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 →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni to lead Paul Allen’s new Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Oren Etzioni – UW’s Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in Computer Science & Engineering – has been selected to lead Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s new Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to launch a major AI research institute in Seattle,” said Oren. “Our goal is to revolutionize the field, and with Paul’s vision and support, the sky’s the limit.”
Oren joined the UW CSE faculty in 1991, after receiving his Bachelors degree from… Read more →
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Recently UW Vice President for University Advancement Connie Kravas received an email from a colleague in the UC Berkeley advancement office, forwarding an email he had received from a Berkeley donor, which had been sent to draw his attention a video that her husband, a UW CSE donor, had received from UW CSE. (Apologies – you may need to diagram this in order to comprehend the cast of characters …)
The Berkeley donor wrote: “Check out the great video UW… Read more →
UW CSE’s eight “DawgBytes” summer day camps for middle and high school students
Last week UW CSE concluded this year’s summer programs for middle and high school students. Under the DawgBytes (“a taste of UW CSE” – our overall K-12 outreach effort) umbrella, we introduced more than 160 kids from across the state to computer science, which they now associate with fun, creativity and making friends!
This summer we hosted 4 week-long introductory day camps for girls, 3 co-ed day camps on mobile development, and 1 co-ed day camp on physical computing.
Infinite… Read more →
Maya Cakmak, Shayan Oveis Gharan, Matt Reynolds, and Zach Tatlock join the UW CSE faculty
A new brochure highlights UW CSE’s 2013 faculty hires:
Maya Cakmak, a robotics Ph.D. from Georgia Tech via Willow Garage.
Shayan Oveis Gharan, an optimization algorithms Ph.D. from Stanford who will spend a year as a Miller Fellow at Berkeley before joining us.
Matt Reynolds, a Duke ECE faculty member in ultra-low power sensing and computation with an MIT Ph.D., who will have appointments in UW CSE and EE.
Zach Tatlock, a software reliability and security Ph.D. from UCSD.
In… Read more →
Ed Felten and the ACLU vs. the NSA
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 →