Carnegie Mellon Today, the CMU alumni magazine, has run a wonderful profile on UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Adrien Treuille, now a faculty member in CMU’s School of Computer Science.
“Steam evaporating. A shirt creasing. Hair mussed up. Wind blowing. Crowds moving. These are physical minutiae of the human experience that go largely unnoticed in our daily lives. Yet, what if you are trying to recreate those experiences on a computer so the virtual world you construct seems absolutely faithful… Read more →
Will Johnson’s Putnam Fellowship in Seattle Times
The Seattle Times wakes up to Will Johnson’s Putnam Fellowship.
“The University of Washington has its first Putnam Fellow since the elite college-math competition began some 72 years ago.
“Will Johnson, 21, was one of five students from more than 4,000 who competed this year to win a fellowship. The other students came from MIT (which had two winners), Harvard and Yale.”
Read the complete article here. Read our post from two weeks ago on the superb performance of… Read more →
Kiddon, Roesner, Schiller win NSF Graduate Fellowships
CSE graduate students Chloe Kiddon, Franzi Roesner, and Todd Schiller have won prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships, along with CSE research staff member Justin Samuel.
Morgan Dixon, Sunil Garg, Peter Hornyack, Yun-En Liu, and Nell O’Rourke received Honorable Mention.
Congratulations!… Read more →
CSE’s Mark Bun, Dan Gnanapragasam, Milda Zizyte excel in Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Each year, roughly 1,000 3-person undergraduate teams from across the nation compete in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. This year, a UW team including CSE’s Mark Bun was named “Outstanding Winner.” Additionally, two UW teams, one including CSE’s Dan Gnanapragasam and one including CSE’s Milda Zizyte, were declared “Meritorious.”
Congratulations to Mark, Dan, Milda, their UW teammates, and long-time team coach and professor of Mathematics Jim Morrow.… Read more →
Help! I’m a prisoner in an anachronism!
April Fools Day in CSE dawned to a stuffed Husky trapped inside the museum-piece VAX-11/780 that graces our atrium.
(Computer Engineer Barbie also joined the rogues’ gallery of former CSE chairs.)… Read more →
Ceremony honors UW Medalists Will Johnson, Mark Bun
Each year the University of Washington recognizes the top student (of roughly 7,000) in the previous year’s Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes as class Medalists.
In January, in a double-header, CSE’s Mark Bun was named the University of Washington Sophomore Medalist, and CSE’s Will Johnson was named the University of Washington Junior Medalist.
Will and Mark were honored on Wednesday March 31 at the home of University of Washington President Mark Emmert. CSE faculty members Dave Bacon, Richard Ladner, and… Read more →
PhotoCity iPhone game rolls out this week
PhotoCity, a virtual capture-the-flag game devised by UW and Cornell computer scientists, starts this week. Says University Week:
“It’s an intercollegiate challenge that’s a little bit different. No balls, sticks or stadiums are involved. Any number of people can participate. The playing field is the entire campus. And the only equipment you need is a digital camera. The goal is to capture the campus, one photo at a time.
“Starting today, anybody is invited to snap digital photos of the… Read more →
“What’s Your Breakthrough Idea?”
Greg Huang reports on a terrific Xconomy Forum, held on March 29 in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
See Greg’s report on the top ideas here. See a terrific slideshow of the event here.… Read more →
Rita goes to Washington
UW CSE undergraduate Rita Sodt will travel to Washington DC on April 13th to participate in the 14th annual “Posters on the Hill” program sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research. The goal is to expose Members of Congress to the importance of undergraduate research.
Rita works with UW Pathology professor Kristin Swanson on mathematical models to simulate brain tumor growth. The models make it possible to make predictions about how a tumor will spread, leading to improved… Read more →
“UW researchers look to reinvent the graphical user interface”
The Seattle PI features Prefab, a breakthrough user interface customization system developed by UW CSE’s James Fogarty and Morgan Dixon.
Prefab “gives you customization by analyzing not the source code of different applications, but the pixels they display on your screen.” It “can identify text, buttons, progress bars, sliders and many other graphical elements that we’re used to seeing in user interfaces. It then can modify what is actually displayed on your monitor.”
The article includes a great… Read more →