UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel was interviewed on “The Conversation,” a news and information program on Seattle’s NPR station, KUOW.
“University Of Washington Innovator Shwetak Patel: Seattle Business Magazine recently named a UW computer science professor Seattle’s Top Innovator of 2010, and the technology news website TechFlash named him Newsmaker of the Year. Shwetak Patel came up with a device that monitors how much energy your appliances use. He joins us.”
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He walks … he talks … he tells bad jokes …
Long-time UW CSE faculty member David Notkin made a guest appearance today following a rearrangement of his plumbing by UW Medicine. He looks great! Congratulations, David – we’re thinking of you!… Read more →
“Freedom to Tinker” profiles UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel’s research
“Recent ‘gee whiz’ research by Professor Shwetak Patel’s group at the University of Washington provides a really elegant solution. Every appliance you own – your refrigerator, your flat-screen TV, your toaster – has a different ‘electrical noise signature’ that it draws from the wires in your house. When you turn it on, this signal is (inadvertently) sent through the electric wires to the circuit-breaker box. It’s not necessary to buy ‘smart appliances’ that send purpose-designed on-off signals; your ‘dumb’ appliances… Read more →
CSE’s Yoshi Kohno interviewed on BBC World Service
“Currently, once an email is sent, it has the potential to exist somewhere online forever, even if you delete it. What if there were way of scrubbing data from the internet so that it could never be found? Tadayoshi Kohno, professor of computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been working on just such a project.”
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“Skytap, Fresh Off Boston-Led $10M Financing, Seeks To Make Cloud Computing Work Better”
Xconomy follows up in-depth on a previous article reporting on a new round of funding for UW CSE startup Skytap.
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Lee Hood wins NAE Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize
UW CSE adjunct professor Leroy Hood, President of Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology, today was named the recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize. The Russ Prize – a $500,000 biennial award “recognizing a bioengineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition” – was conferred on Hood “for automating DNA sequencing that revolutionized biomedicine and forensic science.”
The National Academy of Engineering announcement quotes UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska: “No single person… Read more →
“Kings” to 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
“Kings,” a computer animation created in UW CSE’s undergraduate computer animation capstone course, has been selected for screening at the 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival – one of a dozen festival screenings of UW CSE undergraduate capstone animations in the past six months.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Greg Barnes and friends win Canlis 60th anniversary scavenger hunt for charity
A team led by UW CSE Ph.D. alum Greg Barnes, and including UW CSE graduate program alums Elizabeth Walkup, Lauren Bricker, Franz Amador, Dorothy Neville, Erik Selberg, and Terry Farrah (as well as UW CSE course-taker (Eric Bone), has won the Canlis Restaurant “Light Up Seattle” scavenger hunt challenge – dinner for two, annually, for life, at Canlis, Seattle’s premier restaurant – plus a second dinner for two annually to be given away to someone who has helped the… Read more →
UW CSE startup Skytap raises additional $10M
TechFlash writes: “Skytap, which helps companies cut costs by testing software applications in the cloud, has raised $10 million in fresh funding, according to a filing with the SEC. Founded in 2006 by University of Washington computer scientists Brian Bershad (now at Google); Hank Levy, David Richardson and Steve Gribble, Skytap has raised a total of about $23 million to date.
“Investors in the company – led by former iConclude and ADIC exec Scott Roza – include OpenView Venture Partners,… Read more →
“Designing a Digital Future” – video excerpts
On Thursday, December 16, 2010, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released and discussed its report entitled “Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology.” This congressionally-mandated report assesses the status and direction of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program.
Video excerpts from the event are now available here. Of particular interest are the 5-minute segments by Tom Kalil (Deputy Director for Policy, White… Read more →