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Shwetak Patel wins Georgia Tech GVU 20th Anniversary Impact Award
Shwetak Patel – UW professor of CSE and EE, and Georgia Tech alumnus – was honored this week with an “Impact Award” commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Georgia Tech’s Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center.
“Shwetak Patel … has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington since 2008, where he … holds a dual appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, and he studies everything from low-power sensors to novel interaction techniques. In 2011, Patel was recognized… Read more →
Microsoft’s Brad Smith @ UW CSE
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs, delivered the second UW CSE Distinguished Lecture of the 2012-13 academic year today – “Creating an Environment for Innovation.”
And Christmas came early – Brad surprised the first two students to ask post-talk questions with the gift of a Microsoft Surface!
The next CSE Distinguished Lecture will be on November 13 – renowned economist Susan Athey on “Machine Learning meets Economics: Using Theory, Data, … Read more →
“Kinect system simplifies the art of puppetry”
Vision Systems Design reports on a recent paper by Ankit Gupta and Brian Curless (UW CSE) and Robert T. Held and Maneesh Agrawala (UC Berkeley), “3D Puppetry: A Kinect-based Interface for 3D Animation.”
“Researchers at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) and the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, USA) have created a system that can enable even inexperienced puppeteers to produce 3-D animations.
“To use the system, a puppeteer physically manipulates objects in front of a Kinect depth… Read more →
UW CSE team selected to compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge
The DARPA Robotics Challenge kicked off this week with the announcement of 18 teams – 8 from universities and 10 from industry – who will be funded by DARPA to participate in the DRC. Over the next two years, these teams will compete to develop and put to the test hardware and software designed to enable robots to assist humans in emergency response when a disaster strikes.
A UW CSE team led by Emo Todorov and including Dieter Fox, Zoran… Read more →
“UW touts computer science growth”
Brier Dudley reports on the UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting, in the Seattle Times:
“A boost from the Legislature – plus grants from the likes of Amazon.com – is increasing the size the University of Washington’s computer science program by 25 percent this year …
“The school also has successfully recruited top-tier faculty, including world experts in machine learning, and more hires are in the works.
“‘We’ve had really the most remarkable year in our history,’ [UW CSE chair… Read more →
UW CSE runoff for ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition
Last Saturday, 36 3-person teams competed in UW’s local runoff for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition to determine the 5 teams that will represent UW in the regional ICPC runoff on November 3. The international ICPC finals will be held in St. Peterburg Russia from June 30 – July 4. Unlike the World Series, the ICPC truly is an international competition – it’s been 15 years since a US team won!
Faculty members Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp organized… Read more →
Annual CSE pumpkin carving TGIF
UW CSE’s most successful Industry Affiliates meeting ever was followed by our most successful graduate student pumpkin carving TGIF ever, with 54 jack-o-lanterns produced, and countless pounds of guck on the floor of the atrium. (Thanks to Kyle Rector for organizing the event … and the cleanup.)… Read more →
Microsoft’s Brad Smith @ UW CSE Distinguished Lecture, Tuesday 10/30 @ 3:30
Please join us for the second 2012-13 UW CSE Distinguished Lecture.
On Tuesday October 30 at 3:30, Brad Smith – Microsoft’s General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs – will speak on “Creating an Environment for Innovation.”
Additional information here.… Read more →