UW CSE faculty member Bruce Hemingway is one of four artists included in the 2011-12 Meany Hall photography exhibit. A reception in honor of the artists will be held on October 4 from 6:30-7:30 in the Meany Hall lower lobby.
See the announcement for the exhibit here. See Bruce’s included photographs here. See Bruce’s wonderful photographs of CSE events over the past few years here.… Read more →
Shwetak Patel in Birmingham News
There are many dozens of news articles related to Shwetak Patel’s MacArthur Fellowship. This one, though – from his home town newspaper – is particularly nice.
“Patel, who was born in Selma and grew up in Forestdale, said he has always enjoyed tinkering with things – wood, cars, electronics, you name it. His first computer program in third grade was for a race car game.” Etc.
Read the article here.… Read more →
STEM education in Washington State
Interested in the performance of the State of Washington in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education at all points in the educational pipeline?
Did you know that we have the leakiest educational pipeline of any top technology state?
Did you know that nearly half of the students who successfully fulfill the prerequisites for Engineering at the University of Washington must be turned away due to a failure to invest?
Check out Ed Lazowska’s presentation to the Washington State Academy… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska testifies to House Science Committee
On Wednesday, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska testified to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on the subject of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program.
When asked to prioritize among various areas of computing research because of the pressing demands of national defense, Lazowska – in a move that CRA’s Peter Harsha characterized as “high drama” (although others were less kind) – demonstrated the power of information technology to the Committee by using his iPhone… Read more →
“Rome in a Day” in CACM
The latest issue of Communications of the ACM includes UW CSE’s “Building Rome in a Day” paper – work recently demonstrated by Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the Intel Developer Conference.
From the abstract: “We present a system that can reconstruct 3D geometry from large, unorganized collections of photographs. Our experimental results demonstrate that it is possible to reconstruct city-scale image collections with more than a hundred thousand images in less than a day.”… Read more →
CSE’s Zoran Popovic on CNN’s “The Big Idea”
A terrific interview on CNN’s “The Big Idea” with UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic. Participants in the Foldit protein folding online game had recently solved a problem that had eluded scientists for a decade.
The GRAIL internal chatter following appearance of the video:
Zoran Popovic: “Disheveled hair and tired mumbling after staying up most of the night with a new grant proposal.”
Steve Seitz: “Great interview! Are you in a prison cell?”
Zoran: “No that’s my cleaned up office (or… Read more →
“Search needs regulation like the Pacific Ocean needs global warming”
In the context of Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Capitol Hill testimony, UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni scores the One-Liner Of The Week Award on American Public Media’s “Marketplace”:
APM’s Steve Henn: “I talked to Oren Etzioni, who founded a startup called Farecast and sold it to Microsoft and just founded a new company called Decide, which is a search engine for shopping decisions. And I kind of expected him to have a bone to pick with Google, but instead he said,… Read more →
Shwetak: the postcard …
(See below for Shwetak: the TV show …)… Read more →
“UW professor awarded ‘genius grant’ of $500,000”
KING5 News interviews Shwetak Patel upon the announcement of his MacArthur Fellowship. Watch the interview here.
Shwetak is the second UW CSE faculty member, and the 14th University of Washington faculty member, to be recognized with a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.”… Read more →
Shwetak Patel wins MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award
UW’s Shwetak Patel, a faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow – colloquially known as the MacArthur “Genius” Award.
Each year, the MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships of $500,000 to roughly twenty “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on… Read more →