Steve Seitz has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “for contributions to three-dimensional computer vision.”
Steve’s research interests include many aspects of computer vision and computer graphics, particularly capturing the structure, appearance, and behavior of the real world from digital imagery. Steve was twice awarded the David Marr Prize for the best paper at the International Conference of Computer Vision, and has received an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an… Read more →
Gaetano Borriello named IEEE Fellow
Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers “for contributions to embedded computing devices and systems.”
Gaetano’s research interests include ubiquitous computing, sensor systems, and embedded systems. An Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, and the Information School, and the Founding Director of Intel Labs Seattle, Gaetano most recently led the development of Open Data Kit (ODK), a… Read more →
“We’re Number Two!”
A new report out this week from the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation and The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation – the 2010 State New Economy Index – ranks Washington second among the 50 states.
The State New Economy Index is a detailed study which analyzes 26 indicators in the five categories of knowledge jobs, globalization, economic dynamism, digital economy and technological innovation capacity.
“Washington scores high due not only to its strength in software (in no small part due to… Read more →
“We’re Number Three!”
Here’s a ranking we can get behind!
A recent assessment of “Best Paper Awards” over the past decade at major conferences in AI, HCI, and data management ranks UW third in the nation, behind Microsoft Research and CMU.
(The conferences were WWW, SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, CHI, KDD, SIGMOD, ICML, VLDB, IJCAI, and UIST. See the tally here.)… Read more →
Vote for Shwetak!
It’s time to vote for the TechFlash “Newsmaker of the Year.” There are six nominees — five guys you’ve never heard of, and UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel.
“Shwetak Patel, a 28-year-old assistant professor in the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, sells home energy monitoring startup Zensi to Belkin and separately develops a novel method of using electrical wiring as a wireless antenna system, spawning another startup.”
Vote here!… Read more →
Ph.D. alumnus Li Zhang wins Packard Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Li Zhang, now on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, was the only computer scientist to win a 2010 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Zhang – who has also won an NSF CAREER Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship – studied with Steve Seitz in UW’s superb Graphics and Imaging Laboratory. Zhang’s research supported by the award will seek to restore stereo 3D… Read more →
Ed Felten: Local Boy Makes Good
A terrific article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly on the Center for Information Technology Policy, directed by UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Ed Felten.
“The center’s interests extend well beyond voting machines. CITP’s director and driving force is Ed Felten, an affable, boyish-looking 47-year-old who holds joint appointments in computer science and public affairs. One of his claims to fame came in 2000, when he testified that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser could be detached from the Windows operating system, thereby… Read more →
There’s a new caffeine addict in town!
CSE professor Josh Smith treats his new (and as yet unnamed) Willow Garage PR2 humanoid robot to a trip to Reboot.… Read more →
“Undergraduates’ low-cost ultrasound system wins Gates Foundation grant”
An effort by students and faculty from CSE, Human-Centered Design and Engineering, and the Information School to design a low-cost portable ultrasound system for use in the rural developing world has received a $100,000 “Grand Challenges Explorations” grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – one of 65 grants awarded among more than 2,400 applicants.
Read the UW press release here. Read about the project and its participants here. Learn about Change, the cross-campus collaboration under which… Read more →
PCAST approves NITRD report
On Thursday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) unanimously approved a report reviewing the 14-agency, $4.3 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, representing the Nation’s entire unclassified R&D portfolio in computer science and related fields.
The 14-person Working Group assisting with the review was co-chaired by Ed Lazowska and David Shaw, who discussed the report on Thursday.
In summarizing the Findings, Lazowska noted:
“America’s NIT R&D efforts have been hugely successful. This… Read more →