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 →
“Invest in proven, successful programs at UW, WSU, and WWU”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW Tacoma’s Rob Friedman write in the Seattle Times:
“It takes years and many dollars to build a new technical institute. It is far more effective to invest in proven, successful programs at the UW, Washington State University and Western Washington University.”
Read the letter in today’s Seattle Times here; pdf here.… Read more →
Google buys Nest for $3.2B
Former UW CSE faculty member Yoky Matsuoka is Vice President of Technology at Nest.
Read more here and here.… Read more →
CSE startup SNUPI Technologies raises an additional $7.5M for Wally
From GeekWire:
“SNUPI Technologies, the University of Washington spin out led by serial entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech, has scored $7.5 million in financing that it will use to launch a new home sensor product known as Wally. Total funding in the 2-year-old startup now stands at $9 million.
“Wally, which we wrote about last November, is a $299 device that’s designed to detect leaks and moisture in homes.”
Read more in GeekWire here.
Learn about SNUPI and… Read more →
CSE alum Brian Ma and his new startup Weave featured in GeekWire
“Brian Ma likes going to networking events. But what he doesn’t particularly care for is stepping into the room and not knowing where the interesting people are located.
“‘It’s awkward, inefficient, and completely hit and miss,’ says Ma. That’s why the Decide.com co-founder started Weave, a new mobile app for iOS that allows people to connect with LinkedIn professionals who might be lingering nearby. A user can choose to anonymously say whether they want to meet them or not. If… Read more →
Go Seahawks!
Back by popular demand in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering: the 2006 Seattle Seahawks playoff banner that Paul was kind enough to provide back then. Go Hawks!… Read more →
Congratulations Crystal and Bruce!
CSE lead undergraduate advisor Crystal Eney married Bruce MacKenzie tonight with much of CSE in attendance (but only Dan Boren in a kilt). Congratulations Crystal and Bruce!… Read more →
Rajesh Rao’s human-to-human brain interface: #13 on Discover Magazine’s “100 Top Stories of 2013”
Rajesh Rao’s research on a human-to-human brain interface is #13 on Discover Magazine‘s “100 Top Stories of 2013.” See the rundown here. Learn more about Raj’s work here.… Read more →
“Recap of 2013: Top 10 most-viewed stories on UW Today”
Three of 2013’s top four “most-viewed” stories on the UW Today news site were CSE stories:
Rajesh Rao’s human-to-human brain interface
Shyam Gollakota and Shwetak Patel’s “WiSee” gesture recognition technology
Shyam Gollakota and Josh Smith’s “ambient backscatter” battery-free wireless technique
The UW Today staff seems to be playing it straight – only one of the top ten stories has “sex” in its title.
Read more here!… Read more →
‘Tis the season …
The Erbeck and Timss kids enjoy the roaring fire at CSE’s 2013 faculty/staff holiday notluck.… Read more →