UW CSE’s Jon Froehlich and Shwetak Patel describe HydroSense in this Discovery News interview.
HydroSense is a pressure-based sensor that automatically determines water usage activity and flow down to the source (e.g., dishwasher, laundry, shower) from a single non-intrusive installation point.
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From the Seattle Times:
“Facebook, the hugely popular social-media service, is planning to open an engineering office here. Announcement of the Palo Alto, Calif., company’s intentions came Wednesday out of Mayor Mike McGinn’s office …
“‘We are aggressively trying to get the best of the best technical talent around the world,’ said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Facebook.
“In looking for places to find that talent, Schroepfer said, ‘Seattle popped to the top of the list.’ Along with… Read more →
“Big Ideas for Health IT from Hood, Smarr, Lazowska: Highlights of the OVP Tech Summit”
Xconomy reports on the OVP Venture Partners Tech Summit. “‘It bothers me that my car is much better instrumented than I am. You can go to a mechanic and he’ll plug a diagnostic tool in and will tell you everything that happened in the past six months,’ Lazowska said. ‘On the rare occasion when I visit a doctor, it starts with something like ‘Where does it hurt?’.'”
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“OVP Technology Summit 2010: ‘It’s all about the data'”
TechFlash reports: “Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels, University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska, Institute for Systems Biology President Lee Hood and others gathered today in downtown Seattle for the annual OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit. And while the attendees came from a wide range of industries and sectors, there was one concurrent theme that emerged from the event. The future of computing, drug research and other industries revolves around one word: ‘data.'”
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UW CSE alum A.J. Bernheim Brush wins CRA-W Borg Early Career Award
CRA-W — the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research — has named UW CSE Ph.D. alum A.J. Bernheim Brush, a researcher at Microsoft Research, as one of two recipients of the 2010 Borg Early Career Award. A.J. studies human-computer interaction with a focus on computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) and ubiquitous computing. She enjoys investigating how technology can help people and families with everyday challenges including coordination, awareness, and energy conservation.
The award honors the late… Read more →
UW CSE alum Paul Mikesell in TechFlash
“Paul Mikesell, who co-founded Isilon Systems with Sujal Patel in 2001, is officially announcing a new company today called Clustrix which is trying to bring some of the same concepts that Isilon pioneered with digital storage to complex databases. And Mikesell, a University of Washington computer science grad and a former RealNetworks employee, has lined up some financial support from the same folks who backed Isilon …”
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Seattle NAE Grand Challenges Summit
The Seattle Times reports on Monday’s NAE Grand Challenges Summit, hosted by the University of Washington at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle.
“At the Grand Challenges Summit in Seattle today, the University of Washington’s Ed Lazowska … described the advances that computer science will bring to scientific research. ‘You’re going to see a revolution in discovery in the next 10 years,’ said Lazowska … He opened a discussion of ‘eScience’ and new systems for… Read more →
Dan Suciu wins 2010 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award
The ACM PODS (Principles of Database Systems) Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award was established in 2007 and was awarded for the first time in 2008. It is awarded every year to a paper published in the PODS proceedings ten years prior “that had the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade.”
The winner of the 2010 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award is UW CSE professor Dan Suciu, for his… Read more →
Jon Froehlich, Carol Matsumoto win College of Engineering Innovator Awards
Each year the University of Washington College of Engineering bestows “Community of Innovators Awards” in seven categories.
This year, CSE Ph.D. student Jon Froehlich received the “Student Innovator — Research” award, and long-time CSE staff member Carol Matsumoto received the “Staff Innovator — Classified” award. They will be recognized at a College-wide ceremony on June 1.
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UW’s Chris Re wins 2010 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
The annual ACM SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award, inaugurated in 2006, recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. Jim Gray.
Chris Re, a 2009 UW CSE Ph.D. alum, has been recognized as the winner of the 2010 award. Chris — now a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (“The Other UW,” as we call each… Read more →