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 →
UW CSE Center for Game Science: Foldit Reaches 1000 Puzzles, Debuts New Ebola Puzzle
Foldit , a protein folding and protein structure game from UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in collaboration with the Baker Lab in UW Biochemistry, has reached 1000 puzzles today, thanks to the hard work of CGS’s scientists and community. CGS’s scientists have posted a few past puzzles in which they have asked players to design peptides and small proteins that are able to bind to a binding site on the Ebola binding protein.
Read up on Foldit’s continuing commitment… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner in GeekWire: “How tech advances are helping innovators do more for people with disabilities”
GeekWire writes:
“Inside a small office on the sixth floor of the University of Washington’s computer science building, Richard Ladner starts talking about Google’s self-driving cars. The longtime professor is so excited about the innovation that he lets out a big laugh.
“But Ladner isn’t joking around – rather, he’s jazzed up about a better future for people with disabilities.”
Read more here.… Read more →
Fastest growing job category in WA in the past decade? Software Applications Developers!
Some interesting visualizations of data drawn from the Washington State Employment Security Department.
And the winner is … Software Applications Developers.
Duh.
Check it out here.… Read more →
And after the Startup Gong Show and pizza … dessert from Sift Science!
Thanks to Jason Tan and Zorah Lea Fung of Sift Science for dessert and conversation on the startup life!… Read more →
UW CSE “Startup Gong Show”
Many thanks to Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group) for keynoting this evening’s UW CSE “Startup Gong Show,” and to all the startups who participated!… Read more →