Eric Larson, a Ph.D. student working with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel, will receive the UW College of Engineering “Student Innovator: Research” Award at the Community of Innovators award celebration on May 29.
Eric’s research concerns sensing and signal processing for health care and sustainability applications.
Congratulations Eric!… Read more →
Google MapReduce Bootcamp
Many thanks to UW CSE alum and Google engineer Shen Lee for running a 3-session MapReduce Bootcamp for UW CSE students. There was overwhelming interest in this 3-evening bootcamp, just concluded.… Read more →
Microsoft TouchDevelop Hackathon at UW CSE
TouchDevelop is a new programming environment for Windows Phone – a typed, structured programming language built around the idea of only using a touchscreen as the input device to author code, with built-in primitives that make it easy to access the rich sensor data available on a mobile device.
On Friday and Saturday, 30 UW CSE students participated in a TouchDevelop Hackathon. The event started on Friday evening with a short tutorial about TouchDevelop. Throughout Friday night and Saturday,… Read more →
SoundWave in the news!
PCWorld writes: “Most gesture-based control systems we use today rely on either motion-capture cameras – like the Kinect – or a touchscreen device. But researchers from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington are developing a system that can detect object with sound waves, like how a bat does with echolocation. With the SoundWave project, the researchers aim to bring gesture controls to any computer that has a set of speakers and microphone. The program uses the Doppler Effect… Read more →
Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker in May issue of Playboy
This is what happens to UW CSE Ph.D. alums who do research on the spam value chain using fake viagra sales as their case study.
Page 45 of the May issue, here.
[In a followup to this post, Savage notes: “Now, one might suggest that there is a trend among UW CSE Ph.D. alums on the UCSD faculty, given Sorin Lerner’s 2010 recognition by the adult entertainment industry. As Yoshi might say, ‘Interesting!’ However, I can assure you… Read more →
Husky Hot Dog
OK, we admit it – it’s not news. But how can you not love this UW-themed hot dog????? (From a collection of Seattle PI photographs of the May 5 “Opening Day” (of the boating season) activities on the Montlake Cut.)… Read more →
CSE’s Stuart Reges joins CSTA Board of Directors
CSE’s Stuart Reges has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Computer Science Teachers Association, as one of two “University Faculty Representatives.” CSTA is a national organization that supports and promotes the teaching of computer science in K-12.
Stuart has a long record of engagement with both the national CSTA organization and the Puget Sound chapter, PS CSTA.
Learn more about UW CSE’s K-12 outreach activities – DawgBytes – here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Open Data Kit” in Alaska Airlines flight magazine
The feature article in the most recent Alaska Airlines flight magazine, “Data Delivery: Researchers tap the potential of mobile technologies to gather and interpret information,” contains an extensive discussion of UW CSE’s “Open Data Kit,” an open source toolkit that turns mobile phones into data collection devices.
Read the article here.… Read more →
“The Cost of Engineering’s Capacity Problem”
UW’s Trend in Engineering interviews UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW Dean of Engineering Matt O’Donnell regarding the impact on students and employers of the longstanding failure to invest in engineering capacity at the University of Washington.
“‘It’s heartbreaking,’ said Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering. ‘We are turning away outstanding students who would absolutely succeed in the program. It’s depriving students of the preparation they need, and it’s depriving employers of the… Read more →
CMU SCS “The Link” features Carlos Guestrin
Carlos will soon become the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in UW CSE.
Read the profile here. Full issue of The Link here.
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