An article in New Scientist describes the work of UW CSE Ph.D. student Jinna Lei:
“Celebrity chef apps, online how-to videos and recipe-sharing websites have all joined traditional cookbooks as guides for the amateur epicurean. But wouldn’t it be nice if your kitchen could help you prepare a meal? …
“Jinna Lei at the University of Washington has also installed cameras in the kitchen to watch over novice chefs. Lei and colleagues used Kinect-like depth-sensing cameras capable of… Read more →
“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”
A Computing Community Consortium blog post concerning as session at last month’s CRA Conference at Snowbird chaired by CSE’s Ed Lazowska and featuring CSE’s Shwetak Patel as well as Stanford’s Daphne Koller:
“Our field has exhibited an ever-changing balance of “technology push” and “demand pull” over the years. Many currently sense a movement of the pendulum in the “demand pull” direction. I’d like to argue that this is fantastic — it’s great news for our field, great news for society,… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide.com in UW Daily
A wonderful profile of the four students who worked with UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni to create Decide.com:
“Brian and Ian Ma, along with Han Hsu and Ken Hsu, all UW alumni, started Decide.com after dreaming up an idea several years ago in between their day jobs at Google, Zillow, Microsoft, and Zaaz, respectively.
“‘I noticed my girlfriend went back dozens of times a day to check prices on websites,’ Brian Ma said. ‘I thought that was such a… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yanping Huang wins HHMI International Predoctoral Fellowship
Yanping Huang, a UW CSE Ph.D. student, is one of 50 recipients of International Predoctoral Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
HHMI launched the International Student Research Fellowships Program last year to support international students during their third to fifth years of graduate school in the United States. “We are pleased to be able to support some of the world’s most outstanding graduate students in the biomedical sciences” says William R. Galey, program director for HHMI’s graduate and… Read more →
“How Big Data Became So Big”
An excellent article by Steve Lohr in Sunday’s New York Times.
“This has been the crossover year for Big Data …
“Big Data is a shorthand label that typically means applying the tools of artificial intelligence, like machine learning, to vast new troves of data beyond that captured in standard databases. The new data sources include Web-browsing data trails, social network communications, sensor data and surveillance data …
“‘The term itself is vague, but it is getting at something that… Read more →
CS4HS 2012
This week, nearly 100 middle school and upper school teachers and counselors joined UW CSE for CS4HS – a Google-sponsored program to expose them to computer science and computational thinking.
CS4HS was launched 6 years ago by UW, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon. Today, CS4HS programs are held at dozens of colleges and universities across the country. Participant feedback is hugely positive.
Many thanks to Google (both “central” and Seattle) for its sponsorship of our program. And many thanks to Tom… Read more →
Melissa Winstanley represents UW CSE at Google’s CAPE Summer 2012
Google’s Computing and Programming Experience (CAPE) is a multi-week summer program, held at several Google engineering facilities, designed to inspire excitement about computer science for incoming 9th grade (graduating 8th grade) students.
Melissa Winstanley represented UW CSE at several sessions this summer designed to expose students to the nation’s top computer science programs. Thanks, Melissa! And, thanks Google – both for hosting CAPE, and for including UW CSE.
Information on CAPE here. Photographs here.… Read more →
Jeff Dean in Wired
UW CSE Ph.D. alum and Google Fellow Jeff Dean is profiled in the current issue of Wired:
“Inside Google, Jeff Dean is regarded with awe. Outside the company, few even know his name. But they should. Dean is part of a small group of Google engineers who designed the fundamental software and hardware that underpinned the company’s rise to the web’s most dominant force, and these creations are now mimicked by the rest of the net’s biggest names — not… Read more →
“Car-hacking”
UW CSE Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner and UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage (now on the faculty at UCSD) are extensively quoted in this ComputerWorld article:
“It’s not time for full-on panic, but researchers have already successfully applied brakes remotely, listened into conversations and more.”
Read more here.… Read more →
CSE’s Jon Froehlich wins 2012 UW Distinguished Dissertation Award
Jon Froehlich – a 2011 UW CSE Ph.D. alum now on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Maryland – has been named the recipient of the 2012 University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Froehlich’s dissertation, Sensing and Feedback of Everyday Activities to Promote Environmental Behaviors, was advised by James Landay and Shwetak Patel. It focuses on creating new types of sensors to monitor and infer everyday human activity such as driving to work or taking a shower… Read more →