoot… Read more →
UW wins Best Student Paper Award at ASSETS 2014
The paper “Tactile Graphics with a Voice: Using QR Codes to Access Text in Tactile Graphics” has been named Best Student Paper at ASSETS 2014, the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. The authors are UW CSE graduate students Catherine Baker and Lauren Milne, UW CSE staff member Jeffrey Scofield, UW HCDE graduate student Cynthia Bennett, and UW CSE faculty member Richard Ladner.
Tactile graphics are a major way for blind people to access… Read more →
UW CSE Industry Affiliates: Recruiting fair for larger companies
60 great companies (our maximum physical capacity), from Adobe and Amazon to Zillow and Zulily, are recruiting today at UW CSE’s annual Industry Affiliates autumn recruiting fair. We’d like to thank the fire marshal for being on vacation … And we’d like to thank these companies for supporting UW CSE and our students!
Next chance: UW CSE’s winter recruiting fair, January 21 (for startups) and 22 (for established companies).… Read more →
GeekWire: “Cutting-edge server operating system wins UW computer science prize”
GeekWire reports on the Madrona Prize and the People’s Choice Award at Wednesday’s UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting and Open House:
“Computer science students at the University of Washington shared research projects — science fair-style — during an annual meeting of industry representatives on Wednesday.
“Nearly 100 research projects were on display as part of the Computer Science and Engineering Industry Affiliates Meeting …
“Each year, Madrona Venture Group awards prizes to presentations with commercial viability. ‘CSE has been this… Read more →
The People’s Choice Prize
Each year at UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting, we award the People’s Choice Prize to the student project that our alumni and Industry Affiliates think is the coolest, without regard to what the experts may think!
This year’s winner: BiliCam: Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Newborn Jaundice – Lilian de Greef, Mayank Goel, Min Joon Seo, Eric C. Larson, James W. Stout MD MPH, James A. Taylor MD, Shwetak N. Patel.
Congratulations!
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The Madrona Prize
Each year at the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting, the Madrona Prize is awarded to the student projects deemed most likely for entrepreneurial success. This year’s winners:
Third Place: Total Moving Face Reconstruction – Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven M. Seitz.
Second Place: WiBreathe: Estimating Respiration Rate Using Wireless Signals in Natural Settings in the Home – Ruth V. Ravichandran, Elliot N. Saba, Ke-Yu Chen, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, Shwetak N. Patel.
First Place: Arrakis: The Operating System is the … Read more →
Seattle Times: “‘Uncropping’ photos and other UW tech on display”
Many thanks to Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times for wonderful coverage of today’s UW Computer Science & Engineering Industry Affiliates Meeting!
“Qi Shan was remarkably calm demonstrating his advanced photo-manipulation research Wednesday at the University of Washington.
“Shan’s ‘photo uncrop’ technology was among dozens of demos that students presented during the Computer Science & Engineering Department’s annual showcase for industry partners. The audience included recruiters, investors and researchers, including representatives of big tech companies such as Microsoft, Intel and… Read more →