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.”
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“The 14 Hot Seattle Startups You Need To Watch”
If we’re to believe Business Insider, two of Seattle’s 14 hot startups are UW CSE spinouts:
“Decide.com was founded by a rock star tech team to bring consumers bargains on consumer electronics gear.“
“Impinj makes RFID chips and filed for an IPO in April.“
(A third of the 14, Apptio, is led by Sunny Gupta, formerly a VP at UW CSE startup Performant, which was acquired by Mercury Interactive.)… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tom Bergan wins Google Ph.D. Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. student Tom Bergan is among 14 students from North America to win 2011-12 Google Ph.D. Fellowships. Tom works with Luis Ceze, Dan Grossman, and Steve Gribble on improving multiprocessor programmability.
Congratulations Tom!
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UW CSE Ph.D. alum Noah Snavely named Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Noah Snavely, a 2008 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus now on the faculty at Cornell University, joined UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel in the 2011 class of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows.
Noah, who studied with professor Steve Seitz in UW CSE’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory, is interested in using massive collections of images on the web to better understand and visualize the world. A portion of his Ph.D. work was embodied in Microsoft’s amazing Photosynth offering.
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UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel named Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Each year since 2005, Microsoft Research has honored a small number of the world’s most innovative young faculty members as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows.
The 2011 class of Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows – announced today – includes Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of CSE and EE at the University of Washington. Shwetak’s research concerns Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and User Interface Software and Technology. He is particularly interested in developing easy-to-deploy sensing technologies and approaches for activity recognition and… Read more →
CSE’s Dan Grossman in Seattle Weekly on “cyberstalking prevention”
“‘The first rule of thumb is that privacy is hard to get right,’ says Dan Grossman … ‘Don’t do anything online you don’t want people to see.’ That said, here are his tips for keeping your passwords to yourself when using somebody else’s computer.
When the computer’s browser asks if you want it to remember your password, say no.
Turn on the Web browser’s ‘privacy’ mode.
Log off.
Read the article here.
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UW CSE leads NSF Engineering Research Center on Sensorimotor Neural Engineering
The National Science Foundation today announced an $18.5 million grant to establish a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) based at the University of Washington.
The Director of CSNE is UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka. Deputy Director is UW Biology professor Tom Daniel. Partner institutions are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and San Diego State University. (Joel Voldman from MIT and Kee Moon from SDSU are co-PIs.) Also partnering are historically minority-serving institutions Spelman College… Read more →
“Hidden Gems are Inside UW Computer Science & Engineering – Can They Be Mined?”
An Xconomy post by UW CSE alum Jeremy Jaech, who has spent the past few months in CSE as an entrepreneurship coach.
“Together we can create a culture that values and informs the commercialization of ideas, always remembering that faculty members and outsiders are not often the miners of these gems. Students are.”
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