Rick Szeliski, a Microsoft Research staff member and long-time Affiliate Professor in UW CSE, has been named the recipient of the 2011 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award “given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.”
Rick’s extensive involvement with UW CSE includes, most recently, co-advising Ph.D. student Noah Snavely, whose thesis research included the technology underpinning Photosynth.
Previous UW CSE “friends and family” recipients of the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement… Read more →
ShareMeNot — Protecting Against Tracking from Third-party Social Media Buttons
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing is reporting on UW CSE grad student Franzi Roesner‘s latest project, ShareMeNot. Cory writes: “[ShareMeNot is] a Firefox Add-On that defangs social media buttons like the Facebook ‘Like’ button (and others) so that they don’t transmit any information about your browsing habits to these services until (and unless) you click on them. That means that merely visiting a page with a Like or a Tweet or a +1 button (like this one) doesn’t generate… Read more →
“Dark Silicon” in NY Times
The “Dark Silicon” paper presented in June at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture is profiled in the New York Times:
“Even today, the most advanced microprocessor chips have so many transistors that it is impractical to supply power to all of them at the same time. So some of the transistors are left unpowered … The phenomenon is known as dark silicon. As early as next year, these advanced chips will need 21 percent of their transistors… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ernst, Notkin, Brun win ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
The paper Proactive Detection of Collaboration Conflicts by UW CSE’s Yuriy Brun, Mike Ernst, and David Notkin, along with Reid Holmes from the University of Waterloo, has received a SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. The paper will be presented in September at ESEC/FSE 2011: The 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE).
Congratulations to Yuriy, Mike, David, and Reid!
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UW CSE’s Ernst, Dietl win ECOOP 2011 Best Paper Award
UW CSE professor Mike Ernst and postdoctoral research associate Werner Dietl have won the Best Paper Award at ECOOP 2011, the 25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, for their paper Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe Types.
Congratulations to Mike and Werner!
Also at ECOOP 2011, UW CSE faculty alumnus Craig Chambers won the Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
Congratulations to Craig!
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UW CSE announces three new research centers!
Recently launched:
The NSF Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering – Yoky Matsuoka, Director
The Center for Game Science, sponsored by DARPA and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Zoran Popovic, Director
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing – Dieter Fox, Director
Learn more here!… Read more →
UW-MSR Summer Research Institute: Security and Privacy for a Consumer, Cloud World
Each year, UW Computer Science & Engineering and Microsoft Research host a Summer Research Institute in Computer Science, bringing together dozens of the world’s top researchers for several days to discuss an important emerging topic.
This year’s UW-MSR Summer Research Institute is taking place July 24-27 at Suncadia Resort, located in the Cascades, ninety minutes southeast of Seattle. The topic is “Security and Privacy for a Consumer, Cloud World.” The goal is to identify new directions for consumer and cloud… Read more →
UW CSE’s Raj Rao profiled in IEEE’s “The Institute”
The Institute has profiled UW CSE professor Raj Rao, stimulated by his TED ’11 presentation on his work deciphering Indus script. “‘This analysis, along with other pieces of evidence, led us to conclude that the script might be versatile enough to encode an unknown language,’ Rao says.”
Read the profile here. Watch the TED ’11 talk here. Learn about the research here.… Read more →
UW’s Shwetak Patel on GeekWire Radio
UW CSE’s and EE’s Shwetak Patel is the guest on this week’s GeekWire Radio broadcast.
“Our guest in the studio is Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Washington, who has figured out how to use voltage noise on home electrical systems to monitor the energy usage of specific appliances and devices, and also how to use home wiring as an antenna to receive signals from sensors around the home.”
Give it… Read more →