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 →
GeekWire: “Consumer Reports for geeks: New ‘Decide Score’ uncovers the best and worst products”
“Decide.com already tells consumers when they should buy cameras, phones, refrigerators and other gadgets and appliances, analyzing price drops and increases. Now, the Seattle startup and brainchild of University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni and others is getting into the recommendation business, assigning a score of 1 to 100 on more than 22,000 products that it tracks.”
Read more here.… Read more →
CSE’s Brett Newlin strokes USA men’s eight into Olympic finals
2005 UW CSE alum Brett Newlin stroked the USA men’s eight into the Olympic finals with a convincing victory over Australia, Poland, and the Ukraine in a tough qualifying heat on Saturday.
Read about it, and watch a video of the heat, here.
The final will be Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. BST, 4:30 a.m. PDT.… Read more →
UW CSE’s FoneAstra scores in IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition
The IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition recognizes students who develop unique solutions to real-world problems using engineering, science, computing, and leadership skills to benefit their community, the world at large, or both.
UW CSE’s FoneAstra has been recognized with third place in the 2012 competition.
FoneAstra is an ARM7-based board that plugs into the data port of low-tier mobile phones. With attached sensors, custom applications can be run through FoneAstra. As a prototype, the per-unit cost of the board… Read more →
UW CSE startup Decide.com in NY Times yet again …
In an article titled “Clearing Away the Clutter From Tech Shopping,” the New York Times recommends the use of UW CSE startup Decide.com:
“A couple of years ago, some exceedingly bright minds from the worlds of computer science and business created Farecast, a site that takes reams of data about airline ticket pricing and analyzes it to let consumers know if the fares for trips they want to take at a given moment are going to go up or down… Read more →
‘Control-Alt-Hack’ game lets players try their hand at computer security
Do you have what it takes to be an ethical hacker? Can you step into the shoes of a professional paid to outsmart supposedly locked-down systems?
Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by members of the UW CSE Security and Privacy Lab.
“Control-Alt-Hack” gives teenage and young-adult players a taste of what it means to be a computer-security professional defending against an ever-expanding range of digital… Read more →
NSF CISE AD Farnam Jahanian highlights two UW CSE research breakthroughs in Snowbird keynote address
This week, the nation’s computer science, information science, and computer engineering department heads are gathered in Snowbird, Utah for the every-other-year Computing Research Association Conference at Snowbird.
In his keynote address on Monday morning, Farnam Jahanian, the National Science Foundation’s Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, highlighted two UW CSE research breakthroughs.
Jahanian showed the NSF “Science Nation” video describing UW CSE’s “Rome in a Day” project – synthesizing tens of thousands of photographs into 3D models… Read more →