CSE Ph.D. students Shiri Azenkot and Kyle Rector, along with CSE professor Richard Ladner and iSchool (and CSE adjuct) professor Jake Wobbrock won the ASSETS 2012 Best Paper Award at the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility for their paper “PassChords: Secure multi-touch authentication for blind people.”
The paper presents a new non-visual technique, PassChords, for user authentication on a touch screen using mult-finger taps, rather than entering a traditional PIN on a virtual keypad. … Read more →
“Mobile app that measures lung functions headlines UW computer science show”
A terrific GeekWire article, with a huge number of great photos, on the UW CSE Open House held on Wednesday evening:
“We all remember school science fairs – lots of posters, people and presentations packed into a large area. Consider Wednesday evening at University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering something similar, but instead a souped-up version hosted by computer science buffs.
“As part of UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Annual Meeting, 89 research groups made up of over 150 grad… Read more →
UW CSE Affiliates Recruiting
Today’s the day – 50 top companies recruiting UW CSE students. It’s a zoo!
Pity poor Google: Somehow they had to top last year’s stunt of Yin Lu running around in a Cookie Monster costume handing out chocolate chip cookies. The brainstorm: Gummy Sushi. (They had to go all the way to Mill Creek to find a bakery that was willing to fabricate the little beauties …)
Tuesday was recruiting day for 50 startup companies. Wednesday was the… Read more →
Congratulations to the winners of the Madrona Prize and the People’s Choice Awards!
The research day of the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting concludes with an open house (reception, posters, lab tours) for Affiliates attendees and regional alumni and friends.
For the 7th year, Madrona Venture Group awarded the Madrona Prize to the students whose research had the greatest commercial potential. In addition, the People’s Choice Awards were given to the most popular research poster or demo in each lab.
Congratulations to all the winners – and to all the participants (89 … Read more →
Carlos Guestrin keynotes 2012 UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting
Carlos Guestrin – UW CSE’s Amazon Professor of Machine Learning – delivered a luncheon keynote on his GraphLab machine learning system at the 2012 UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting.
Learn more about Carlos and his research here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, students featured on David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW
David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW featured the work of UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and the UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab as the final segment of the episode “Can Science Stop Crime?”
In addition to Yoshi, those featured include Yoshi’s wife Taryn Kohno, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Dan Halperin, and UW CSE Ph.D. students Karl Koscher, Franzi Roesner, Alexei “Crash” Czeskis – and the work of these and others.
Watch this terrific 12-minute PBS NOVA… Read more →
“Sujal Patel’s love letter to startups: 6 reasons why you should make the plunge”
Our friends at GeekWire cover Sujal Patel’s terrific talk on startups during the first day of UW CSE’s 2012 Industry Affiliates Meeting:
“The University of Washington computer science department sends more than half of its grads to just four companies: Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. And while those tech giants pay well – on average more than $100,000 for software developers – they’ve certainly moved well beyond the startup phase.
“So, what’s it going to take to get more… Read more →
Seattle … Startups … You?
Last night, CSE alum Wayne Yamamoto hosted “Seattle … Startups … You?” – a gathering to help UW CSE students understand why they might want to join a startup. More than 100 students inhaled 25 pizzas and heard from Wayne, Anthony Wu, Chris DeVore, Chris Tolles, David Creemer, Robert Chu, and Jason Tan. Thanks to all for a terrific event!
Learn more here.… Read more →
UW CSE Startup Recruiting Day
Fifty startup companies from Seattle and the Bay Area – many founded by UW CSE alums – are recruiting today at the Startup Recruiting Day preceding the 2012 UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting.
We wish we could fit more!
The day was kicked off by a terrific talk by Sujal Patel, co-founder (with UW CSE alum Paul Mikesell) of Isilon Systems.
Many Bruce Hemingway photographs here.… Read more →
UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting – October 23, 24, 25
This year’s meeting of the UW Computer Science & Engineering Industry Affiliates Program takes place this Tuesday-Thursday October 23-25.
Tuesday: Recruiting by startup companies, preceded by a talk by Sujal Patel, co-founder of Isilon.
Wednesday: Research interaction day, followed by a reception, poster session, and lab tours for affiliates, alumni, and friends, plus the presentation of the Madrona Prize for the most commercializable student project.
Thursday: Recruiting by established companies.
Information here. Be there! (But don’t forget to register!)… Read more →