UW’s MobileASL team is developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks.
The tool is completing its initial field test, which allows the team to see how people use the tool in their daily lives and what obstacles they encounter. Eleven participants — all students in the UW Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing — are testing the phones for three weeks. They meet periodically with the research team… Read more →
Foldit in New York Times
A recent article in Nature concerning the protein folding videogame Foldit — a collaboration between UW CSE professor Zoran Popovic, UW Biochemistry professor David Baker, and their students — has stimulated a great deal of coverage in the popular press. A superb article appears in today’s New York Times.
“The Foldit project was inspired by the volunteers who were contributing the downtime on their home computers to power a protein-folding program called Rosetta@home. The computer donors could see the… Read more →
“Teachers Explore how to Integrate Computer Science into K-12 Curriculum at UW Conference”
Xconomy reports on UW’s “CS4HS” workshop for high school teachers — including a great synopsis of the “Careers Panel” featuring UW CSE alums Tam Armstrong (Bungie), Krista Davis (Google), Margaux Eng (Amazon.com), and Crystal Hoyer (Microsoft).
“Figuring out how to entice student, parents, and school districts to embrace and support computer science curricula in public education was a topic at center stage at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering CS4HS event last week.”
Read the full… Read more →
“Amazing Innovation: Mobile Apps for the Disabled”
The New York Times chronicles UW CSE undergraduate student projects from Professor Richard Ladner’s “Accessibility Capstone.”
New York Times article here. KOMO News story and video (which inspired the New York Times post) here.… Read more →
Nathan Myhrvold’s “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking”
For several years, Nathan Myhrvold has been working on a 6-volume, 2400-page cookbook that “reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food.”
Myhrvold and co-author Chris Young spoke in UW CSE’s 2009-10 Distinguished Lecturer Series — and brought along a crew of chefs who treated attendees to some amazing ice cream (resulting from the confluence of pistachios, a centrifuge, liquid nitrogen, and a few other ingredients). TechFlash, in describing the unveiling of the website for the cookbook today, links to the video … Read more →
CSE/HCDE “Developing World” Capstone
In 2009-10, for the third year, Computer Science & Engineering joined with Human Centered Design & Engineering to offer a year-long senior undergraduate capstone design course on “Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments.”
Students in this year’s course worked to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use portable ultrasound for midwives that will be tested in Uganda — the Midwives’ Ultrasound Project. The course has been featured by the College of Engineering in a video, website, and mailing to promote the College’s “Capstone Fund.”… Read more →
CSE’s Magda Balazinska wins WCRE “Test of Time” award
A number of major research conferences offer “Test of Time” awards — typically conferred on the paper presented ten years previously that, in retrospect, has had the greatest impact.
UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska has probably set the record for “youngest person to receive a ‘Test of Time’ award.” Her paper “Advanced Clone-Analysis to Support Object-Oriented System Refactoring,” presented at the 2000 Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, will be recognized at the 2010 WCRE conference in October.
Congratulations Magda!… Read more →
Hélène Martin, UW CSE alumna, in TechFlash
TechFlash interviews 2008 UW CSE alumna Helene Martin, now teaching computer science at Seattle’s Garfield High School.
“Dozens of K-12 math and science teachers gathered this week at the University of Washington campus for a three-day summer workshop called Computer Science for High School, or ‘CS4HS,’ an annual program started by the UW, Carnegie Mellon University and UCLA several years ago to promote computer science education in high schools. Sponsored by Google, the workshops are now held around… Read more →
UW CSE again hosts CS4HS
UW CSE hosted 50 high school math, science, and computer science teachers on August 2-4 in our fourth annual “CS4HS” (Computer Science for High Schools) summer workshop. Funded by Google, CS4HS was originally conceived by Carnegie Mellon University, UW, and UCLA, and now involves roughly 20 universities from across the country.
Teachers learn a wide variety of ways in which computer science concepts can be introduced into their courses, and participate in hands-on workshops in Mindstorm robots and… Read more →
Foldit: Gaming for a cure
Two years ago, a team from UW including CSE professor Zoran Popovic, CSE grad student Seth Cooper, and UW Biochemistry professor (and adjunct CSE professor) David Baker, launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems.
“The game, Foldit, turns one of the hardest problems in molecular biology into a game a bit reminiscent of Tetris. Thousands of people have now played a game that asks them to fold a protein… Read more →