Vamsi Talla – an EE graduate student advised by CSE and EE faculty member Josh Smith – won the Best Student Paper award at WiSNet 2013, the IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks. In addition to Vamsi and Smith, the co-authors are Michael Buettner (2012 CSE Ph.D., now at Google Seattle) and CSE professor David Wetherall. The work was funded by the Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing, and by the NSF.
The paper, entitled… Read more →
Barbara Mones, UW CSE’s animation courses, on UWTV’s “Backstory”
A UWTV interview with UW CSE’s Barbara Mones, describing our interdisciplinary digital animation curriculum, and showing several animated shorts.
Watch this wonderful piece here.… Read more →
NY Times on WibiData: “Start-Up Uses Portal Game as Recruiting Tool”
WibiData – a Bay Area “big data” startup launched by Christophe Bisciglia and multiple other UW CSE alums – is featured in the NY Times for its unique recruiting approach:
“If you want to signal to software engineers that your tech start-up is a cool place to work, you can let them bring their dogs to the office, offer free energy drinks or put up a billboard with a Web address that can only be accessed after solving a math… Read more →
“Tracking Lung Health With a Cell Phone”
UW CSE’s SpiroSmart is described in MIT Technology Review:
“Today, a deep sigh at your smartphone could reveal a well-developed emotional connection with your gadget. But one day those sighs could tip off your doctor to a latent or worsening lung condition.
“A group at the University of Washington, in collaboration with Seattle Children’s Hospital, is developing a way to check how healthy your lungs are when you breathe out at your smartphone.”
Read more here. Learn about SpiroSmart… Read more →
CSE’s Hank Levy testifies to State Legislature on High Tech Workforce Needs
CSE chair Hank Levy today testified to the Washington State Legislature on high tech workforce needs. His remarks are a terrific summary of Seattle’s high tech scene and the role of UW CSE in supporting it.
Watch Hank’s testimony here.… Read more →
UW CSE Computer Science Education Week activities in SIGCSE Bulletin
The current issue of SIGCSE Bulletin (the publication of the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education) features the Computer Science Education Week outreach activities of six colleges and universities, including UW.
UW’s activities included an Open House that attracted more than 750 middle school and high school attendees, and a programming competition (organized in conjunction with the local chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association, and sponsored by Microsoft) that featured 74 teams representing 26 different schools.
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Center for Future Architectures Research launched
Many of the nation’s leading researchers in advanced computer architectures – including UW CSE professors Luis Ceze and Dan Grossman – have joined together to form C-FAR, the Center for Future Architectures Research.
C-FAR is focused on innovation to create future generation scalable computing systems. The center is working on research that maximally leverages emerging circuit fabrics to enable whole new application areas. It accomplishes this goal through a highly collaborative research agenda that brings together researchers from many… Read more →
UW CSE + PATH: “Banking breast milk for babies”
One project resulting from a collaboration between UW CSE and Seattle-based global health organization PATH is a lifesaving low-cost intervention to save newborn babies using mobile phones and donated breast milk.
Each year, more than 3.3 million newborns die within their first month of life. Working with UW CSE Ph.D. student Rohit Chaudhri, PATH has developed a unique, low-cost system that uses mobile phones to manage safe pasteurization of breast milk.
Heat pasteurization kills potential pathogens in donated milk,… Read more →
“New tech tools aim to bring health care home”
The Seattle Times profiles Julie Kientz – UW professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering, adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and wife of UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel.
“Kientz … is setting out to improve public health by giving people tools to track their own habits and share more complete data with their doctors.
“More than that, she’s one of a growing number of researchers and entrepreneurs working to bridge the increasingly conspicuous gap between the centralized,… Read more →
UW tech-related Professional Masters Programs in GeekWire
UW offers a host of Professional Masters Programs in technology fields – programs geared to the needs of fully-employed professionals.
An ad in today’s GeekWire highlights these programs. Check out the full list here. Learn more about UW CSE’s Professional Masters Program – one of these offerings – here.
Why would you seek a professional masters degree from a different institution when you can benefit from UW’s top-ranked programs?… Read more →