“A new technology … may give users a new way of providing … interactivity … a gesture recognition system that can control a wide range of devices.
“The ‘AllSee’ system uses wireless signals for both power and gesture recognition. Sensors in the system read changes in the signals created by the gestures, and transforms them into specific commands. The UW team’s prototype is now using TV and RFID (radio frequency identification) signals for showing off AllSee’s capabilities, but they hope… Read more →
UW CSE alumni happy hour at Amazon.com
UW CSE hosts annual “happy hours” at a number of companies where our alums have a significant presence. Yesterday, CSE faculty (Tom Anderson, Dan Grossman, Ed Lazowska, Hal Perkins, and Zach Tatlock), advising staff (Crystal Eney, Jen Pesicka, and Dave Rispoli) and outreach staff (Kay Beck-Benton, Karen Howard, and Sergey Smirnov) joined a big crowd of alums at Amazon.com.
We have a number of alums who’ve been at Amazon.com for more than a decade (they get cool colored employee badges!),… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dan Grossman elected to Computing Research Association Board of Directors
UW CSE professor Dan Grossman has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
CRA is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.
CRA’s mission is to enhance innovation by joining with industry, government and academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. CRA executes this… Read more →
UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes, featured in Front Porch
Front Porch – UW’s publication for U-District neighbors – features UW CSE’s DawgBytes K-12 outreach program as this month’s cover story.
Read the article here. Learn more about DawgBytes here.… Read more →
Why CSE? Our students speak …
We ask applicants to our Computer Science and Computer Engineering major programs to tell us why they’re interested in Computer Science & Engineering. Here are some responses from this quarter’s incoming students:
After taking CSE 143 and creating a Sudoku game application, it sparked a latent interest within me for programming. In addition, I developed a mentality for programming and I knew that was what I wanted to pursue as a career. I believe computer science will have a capacity… Read more →
Remembering Ben Taskar
We remember our friend and colleague Ben Taskar on what would have been his 37th birthday, March 3 2014.
His wife Anat asks, “I was hoping we could, as a community, each take a moment this week to perform a simple, random act of kindness to commemorate Ben’s life and giving spirit.”… Read more →
Gary Kildall and the 40th Anniversary of the Birth of the PC Operating System
David Laws of the Computer History Museum has written a lovely history of UW CSE Ph.D. alum Gary Kildall’s seminal role in the PC revolution:
“Late one afternoon in the fall of 1974, in the sleepy California seaside town of Pacific Grove, programmer Gary Kildall and electronic engineer John Torode [also a UW CSE Ph.D. alum] ‘retired for the evening to take on the simpler task of emptying a jug of not-so-good red wine … and speculating on the future… Read more →
The New York Times on educational inequality
“The demise of opportunity through higher education is, fundamentally, a political failure …
“The worst problems … occur at for-profit schools like those run by the Apollo Group (which owns the University of Phoenix), the Education Management Corporation or Corinthian Colleges. These schools cater to low-income students and veterans, but too often they turn hopes for a better life into the despair of financial ruin.
“Nearly all of their students take out loans to attend, and the amounts are staggering.… Read more →
Fortune: 20% of the world’s 25 most admired companies are from Seattle!
Amazon.com (2), Starbucks (5), Costco (12), Nordstrom (17), and Microsoft (24).
Go team! Read more here.… Read more →
UW CSE WinterFest
Friday marked the annual UW CSE WinterFest, presented by the UW CSE ACM student chapter and sponsored by Facebook (thank you!)
Food … games … music …
Students, faculty, and staff had a terrific time!… Read more →