You can’t make up stuff that’s this unlikely!
Recent Ph.D. alum Yaw Anokwa, co-developer of the widely-used Open Data Kit platform for data collection via mobile phones, and co-founder of the Seattle startup Nafundi focused on applications for challenging environments such as the developing world, is featured in an advertisement for Nordstrom’s new “Citizens of Humanity” jeans.
Watch the video! It provides a superb overview of Yaw’s work. (And he cleans up really well – good news in light… Read more →
Seattle Times features UW CSE alum A.J. Brush in Faculty Summit summary
Monday and Tuesday marked the 14th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
The Seattle Times devoted much of its coverage to the “Lab of Things” platform created and demonstrated by UW CSE Ph.D. alum A.J. Brush:
“Lab of Things is a platform for research that uses connected devices in the home, allowing researchers who need to collect data from homes for their studies to more easily manage and collect and analyze data.
“Researchers, such as those working in… Read more →
FuSE 2013 (Foundations of Software Engineering) honors David Notkin
Wednesday’s Future of Software Engineering symposium – FuSE 2013, held in Redmond WA following the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit – has been dedicated to UW CSE professor David Notkin, who passed away in April. See the program here. Watch videos here. Learn more about David here.… Read more →
Ed Lazowska and Tom Daniel compete at WrestleBrania
In WrestleBrania, a sensor on your forearm measures electrical stimuli, driving an electromechanical arm wrestling robot (covered in pink fur).
The fact that this video is on the CSE News page rather than Tom’s Biology News page gives you a hint at the outcome …
Thanks to UW’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, which developed WrestleBrania and was demonstrating it for K-12 students (and the occasional faculty passers-by …).
Watch the video here.… Read more →
David Notkin’s daughter Emma and son Akiva accept the CRA Habermann Award
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.
The work… Read more →
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.”
The exhibit… Read more →
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 →