“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.”
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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 →
“Devices Connect with Borrowed TV Signals, and Need No Power Source”
MIT Technology Review reports on UW CSE’s “Ambient Backscatter” innovation:
“A novel type of wireless device sends and receives data without a battery or other conventional power source. Instead, the devices harvest the energy they need from the radio waves that are all around us from TV, radio, and Wi-Fi broadcasts.
“These seemingly impossible devices could lead to a slew of new uses of computing, from better contactless payments to the spread of small, cheap sensors just about everywhere.
“‘Traditionally… Read more →
“Lessons from 18 Months in Government”
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Ed Felten – Director of Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and Professor of Computer Science and of Public Affairs there, recently returned to Princeton after 18 months as the first Chief Technologist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Today Ed delivered the keynote at the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium: “Dr. Felten Goes To Washington: Lessons from 18 Months in Government.”
One of these days, the video will be online, presumably here. Meanwhile, you’ll… Read more →
Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken
As a UW CSE Ph.D. student more than a decade ago, Doug Zongker (now a Google engineer) first delivered his now-famous parody of unintelligible scientific presentations: “Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken.” (No video of the presentation exists, but the 2002 slides are still on the web here, as is the companion paper here.)
Attention increased in 2007, when Doug presented the work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fortunately, cameras were… Read more →
2013 Ubicomp “10 Year Impact Award”
The 2003 research paper “Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors” by UW CSE’s Don Patterson, Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz has been recognized with the “10 Year Impact Award” from Ubicomp 2013, the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
The award committee concluded that “The paper … is an excellent example of how one can learn very useful context information from simple GPS traces and it formed the basis for today’s thriving… Read more →