UW CSE robotics faculty (Maya Cakmak, Dieter Fox, Raj Rao, Josh Smith (joint with EE), and Emo Todorov (joint with Applied Mathematics)) and their students have 14(!) papers accepted at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the major conference in robotics. The research cover a large variety of areas in robotics, including biologically inspired microrobots, optimal control, computer vision, human robot interaction, machine learning, hardware design, and manipulation. The papers:
A Wirelessly… Read more →
UW’s AccessComputing helps code.org make their inspirational videos accessible
UW’s AccessComputing – the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers – has worked with code.org to make their inspirational videos accessible to blind students by adding audio description. Audio description provides additional audio to the video to describe what is visually happening. The added audio is in a different voice to distinguish it from the voices in the original video.
AccessComputing, a joint effort by CSE and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington, is… Read more →
CSE’s Yoav Artzi wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
And in late-breaking news (“nobody ever tells me anything”), UW CSE Ph.D. student Yoav Artzi has also been named a recipient of a 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship.
Yoav, who is advised by Luke Zettlemoyer, works at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and learning through interaction.… Read more →
CSE’s Mayank Goel wins 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Mayank Goel has been named one of 12 recipients (from 181 nominees!) of 2014 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships.
Mayank is advised by professors Gaetano Borriello and Shwetak Patel. His research concerns ubiquitous computing and ICTD (information and communication technology for development).
Other recent UW winners of this hugely competitive fellowship are Gabe Cohn and Franzi Roesner in 2012, Morgan Dixon in 2011, Kayur Patel in 2009, and Pravin Bhat, Scott Saponas, and Jon Froehlich in… Read more →
The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering bids farewell to the 49ers
Coffee or hot tubs?
Software or croissants?
You make the call!
Go ‘Hawks!… Read more →
Games for Learning: The Norwegian Algebra Challenge
Remember last spring’s Washington State Algebra Challenge? In a partnership between UW CSE’s Center for Game Science and the Technology Alliance, 4,192 Washington State K-12 students solved over 390,000 algebra equations during the first week of June, using an adaptive version of the game DragonBox.
This week marks the Norwegian Algebra Challenge. Those of us who live in Ballard are excited to report that on the first day, all previous records were shattered: over 1.6 million equations were… Read more →
DawgBytes update – UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program
DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”) is UW’s Computer Science & Engineering K-12 outreach program – we introduce students, parents, and teachers to the exciting world of computing.
Learn about recent activities and upcoming events here!… Read more →
UW startup SNUPI on KING5 TV
“Whatever you call it – the Internet of Things, connected homes, smart homes – Jacquelyn Jaech knew it would become one of the big themes from the recent International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas …
“Jaech and her husband, SNUPI CEO Jeremy Jaech, hope WallyHome ends up as the must-have hardware for homeowners looking to spare themselves the expensive grief of mold and water damage. The $299 kit includes six sensors that monitor moisture, humidity and temperature around the… Read more →
CSE grad student and ex-Googler Will Scott – teaching CS in North Korea
From Business Insider:
“Will Scott is a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington and ex-Googler who spent last fall in North Korea teaching courses on Operating Systems and Databases at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
“Will documented much of his time spent in the DPRK via Instagram. Together with the descriptions of his adventure from his recent Reddit post, they give us a clearer picture of what life is like in North Korea.”
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New video features Shwetak Patel’s UbiComp Lab
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is releasing the third segment in its Computing Research in Action Series. This segment features the Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) research lab, led by Professor Shwetak Patel, at the University of Washington. The UbiComp lab, which consists of an interdisciplinary team of students, focuses on solving interesting and socially meaningful problems using a mix of hardware and software applications. The UbiComp lab focuses on four areas of ubiquitous computing:
Novel interaction techniques
Sustainability sensing… Read more →