Have you ever slept, read, talked, or tweeted past your bus stop?
If so, then Bus Stop Alarm is the app for you! Bus Stop Alarm lets users set a location-based alarm on their phone that will go off when they get close to a preselected bus stop. Bus Stop Alarm is the first application to incorporate publicly available bus information and GPS in an innovative bus stop alarm system.
Bus Stop Alarm has just been named one of six … Read more →
Seattle Times does one-sided hatchet-job on Kindle
The story includes interviews with UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner and Ed Lazowska.
(Speaking only for myself, the article completely ignored the tenor of a 1-hour conversation and an email exchange — it’s a crappy hatchet-job article where the reporter had an agenda and ignored counterbalancing input. Read it here if you must.)
(Franzi says “Speaking for myself, I agree.”)… Read more →
“Kings” at Seattle International Film Festival
Barbara Mones (along with all of the participants in her 2008 Animation Capstone) signs posters of the UW CSE animated short “Kings” in the lobby of the SIFF Theater following its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 21st.
UW students from the most recent three years of the UW CSE Animation Capstone joined hundreds of other SIFF attendees at the premiere. The showing (which included a dozen other animated shorts) was a sellout; a second SIFF… Read more →
UW CSE Spring Picnic, May 21
This year, the UW CSE ACM student chapter replaced the traditional faculty dunk tank with a faculty pie toss. Lots of good licks were had by all.
Victims included professors Dan “Was That Really Your Best Shot?” Grossman; Luis “I Think I May Have Messed My Pants” Ceze; Anup “Maybe I Should Have Given An Easier Final Exam In CSE 421” Rao; Gaetano “Take Him Out With The Trash, He’s Already Bagged” Borriello; and John “This Was My Only Clean… Read more →
UW CSE reunion at Oakland!
This year’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“The Oakland Conference”) marked the presentation of a paper describing a UW / UCSD collaboration on automotive security and privacy, and also the debut of the UW CSE security group t-shirt.
In the photo (you can tell from the background that it’s really Oakland …): Roxana Geambasu (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tammy Denning (UW CSE Ph.D. student), David Molnar (MSR, teaching in UW CSE), Alexei Czeskis (UW CSE Ph.D. student),… Read more →
UW CSE’s Peter Henry in New Scientist
New Scientist reports on two recent results in robotics, including work by UW CSE’s Peter Henry and collaborators Christian Vollmer, Brian Ferris, and Dieter Fox.
“Rather than pre-programming fixed instructions, the team thinks it’s simpler to drop a robot untrained into the real world but equip it with the smarts to study and mimic the behaviour of those around them. They have developed an algorithm that allows a virtual robot to navigate a crowd as a human might by first… Read more →
Facebook’s Seattle office
Mayor Mike McGinn will celebrate Facebook’s opening of a Seattle engineering office — their first outside the Bay Area — at a City Hall ceremony on May 18. In addition to the Mayor, speakers will include UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Greg Badros (Facebook’s Director of Engineering), UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, and Ari Steinberg (Manager of Engineering and head of Facebook’s Seattle office).
Attracting engineering R&D operations to Seattle is critical to Seattle’s evolution as one of the nation’s great… Read more →
Luis Ceze, James Lee honored by UW
Five junior faculty from across UW were honored today for national recognition received this year. Two of the five were from CSE: Luis Ceze (Microsoft New Faculty Fellow) and James Lee (Sloan Research Fellow).
Overheard at the event: Provost Phyllis Wise to James: “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Phyllis Wise, the Provost.” James, in response: “Actually, we’ve met, when you visited our department to gently deliver bad news.”
Congratulations to Luis and James!… Read more →
PhotoCity is CRA/CCC Computing Research Highlight of the Week
Each week, the Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium give visibility to a “Computing Research Highlight of the Week.” This week, it’s the PhotoCity project and “virtual capture-the-flag game” led by UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic and Cornell’s Noah Snavely (a UW CSE Ph.D. alum).
See the post (with links to the project website) here.… Read more →
Eric Arendt wins 2010 Dean’s Medal in Engineering
Eric Arendt, a dual major in CSE and EE (with a minor in African Studies!), has been named one of two recipients of the 2010 University of Washington Dean’s Medal in Engineering.
Eric is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Kappa Nu. He has received multiple scholarships, and he has served as a TA and as TA Coordinator in CSE.
Eric’s nomination read, in part: “Eric is a top performer in EE and CSE. He has traveled the… Read more →