UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten is getting a lot of coverage for his latest foray into the legal realm: filing a legal brief in support of an ACLU lawsuit against the NSA, in which Felten argues that phone call metadata can be more revealing than content, and that the NSA is building a database that could reveal some of the most intimate secrets of American citizens.
(Felten is Professor of Computer Science and of Public Policy at Princeton University,… Read more →
The world’s best Internet cities …
As usual, we only publicize the rankings where we rock …
Quoth GeekWire:
“UBM’s Future Cities, a blog that focuses on how cities are developing, just put together a list of its ten best Internet cities in the world and the findings may surprise you.
“The only U.S. city to make the cut was not New York City, San Francisco, Boston or Austin — it was Seattle …
“In its description of Seattle, UBM actually didn’t have… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao demonstrates first non-invasive human-to-human brain interface
UW CSE researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.
Using electrical brain recordings and a form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea Stocco on the other side of the UW campus, causing Stocco’s finger to move on a keyboard.
While researchers at Duke University have demonstrated brain-to-brain… Read more →
The launch of the UW Tech Policy Lab
The Tech Policy Lab is a unique interdisciplinary collaboration between UW Computer Science & Engineering, the UW School of Law, and the UW Information School. It aims to enhance technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership. The Tech Policy Lab is being established with a generous gift from Microsoft.
A launch event will be held in the Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at 5:30 on Thursday September 12. Welcoming remarks will be… Read more →
Google Student Blog features UW CSE’s Zorah Lea Fung (sporting the “Ed & Hank” Google intern t-shirt she designed!)
“For our ‘Better Know an Intern’ post, meet Zorah Fung, a software engineering intern on the Google Docs Team in New York. Zorah is a rising senior at the University of Washington, double majoring in computer science and interdisciplinary visual arts. Fun fact about Zorah: one of her life goals is to own and be able to play every musical instrument in the world. She’s already accumulated about 20!”
Read the full interview here.… Read more →
UW ranked 13th among National Universities by Washington Monthly, and 9th in “Best Bang for the Buck”
Washington Monthly rates schools based on their “contribution to the public good” in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).
The rankings are dominated by the nation’s great public universities, which comprise 11 of the top 15 schools.
Washington Monthly also ranks schools in terms of “Best Bang for the Buck” – the economic value students receive per dollar. The… Read more →
Julie Kientz: GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“There are talented, hard-working, young people doing good work all over the planet.
“And then there are the MIT Technology Review’s 35 innovators under the age of 35 that are simply on another level.
“Julie Kientz [UW HCDE professor and CSE adjunct professor, and wife of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel] is one of those visionaries.”
Read more here.… Read more →
Julie Kientz wins TR35 Award!
Julie Kientz, a faculty member in UW Human Centered Design & Engineering and an adjunct faculty member in CSE, has won a TR35 Award from MIT Technology Review, which annually recognizes the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Julie was honored for her work in computer software. Her research looks at how technology can be used to support health and education. In particular, she has developed prototype applications to monitor sleep disorders, assist parents in tracking… Read more →
Tampa rolls out UW CSE’s OneBusAway transit app!
UW CSE’s OneBusAway transit app goes national! Tampa (and several other cities) are rolling it out with great fanfare and commitment!
Here’s a news story from Tampa’s WTSP Channel 10, which credits UW.… Read more →
A Slate video on UW CSE’s Ambient Backscatter
Slate has a nice video describing UW CSE’s Ambient Backscatter technology. Watch the video here. Learn more about Ambient Backscatter here.… Read more →