Today marked the 2012 edition of the annual UW CSE Scholarship and Fellowship Recognition Luncheon, celebrating the donors and recipients of UW CSE endowed scholarships and fellowships.
Graduate fellowship recipient Ray Cheng and undergraduate scholarship recipient Mariana Zanella addressed the attendees, representing dozens of CSE students whose education is made possible through the generosity of UW CSE alumni and friends.
Many photographs here. And, see the booklet from the event here.… Read more →
Shwetak Patel interviewed on KCTS TV
An outstanding interview on KCTS TV with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel.
“About the Episode: University of Washington assistant professor Shwetak Patel talks about being named a 2011 MacArthur Genius Award recipient which includes $500,000—no strings attached. Patel has figured out novel ways of using home electrical systems. We talk with Patel about his work and what the MacArthur Award means to him.
“About Shwetak Patel: Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known for… Read more →
Wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and sustainability sensing
On March 27, a dozen friends of UW CSE joined us for an evening of conversation with Shwetak Patel and his students. Shwetak – UW CSE’s most recent MacArthur “genius” Award winner – described his sustainability sensing research to guests including Jim Allchin, Emer Dooley, Bob Fries, Ron Howell, Jeremy & Jacqueline Jaech, Matt & Cathy O’Donnell, Sujal Patel, Rob Short, and Charles Simonyi.… Read more →
CSE’s Raymond Zhang wins Goldwater Scholarship
CSE undergraduate Raymond Zhang is one of 282 top undergraduates from across the nation to have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year. The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,123 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide.
Raymond is the 8th recent CSE student to be recognized with a Goldwater Scholarship.
Congratulations Raymond!… Read more →
Battle, Richmond, Scott, and Zizyte win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Congratulations to UW CSE undergraduates Leilani Battle, Dustin Richmond, Colin Scott, and Milda Zizyte, who were announced today as winners of 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, providing three years of support for graduate study.
Leilani is a graduate student at MIT. Dustin is finishing his Bachelors degree currently. Colin is a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Milda, like Dustin, is completing her Bachelors degree currently.… Read more →
“New U.S. Research Will Aim at Flood of Digital Data”
Steve Lohr writes in The New York Times:
“The federal government is beginning a major research initiative in big data computing. The effort, which will be announced on Thursday, involves several government agencies and departments, and commitments for the programs total $200 million.
“Administration officials compare the initiative to past government research support for high-speed networking and supercomputing centers, which have had an impact in areas like climate science and Web browsing software.
“‘This has that level of importance,’ said… Read more →
UW rocks at the Fifth Annual Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Last year, UW surprised itself by winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. It is perhaps not so surprising, then, that the UW team – composed entirely of CSE students – rocked at this weekend’s Fifth Annual Pacific Rim Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, winning a return ticket to the nationals. UW’s score exceeded the combined scores of the second, third, and fourth place teams.
Congratulations to team members Mick Ayzenberg, Henry Baba-Weiss, Ian Finder, Karl Koscher, Landon Meernik,… Read more →
Neva Cherniavsky in NY Times
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Neva Cherniavsky isn’t exactly mentioned, but she’s front-and-center in the photograph accompanying an article about devising analytic techniques that can be applied to the vast electronic archive of books, journals and scholarly literature stored on the Web. “At Harvard, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, who jointly lead a group there called the Cultural Observatory, will soon inaugurate a browser that searches for such language changes in a large online repository of scientific papers known… Read more →
SoundWave: Using the Doppler effect to interact with your computer using gestures
Work by UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta is featured on Hack A Day:
“What if you could add gesture recognition to your computer without making any hardware changes? This research project seeks to use computer microphone and speakers to recognize hand gestures. Audio is played over the speakers, with the input from the microphone processed to detect Doppler shift. In this way it can detect your hand movements (or movement of any object that reflects sound).”
Read the post and watch… Read more →
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
On March 17th, twenty high school women from Western Washington were honored at UW CSE with Awards for Aspirations in Computing from NCWIT, the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder of NCWIT, joined in the ceremony.
The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women at the high school level for their computing-related achievements and interests. Awardees are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and plans for… Read more →