To help develop a fascinating new prosthetic device, Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen is providing $1.5 million to a team of University of Washington researchers including specialists in neuroengineering and computer science. The team is developing a brain-computer-spine interface that’s intended to restore hand and arm function in people who have suffered spinal cord injuries. It’s basically an implantable computer, the size of a pacemaker, that will relay signals from the brain into the spinal cord.
The project is led… Read more →
Josh Blumenstock, Joe Devietti, Peter Henry honored by Intel
Nine faculty members from across the nation have been recognized by Intel in its 2013 U.S. Early Career Faculty Honor Program. Among the nine: UW CSE adjunct professor (and iSchool professor) Josh Blumenstock, and UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and University of Pennsylvania professor) Joe Devietti.
Fifteen top Ph.D. students from across the nation have been recognized by Intel in its 2013 U.S. PhD Fellowship Program, including UW CSE Ph.D. student Peter Henry.
Josh studies the social and… Read more →
DawgBytes update
DawgBytes is UW’s Computer Science & Engineering K-12 outreach program. We introduce students and their teachers to the exciting world of computing.
Here’s an update on summer activities and upcoming opportunities.
Get involved!… Read more →
What’s it like to be a computer science major at the University of Washington?
Find out from this Quora post by 2013 UW CSE graduate Ambar Choudhury:
“I’m going to talk about the undergraduate experience at the UW Computer Science Department (UWCSE), having graduated from the program in 2013. Short answer – it’s pretty darn awesome.
“The long answer lies below.”
Read more on Quora here.… Read more →
Eric Klavins, Georg Seelig win NSF award for molecular programming
UW EE professor (and UW CSE adjunct professor) Eric Klavins and UW EE and CSE professor Georg Seelig have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program as part of a multi-investigator team working to establish the engineering foundations for molecular programming and synthetic biology.
Klavins and Seelig will receive $2 million as part of the expedition called “Molecular Programming Architectures, Abstractions, Algorithms and Applications” led by Professor Erik Winfree of the California Institute of … Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. students Kyle Rector, Paris Koutris to attend Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The 1st Heidelberg Laureate Forum takes place September 22-27, 2013.
Forty Abel, Fields, Turing, and Nevanlinna Laureates – winners of the most prestigious awards in the computer and mathematical sciences – will spend a full week interacting with 200 selected young researchers from around the globe.
UW CSE Ph.D. students Kyle Rector and Paris Koutris are among the 200 invited attendees. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum blog has a wonderful writeup on Kyle’s research.
Congratulations to Kyle and Paris on… Read more →
UW CSE rocks at Ubicomp … again!
ACM Ubicomp, the world’s top conference for pervasive and ubiquitous computing, was held Sept 8-12 in Zurich Switzerland. For the seventh consecutive year, UW CSE took home a bundle of awards:
UW CSE Ph.D. student Matthew Kay, UW HCDE professor (and UW CSE adjunct professor) Julie Kientz, and their collaborators received a Best Paper Award for their paper “There’s No Such Thing as Gaining a Pound: Reconsidering the Bathroom Scale User Interface“
UW CSE Ph.D. student Seungyeop… Read more →
Justin Cappos officially declared “brilliant”
Justin Cappos recently completed a postdoc in UW CSE and joined the faculty at NYU-Poly in New York.
No sooner had Justin left Seattle than he was named to the ranks of Popular Science‘s annual “Brilliant Ten” – based upon his creation of the cloud computing platform “Seattle.”
Congratulations Justin! Read more here.… Read more →
Vote for SNUPI ***daily*** in TechFlash Cup competition
SNUPI Technologies is a new startup out of Shwetak Patel’s lab – Shwetak, Gabe Cohn, Jeremy Jaech, Matt Reynolds, etc.
The TechFlash Cup is a startup competition. Sixteen companies were selected as competitors. Every Monday at 9 a.m., the two companies with the fewest votes will be eliminated, until they get down to the final four, at which point there will be a “pitch competition.”
It’s up to YOU to get SNUPI into the “pitch competition.” You can vote DAILY,… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yaw Anokwa profiled in “Viewpoint”
Recent UW CSE Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa is profiled in Viewpoint, a publication of the UW Alumni Association. The article showcases several people and programs that are in the forefront of extending education beyond the classroom.
“Yaw Anokwa had just wrapped up his master’s degree in computer science in June 2007 when he felt like something was missing. ‘I got to a stage in my life where I wasn’t working on meaningful problems,’ he says.
“Anokwa found that meaning in… Read more →