Congratulations to UW CSE emeritus professor Larry Snyder, who was named a 2012 Alumni Fellow by the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Snyder received his B.A. in 1968 in Mathematics and Economics. Snyder’s award citation reads, in part:
“Larry Snyder, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, is best known for his work to promote the discipline of computer science and expand computer science education, particularly during the 1990s – a time of… Read more →
CSE’s Ian King: “Senior Vintage Systems Engineer” at Paul Allen’s new Living Computer Museum
A wonderful AP article featuring UW CSE Professional Masters Program alum Ian King:
“For tourists with an interest in Seattle’s role as a high-tech hub, there hasn’t been much here to see, other than driving over to Microsoft headquarters in suburban Redmond to take pictures of a bunch of boring buildings.
“But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has just opened the Living Computer Museum, with displays of old machines — all in working order — along with a geeky wish… Read more →
Susan Athey: CSE Distinguished Lecture, November 13
Renowned economist Susan Athey will deliver the third CSE Distinguished Lecture of the year on Tuesday November 13 at 3:30 in the Atrium of the Allen Center. The title of her talk is “Machine Learning meets Economics: Using Theory, Data, and Experiments to Design Markets.”
Athey is a professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1995 and taught at MIT for six years, at Stanford for five years, and at… Read more →
DawgBytes summer daycamp reunion at Facebook
This past summer, UW CSE hosted three week-long summer daycamps for secondary school girls under the umbrella of our DawgBytes (“a taste of UW CSE”) outreach initiative.
On Saturday, the girls re-connected at the Seattle Facebook office, where engineers Peter Brook, Cullen Walsh and Denise Noyes showed them around the office, taught them how to incorporate the Facebook API in their Processing programs, and participated in a panel where the girls asked phenomenal questions.
Thanks to Peter, Cullen, and Denise… Read more →
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 →