The UW Daily reports on UW CSE’s participation in the Amazon.com Kindle educational pilot project.
“The Kindle went through a pilot test at seven universities across the nation to see how students would react to the product as a tool for school. The CSE Department handed out 42 Kindles this year to the department’s graduate students as part of the trial program … Overall, the responses of CSE graduate students highlighted just how often students take for granted the layout… Read more →
UW: Computer Architecture “Top Pick”
Annually, IEEE Micro re-prints a small number of “Top Picks” from the preceding year’s research publications in computer architecture. One of this year’s “Top Picks” was the paper “DMP: Deterministic Shared-Memory Multiprocessing” by UW CSE’s Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, and Mark Oskin.
Special issue table of contents here. DMP paper here.
Congratulations to Joseph, Brandon, Luis, and Mark!… Read more →
“Turning Flat Photos Into 3-Dimensional Buildings”
The New York Times features several projects from UW CSE’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day, but in cyberspace it might be. Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a system that will blend teamwork and collaboration with powerful graphics algorithms to create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities …
“The PhotoCity game is already being played by teams of students at the University of Washington… Read more →
Computer Science is Cool, UW CSE is Hot
Network World profiles “10 hot computer science schools,” including the University of Washington.
“Enrollment in the top U.S. computer science programs as well as applications for next year are up significantly, as more college students discover that their job prospects are better — and their starting salaries higher — if they have a computer-related degree. Here are the latest enrollment figures from 10 of the hottest computer science schools in the nation.”
The article starts here. The UW profile… Read more →
Arun Majumdar, ARPA-E, addresses UW CSE
Dr. Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), the country’s only agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, in October 2009.
His visit to UW CSE includes one-on-one meetings and a roundtable with scientists and engineers, a roundtable with entrepreneurs and investors, a public lecture “ARPA-E: Addressing the Sputniks of our Generation,” a meeting with United States Senator Maria Cantwell, and a meeting with the Washington Clean Energy Leadership Council.
Majumdar’s… Read more →
2010 Sloan Research Fellowships
The 2010 class of Sloan Research Fellowship recipients has been announced. Once again, the UW CSE family is well represented!
UW CSE faculty member Luis Ceze, a computer architect, was recognized — the seventeenth (17!) UW CSE faculty member to have received this honor.
Additionally, UW CSE Ph.D. alums Karen Liu (a faculty member at Georgia Tech) and Li Zhang (a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, following a postdoc at Columbia University) were recognized. Both did their… Read more →
“Brain-controlled cursor doubles as neural workout”
“Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research. Now a rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two can adapt to each other quickly, and possibly to the brain’s benefit.”
UW CSE’s Raj Rao, his grad student Kai Miller, and a team of researchers looked at signals on the brain’s surface while using imagined movements to control a cursor. Electrodes attached to the… Read more →
Computer Engineer Barbie!
As noted in a previous post, Mattel has been running a web-based contest to choose Barbie’s next career.
The results are in! “You voted! We listened!!” (Even if “you” is a bot …) The winner of the popular vote is … Computer Engineer Barbie!
The New York Times reports: “Barbie has come a long way since 1992, when the blond bombshell of a doll was programmed to say, ‘Math class is tough.’ Barbie, whose various careers have taken… Read more →
“Microsoft and Amazon square off, sorta, in a very Seattle rivalry”
A TechFlash article on the overlapping businesses of Microsoft and Amazon.com
“‘I don’t view this as ‘competition vs. cooperation.’ There is plenty of business out there,’ said Ed Lazowska, computer science professor at the University of Washington. ‘Users — customers — are going to prefer different approaches. What’s great for us, for our future as a tech region, is that Amazon.com has emerged as one of the nation’s great technology companies, and that two of the three big players in… Read more →
Xconomy: What’s Your Breakthrough Idea?
UW CSE will host a half-day Xconomy forum on March 29th. Titled “What’s Your Breakthrough Idea?,” the event will feature Lee Hood, Nathan Myhrvold, and UW CSE’s Steve Seitz and Dan Weld, among others. Read all about it here.… Read more →