UW CSE Professor Alan Borning and CSE grad student Travis Kriplean, as part of the research conducted by the Engage project, have unveiled a new website devoted to promote civic engagement. It’s based on their open-source ConsiderIt platform.
The Living Voters Guide, funded by the National Science Foundation, lets citizens discuss and share information by letting them work together to write their own voters guide. Its purpose is to help Washington voters to make decisions about the many… Read more →
John Hennessy at UW CSE, Tuesday November 2
Join us on Tuesday November 2 at 3:30 in the Microsoft Atrium of UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering for a presentation by Stanford President John Hennessy on “The Future of Research Universities.”
American research universities are widely admired as the best in the world. The ability to turn research discoveries into new products, companies, and even industries make them the envy of the world. But, there are storm clouds on the horizon, including inadequacy of… Read more →
Steve Ballmer at UW CSE, Thursday October 14
Join us on Thursday October 14 at 3:30 in the Microsoft Atrium of UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering for “A Conversation with Steve Ballmer.”… Read more →
dub Wins Best Paper at Ubicomp 2010
Congratulations to the dub team!
* Ubicomp 2010 Best Paper Award
ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home, Sidhant Gupta, Matt Reynolds, Shwetak Patel.
ElectriSense is a new solution for automatically detecting and classifying the use of electronic devices in a home from a single point of sensing. It relies on the fact that most modern consumer electronics and fluorescent lighting employ switch mode power supplies (SMPS) to achieve high efficiency. … Read more →
NRC Graduate Program Assessment Data is Erroneous
During the week of September 19th, NRC provided pre-release access to its long-delayed “Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States,” scheduled for public release during the week of September 26th.
We, along with colleagues in other computer science programs nationally and colleagues in programs in other fields at the University of Washington, quickly discovered significant flaws of three types in NRC’s data:
Instances in which the data reported by NRC is demonstrably incorrect, sometimes by very substantial margins.… Read more →
Seungyeop Han receives Best Poster at SIGCOMM 2010
Incoming UW CSE grad student, Seungyeop Han, and his co-authors recently received the best poster award for their poster “Accelerating SSL with GPUs,” which proposes using the computing capabilies of the Graphical Processing Units on computer video cards to cheapen the considerable computational cost of wrapping HTTP communications with SSL encryption. SIGCOMM 2010 was held in New Delhi, India, August 30-September 3, 2010.
More information on the conference may be viewed here.… Read more →
“Computer Game Could Help Cure Diseases”
UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic talks with NPR’s David Green about Foldit. As we have reported previously, Foldit is a game in which players compete at protein folding (as improbable as that sounds!). The results give researchers new approaches as they seek to cure diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The interview (4:33 audio with transcript) is here.
See earlier news coverage here.… Read more →
Home wiring acts as an antenna to receive low-power sensing data
UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and colleagues at UW and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a way to dramatically increase the battery life of sensors in the home, making their use far more practical.
The approach is called SNUPI — Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure. The “trick” is to utilize the electrical wiring in the home as a gigantic antenna, picking up very low power wireless signals from sensors and carrying them to a monitoring computer.
SNUPI, which… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka is UW Medicine’s “2010 Emerging Inventor of the Year”
Yoky Matsuoka, the Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, has been recognized by UW Medicine as the 2010 Emerging Inventor of the Year. Yoky will be honored at a reception on October 26th.
“Dr. Matsuoka pursues a broad range of activity that, in the ultimate application, would lead to the development of artificial devices that augment human capabilities under neural control. In a very important step along this path, she is developing an anatomically correct… Read more →
dub at Ubicomp 2010
Dub — UW’s cross-campus alliance of faculty and students exploring Human-Computer Interaction and Design — will have another strong showing at Ubicomp 2010 this year, a top Ubiquitous Computing conference. There are 6 accepted papers from dub members, two of which have been nominated for the best paper award. Congratulations to all of dub, the authors of these 6 papers, and their collaborators at other institutions:
Augmenting On-Screen Instructions with Micro-Projected Guides: When it Works, and When it Fails (UW: … Read more →