Beautiful Sieg Hall – home of UW Computer Science & Engineering from 1975-2003 – has been the subject of postcards, the backdrop for Vietnam war protests, the victim of crumbling concrete, the site of an invasion by vines, and, most recently, home to a hornet’s nest. What’s next? Stay tuned!… Read more →
CSE startup GraphLab in Seattle Times
CSE startup GraphLab inaugurated its new office space in Fremont last week. The Seattle Times writes:
“Big-data analytics startup GraphLab may need to use its number-crunching software to manage its seating chart.
“After outgrowing a series of incubation spaces at the University of Washington, the company is now filling up a standalone space down the canal in Fremont …
“GraphLab makes software that companies can use to build predictive applications – the kind that analyze huge data collections to figure… Read more →
SideSwipe: Reflected smartphone transmissions enable gesture control
UW News writes:
“With almost all of the U.S. population armed with cellphones – and close to 80 percent carrying a smartphone – mobile phones have become second-nature for most people.
“What’s coming next, say University of Washington researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone. Some smartphones are starting to incorporate 3-D gesture sensing based on cameras, for example, but cameras consume significant battery power… Read more →
UW CSE’s Roxana Geambasu is one of Popular Science’s 2014 “Brilliant Ten”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu, now on the Computer Science faculty at Columbia University, has been honored by Popular Science as one of its “Brilliant Ten” for 2014:
“As a computer scientist, Roxana Geambasu of Columbia University says she picks new projects based on what ‘really, really annoys me.’ She hates ceding control of her personal data online, which is why she’s building software that allows people to see where the information they upload to the cloud goes.”… Read more →
CSE’s Jeff Hightower, Gaetano Borriello win 2014 Ubicomp 10-Year Impact Award
The 2004 research paper “Particle Filters for Location Estimation in Ubiquitous Computing: A Case Study” by UW CSE’s Jeff Hightower and Gaetano Borriello has been recognized with the “10-Year Impact Award” from Ubicomp 2014, the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
These “test of time” awards are particularly meaningful: they identify the work presented 10 years previously that, with the benefit of that hindsight, has had the greatest impact.
In selecting the paper,… Read more →
Microsoft TEALS (and UW CSE AP curriculum) on KING5 News
Seattle’s KING5 News aired a feature on Microsoft’s TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) program. TEALS enlists computer engineers from Microsoft and other companies to help public schools offer computer science classes. The KING5 piece highlighted an AP Computer Science class that uses the textbook and approach developed by UW Principal Lecturer Stuart Reges for our popular CSE 142 class. Reges also serves on the Advisory Board for TEALS when he isn’t teaching the more than 1,000 students registered… Read more →
DawgBytes update!
DawgBytes is UW Computer Science & Engineering’s K-12 outreach program. We introduce students and their teachers to the exciting world of computing.
An update of recent and upcoming activities may be viewed here.
Subscribe to the DawgBytes mailing list here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay to chair UNC Department of Computer Science
1989 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay has been named chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina.
This is the 50th anniversary year of UNC CS – founded in 1964 by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. as one of the first computer science departments in the US.
Congratulations, Kevin!… Read more →
UW pioneers a wireless device powered by changes in temperature
“A centuries-old clock built for a king is the inspiration for a group of computer scientists and electrical engineers who hope to harvest power from the air.
“The clock, powered by changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure, was invented in the early 17th century by a Dutch builder. Three centuries later, Swiss engineer Jean Leon Reutter built on that idea and created the Atmos mechanical clock that can run for years without needing to be wound manually.
“Now, University of… Read more →
Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports SpiroSmart
The Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports the translation of health-related technologies from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace.
LSDF has just awarded $250,000 to Shwetak Patel’s SpiroSmart technology – support for finalizing the development and conducting clinical testing of a mobile app for monitoring lung function and progression of obstructive lung diseases.
Learn about SpiroSmart here.… Read more →