Most Significant Bits, the newsletter of UW Computer Science & Engineering, has leapt into the 21st century with an online html version, as well as an email version.
Online html version of the Spring 2010 issue here.
Traditional pdf version here.
Sign up to get the email version of MSB the day that it’s published by sending an email to msb at cs.washington.edu.
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UW CSE honors “Inspirational Teachers”
Each year, UW CSE invites students to nominate “inspirational teachers” from secondary school or community college – teachers who shaped their perceptions of themselves as students. We host those teachers, their spouses/guests, and the students who nominated them at a dinner in the Allen Center. We have three goals: to honor the teachers for their contributions; to re-acquaint them with some of their favorite students; and to encourage them to send us more great students!
Photos from this year’s “Inspirational… Read more →
“A Micro-Century of Computational Miscellany”
After more than 25 years on the UW CSE faculty (preceded by stints at Purdue and Yale), Larry Snyder marked his retirement with a valedictory lecture on June 2 2010, attended by more than 100 friends and colleagues.
Larry advertised the talk, “A Micro-Century of Computational Miscellany,” as follows:
“A micro-century (uC) is 52.6 minutes, the optimum length for a college lecture in the opinion of people who worry about such things. A valedictory lecture, a concept with a British… Read more →
UW CSE owns Columns
The June issue of Columns – the University of Washington alumni magazine – includes three articles describing UW CSE research projects utilizing mobile phones in ways that have broad societal impact.
A feature article, “Phoning It In: Changing the World,” describes work by UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello and his students on Open Data Kit, a software infrastructure focused on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices in the developing (and developed) world.
Shorter articles describe… Read more →
dub at UIST 2010
Nearly 20% of the papers at UIST 2010 (the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) have authors/co-authors from dub – UW’s cross-campus alliance of faculty and students exploring Human-Computer Interaction and Design. Congratulations to all of dub, the authors of these 7 papers, and their collaborators at other institutions:
Content-Aware Dynamic Timeline for Video Browsing (UW: Suporn Pongnumkul / Adobe: Jue Wang / Microsoft: Gonzalo Ramos, Michael Cohen)
Cosaliency: Where People Look When Comparing Images (Stanford: David E.… Read more →
Blue herons nesting in the Sylvan Grove
Several families of blue herons are nesting this spring in the Sylvan Grove, which the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering overlooks. From the sixth floor, one nest in particular is easily visible, and neither the proud parents nor the nestlings seem to mind if we monitor their progress. And monitor it we are:
1. Point your web browser at www.cs.washington.edu/heroncam to get a live view of the nest from our cambot.
2. CSE faculty member Bruce… Read more →
CSE’s Zachary Brown wins Bonderman Travel Fellowship
Each year, roughly a half dozen outstanding UW undergraduates are awarded Bonderman Travel Fellowships to spend time abroad. CSE student Zachary Brown has been named a 2010 Bonderman Travel Fellow. Read about Zachary’s plans here. Read about all of the 2010 Bonderman Travel Fellows here.… Read more →
CSE rocks at UW College of Engineering “Community of Innovators” awards
Each spring, the University of Washington College of Engineering celebrates outstanding achievements by students, staff, and faculty at the “Community of Innovators” award event. CSE was well represented among the honorees on June 1. Congratulations to:
Eric Arendt, recipient of the 2010 Dean’s Medal, awarded annually to two outstanding members of the graduating class.
Anna Cavender, recipient of the 2010 Graduate School Medal, awarded by the UW Graduate School to one outstanding Ph.D. recipient each year.
Carol Matsumoto, recipient of… Read more →
“Human-machine mergers promising, but reality yet to live up to hype”
CBC News interviews UW CSE’s Raj Rao: “Reasoning that fine muscle control is a difficult problem, University of Washington researchers are taking a different tack. The Neural Systems Group is experimenting with a small humanoid robot controlled by sensors worn outside the head. Because the robot has intelligence of its own, ‘when you tell it to pick up an object you don’t have to tell it how to move its hand,’ says Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and… Read more →
“Completely finger burning, brain breaking, throw your laptop against the wall insane …”
Each year for more than a decade, UW CSE has offered a “Capstone Design Course” on videogame programming. Teams of students conceive, design, implement, and distribute videogames.
This year, part of the assessment involves how well the games do “in the wild” on the game distribution sites. There’s still a week to go before the end of the quarter, but the first two games now have full-featured review articles about them on game distribution sites, and one has a distribution… Read more →