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 →
Gabe Cohn’s “human antenna” research in Technology Review
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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