In our recent post about the recognition of OneBusAway with a VISION 2040 Award from the Puget Sound Regional Council, we failed to note the most amazing aspect of the ceremony: Alan Borning in a suit!
But, who is the guy in the pink shirt and tie?… Read more →
“Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists”
An excellent MSNBC Cosmic Log article on UW’s Foldit game for protein folding and protein structure calculation.
“For more than a decade, an international team of scientists has been trying to figure out the detailed molecular structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus found in rhesus monkeys. Such enzymes, known as retroviral proteases, play a key role in the virus’ spread — and if medical researchers can figure out their structure, they could conceivably design drugs to stop… Read more →
“If It Only Had a Brain”
The work of UW CSE professor Raj Rao is featured in the new book The Two-Second Advantage:
“The robots in Rajesh Rao’s lab at the University of Washington could be the cousins of the robot from Lost in Space, Rosie from The Jetsons, and C-3Po. They have square, electronics-laden heads, human-shaped bodies, lights, buttons, and herky-jerky movements. They look like toys but are nothing of the sort. The robots were created to help Rao learn about human brains …”… Read more →
We Like Mike!
From the President’s Page of the September 2011 issue of Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine – an issue celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the University of Washington:
“Along the way, there were a number of momentous developments that would help shape the University we see today… Then in 1975, the University took yet another step into the future by establishing the Department of Computer Science, a far-sighted step that would attract some of the world’s best computer scientists… Read more →
“Intel, University of Washington create 3D models with Web images”
ZDNet reports: “At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demos how the company’s processors are being used to render a 3D model from millions of user-generated images taken from photo-sharing sites like Flicker and Picasa. The work is being done at the University of Washington, where researchers have crowd-sourced images from the Web and created 3D re-construction of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.”
Watch a video of Otellini’s presentation here.
This work is… Read more →
UW Certificate in Cloud Computing
UW CSE sponsors dozens of certificate programs through UW Professional and Continuing Education – multi-course themed clusters targeted at professionals. The latest – in which CSE collaborated with the UW eScience Institute – is the Certificate in Cloud Computing. UW CSE’s Bill Howe, who worked with an expert industry advisory board and UW PCE staff to create the program and will teach the capstone course, says “Today, the analysis of data – not the collection of it –… Read more →
OneBusAway honored with VISION 2040 Award from Puget Sound Regional Council
UW CSE’s Brian Ferris, the brains and brawn behind the OneBusAway transit application, may have received his Ph.D. and left for Google Zurich where the trams run like a Swiss watch … but OBA remains behind, continuing to garner awards – this time from the Puget Sound Regional Council.
PSRC’s VISION 2040 Award “recognizes innovative projects and programs that help ensure a sustainable future as the region grows.” Said Mukilteo Councilmember Jennifer Gregerson, Chair of the VISION 2040 Awards… Read more →
UW CSE alum events
Last week UW CSE hosted alum happy hours at Microsoft, Google Kirkland, and Google Fremont. More than 200 alums and interns and 20 faculty turned out. Many thanks to our terrific Microsoft and Google recruiters for facilitating these events, and to our terrific alums for turning out. (We apologize for coming away with nothing more than a couple of crummy cell phone photos – we promise to do better next time!)… Read more →
“This Internet thing is going to be big!”
The first mention of the word “Internet” on Seattle’s KING-5 News was a 1994 interview with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska. Recently, KING-5 News anchor Allen Schauffler compelled Ed to revisit that interview. It’s worth watching, here. Main conclusion: “The past 17 years have been a lot kinder to the Internet than to me.” Allen took the Wayback Machine photograph to the right.… Read more →
Jean-Loup Baer’s 75th!
UW CSE emeritus professor Jean-Loup Baer celebrated his 75th birthday on Saturday evening with a wonderful party at Bastille. Winners of the “To how many obscure questions about Jean-Loup can you guess the right answer?” contest were entered in the Jean-Loup Baer Lookalike Contest.
Happy birthday Jean-Loup!!… Read more →