MIT Technology Review profiles the research of UW graduate student Gabe Cohn:
“Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington demonstrated that the human body can be used as an antenna to direct electromagnetic ‘noise,’ or ambient radiation—in this case from wiring in a wall. The resulting signal could be used to control a gesture-based interface.”
A recent paper, “Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna,” received a Best Paper award at this… Read more →
Lazowska profiled on PCAST report, workforce, “computational thinking”
UW Learning & Scholarly Technologies profiles UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
On the PCAST report
“During the summer of 2010, Lazowska co-chaired the Working Group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) that prepared a report titled Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. According to Lazowska, the main messages of the report include:
Advances in computer science have been a pivotal driver of economic prosperity over the last… Read more →
Decide.com on KING5 News
Decide.com, a startup founded by UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni and four UW alums (including three CSE alums), was profiled on KING5 News.
“A Seattle startup hopes complex math formulas, rumor mining and $8.5 million in funding can completely change the way you shop for electronics. … Decide comprises about 20 PhDs and engineers at the base of Queen Anne Hill, and uses what the company calls ‘predictive technologies’ against a database of billions of historical price points to calculate,… Read more →
UW CSE 2010-11 Ph.D. graduates
Another lovely Bruce Hemingway photograph, showing 20 of our 22 2010-11 Ph.D. graduates. 1MB pdf here. 40MB pdf here.… Read more →
Straight talk about the 2011-12 University of Washington budget
For the fiscal year beginning July 1 2011, the University of Washington has again taken a massive hit to its state budget. State support has dropped 50% since 2007-08. This has largely (but by no means entirely) been offset by tuition increases. There have been significant budget reductions in academic units. The College of Engineering, where Computer Science & Engineering is housed, has suffered a net effective cut of 16.2% in the past 3 years. Incredulously, given student interest and workforce demand, some other units have been cut far less.
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Decide.com on AllThingsD, GeekWire, NY Times
“Ever wonder if you should buy a new digital camera, or wait for a better one just around the corner?
“Even worse, did you buy the brand new HDTV right before 3-D came out?
“A new electronics shopping service is launching today to eliminate buyer’s remorse, by providing consumers with enough information to help them make a better decision.
“The Seattle-based Decide.com is the brainchild of the same folks behind Farecast.com, which helped predict whether it was the right time… Read more →
CSE’s Hoifung Poon wins UAI 2011 “Best Paper” award
CSE’s Hoifung Poon has won the “Best Paper” award from the 2011 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011), to be held July 14-17 in Barcelona, for the paper “Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture,” co-authored with his Ph.D. advisor, CSE’s Pedro Domingos.
It’s the third major-conference “Best Paper” award in as many years for Hoifung, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation yesterday.
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Michael Young in the Allen Center
Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine, captures new UW President Michael Young in what we hope will become his natural habitat – the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering!… Read more →
Kinect programming boot camp at UW CSE
Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 has taken the gaming world by storm. On Thursday, Microsoft Research rolled a Kinect SDK, making full-functionality Kinect programming available for any non-commercial use. On Friday, Microsoft ran a Kinect programming boot camp for 40 UW CSE students, staff, and faculty, helping to bootstrap the UW CSE Kinect developer community.
Thanks to Stewart Tansley (Microsoft Research, and organizer of the event – who had gone 40+ hours without sleep but clearly had drunk plenty… Read more →
“A motley group of 16 ‘open data geeks'”
UW CSE’s Brian Ferris – creator of OneBusAway and recently praised by Seattlest as “oh mighty one … the God of Metro” – was brought to the White House last week as one of “a motley group of 16 ‘open data geeks'” honored as part of the “Champions of Change” program, which celebrates the fact that “Every day in communities across the country, ordinary individuals are doing extraordinary things to improve the lives of others and strengthen their communities.”
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