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 →
GeekWire on Levytown
“‘We need to grow our degree programs at all levels to meet the demand for computing education, both for our own majors and outside,’ said Hank Levy, the department’s Wissner-Slivka Chair …
“Finally, Lazowska said that ‘Washington’s kids must have the opportunity to become educated for Washington’s jobs.’ It’s a topic he’s sounded off on before …
“‘We need more space and more faculty to meet these needs,’ Lazowska said.”
Read more in GeekWire here.
Follow the Levytown exponential… Read more →
“It’s Our Boat Now”
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, gives a spectacular talk at last week’s Leadership Conference of the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce:
“Right now we are an average state when it comes to computer science in schools. And by average I mean pathetic. Because as a country, we’re actually quite pathetic. Only 5% of the high schools in the entire country currently offer the AP course in computer science. In Washington state we have 771 high schools… Read more →
Levytown fundraising effort revitalized as a result of Brier Dudley’s Seattle Times column!
Our crowd-sourced exponential fundraising effort for Levytown had stalled after Eric Rudder put up $400, doubling Gaetano Borriello’s $200, doubling Shyam Gollakota’s $80, doubling Marc Fiuczynski’s $40, doubling Dieter Fox’s $20, etc.
However, as a result of Brier Dudley’s column in today’s Seattle Times, Johnson Apacible has put up $800, leaving us only 16 gifts from having our new building fully funded.
Track the progress here. (Being conservative, we are not counting Marc Fiuczynski’s second gift, of $1,000,000… Read more →
Seattle Times on UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting and new building plans
The Seattle Times reports on UW’s plans for an expanded facility for CSE, discussed at last week’s UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting:
“Ten years after it opened, the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering still has that new-building smell.
“It’s a glorious home for the University of Washington’s esteemed computer science program, with polished wood and metal interiors that look more like Microsoft headquarters than a public school …
“More important, graduates have found jobs at pretty… Read more →
NY Times: “Of Fact, Fiction, and Defibrillators”
Research into the privacy and security of implantable medical electronics by UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and his collaborators continues to receive press attention following former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent revelation that the wireless capabilities of his pacemaker/defibrillator had been disabled for security reasons:
“Many of the doctors hung up on him, Dr. [Kevin] Fu [of the University of Michigan] said, adding, ‘They thought I was crazy to worry about the security of a device in the chest.’
“Finally, he… Read more →