The New York Times article “Not Just Playing Around Anymore” features, among other initiatives, work by UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and the Center for Game Science:
“One speaker at this year’s festival is Zoran Popovic, the director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, in Seattle. He led the team of researchers responsible for the puzzle game Foldit, which sought to crowdsource a solution to a scientific problem. Foldit asked players to take on the… Read more →
Vote for SNUPI as GeekWire’s “Gadget of the Year”
Balloting for the GeekWire Awards continues, with UW startup SNUPI (Gabe Cohn, Jeremy Jaech, Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds) one of five finalists for “Gadget of the Year.”
Vote for SNUPI as “Gadget of the Year” here!
And while you’re at it …
UW’s Ambient Backscatter is a finalist for “Innovation of the Year,” here.
Long-time UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni, who recently left to lead Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, is a finalist for “Hire of the… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall to be honored by IEEE on Friday
On Friday, 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall will be honored by IEEE with a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. in Pacific Grove, CA.
Kildall’s CP/M was the first microcomputer operating system, and the dominant OS throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, until Microsoft purchased QDOS (a CP/M lookalike) from UW CSE bachelors alum Tim Paterson and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS.
Seattle Times article here. … Read more →
CSE’s Brandon Lucia, David Balatero are netcat: “Cycles Per Instruction”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Brandon Lucia and bachelors alum David Balatero are 2/3’s of the band netcat. Brandon writes:
“We use lots of computers in our band so we released our album as a working Linux kernel module (as well as digital and cassette). Various social media + Internet personalities (Hacker News, Reddit, jwz.org, twitter, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Dan Kaminski, etc.) all nodded to it. In fact gregkh, the maintainer of Linux-stable, has contributed 2 patches! It’s still on pg 1… Read more →
Jeff Heer’s “Semantically Resonant Colors” in Harvard Business Review
Work by UW CSE professor Jeff Heer and his students is featured in Harvard Business Review.
The idea is that concepts are much more readily grasped if colors in visualizations are chosen with an eye to “semantic relevance” or “semantic resonance” – the idea that the color is related in some way to the concept being depicted.
Harvard Business Review article here. Research web page here.… Read more →
Vote for Oren Etzioni as GeekWire’s “Hire of the Year”
Today’s category in the annual GeekWire Awards: “Hire of the Year.”
One of the candidates: long-time UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni, hired by Paul Allen to lead the new Allen Institute for Brain Science.
Vote early and often! Ballot here.
While you’re at it, don’t forget to vote for CSE’s Ambient Backscatter as GeekWire’s “Innovation of the Year” – information (and other recommendations) here.… Read more →
Remembering David Notkin
David Notkin – UW CSE’s department chair from 2001-06 and holder of the Warren Francis and Wilma Kolm Bradley Endowed Chair in Computer Science & Engineering – passed away one year ago today, on April 22 2013.
Today David’s tombstone was unveiled at a ceremony attended by many of his family, friends and colleagues – followed by an expedition to watch the Seattle Mariners, a franchise that inexplicably managed to earn David’s loyalty, lose their 8th straight.
See a lovely… Read more →
CSE’s Shiri Azenkot wins 2014 UW Graduate School Medal
Shiri Azenkot, a UW CSE Ph.D. student who is completing her studies with CSE professor Richard Ladner and iSchool professor (and CSE Adjunct professor) Jake Wobbrock, has been selected to receive the 2014 University of Washington Graduate School Medal.
The Graduate School awards the Medal “to recognize Ph.D. candidates whose academic expertise and social awareness are integrated in a way that demonstrates an exemplary commitment to the University and its larger community.”
Shiri’s research concerns eyes-free text input on… Read more →
Georg Seelig wins ONR Young Investigator Award
Georg Seelig, UW CSE+EE professor, is one of 24 “early-career academic researchers whose scientific pursuits show exceptional promise for supporting the Department of Defense” named recipients of 3-year Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards.
Over the years, research by ONRYI recipients has led to breakthroughs in nanoscience, fiber-laser systems, ultrafast optoelectronic devices and more. This year’s 24 recipients were selected from a pool of roughly 280 candidates.
Georg’s research is focused on understanding how biological organisms process information using… Read more →
Vote for UW’s Ambient Backscatter for GeekWire’s “Innovation of the Year”
It’s that time of year again – the GeekWire Awards.
UW’s Ambient Backscatter is one of five finalists for “Innovation of the Year.” Vote early and often!
Here’s the ballot.
Learn more about Ambient Backscatter here.
In other award categories: Rover.com, co-founded by Madrona’s Greg Gottesman, is a finalist for Startup of the Year.
Sarah Bird of Moz, a finalist for CEO of the Year, was kind enough to participate in a nifty KIRO TV video sponsored … Read more →