UW CSE startup SNUPI Technologies (co-founded by faculty Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds, graduate student Gabe Cohn, and alum Jeremy Jaech) is featured in this month’s Seattle Business magazine:
“The so-called internet of things, in which objects transfer data without requiring human interaction, is so hot that Google recently invested $3.2 billion in Nest Labs, which sells a ‘smart’ household thermostat that learns the owner’s behavior to reduce energy use.
“This infatuation isn’t lost on SNUPI Technologies, which is debuting… Read more →
AllSee: Bringing Gesture Recognition To All Devices
AllSee is the first gesture-recognition system that can operate on a range of computing devices including those with no batteries. AllSee consumes three to four orders of magnitude lower power than state-of-the-art systems and can enable always-on gesture recognition for smartphones and tablets. It extracts gesture information from existing wireless signals (e.g., TV transmissions), but does not incur the power and computational overheads of prior wireless approaches.
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota, Bryce Kellogg, and Vamsi Talla are the innovators.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jason Yi-Bing Lin named Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Science and Technology
A partial ROC Cabinet reshuffle was announced February 26 by Premier Jiang Yi-huah.
The premier named Chang San-cheng the inaugural Minister of Science and Technology, and named 1990 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jason Yi-Bing Lin as Deputy Minister with a portfolio that includes the National Science Council, Taiwan’s NSF. Jiang emphasized the importance of continuing the NSC’s tradition of cultivating a strong fundamental research capability, assisting academia to direct its resourceful creativity toward innovative entrepreneurship, and enhancing the global competitiveness… Read more →
Google Research Awards to CSE’s Anderson, Gollakota, Kemelmacher, Weld
UW CSE professors Tom Anderson, Shyam Gollakota, Ira Kemelmacher, and Dan Weld have been named as recipients in the latest round of Google Faculty Research Awards.
Google received 691 proposals from 46 countries on 6 continents, and made 115 awards.
Other UW recipients were Jeff Bilmes (EE; CSE adjunct professor), Chris Rudell (EE), and Jake Wobbrock (iSchool; CSE adjunct professor).
UW CSE Ph.D. alums fared extraordinarily well in the competition: Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (Georgia Tech faculty), Zack … Read more →
UW CSE’s Martin Tompa’s famous wife featured by the Hutch
“Wondering what steps you can take to reduce your cancer risk? Dr. Anne McTiernan, a cancer prevention researcher in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, offers the following tips …”
Read them here.… Read more →
“Each and Every Student Should Study Computer Science”
President Obama recently sent a hand-written note of apology to University of Texas Senior Lecturer in Art History Ann Collins Johns, resolving a flap that began a few weeks previously when, during an event at a GE gas engine plant in Wisconsin, the President emphasized that Americans would be better off if more of them could work in the manufacturing industry. “Manufacturing jobs typically pay well,” he said. And while some young people might not think of the skilled trades… Read more →
Computing Community Consortium blog: “Computer Science for Non-Majors”
Writing in the Computing Community Consortium blog, Ran Libeskind-Hadas discusses desiderata for computer science courses for non-majors, specifically calling out UW CSE’s introductory course “Data Programming” as well as courses at Berkeley and Harvey Mudd College. Read more in the CCC blog here.… Read more →
UW CSE alum Jon Su’s startup PhiSix acquired by eBay
2006 UW CSE bachelors alum Jon Su received his Ph.D. from Stanford, spent several years as a Research Scientist at Intel’s Parallel Computing Lab, then co-founded PhiSix Fashion Labs, a Bay Area technology company helping apparel e-tailers increase sales and reduce returns through the application of innovative 3D modeling and physical simulation technologies – creating 3D models of clothing from photos, pattern files and other sources and simulating the behavior of the garments.
This week, PhiSix was acquired by eBay… Read more →
Business Insider: “It’s Better To Be A Software Programmer Than A Doctor In 2014”
“US News has released its list of the 100 best jobs in 2014, and the No. 1 job on the list is: software developer.
“The work is meaningful, touching every aspect of our lives. It pays well. It is in demand in all parts of the country and doesn’t require a lot of grad school to get started …
“Plus, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts there will be nearly 140,000 brand-new software development jobs created before 2022, says… Read more →
StopInfo launched for OneBusAway
The OneBusAway research team in CSE has just launched a new service, called StopInfo, that provides very detailed information about bus stops in Puget Sound, aimed initially at increasing the accessibility of bus stops for people who are blind or visually impaired. Knowing detailed information ahead of time about a bus stop, such as which side of the intersection it is on and what type of bus sign it has, can reduce the time and hassle it takes to find… Read more →