We love John and Todd at GeekWire! A third UW CSE family member has been singled out as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011”: Yoky Matsuoka.
“Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous system to work in conjunction with robotics and other mechanical devices …
“Matsuoka, a past MacArthur Genius award winner from UW Computer Science & Engineering, this year became the director of a new Engineering… Read more →
Brossard, Bryan, Dietzel, and Worden recognized in 2012 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition
The Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition recognizes undergraduates in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Universities may nominate as many as four students annually.
In the 2012 competition (results announced today), all four UW CSE nominees were recognized – extending UW CSE’s record of having the largest number of students recognized in the most recent ten years of this competition!
Congratulations to Elliott Brossard, Matt Bryan, Stephanie… Read more →
NPR interviews Oren Etzioni on “big data”
As the lead-off for a series on “big data,” NPR features UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni:
“Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, says this trend is fueling intense demand for mathematics and computing talent.
“‘We have seen the industrial revolution, and we are witnessing a data revolution,’ Etzioni says.
“He has started three big-data companies. One of them, Decide.com, employs four Ph.D.s to design better programs to forecast prices on consumer electronics.”
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“UW Students Developing Bus App For The Blind”
The UW Daily apparently watches KING5 News (see post from a week ago here) to get their campus information … but hey, we’ll take it:
“OneBusAway, a smartphone application developed by students in the UW’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), provides public transit riders with bus schedules, maps, and real-time updates as to when buses arrive at stops. But now, another team of CSE students are developing a similar app for blind transit riders.”
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Andrew Sullivan does Decide.com
“‘Decide,’ just in time for Black Friday, helps you learn whether the price of a product is about to fall. How does it accomplish this magic? The five Ph.D.’s on its staff don’t hurt. Together they’ve created an algorithm that predicts a gadget’s future price based, among other factors, on the historical price data of other gadgets in its class. Along with a suggestion of whether to buy a product now or wait for a better price or new model,… Read more →
New York Times on Oren Etzioni and Decide.com
“Oren Etzioni writes articles about artificial intelligence for scholarly journals, is a renowned expert on data mining, and gained fame when Microsoft paid $115 million for Farecast, an airline-ticket price predictor he founded.
“Now, Professor Etzioni, who teaches computer science at the University of Washington, has directed his considerable intellect at the American ritual of shopping for bargains on Black Friday. After examining billions of prices of consumer electronics, he has decided to spend the busiest shopping day of… Read more →
Michael Nielsen on “Reinventing Discovery,” December 8
Michael Nielsen will deliver the UW CSE Distinguished Lecture on December 8 at 3:30 in EEB 105.
Michael is one of the pioneers of quantum computation. Together with Ike Chuang of MIT, he wrote the standard text on quantum computation. This is the most highly cited physics publication of the last 25 years. Several years ago he left a position as Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to write a book entitled Reinventing Discovery – published… Read more →
“‘Hello, computer!’ UW prof and students search outside the box”
GeekWire reports on research by UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni and his students:
“Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing at them, according to a prominent UW computer scientist and his team of researchers …
“In an essay penned for Nature, Dr. Etzioni reiterated what computer scientists have known for several years: it’s high time we thought outside of the old text box.
“Highlighting what he says… Read more →
GeekWire reprises Shwetak Patel as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011″
Two days ago, GeekWire‘s highlighted “Newsmaker of 2011” was UW CSE offspring Daniil Kulchenko (son of Ph.D. student Paul Kulchenko).
Today it’s UW CSE faculty member Shwetak Patel – the photo at left, from yesterday, shows Shwetak and Ph.D. student Sidhant Gupta describing the ElectriSense technology to Art Rosenfeld, Distinguished Scientist Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Professor Emeritus of Physics at UC Berkeley, the impetus behind California’s extraordinary energy efficiency efforts, and father-in-law of UW CSE professor Dan… Read more →
The Infinite Emotions of Coffee
Alon Halevy‘s labor of love for the past few years – in addition to leading Google’s database research group – has been researching and writing a book on coffee.
The book – The Infinite Emotions of Coffee – has launched! Discover it, and order it, here.
(Alon was a UW CSE faculty member for many years before joining Google when they acquired one of his startups. He is now an Affiliate Professor.)… Read more →