The Sensor Systems Lab – in the person of EE graduate student Aaron Parks and CSE+EE faculty member Joshua Smith – has won the Best Paper Award at IEEE RFID for the paper Sifting Through the Airwaves: Efficient and Scalable Multiband RF Harvesting.
Previous ambient RF harvesting systems worked for only one pre-selected frequency. The new multi-band harvester can capture power from any subset of a group of pre-selected frequencies. Previous systems would be unlikely to work when moved… Read more →
Sound Startups
UW CSE is sponsoring a KIRO TV series, “Sound Startups,” highlighting the Puget Sound region’s innovation economy. The promo for the series features Jeremy Jaech (SNUPI), Sarah Bird (Moz), and Glenn Kelman (Redfin). It’s great! Check it out: mp4 here; Windows Media here. Vimeo and downloads here.… Read more →
Automated age-progression software lets you see how a child will age!
It’s a guessing game parents like to ponder: What will my child look like when she grows up? For better or for worse, research by UW CSE professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz and UW CSE graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn has yielded software that answers this question!
Using a single photo of a 3-year-old, the software automatically renders facial images at multiple ages. The researchers tested their rendered images against those of 82 actual people photographed over a span of… Read more →
New York Times: “Technology’s Man Problem”
A thought-provoking article by Claire Cain Miller:
“‘It’s a thousand tiny paper cuts,’ is how Ashe Dryden, a programmer who now consults on increasing diversity in technology, described working in tech.”
“‘We see these stories, ‘Why aren’t there more women in computer science and engineering?’ and there’s all these complicated answers like, ‘School advisers don’t have them take math and physics,’ and it’s probably true,’ said Lauren Weinstein, a man who has spent his four-decade career in tech working mostly… Read more →
UW Daily discovers AllSee
“AllSee, a gesture-recognition system being developed by UW researchers, is bringing this technology to smartphones and similar devices.
“AllSee uses existing signals put out by other electronic devices to read the users’ hand movements, using 1,000 to 10,000 times less power than similar systems. The technology can even operate on devices without batteries.”
Read the UW Daily article here. Learn more about AllSee here.… Read more →
UW CSE Ski Day 2014 @ Stevens Pass
Friday was UW CSE Ski Day 2014 – faculty, staff, and students enjoying more than 100″ of snow at Stevens Pass. Hank was all smiles until Tina smoked him …… Read more →
UW CSE @ Paul G. Allen’s Living Computer Museum
On Thursday, 250 UW CSE alumni, friends, families, faculty, and staff gathered at Paul G. Allen’s Living Computer Museum for an evening of fellowship and nostalgia.
For those of you who have not yet visited the Living Computer Museum, it’s a treat! Everything works, and everything is hands-on!
Bruce Hemingway photos of the event here.… Read more →
CSE’s Gaetano Borriello wins UW’s 2014 Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
The Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award allows the UW Graduate School to honor those members of the faculty who exemplify excellence in graduate education.
Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has been announced as the 2014 recipient of this award. In his letter announcing the award, UW President Michael Young said: “Your students and colleagues nominated you with the highest praise for your exemplary commitment and skill in mentoring graduate students. … Read more →
UW CSE Networks & Wireless Lab in Xconomy
Xconomy describes a collection of astonishing innovations from UW CSE’s Networks & Wireless Lab, led by Shyam Gollakota:
“The chorus of Hotel California sings out from the mobile phone in Bryce Kellogg’s pocket. He waves his hand to turn down the volume. He flicks his fingers a couple of times and Stairway to Heaven plays. The phone never leaves his pocket.
“It looks like a parlor trick, but the underlying technology, developed by a team of University of… Read more →
Congratulations to UW CSE’s 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients!
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are among the most prestigious awards available to graduate students in the STEM fields. The 2014 NSF GSRFs were announced today, and UW CSE has a bumper crop!
UW CSE Ph.D. student Camille Cobb
UW CSE Ph.D. student Scott Lundberg
UW CSE Ph.D. student Lauren Milne
UW CSE Ph.D. student Greg Nelson
UW CSE Ph.D. student Trevor Perrier
UW EE Ph.D. student Edward Wang, who works with CSE/EE faculty member Shwetak Patel
UW CSE Bachelors alum… Read more →
