The Economist describes work by UW CSE researchers and collaborators that utilizes mobile phones and signal processing to create medical diagnostic instruments and other novel applications.
“Microphones exist in many shapes and sizes, and work in many different ways … These microphones all do the same thing: they convert sound waves into an electrical signal.
“It turns out, however, that with the addition of suitable software, microphones can detect more than mere audio signals. They can act as versatile sensors,… Read more →
WiSee: Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless
The work of UW CSE’s Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel is described in this UW News article:
“Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.
“University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology… Read more →
KCPQ-TV interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on Washington’s shameful STEM education performance
“‘We are the ass end of the donkey in providing educational opportunity for our kids, despite this booming economy,’ said Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at UW. ‘It’s absolutely crazy.’
“Lazowska is on a crusade to let the public know that many of these great, yet-to-be-filled tech jobs are going to be taken by college graduates from other states – not from Washington. And that’s because the state isn’t educating… Read more →
UW CSE alumni startup Captricity closes $4.5 million round of funding
Captricity – a service that quickly and easily turns paper information into structured, digital data – has closed a $4.5 million round of funding.
Captricity was co-founded by UW CSE bachelors alum Kuang Chen at the conclusion of his UC Berkeley Ph.D. studies. At UW, Kuang was a double major in CSE and Comparative History of Ideas. His undergraduate research led to the creation of the Seattle startup Teranode, where he worked for four years following graduation. At Berkeley, his… Read more →
CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia: Bag Man
You find the craziest things in airport gift shops!
Today, for example, CSE chair Hank Levy ran across this bag featuring a December 2007 Business Week cover photograph of 2003 CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia – then a Senior Software Engineer at Google, subsequently co-founder of Cloudera, now co-founder and CEO of WibiData.
Reese Witherspoon … Katherine Heigl … Christophe Bisciglia … Oprah Winfrey … your photo goes here …… Read more →
ColdTrace wins Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition
ColdTrace – research by Nexleaf Analytics and UW CSE Ph.D. student Rohit Chaudhri – has won this year’s Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition.
ColdTrace is a low-cost wireless sensor designed to improve access to vaccines which protect thousands of children against diseases such as tuberculosis and polio. The sensor remotely monitors the temperature of vaccines. It also provides a better understanding of the vaccine cold storage, transportation and distribution infrastructures, particularly in areas where regular records are not maintained.
Nexleaf… Read more →
CSE’s Kevin Ross accepts UW College of Engineering Diamond Award for Public Service
Kevin Ross, a 1988 UW CSE alum, accepted the UW College of Engineering Diamond Award for Public Service at last night’s annual awards banquet. Kevin, a former Microsoft design engineer, founded Washington FIRST Robotics in 2002. WFR today works with over 7,500 students and 2000 volunteers in Washington State and matches student groups with mentors to provide high quality experiences. Their goal is to have a FIRST robotics team available for every student in the state. Kevin and WFR are… Read more →
Xconomy: “Jobs for Non-Natives: Washington Tech Economy Fueled by ‘Imports’”
More on Wednesday’s Technology Alliance “State of Technology” annual luncheon, and UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska’s on-stage interview with Expedia, Zillow, and GlassDoor founder Rich Barton:
“Nevertheless, Washington innovation is thriving by several measures …
“How does Washington reconcile the tech sector’s continued success with the paltry investment in generating talent, the key input to innovation economies?
“Imports.
“It’s no secret that Washington has been a leader in attracting smart, entrepreneurial people for generations, from Boeing to Bezos to Barton. … Read more →
It takes the Turkish to fully appreciate us …
Our new favorite ranking of world universities – the University Ranking by Academic Performance from the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey – ranks UW sixth in the United States and eighth internationally in academic performance. ‘Nuff said … read all about it in the UW Daily here.… Read more →
UW CSE welcomes Shayan Oveis Gharan, Zach Tatlock to faculty
UW CSE is thrilled to welcome Shayan Oveis Gharan and Zach Tatlock as the newest members of the faculty.
Shayan has just finished his Ph.D. at Stanford. He will spend next year as a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley before joining us during the 2014-15 academic year. His research involves the development of provably efficient algorithms for problems that seem intractable. He has worked on the classical Traveling Salesman Problem (see an article about this work in Wired),… Read more →