Jeff Heer delivered a terrific luncheon keynote at today’s UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting. Representatives from more than 100 member companies have joined us for a day of technical discussions, followed by an evening open house that adds regional alums to the mix. The meeting also includes a recruiting day for startups, and a recruiting day for established companies. See the complete agenda here.
Jeff was one of four phenomenal hires in data science in Spring 2012; he… Read more →
Happy Birthday Melody Kadenko!
Long-time CSE staff member Melody Kadenko celebrated an unspecified birthday today.
Among other duties, Melody serves as advisor to Team Hilarious, which won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in 2011 and 2012. Team members presented her with the cake in the photo, but were mum when asked about its significance.… Read more →
UW CSE’s uProxy unveiled at Google Ideas Summit in NYC
uProxy is a new Web-browser extension that uses peer-to-peer technology to let people around the world provide one another with a trusted Internet connection. uProxy is designed to protect the Internet connection of users in, say, Iran, from state surveillance or filtering.
Google Ideas is providing funding and technical assistance for uProxy, which was developed by UW CSE graduate students Ray Cheng and Will Scott, undergraduate student Paul Ellenbogen, and faculty members Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy in… Read more →
UW CSE Industry Affiliates: Startup Recruiting Day
Today is UW CSE’s fall recruiting day for startup companies – held in conjunction with UW CSE’s annual Industry Affiliates meeting. Hundreds of UW CSE undergraduate and graduate students are mingling with representatives of 50 startups (our space limit, unfortunately). It’s a wonderful madhouse!
Wednesday is devoted to research interactions, a luncheon keynote by newly-arrived faculty member Jeff Heer, and an evening open house (posters, demos, food, drink) for Industry participants and regional alumni, capped by the presentation of… Read more →
D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) wins Gannett Foundation journalism award
D3.js (Data-Driven Documents), a framework for web-based data visualization, has received the 2013 Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism, from the Online News Association (ONA).
D3.js was created by UW CSE professor Jeff Heer, his former Stanford Ph.D. student Mike Bostock (now at the New York Times), and external contributor Jason Davies.
Check out D3.js here.… Read more →
CNN: “Cheney’s defibrillator was modified to prevent hacking”
CNN includes a discussion of Yoshi Kohno’s research on the privacy and security of implantable pacemaker/defibrillators in an article about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, in which Cheney revealed that when he needed his implanted defibrillator replaced in 2007, his cardiologist ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature, thus preventing anyone from hacking the device.
Kohno and his collaborators began working on just this topic in 2006. The TV show Homeland –… Read more →
The geography of tech
The October 21 story in New York Times “Tech Wealth and Ideas Are Heading Into News” includes Jeff Bezos among “Silicon Valley and its various power brokers.”
News flash: Amazon.com is not located in Silicon Valley.
Nor is the company that pioneered PC software (Microsoft).
Nor the company that invented desktop publishing (Aldus, now part of Adobe).
Nor the company that pioneered streaming media (RealNetworks).
Nor the companies that drove the revolution in electronic retailing in areas such… Read more →
UW CSE’s Kyle Rector innovates with “Eyes-Free Yoga”
People who are blind or low vision may have a harder time participating in exercise classes due to inaccessibility, travel difficulties, or lack of experience. Exergames can encourage exercise at home and help lower the barrier to trying new activities, but there are often accessibility issues since they rely on visual feedback to help align body positions. To address this, a team led by UW CSE Ph.D. student Kyle Rector created Eyes-Free Yoga, an exergame using the Microsoft Kinect… Read more →
UW/MSR Machine Learning Day 2013
Nearly 300 researchers from Microsoft and across the University of Washington participated in today’s UW/MSR Machine Learning Day, co-organized by Ofer Dekel (MSR), Emily Fox (UW Statistics), and Ben Taskar (UW Computer Science & Engineering).
An overview and the program are linked here.… Read more →
2013 Counselors for Computing @ UW CSE
On October 11th, 60 middle school and high school counselors joined UW CSE to learn about computing as part of the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s Counselors for Computing program. Counselors heard from faculty and industry professionals, participated in hands-on activities, and mingled with their university counterparts.
See event program and pictures.
The organizers were Jane Krauss from NCWIT, Hélène Martin from UW CSE, and Chris Kelly from WSCA.
Resources
General C4C slides: pdf | pptx… Read more →