Q: What’s the perfect attire for the child of two UW CSE Ph.D. alums?
A: A UW CSE t-shirt, of course!
(As Mom said on Facebook: “So very appropriate for a kid who owes his existence to UW CSE!“)
Thanks to Julie Letchner and Seth Bridges for the cute photo!… Read more →
Chronicle of Higher Education on ties between academic CS programs and industry
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on ever-closer ties between academia and industry in Computer Science:
“Professors and industry leaders across the computer-science landscape say that their worlds have never been closer and that a new generation of tech giants is leading the push …
“The reasons are clear. Academics need access to the data and scale that only industry can generate, not to mention the money that large corporations like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo provide in an age of… Read more →
CSE’s Ryan Drapeau featured in Google Student Blog
Google’s Student Blog – news and updates especially for students – has a feature article today on UW CSE bachelors student Ryan Drapeau, who’s interning at Google Mountain View this summer along with many of his UW CSE classmates. A few excerpts:
Can you provide us with a high-level description of your summer project?
I work on the Accessibility Engineering team in Google Research in Mountain View, CA. As a team, we build innovative products and solutions to help make… Read more →
CSE alum startup Parenthoods in TechCrunch
A great article in today’s TechCrunch on Parenthoods, a new Y Combinator-backed mobile platform created by alums Siobhan Quinn and Jeni Axline:
“Becoming a parent is an amazing, life-changing experience, but it can also be one that’s isolating and lonely – especially if your pre-baby social activities involved spur-of-the moment invites, happy hours, and nights out on the town. Parenthoods, a new Y Combinator-backed mobile platform, wants to help with the social isolation parenthood can bring by offering… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Noah Snavely wins 2014 SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award
Congratulations once again to UW CSE Ph.D. alum Noah Snavely, who on Monday will receive the 2014 SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, the top award for young researchers in the computer graphics field.
Noah is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, working in the Cornell Graphics and Vision Group. (He is currently on leave at Google, which acquired a startup that he founded.) His research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics,… Read more →
No-power Wi-Fi connectivity could fuel Internet of Things reality
UW News reports on UW’s WiFi Backscatter technology:
“Imagine a world in which your wristwatch or other wearable device communicates directly with your online profiles, storing information about your daily activities where you can best access it – all without requiring batteries. Or, battery-free sensors embedded around your home could track minute-by-minute temperature changes and send that information to your thermostat to help conserve energy …
“Now, University of Washington engineers have designed a new communication system that uses radio… Read more →
Alvin Cheung joins the UW CSE faculty
Alvin Cheung, a researcher in databases whose work integrates techniques from programming languages and systems, will be joining UW CSE as a faculty member this coming year.
Alvin’s research focuses on co-optimizing data-intensive applications by examining the database and the runtime system and environment together, which can enable order-of-magnitude speedups in applications. For example, his paper demonstrating how to convert application functions written as imperative code into SQL queries, so that they can be optimized by the data management… Read more →
UW’s “WiFi Backscatter” featured in MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review has a super article on research by professors Shyam Gollakota, Josh Smith, and David Wetherall and graduate students Bryce Kellogg and Aaron Parks:
“Engineers have worked for decades on ways to generate power by harvesting radio signals from the air, a ubiquitous resource thanks to radio, TV, and cellular network transmitters. But although enough energy can be collected that way to run low-powered circuits, the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher. Harvesting ambient radio… Read more →
Yuriy Brun, Thu Nguyen win 2014 Microsoft Research “Awards for the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation”
The Microsoft Research Awards for the Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) support academic research in software engineering technologies, tools, practices, and teaching methods.
In 2014, MSR received more than 100 proposals for research grants in foundational software engineering, application of software engineering to Internet of Things, and infrastructure for cloud-scale software. After a thorough review process within Microsoft Research, 12 projects were selected for support. Among the 12:
UW CSE postdoc alum Yuriy Brun, now a faculty member at… Read more →
Oracle kicks off cloud computing technology center in Seattle
From the New York Times:
“Score another one for Seattle.
“On Tuesday, Oracle kicked off its new cloud computing technology center in Seattle …
“Amazon, of course, is based in Seattle, and has the headquarters of Amazon Web Services there. Across Lake Washington, Microsoft’s cloud business, Azure, is a centerpiece of chief executive Satya Nadella’s plans to spur Microsoft’s growth. Google has also located its cloud business in Seattle, and Century Link increased its cloud presence there when it purchased… Read more →