dub is the University of Washington’s highly successful cross-campus (and beyond!) collaboration on human-computer interaction and design.
Earlier we reported on the receipt of a Best Paper Award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing by the paper “An Ultra-Low-Power Human Body Motion Sensor Using Static Electric Field Sensing” by dub researchers Gabe Cohn (UW, and Microsoft Research consultant), Sidhant Gupta (UW, and MSR consultant), Tien-Jui Lee (UW), Dan Morris (MSR, and UW affiliate professor), Josh… Read more →
“Tech’s New Wave, Driven by Data”
Steve Lohr in the New York Times:
“Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s and smartphones in the last five years.
“Computing may be on the cusp of another such wave. This one, many researchers and entrepreneurs say, will be based on smarter machines and software that will automate more tasks and help people make better decisions in business, science and government. And the technological building… Read more →
UW+MSR win Ubicomp 2012 Best Paper Award
The paper “An Ultra-Low-Power Human Body Motion Sensor Using Static Electric Field Sensing” by Gabe Cohn (UW, and Microsoft Research consultant), Sidhant Gupta (UW, and MSR consultant), Tien-Jui Lee (UW), Dan Morris (MSR, and UW affiliate professor), Josh Smith (UW), Matt Reynolds (Duke), Desney S. Tan (MSR, and UW affiliate professor), and Shwetak Patel (UW) has just received a Best Paper Award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. (Lead author Gabe Cohn is a Ph.D.… Read more →
UW CSE alum Anne Condon elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada, founded in 1882, celebrates the nation’s leading scholars in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences through election as Fellows.
This week, the Class of 2012 was announced – 69 new Fellows: 15 in the Arts and Humanities, 15 in the Social Sciences, and 39 in the Sciences.
Among them – one of only two computer scientists – is 1987 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Anne Condon, Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University… Read more →
UW CSE’s game-changing hires in machine learning, “big data,” computer vision, and computer systems
A new booklet describes UW CSE’s bumper crop of faculty hires:
Carlos Guestrin, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Computer Science & Engineering (machine learning)
Ben Taskar, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (machine learning)
Jeffrey Heer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (data visualization)
Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Statistics (machine learning)
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering (computer vision)
Ali Farhadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science &… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Control-Alt-Hack” game among “25 of today’s coolest network and computing research projects”
NetworkWorld has identified and profiled “25 of today’s coolest network and computing research projects.” Among them is Control-Alt-Hack, a card game created by UW CSE researchers to introduce computer security topics.
Read the article here. Learn more about Control-Alt-Hack here.… Read more →
GigaOm features UW CSE alumni startup LearnSprout
“Last fall, when LearnSprout cofounder and one-time Facebooker Frank Chien called up his college buddies Joe Woo, previously with Microsoft, and Anthony Wu, a former Googler, he didn’t necessarily have an education startup in mind.
“The trio could have tackled healthcare or energy instead, he said. What mattered was that they go for something big — dent-the-universe, shake-up-the-system significant.
“‘I [told them], let’s do something crazy,’ he said. ‘We can stay at our jobs forever or we can swing for… Read more →
GigaOm features UW CSE alumni startup MemCachier
MemCachier, a “Memcached-in-the-cloud” startup created by UW CSE alum Alex Loddengaard working with UW CSE alum Amit Levy, was profiled today in GigaOm.
(MemCachier shares San Francisco space with WibiData, a data analytics startup created by UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia working with UW CSE alum Aaron Kimball. Christophe, Aaron, and Alex previously worked together at Cloudera, the first startup created by Christophe after he left Google. Memcached – the pre-cloud progenitor of MemCachier, used worldwide… Read more →
Washington leads the nation in concentration of tech jobs
John Cook in GeekWire has done a terrific analysis of the Washington State data from a new national study of where tech jobs are located in the United States. Some key observations:
Overall, Washington State was the top state for tech job concentration, at 11 percent.
Snohomish County (home to Boeing’s Everett plant and several biotechnology companies) leads the state with a 25 percent concentration, and a whopping tech job growth rate of 14 percent. King County isn’t too shabby… Read more →
UW, WSU are top two in new national football assessment
“College football teams in the six major conferences (Southeastern Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East) spent an average of $2.46 million per victory over the three-year period.
“But some schools have got a lot more for their money than others …
“Then, there’s the other end of the spectrum. Washington State University spent an average of $5.4 million for its five victories between 2008 and 2010, narrowly edging its Apple Cup rival, the… Read more →