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 →
UW Tech Policy Lab launched
The UW Tech Policy Lab is a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration that aims to enhance technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership. The new venture – enabled by a founding gift of $1.7 million from Microsoft – brings together experts from the University’s School of Law, Information School, and Computer Science & Engineering.
The Tech Policy Lab was launched Thursday evening at an event keynoted by University of Washington President Michael Young, Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad… Read more →
NPR’s Weekend Edition: “Mind-Melding, With An Internet Connection”
“Two researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle did something amazing: One influenced the movements of the other simply by willing it. They were separated by an entire college campus, connected only through electrical caps on their heads and the Internet. Host Scott Simon talks with Rajesh Rao, one of the researchers.”
Listen to the interview here!… Read more →
Google blogs UW’s Wireless Ambient Radio Power project
Google just did a blog post on Josh Smith’s WARP project – a sensor with E-Ink display powered by ambient RF. The post was based on work presented at a conference held at Google way back in June. It highlights the fact that the work was funded by a Google Faculty Research award.
Read the Google blog post (including video) here. Learn more about WARP here.… Read more →
UW CSE @ Andreessen Horowitz Academic Roundtable
An exciting event, with a great representation of UW CSE faculty, former faculty, and Ph.D. alums: Ed Felten, Yoky Matsuoka, Zoran Popovic, Stefan Savage. Information here.… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide acquired by eBay
UW CSE startup Decide has been acquired by eBay.
Co-founded by UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni and four students, Decide uses machine learning and text mining algorithms on billions of price points across millions of products, blog posts, and articles on the web to enable shoppers to make the best buying decisions possible.
Decide had raised $17M in venture capital from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, Vulcan Capital, and angel investors.
Read the Decide announcement here. GeekWire here. Seattle… Read more →