We’re thrilled to announce that Shyam Gollakota will be joining the UW CSE faculty this fall, adding to the strength and vitality to our efforts in systems, networking, and security.
Shyam received his Ph.D. from MIT earlier this year, working with Dina Katabi. His research has focused on improving the performance and security of wireless networks. He has won two best paper awards at the ACM SIGCOMM conference (the leading conference in computer networking), one on security for … Read more →
SoundWave in Popular Mechanics
SoundWave, a joint project of UW CSE and Microsoft Research, is featured in Popular Mechanics. Hey, Shwetak is a licensed plumber and electrician, and worked on his own car in high school – what could be more natural?
“Though using the Doppler effect to track human gestures has been around for a decade, it had always required customized equipment. SoundWave eliminates the need for any specialized hardware, requiring only basic technology.”
Read the article here. Read more about the… Read more →
“Cure for common flu may come from video game”
KING 5 News anchor Jean Enerson reports on Foldit: “University of Washington researchers are harnessing the power of online gaming to crack the code of the flu virus.”
Watch the video here – it’s really good.
Play Foldit here.
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Moog Google doodle hack by CSE’s Karl Koscher
TNW reports:
“Earlier in the week we reported on the pretty epic interactive Google doodle that was an homage to Dr Robert Moog. The super cool landing page allowed visitors to mess around with a virtual Moog synthesizer and then share their noisy creation with others as an application recorded and played back the sounds (On a virtual reel-to-reel no less!)
“One smart engineer is all it takes to push a project further of course. Karl Koscher is a Ph.D.… Read more →
“Turning the Body into a Wireless Controller”
The “Humantenna” project – joint work by UW CSE’s Gabe Cohn and Shwetak Patel and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris and Desney Tan – is featured in today’s Computing Community Consortium blog. The CCC blog post builds on an article in New Scientist describing the research, presented at CHI 2012 earlier this month. There’s also a callout to the SoundWave project in the post – joint work by UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta and Shwetak Patel and Microsoft Research’s Dan Morris… Read more →
Men of CSE
It took 13 years for UW CSE graduate students to attempt to top the 2000 “Men of Sieg Hall” calendar. And they failed. Nonetheless, you should support the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research by purchasing the 2013 “Men of CSE” calendar.… Read more →
DawgBytes – UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program
UW CSE has significantly ramped up its K-12 outreach activities. This spring, undergraduate and graduate students taking the K-12 Computing Education seminar have logged over 150 hours volunteering in K-12 classrooms around the greater Seattle area. This week alone, our students have introduced CS to one class at Odle middle school and 3 classes at Shorecrest high school. We will be involved in a programming symposium component of the Seattle Science Festival on June 4th and have been exploring other… Read more →
CSE’s Franzi Roesner wins “Best Practical Paper” award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
UW CSE Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner has been recognized with the “Best Practical Paper” award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The paper, “User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems,” was co-authored with UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno, UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and Microsoft Research staff member Alex Moshchuk, Microsoft Research staff members Bryan Parno and Helen Wang, and Microsoft staff member Crispin Cowan.
Congratulations to Franzi and her co-authors!
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Emma Brunskill wins Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to2000 UW CSE bachelors alumna Emma Brunskill, announced today as the recipient of a 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.
Each year, Microsoft Research selects a handful of the most promising young computer science faculty members from around the world for recognition and support through this program.
After graduating from UW CSE, Emma won a Rhodes Scholarship, received a computer science Ph.D. from MIT, did a postdoc at Berkeley, and is now a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon… Read more →
Higher Education highlighted at Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon
Higher Education was a recurring theme today at the annual Technology Alliance “State of Technology” luncheon in downtown Seattle.
Technology Alliance chair (and UW CSE alum) Jeremy Jaech presented the results of the most recent Technology Alliance economic impact study. According to GeekWire:
“Jaech also sounded the alarm about education funding, thanking the governor and state legislature for stemming the tide of cuts, but saying that more needs to be done to expand the pool of homegrown engineering talent. ‘I… Read more →