UW formally thanked the Washington Research Foundation yesterday, at a reception at the President’s home, for their extraordinary and transformational $31 million commitment to four leading-edge research initiatives at the University of Washington.
Computer Science & Engineering is integrally involved in two::
A $9.3 million award to the University of Washington eScience Institute, committed to UW’s leadership in data science – both in advancing the methodologies, and in putting these advances to work in a broad range of fields.… Read more →
UW MHCI+D program graduates first class!
The University of Washington’s Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D) program is a truly interdisciplinary experience with world-class faculty and students from four departments in the cross-disciplinary group DUB (Design-Use-Build): Computer Science & Engineering, Design, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the Information School.
On Friday the MHCI+D program graduated its first-ever class of 29 students. Of the graduates, about 12 were focused on Design, 10 on User Research, and 7 on Interface Technology – the three core areas… Read more →
Foldit helping in Ebola research
The Seattle Times writes:
“Months before the recent Ebola outbreak erupted in Western Africa, killing more than a thousand people, scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design were looking for a way to stop the deadly virus.
“For inspiration, they turned to an unlikely source: gamers.
“Specifically, they asked thousands of computer-game enthusiasts worldwide to tackle an Ebola puzzle on the interactive game Foldit, a 6-year-old project that encourages people to solve puzzles for science.”
Foldit… Read more →
Washington (DC) Monthly ranks UW #7 among National Universities, and #6 in “Best Bang for the Buck”
Washington (DC) Monthly, a policy magazine for wonks and insiders, has ranked universities since 2005 on how much good they do for the country. It uses measures such as the social mobility that schools provide students, the research output of faculty and students, and the degree to which students engage in public service. The metrics are arbitrary, of course, but so are those of all other rankings.
This year’s Washington Monthly rankings are out.
The University of Washington is ranked … Read more →
A fond sendoff for UW CSE’s Hélène Martin
Hélène Martin graduated from UW in Computer Science and Linguistics in 2008. She worked for the Grameen Foundation for a year, then created and led the outstanding Computer Science program at Seattle’s Garfield High School for two years. In 2011 she re-joined UW CSE as a Lecturer and as our K-12 Outreach Coordinator.
In addition to being an amazing teacher (and an all-around great person!) Hélène created our many-faceted DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”) K-12 outreach program which has impacted… Read more →
UW CSE computer vision research on cover of CACM
The cover article in this month’s Communications of the ACM describes UW CSE’s “Moving Portraits” research by Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shechtman, Rahul Garg, and Steve Seitz:
“We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person. Such collections, which we call photobios, are remarkable in that they summarize a person’s life in photos; the photos sample the appearance of a person over changes in age, pose, facial expression, hairstyle, and other variations … By… Read more →
“Test of Time” Award to UW CSE’s Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, and David Wetherall for “Rocketfuel”
“Test of Time” awards – which are given in a number of fields of computer science – are highly valued because they recognize the research that, with a decade of hindsight, has had the greatest impact.
The UW CSE research paper “Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel” by Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, and David Wetherall has just been named co-recipient of the 2014 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award. The paper was presented at the 2002… Read more →
The Ice Bucket Challenge
Ed Lazowska subjects himself to the ice bucket challenge at the hands of Madrona Venture Group’s Jerry Grinstein, and challenges his witnesses, Congressman Derek Kilmer and Senator Maria Cantwell.… Read more →
Projecting the Internet to the sea floor to transform oceanography
The NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative will transform certain aspects of oceanography from expedition-based to observatory-based.
The centerpiece of OOI is the regional cabled observatory – 1000 km of fiber optic cable deployed on the Juan de Fuca plate off the coast of Washington and Oregon, strung with thousands of chemical, physical, biological, and image sensors.
Check out live and archived video from the VISIONS’ 14 Expedition – completing construction of the cabled observatory from UW’s R.V. Thompson – here.… Read more →
StopInfo for UW CSE’s OneBusAway app makes buses more usable for blind riders
UW News writes:
“It’s a daily routine for many transit riders in the Seattle area: Pull out your smartphone, check the OneBusAway app, then decide whether you need to sprint to the bus stop or can afford that last sip of coffee. The application, developed at the University of Washington, uses real-time data to track when your bus is actually going to arrive.
“But for many blind and low-vision riders, knowing when the bus will arrive isn’t always enough. Crucial… Read more →