The Mark Weiser Award was created in 2001 by the computer systems research community, to be given annually to an individual who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in computer systems research. The recipient must have begun his or her career no earlier than 20 years prior to nomination. The award is named in honor of Mark Weiser, a computing visionary recognized for his research accomplishments during his career at Xerox PARC.
Today, the 2013 SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award was presented… Read more →
Qazzow scores $500,000 seed investment
Qazzow – a UW spinout founded by iSchool professors (and CSE Adjunct Professors) Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock and their Ph.D. alum (and University of Waterloo professor) Parmit Chilana – has announced a $500,000 seed investment from UW’s W Fund.
Qazzow is a Q&A SaaS offering that websites use to increase sales conversions by answering customer questions. The system is being tested by Ben Bridge Jeweler, Game House, Big Fish Games, PetHub, Yapta, and PlayOn.
Congratulations, team! Read the GeekWire… Read more →
“Coding for Success”
Seattle’s Lakeside School profiles UW CSE Ph.D. alumna Lauren Bricker, who has transformed the school’s computer science programs since arriving in 2007.
“In junior high, Lauren Bricker insisted on being allowed to take shop instead of home ec – and ran away with the top prize. In high school, introduced to programming in math class, she spent every lunch hour seeing what she could make old Apple IIGs and TRS-80s do. In college, she sped through a theoretical math major… Read more →
SNUPI announces Wally
UW CSE startup SNUPI has announced Wally. Our friends at GeekWire write:
“Worried about toxic mold or pesky water leaks in your home?
“Never fear, Wally is here.
“That’s the new consumer brand from SNUPI Technologies, the latest startup effort from Seattle serial entrepreneur [and UW CSE alumnus] Jeremy Jaech …
“WallyHome – which works in conjunction with an always-on Internet connection – is designed to detect environmental hazards around the home by monitoring moisture, temperature and humidity changes. The… Read more →
UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner, Shiri Azenkot kick off MIT’s 2013 “Rising Stars in EECS”
MIT’s “Rising Stars in EECS” is an annual workshop that brings together top graduate and postdoc women in EECS for two days of scientific discussions and informal sessions aimed at navigating early stages of the academic career.
UW CSE Ph.D. students Franzi Roesner and Shiri Azenkot will present their research in the first session of the workshop. Franzi will speak on “Third-Party Web Tracking: Detection, Measurement, and Prevention.” Shiri will speak on “DigiTaps: Eyes-Free … Read more →
“Welcome to the Mind-Meld: Our Future of Brain-to-Brain Communication”
The brain-to-brain interface experiment of UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao continues to attract extraordinary attention.
Discover features an in-depth explanation of the experiment and its implications, here:
“Finally, in August 2013, University of Washington scientists Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco succeeded in making one leap everyone was waiting for: A human-to-human brain-to-brain interface. By strapping one person into a non-invasive EEG helmet, and strapping the second into a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) helmet, the researchers mind-melded themselves – for the… Read more →
Best Paper at HCOMP 2013
The paper “Crowdsourcing Multi-Label Classification for Taxonomy Creation” by UW CSE’s Jonathan Bragg, Mausam, and Dan Weld has been selected as the recipient of the Best Paper distinction at the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2013).
Congratulations to Jonathan, Mausam, and Dan!… Read more →
Xconomy on Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing
The Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing – NIAC – is a joint initiative of the University of Washington and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Xconomy reports on “NIAC Day” – a day of seminars and working sessions inaugurating NIAC:
“Ed Lazowska, UW computer science professor, director of the eScience Institute, and a key link between PNNL and the university, put aspirations for NIAC—unveiled early this year—in context of the ‘dawn of a new era… Read more →
Best Paper at ASSETS 2013
The paper “Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations with Google Street View” has received the Best Paper Award at the 2013 ASSETS conference – the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.
Among the authors: Shiri Azenkot and Megan Campbell are UW graduate students. Kelly Minckler and Rochelle Ng are UW undergraduates. Cynthia Bennett is a staff research assistant working with Professor Richard Ladner. Jon Froehlich is… Read more →
Halloween brings the Google costume competition to UW CSE
Or as Marion Daly says in her email auto-response: “Thanks for your email. I’m out of the office right now attending a very important costume competition at UW. However, don’t fear (unless you’re watching a horror movie or have just chopped of a digit while carving a pumpkin) I’ll be back online this afternoon.”
Googler-as-Cookie-Monster has an illustrious history in CSE; see Yin Lu here.… Read more →