UW CSE bachelors alumnus Paul Javid is one of three students profiled by the UW Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs in an article on the impact of international experiences on undergraduates.
Paul worked with UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, UW CSE Ph.D. student Tapan Parikh (now a faculty member at UC Berkeley), and Microsoft Research on a number of projects in rural India. Paul graduated from UW CSE in 2006, and is now completing dual graduate degrees at UC Berkeley… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Top Innovator!
Seattle Business magazine has announced the winners of its 2010 Top Innovators Awards. And the cover boy is … UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel!
“You probably don’t know it yet, but each appliance in your home sings its own particular song. Recognizing that song could help households cut their energy consumption. Shwetak Patel and his students at the University of Washington have developed intelligent in-home sensors that are able to differentiate between different appliances … Using such devices, consumers can… Read more →
UW CSE and the AI Journal
Elsevier’s journal Artificial Intelligence is arguably the top journal venue in the AI field.
Three of the top five “most cited” papers in the past 5 years of the journal have UW CSE authors!
#1: Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study. Volume 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pp 91-134. Etzioni, O. | Cafarella, M. | Downey, D. | Popescu, A.-M. | Shaked, T. | Soderland, S. | Weld, D.S. | Yates, A. (all authors are UW CSE)
#4: … Read more →
“Robots are stealing our jobs and the love of our children”
Another report on the work of UW’s Andy Meltzoff, Rechele Brooks, Aaron Shon, and Raj Rao.
“So yeah, it looks like the first wave of the robot uprising won’t be skull-headed killbots — the initial deployment will be adorable cyber-dwarf saboteurs, whose adorable, belly-pointing antics will win the hearts and minds of the youth.”
How can you not love the press? Read the article here. Read the paper here.… Read more →
“UW tech students in high demand”
KING 5 News discusses the phenomenal job prospects of UW Computer Science & Engineering grads.
“The job market may be tough for most, but not if you’re a University of Washington computer science student. As KING 5’s Chris Daniels reports, the expertise of computer science majors is a hot commodity.”
Watch the video here.
(If only we had the capacity to offer a UW CSE education to more great students …)… Read more →
Babies treat ‘social robots’ as senient beings
What causes a baby to decide a robot is more than bits of metal? As it turns out, it takes more than humanoid looks— babies that witness a robot engaged in social interaction with adults are much more likely to themselves treat it as a social entity. UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao and UW psychologists published the study starring the Rao lab robot Morphy. Rao’s team designed the computer programs that make Morphy appear social.
Read the UW News article… Read more →
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer at UW CSE
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer headlined the UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series on October 14.
See a Seattle PI summary here.
Watch the video here.
Photographs here.
CIO Magazine. PCWorld. The Register. TechFlash.… Read more →
“VizWiz” receives Best Paper Award at UIST 2010
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Jeff Bigham (now at Rochester), UW CSE grad student Chandrika Jayant, and their co-authors received the best paper award at this year’s ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) for their paper VizWiz: Nearly Real-Time Answers to Visual Questions.
Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to decide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match and how… Read more →
The smartphone’s shape-shifting future
The smartphone of the future might lose its sleek, solid shell. UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel, working with CSE grad Sidhant Gupta, ME undergraduate Tim Campbell, and CSE PhD alum Jeffrey Hightower (now at Intel Labs Seattle), have developed a squeezable cellphone – called SqueezeBlock – which uses tiny motors built into the casing to mimic the behavior of a spring. This novel feedback system changes its ‘shape’ to signal an alert to its user where visual and… Read more →
“Faculty Awards” in the NRC doctoral program assessment
The data reported by NRC on “Faculty Awards” appears, not surprisingly, to be no more accurate than the data reported elsewhere in the assessment. Further information here. Previous post on this unhappy topic here.… Read more →