Seattle Times photographer Ellen Banner captures the Microsoft Atrium from above … here.… Read more →
IEEE Milestone plaque honoring UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall: Photos of the ceremony
On Friday, IEEE dedicated a “Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing” plaque honoring 1972 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall at the site of his company Digital Research Inc. (DRI) in Pacific Grove, CA. Hundreds attended the event – including an amazing number of former DRI employees.
DRI’s CP/M was the dominant microcomputer operating system 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… Read more →
“Astonishing age progression software” from UW CSE
Seattle’s KOMO4 News and KING5 Evening Magazine feature what KOMO calls “astonishing age progression software” from UW CSE, interviewing professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman.
KOMO4 News here.
KING5 Evening Magazine here.
Information on the research here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner wins SIGCHI Social Impact Award
UW CSE professor Richard Ladner has been recognized far and wide for his extraordinary work on accessible computing.
Richard’s most recent honor comes from the ACM Special Interest Group on human-computer interaction, SIGCHI, which will present Richard with its Social Impact Award at CHI 2014 in Toronto later this month – given “to individuals who promote the application of human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs.”
Read the citation here. Learn more about Richard and his work here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science in NY Times
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 →