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 →
UW CSE’s 6 2014 faculty hires
A brochure celebrating UW CSE’s 2014 faculty hires:
Alvin Cheung, Data Management, Programming Languages and Systems
Yejin Choi, Natural Language Processing
Franzi Roesner, Security and Privacy
Noah Smith, Natural Language Processing
Emina Torlak, Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Xi Wang, Systems, Programming Languages and Security
The world according to Hank:
Six new hires — on top of ten new hires in the preceding two years — reinforce UW Computer Science & Engineering’s position among the very best programs in the… Read more →
UW CSE hearts Holy Names Academy
Seattle’s Holy Names Academy – the oldest continuously operating K-12 school in Washington – has sent a steady stream of outstanding students to UW CSE: Allie Rutherford and Krysta Yousoufian graduated from UW CSE in 2011; Jenny Abrahamson and Cristine Acuario in 2012; Ally Gale in 2013; Jennifer Apacible in 2014; Micaela Montstream, Karolina Pyszkiewicz, Abby Gray, and Madeline Wessels are currently in the program.
CSE’s Ed Lazowska spoke to the Holy Names teachers this morning on “Why Computer Science?… Read more →
Shyam Gollakota, Kuang Chen, Kurtis Heimerl win 2014 TR35 Awards!!!!!
Annually, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 technology innovators under the age of 35 with TR35 Awards. Hundreds of nominees are reduced to fewer than 100 finalists by the MIT Technology Review editors. A panel of judges rates the finalists on the originality and impact of their work. Finally, the editors take the judges’ scores into account to select the final group of TR35 Award winners.
The TR35 Award competition has always been very good to UW CSE faculty and alums,… Read more →
Tracking the use of personal data on the web: UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu in NY Times
We live in a data-driven world. Many of the Web services, mobile apps, and third parties we interact with daily are collecting immense amounts of information about us – every location, click, search, email, document, and site that we visit. And they are using all of this information for various purposes. Some uses of these uses might be beneficial for us (e.g., recommendations for new videos or songs to see); other uses may not be as beneficial. The problem is… Read more →
UW CSE’s Jeffrey Heer, Matt Mohebbi in NY Times on “Data Wrangling”
Steve Lohr writes in the New York Times:
“Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering.
“The field known as ‘big data’ offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources … Its promise is smarter, data-driven decision-making in every field. That is why data scientist is the… Read more →