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 →
What makes Seattle appealing to entrepreneurs?
Other questions that pop to mind: What does oBizMedia know about this, why is the graphic on the website of Nissan of Auburn, and would anyone really want to be the next Silicon Valley anyhow?
Never mind these details! The answer to the big question – “What makes Seattle appealing to entrepreneurs” – is:
Madrona Venture Group
TechStars and Founders Co-op
UW CSE
Read all about it here. GeekWire post here.… Read more →
Twenty great 15-minute talks about Computer Science futures
On Feb. 16th, over 150 attendees packed a room overlooking the United States Capitol to mark two decades of coordinated Federal investment in networking and information technology research and development with a daylong symposium exploring progress and prospects in the field.
A website has now gone live with complete materials from this extraordinary day — including videos, photos, slides, and written summaries from the 19 15-minute presentations by leaders of the field, plus a luncheon keynote by former Vice President… Read more →
UW CSE’s Adrian Sampson discusses green computing on KUOW
UW CSE 3rd year Ph.D. student (and newly-crowned Facebook Fellow) Adrian Sampson discusses green computing, Harvey Mudd College as a h(e)aven for geeks, the value to industry of fundamental research, graduate student recruiting, and the State of Washington’s failure to invest in computer science educational capacity on KUOW’s “Weekday” with Steve Scher.
The interview begins at 21:45 here.… Read more →
Math Academy students visit Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory
Roughly 20 students from last summer’s UW College of Engineering Math Academy program returned to campus and visited the Ubiquitous Computing Laboratory in CSE.
Lots of photographs here.… Read more →
CSE’s Carl Ebeling wins “Top 25 in 20” from FPGA
For the 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in 2012, a program committee has assembled a special volume to highlight the most significant papers from the conferences – 25 papers across all years and all major FPGA topics that best exemplify the contributions from the conference. These 25 papers represent roughly 5% of the 400-500 papers that have appeared in the conference to date.
The paper “PathFinder: A Negotiation-Based Performance-Driven Router for FPGAs” by… Read more →