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 →
The Madrona Prize concludes UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting research day
Each year, Madrona Venture Group awards The Madrona Prize to the student research project presented at UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting that has the greatest commercial potential.
GeekWire reports on this year’s Madrona Prize winner and runners up:
“The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the Paul G. Allen Center.
“As part of the University of Washington’s Industry Affiliates Annual Meeting, nearly 100 research groups made up… Read more →
Jeff Heer keynotes UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting
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 →