Belkin today launched Echo Electricity and Echo Water – technologies licensed from the lab of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel that provide single-point-of-attachment fully-disaggregated monitoring of the electricity and water consumption in a home or business.
Read a GigaOM post here. Wall Street Journal here. Echo Electricity information here. Echo Water information here.… Read more →
Vote for Jeremy Jaech and Oren Etzioni TODAY!
Today is the final day to vote in the GeekWire Awards.
In addition to voting for UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni as “Geek of the Year” here (see earlier post below), please vote for UW CSE alum and UW CSE startup CEO Jeremy Jaech as “Hire of the Year” here.
“We thank you for your support.”… Read more →
Vote early and often: Oren Etzioni for GeekWire’s “Geek of the Year”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni is one of five nominees for GeekWire’s “Geek of the Year” – to be presented at the GeekWire Awards event on May 9 at EMP.
Please vote for Oren here!
And remember, only one vote per IP address. (How many IP addresses do you have?)… Read more →
Engineering Discovery Days!
Friday and Saturday April 26 and 27 marked UW’s Engineering Discovery Days. More than 9,000 guests – school-age students, plus parents and teachers – visited UW … and it sometimes sounded as if they were all in the Allen Center at once!
See photos here.… Read more →
CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon
April 25 marked the annual UW CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon, where the donors of our endowed undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships meet the students they are supporting. It’s always a happy event!
Undergraduate scholarships enable top students to obtain a UW CSE education, regardless of means – of ever-increasing importance in these days of relentlessly rising tuition. Graduate fellowships enable CSE to compete successfully with the nation’s other premier programs for the top graduate students from across the… Read more →
Tie One On for David
On Thursday April 25, members of the UW CSE community joined David Notkin’s family in decorating the trees on the plaza outside the Allen Center. Photographs here.… Read more →
“Turning a standard LCD monitor into touchscreen with a $5 wall-mounted sensor”
UW CSE’s uTouch technology is featured in a number of recent tech posts.
“Researchers at the University of Washington’s aptly named Ubiquitous Computing Lab can turn any LCD monitor in your house into a touchscreen, with nothing more than a $5 sensor that plugs into the wall and some clever software.
“The technology, called uTouch, works by measuring the electromagnetic interference (EMI) caused by your hand when it moves near or touches an LCD monitor. This might sound a little… Read more →
CSE’s Dan Grossman named to UW College of Engineering J. Ray Bowen Professorship for Innovation in Engineering Education
J. Ray Bowen served as the University of Washington’s Dean of Engineering from 1981-1996. Upon his retirement, the J. Ray Bowen Professorship for Innovation in Education was established “to recognize distinguished faculty in the College of Engineering who display dedication to educational innovation and curriculum development.”
Effective July 1, CSE’s Dan Grossman will assume the Bowen Professorship. Dan earned this distinction for a wide range of contributions: leading CSE through a major modernization of our undergraduate curriculum, leading our efforts… Read more →
Xconomy: “New UW, PNNL Institute Attracts Supercomputing Expert Thom Dunning”
“The Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC) has landed supercomputing luminary Thom Dunning Jr., who will help lead the effort to tie together two of the region’s top centers of computing research …
“NIAC, situated in Sieg Hall on the UW campus in Seattle, is designed as a center for collaboration among researchers from both institutions—previously separated by a three-plus-hour drive—focusing on new technologies to advance computing, data-enabled discovery, and computational science …
“‘Most fields of discovery are… Read more →
Jerry Large celebrates his friend David Notkin in the Seattle Times
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large writes:
Computing mensch had special way with people
David Notkin, accomplished software engineer, helped diversify his field and showed others how to live a complete life.
David Notkin was a big deal in the world of computer science, but you wouldn’t know that being around him. He was a modest-living mensch with a gift for making other people feel special, like they were a big deal. And to him, they were.
Read this lovely tribute… Read more →