UW News reports on CSE’s World Lab Summer Institute:
“Health care? Environmental sustainability? Education? There’s an app for that. At least there may be soon, thanks to a new collaboration between UW and Chinese students.
“The University of Washington this July and August hosted the first World Lab Summer Institute, which brings together computer science, human-computer interaction and design students from the UW and Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Together they spent seven weeks developing ways that technology could be used… Read more →
“Wireless Charging Technology – One Step Closer to Reality”
Intel today announced its intention to actively commercialize Wireless Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your smartphone wirelessly from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith and colleagues at the late Intel Labs Seattle.
Read the Intel announcement here.… Read more →
Inaugural AI Journal “Prominent Paper Award” goes to UW CSE authors
Artificial Intelligence, which commenced publication in 1970, is now the generally accepted premier international forum for the publication of results of current research in AI.
The journal has established two new awards for papers published in the journal:
The AIJ Prominent Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers published not more than five years ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
The AIJ Classic Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers published at least 15 calendar years ago… Read more →
“Stay Out of My Kitchen, Robots!”
The stodgy traditionalists at Slate lament the research of UW CSE Ph.D. student Jinna Lei:
“As a result, chefs are imagined not as autonomous virtuosi or gifted craftsmen but as enslaved robots who should never defy the commands of their operating systems.”
The good news for Jinna: the article describes other, related research as “even more degrading.”
Read the article here. Then … “Robot, bake me some brownies!”… Read more →
CSE’s Ed Lazowska receives Reed College Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska received the 2012 Reed College Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology at Reed’s convocation ceremony on August 22.
Each year since 1975, Reed has selected an awardee who demonstrates “the perseverance, fresh approach to problem-solving, and creative imagination that characterized Howard Vollum’s career.”
Vollum graduated from Reed in 1936 with a degree in physics. For his senior project, he built an oscilloscope; he went on to co-found Tektronix, which revolutionized oscilloscope design… Read more →
“The vulnerability of high-tech cars”
American Public Media writes:
“Any computer hooked up to the Internet is a potential victim of malicious hackers.
“Of course, it’s one thing to be hacked on a desktop PC, it’s quite another to be hacked in your car, traveling at 70 miles an hour, with a computer that controls your brakes and steering.
“Yoshi Kohno is part of a research team studying car computer security at the University of Washington. He says don’t freak out. Yet. ‘Right now, my… Read more →
Nachwuchs-Schmiede
“Amazon, Google und Microsoft reißen sich um die IT-Absolventen der University of Washington in Seattle. Die Hochschule gehört zu den besten öffentlichen Universitäten weltweit.”
(We have no idea what these people are saying about us, but you can read more here.)… Read more →
Abie Flaxman wins TR35
Abie Flaxman, professor of Global Health at UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and adjunct professor of Computer Science & Engineering, is the latest in a long line of CSE-related researchers to be recognized as a member of Technology Review‘s TR35 – an annual listing of 35 top innovators under the age of 35.
Abie is the research lead for the Computational Algorithms research team at IHME. He is the primary architect of a software tool known as… Read more →
World Lab Summer Institute Brings Chinese & Western Students Together to Attack Grand Challenge Problems
There are many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, healthcare systems in crisis, and educational systems that are inadequately training innovative thinkers to solve the problems of tomorrow. A balanced approach is required to solve these problems: balanced between design and technology, between human-centered and technology-centered approaches, and between different world cultures and ways of thinking.
The World Lab is a new research and educational institution that is ideally suited to tackle these grand challenges. The World Lab… Read more →
CSE’s Mike Piatek, Aruna Balasubramanian recognized in SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award competition
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Mike Piatek (now at Google Seattle) and UW CSE postdoc Aruna Balasubramanian (who completed her Ph.D. at UMass-Amherst) have been named co-runners-up for the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award of SIGCOMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on communications and computer networks. Their awards were presented on August 14 at the annual SIGCOMM conference in Helsinki. Congratulations to Mike and Aruna!… Read more →