“If you’ve ever been mystified by how Google knows what you’re looking for before you even finish typing your query into the search box, or had voice search on Android recognize exactly what you said even though you’re in a noisy subway, chances are you have Jeff Dean and the Systems Infrastructure Group to thank for it.
“As a Google Research Fellow, Dean has been working on ways to use machine learning and deep neural networks to solve some of… Read more →
UW CSE “IT for the developing world” projects featured in The Atlantic
An article in The Atlantic includes work done with our collaborator PATH. The “Mobile-phone milk pasteurization” section is the work of Rohit Chaudhri and the “Digital video” section is a collaboration between PATH, UW, and Digital Green. Richard Anderson provides the UW-PATH linkages that make these projects possible. We also acknowledge our principal collaborators at PATH, Noah Perin and Kiersten Israel-Ballard (among others).
Read the article here.… Read more →
CSE’s Rajesh Rao in Scientific American
“The notion of a strict cortical hierarchy, especially a feedforward hierarchy of processing layers, is losing ground to a more nuanced view of the cortex as an interconnected and distributed network.” Read more here.… Read more →
Senator Patty Murray @ UW CSE
U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited UW CSE today for a discussion of cybersecurity issues with professors Yoshi Kohno and Ed Lazowska. Following the briefing, graduate students Karl Koscher, Franzi Roesner, and Alexei Czeskis demonstrated the security vulnerabilities of modern automobiles by controlling all aspects of a recent-model sedan from an Internet-connected laptop by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s telematics unit.… Read more →
MIT Technology Review on Belkin’s “Echo Electricity” – a UW CSE technology
“If you use a credit card or a cell phone, chances are you get a monthly statement detailing each purchase or call. This may soon expand to your utility bills, too: a project in the works at electronics company Belkin makes it possible to see how much electricity you’re spending on everything from the TV in your living room to the washing machine in your basement.
“Called Belkin Echo Electricity, it’s a small device that connects to your utility… Read more →
UW CSE AccessComputing alumna Nicole Torcolini profiled by NCWIT
Nicole Torcolini has faced more obstacles than most: she lost most of her sight at age four due to cancer in the optic chiasm, and the cancer treatment she received caused her to become slightly hard-of-hearing in both ears.
While a student at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale, Washington, Nicole attended a University of Washington summer workshop hosted by CSE professor Richard Ladner’s Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing). This experience inspired Nicole to invent the Nemetex Nemeth… Read more →
GeekWire: “Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni, GeekWire‘s 2012 GeekWire Awards Geek of the Year, was the speaker at Seattle’s monthly Startup Grind meetup on Wednesday evening. During a fireside chat at Pier 70 — which was actually once home to one of Etzioni’s past startups, Go2Net — Etzioni shared some great advice for anyone in the startup world.
“Life is short,” he said. “Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing … And don’t do something that’s two percent better… Read more →
“We Make Seattle” on Kickstarter
Help celebrate Seattle as an entrepreneurial hub! Find out more here.… Read more →
CSE’s Shyam Gollakota wins SIGCOMM “Doctoral Dissertation” and “Best Paper” awards
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota has just been honored twice by SIGCOMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication.
Shyam’s 2012 MIT doctoral dissertation “Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems” (advised by Dina Katabi) was recognized with the 2012 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award, given annually to the outstanding Ph.D. thesis in computer networking and data communication. Shyam’s dissertation had previously been honored with the 2012 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for the top Ph.D. dissertation in all of… Read more →
Matt Reynolds to join UW CSE+EE
Matt Reynolds, currently Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, will be joining UW this fall with a joint position in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Matt’s research, which has resulted in 5 best paper awards, focuses on ultra-low power sensing and computation, RFID, wireless power transfer, biomedical applications, and smart materials and surfaces. Matt holds 12 patents and has co-founded three companies. He received his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from… Read more →