At the ACM Awards Banquet last month, David Notkin’s daughter Emma and son Akiva accepted the Computing Research Association’s A. Nico Habermann Award on David’s behalf. We just received these photographs from Andy Bernat at CRA. Thanks once again to ACM and CRA for recognizing David’s tireless efforts to broaden participation in our field.
ACM and CRA’s video tribute to David is here; Habermann Award citation here.… Read more →
Ambient Backscatter Communication: Wireless Communication Out Of Thin Air
As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Devices that use ambient backscatter communication solve this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their own radio waves. This novel technique enables ubiquitous communication where devices can communicate among themselves at unprecedented scales and in locations that were previously inaccessible.
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Seattle Times: State’s students flocking to computer science programs
The Seattle Times profiles three entering UW CSE freshmen:
“The number of incoming freshmen who listed computer science as their desired major has more than doubled in just three years at the University of Washington, which has one of the nation’s top computer science schools …
“At the UW, where hundreds of students are turned away from the computer science program every year for a lack of space, the money ‘still won’t meet the demand,’ Lazowska said by email. ‘But… Read more →
UW CSE research featured in Pacific Science Center’s “Minds and Machines” exhibit
“Spurred by new understanding of how the brain works, local science labs are learning how to use brain signals to compensate for injury or lost function. In Minds and Machines, you’ll meet several of these scientists and learn what’s at the cutting edge of neuroscience research. Visit The Studio within Wellbody Academy to use your brain waves to compete against another player in Mindball, check out neuroscience-related jobs on the Career Machine and see a real human brain.”
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IEEE Software remembers UW CSE’s David Notkin
From the July/August 2013 issue of IEEE Software: “We recently lost one of the leaders of the software research community when David Notkin passed away. Many of us have always been familiar with his work. But in many, many conversations since his death, it has become more and more clear how others in the research community cherished not just his technical contributions but his contributions in other dimensions: his mentorship, friendship, and character.”
Read more here.
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Evi Nemeth lost at sea
Evi Nemeth – a University of Colorado computer science faculty member well known for her contributions to Unix system administration and system security, and the undergraduate advisor of UW CSE faculty member Yoshi Kohno – has been lost at sea and is presumed dead. Nemeth was sailing aboard the famous schooner Niña, winner of the 1928 3900-mile race from New York to Santander Spain, of the 600-mile Fastnet Race that same year, of the 1929 race from London to Gibson… Read more →
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner in Columns
The UW alumni magazine, Columns, uses UW CSE professor Richard Ladner to illustrate an article on “second careers”:
“Or consider Richard Ladner, Boeing Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and a 2008 winner of the Purpose Prize for extraordinary social innovators over 60 years of age. After 35 years as a professor, Ladner wanted to move from theory to impact. The hearing son of deaf parents, Ladner combined his expertise in computers and technology with an innate understanding of… Read more →
UW Daily on WiSee
Better late than never, the UW Daily becomes the 99th publication to run an article on UW CSE’s WiSee technology:
“A quick wave of a hand can shut off the lights and a flick of a finger can turn on the heater. Thanks to a team of UW Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) students and faculty, this type of gesture-recognition technology is now possible.
“This newly developed home gesture system, known as WiSee, can perform simple household tasks, such as… Read more →
UW CSE summer day camps for middle school and high school students
Creative programming projects, car hacking, discrete math card tricks, and lots of snacks – it must be time for UW CSE’s summer day camps for middle school and high school students!
This past week marked the first of eight UW CSE day camps. Twenty one energetic, curious, driven high school girls joined us for a week of exposure to computer science.
There will be a second week-long day camp for high school girls later in the summer, as well as… Read more →
UW CSE Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing
UW News writes:
“The UW program, called the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing, is the only one of its kind in the nation that offers a full quarter of academic credit to incoming college students or those who just finished their first year.
“It also gives deaf students a chance to explore an academic field they may not have already considered, said Richard Ladner, a UW professor of Computer Science & Engineering… Read more →