A research collaboration between UW CSE’s James Landay and graduate student Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research, and the University of Toronto is developing a muscle-controlled interface enabling gesture-driven interaction with computers. “It’s perhaps the most promising of the billion or so Minority-Report-aspiring prototype interfaces,” says Popular Science.
“The new muscle-sensing project is ‘going after healthy consumers who want richer input modalities,’ says Desney Tan, a researcher at Microsoft and UW CSE affiliate faculty. As a result, he and his… Read more →
Computer Science Education Week
December 6-12 is Computer Science Education Week. Learn more here!… Read more →
“A Welcome Disappearing Act”
Columns, the University of Washington’s alumni magazine, writes on UW CSE’s Vanish project:
“The Vanish program encrypts a message, breaks the encryption key into many tiny pieces, and then sprinkles these pieces throughout a large peer-to-peer network that consists of more than a million computers all over the world. As individual computers leave the network and those that remain purge their memories, pieces of the key are gradually lost. Once a certain number of pieces are lost, the key can… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Seattle Girl Geek Dinner
On Thursday December 3, UW CSE hosted more than 100 women in technology from the Seattle area for the Seattle Girl Geek Dinner. CSE’s Magda Balazinska and Yoky Matsuoka provided the technical content. CSE’s Susan Eggers and Justine Sherry coordinated the event.
A terrific brochure prepared for the event is here.… Read more →
OneBusAway makes Seattle Magazine’s “Best of 2009”
“12:42 a.m. Having had one too many margaritas to drive, you open OneBusAway, created by UW students Brian Ferris and Kari Watkins, to find the closest bus route, nearby stops and exactly what time it will arrive to whisk you safely home.”
(Why else would you take the bus?)
Read the article here.… Read more →
The Women of UW CSE
More than 100 women are members of the UW Computer Science & Engineering student and faculty community. This brochure was prepared for a meeting of the Seattle Girl Geek Dinner group that we’re hosting tonight.… Read more →
“Microsoft exec: Quitting Google as tough as stopping smoking”
TechFlash reports on the Xconomy-sponsored “Future of Search” event held at the University of Washington on November 30. UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska moderated a panel of four experts: Google Seattle site director (and UW CSE affiliate professor) Brian Bershad, UW CSE professor (and Farecast founder) Oren Etzioni, Vulcan investment manager Steve Hall, and Microsoft Bing engineering director Harry Shum.
” … the primary challenge facing any company thinking about getting into the business was summarized succinctly in a zinger from… Read more →
CSE’s Justine Sherry, Rita Sodt, Eric Kimbrel recognized in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Each year the Computing Research Association recognizes a small number of the nation’s undergraduates with the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards.
In the 2010 competition, CSE’s Justine Sherry was selected as the national winner among females.
CSE’s Rita Sodt was selected as a finalist.
And CSE’s Eric Kimbrel received an honorable mention.
Congratulations to Justine, Rita, and Eric! They join 32 previous CSE undergraduates who have been recognized by CRA since the inception of this award in 1995. As… Read more →
CSE alum Ratul Mahajan wins SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
Ratul Mahajan, a 2005 UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus now working at Microsoft Research, has received the 2009 SIGCOMM Rising Star Award.
Each year, ACM SIGCOMM presents the “Rising Star” Award, recognizing a young researcher – an individual no older than 35 – who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of their career. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher’s contributions are key criteria upon which the Rising Star Award Committee… Read more →
Bill Howe in NY Times
Bill Howe, Senior Scientist at the UW eScience Institute and adjunct professor in CSE, is quoted in a New York Times story on the democratization of access to scientific computing and scientific data.
“For decades, the world’s supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments. But what would happen if regular folks could get their hands on one?
“Bill Howe, a senior scientist at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington, has urged research organizations to… Read more →