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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“Wireless power could cut cord for patients with implanted heart pumps”
UW Today reports on the research of UW CSE’s Josh Smith and his collaborators, on inductive methods for powering implantable medical electronics. Today, the power cord that protrudes through the patient’s belly is cumbersome and prone to infection over time. Infections occur in close to 40 percent of patients, are the leading cause of rehospitalization, and can be fatal.
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Pastry Powered T(o)uring Machine does STP in one day
Ph.D. alums Anthony “legs” LaMarca and Lauren Bricker, and CSE research staff member Stephen Spencer, are all decked out in their UW CSE Pastry Powered T(o)uring Machine jerseys midway through the 10,000-rider Seattle-To-Portland bicycle ride on Saturday. Shirtless faculty member Steve Gribble took the photo.
Overheard at one of the rest stops: “That’s the nerdiest jersey I’ve ever seen.”
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Best Paper Awards at major conferences
Jeff Huang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington’s Information School, has tallied the total number of “Best Paper Awards” won by various research organizations in recent years at a number of leading conferences: AAAI (Artificial Intelligence), ACL (Natural Language Processing), CHI (Human-Computer Interaction), CIKM (Knowledge Management), FOCS (Theory), ICML (Machine Learning), IJCAI (Artificial Intelligence), KDD (Data Mining), OSDI (Operating Systems), SIGIR (Information Retrieval), SIGMOD (Databases), SOSP (Operating Systems), STOC (Theory), UIST (User Interface), VLDB (Databases), and WWW (World… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao at TED ’11
UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao spoke at the 2011 TED conference on his research concerning deciphering Indus script. A video of this spectacular talk has just been posted on the TED website here. Learn more about the research here.… Read more →
UW CSE Bay Area alumni event @ Pixar!
More than 100 UW CSE alums in the Bay Area joined Brian Curless, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, Barbara Mones, and Matt O’Donnell at Pixar on June 30 for an alumni event hosted by Tony DeRose. Great time!!!!!
Alums: Be sure your current address is on file to ensure you’re notified of events in your area!!!!!… Read more →