“A recent survey of 1000 adults found a majority thought cloud computing actually referred to a “fluffy white thing.” Fifty-one percent also believed storms could interfere with it, according to the survey sponsored by Citrix.
“Those statistics are evidence that many computer users do not fully understand this new, important technology …
“‘Seattle is really ground zero for cloud computing with the presence of Amazon, founded here, Microsoft here and Google having a substantial presence here as well,’ said Bill … Read more →
UW CSE’s Tim Blakely: A Google “Intern Making an Impact”
Google’s corporate-wide “Interns Making an Impact” feature today highlights UW CSE Ph.D. student Tim Blakely, working at Google Seattle. Tim is the lead developer on BigBrain, a large-scale computational neuroscience tool built on the cloud. The project began as an exploratory venture between Google and the Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) to investigate whether the cloud could provide a platform for doing massively parallel, large-scale neural simulations.
Read more here.… Read more →
“The Human Face of Big Data”
A New York Times article describing Rick Smolan’s forthcoming book The Human Face of Big Data features two of our favorite computer scientists: UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, and MIT EECS professor John Guttag:
“Mr. Smolan visited recently to offer a glimpse of what will be in The Human Face of Big Data and the imaginative photo composition involved in bringing technical subjects to life. One photograph shows Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, who… Read more →
Facebook for the social-media-impaired …
Today is UW CSE Ph.D. alum Geoff Voelker‘s birthday. His UCSD CSE colleague (and fellow UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Stefan Savage writes:
Dear all,
Untold years ago today, our own Geoff Voelker was born. Unfortunately, those of us who seek to communicate birthday wishes in the contemporary vernacular – a wry combination of “Happy Birthday” posts on the recipient’s Facebook “wall” and the “liking” of other such posts – are unable to do so in this case. You see,… Read more →
dub cleans up at Ubicomp!
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 →