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 →
Johnson, Rutherford, Tong Score in Putnam Competition!
Will Johnson, a senior majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics, has been named a Putnam Fellow for finishing among the top five students in the nation — from among 4,036 competitors — in this year’s William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Will is the first University of Washington student to win a Putnam Fellowship since the competition was initiated in 1938.
Four other UW students finished among the top 500 in this year’s Putnam Competition, including Computer Science senior Keyun… Read more →
“Software behaving badly: Machine learning could resolve issues raised by multicore processors”
Widespread press coverage of research by UW CSE professors Luis Ceze, Dan Grossman, and Mark Oskin and UW CSE graduate students Owen Anderson, Tom Bergan, Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia and Nick Hunt.
“Ceze and his colleagues … have developed a way to get modern, multiple-processor computers to behave in predictable ways, by automatically parceling sets of commands and assigning them to specific places. Ceze and several colleagues from the university’s Safe MultiProcessing Architectures (SAMPA) group are presenting their proposed fix… Read more →
Scott Hauck, Anu Taranath win UW Teaching Awards
Scott Hauck and Anu Taranath have been recognized with 2010 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Scott, a UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, is a faculty member in UW Electrical Engineering.
Anu, wife of UW CSE professor Raj Rao, is a faculty member in Comparative History of Ideas and in English.
Congratulations to Scott and Anu! Read the announcement here.… Read more →
Photos from the Accessibility Capstone
Each year, UW CSE offers a number of “capstone design courses” in a broad range of areas. In these courses, students work in teams to conceive, design, implement, and deploy complete solutions to interesting problems.
As cell phones become more capable with connectivity with the internet and sensors such as cameras, compasses, GPS, and accelerometers, there are opportunities to use them as accessibility or assistive devices. This was the focus of the Accessibility Capstone, taught by professor Richard Ladner. Students… Read more →
Happy 80th, Hellmut Golde!
UW CSE alum Judy Maleng hosted CSE faculty and students from the early years (when UW CSE was purely a graduate program) to celebrate the 80th birthday of Hellmut Golde, who played an instrumental role in launching UW CSE. Photos of the event are posted here.
The same group convened at Judy’s 7 years ago to celebrate the 80th birthday of Jerre Noe, founding chair of UW CSE. Photos of that event can be seen here.
Our warm… Read more →
Richard Ladner honored with Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lectureship
CSE’s Richard Ladner has been selected to deliver the 2010 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture. The event will take place on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. (reception at 5:30 p.m.) in Johnson Hall 102 on the UW campus.
Named in honor of the University of Washington’s first Vice President for the Office of Minority Affairs, the Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture is dedicated to acknowledging the work of UW’s distinguished faculty by spotlighting nationally recognized research focusing on… Read more →