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 →
“Please, God, get me outa here before the players come through the tunnel!”
UW CSE chair Hank Levy joins UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce on the Husky Stadium field prior to the UW/Cal game.… Read more →
Annual UW CSE graduate student pumpkin carving TGIF
We admit it – there were more people eating and drinking than there were carving.
The real question is who’s going to be the first to encounter our cleaning staff on Monday morning …… Read more →
UW CSE alum Ankur Jain co-leads Emmy-winning team at Google YouTube!
UW CSE alum Ankur Jain is co-tech-lead of the team at Google that builds and operates YouTube’s content distribution network. In awarding Google YouTube a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said:
“Since YouTube’s founding in 2005, the world is surprised on a daily basis by the creativity, inspiration and passion that the planet’s most creative people bring to the YouTube platform. Each month, a billion people watch more than 6 billion hours of video.… Read more →
CSE’s Shwetak Patel at MOHAI’s Bezos Center for Innovation
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel is one of a number of Seattle-area innovators featured in displays at the Bezos Center for Innovation at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry.
In connection with the dedication event for the Bezos Center for Innovation several weeks ago, Shwetak participated in an “Hour of Power” during which he posed provocative questions to Seattleites of all ages.
The newly-relocated and expanded MOHAI is spectacular – you should visit if you haven’t. And… Read more →
Tracy or Tina?
In the wake of the cleanup from UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates meeting, we ask you: Tracy or Tina? Who has the huge iridescent blueberry shoes, and who has the petite iridescent watermelon shoes?
Leave your ballot with Rebecca at the front desk!… Read more →
UW CSE Industry Affiliates: Recruiting Day for Established Companies
Fifty six companies and many hundreds of UW CSE students (plus more than a few interlopers) packed the Microsoft Atrium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons today for our “established company” recruiting day. (Startup recruiting day was Tuesday; Industry Affiliates research day was Wednesday.) It was bedlam!
A list of the companies who were recruiting his here – we wish we had the space to accommodate more!
We host recruiting days twice each year – in October and in… Read more →
Madrona Prize and People’s Choice Award recipients
The Madrona Prize (for the research project presented at the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting that was deemed to have the greatest potential for commercialization) went to Ambient Back Scatter: Battery Free Communication; Aaron Parks, Vincent Liu, and Vamsi Talla.
Runners-up were:
Personalized SLAs in the Cloud; Jennifer Ortiz and Victor Texeira de Almeida
iHome 3D: Capturing Indoor Scenes with Smartphone; Aditya Senkar
WiSee: Whole Home Gesture Recognition Using WiFi; Ruth Ravichandran, Sidhant Gupta, and Qi… Read more →