People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But, according to a new UW CSE study, security and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes have not been adequately addressed.
UW CSE’s professor Yoshi Kohno, grad students Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, and Karl Koscher, and affiliate faculty member Joshua Smith discovered security weaknesses in all three domestic robots they examined. They presented their findings at the International Conference on… Read more →
Open Data Kit Featured in IEEE Computer
Mobile phones are becoming pervasive in developing regions, creating an opportunity to address data collection needs. Existing paper-based approaches are often slow and incomplete when compared to mobile phone based data collection methods.
To address this problem, UW CSE’s grad students Yaw Anokwa, Carl Hartung, and Waylon Brunette, along with Professor Gaetano Borriello, have built Open Data Kit (ODK), a set of mobile phone-based tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data. The ODK project was… Read more →
“Nathan Myhrvold’s Cookbook”
TechFlash reports on a presentation in UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young of Intellectual Ventures.
“What do you do if you’re a wealthy technologist and are interested in food? Take some classes at the Cordon Bleu, right? Well, if you’re Nathan Myhrvold — former CTO of Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures — you take it a step further. Myhrvold hired a team of 15 people, including a chef from a famous London restaurant, who… Read more →
“Rome in a Day” is Computing Research Highlight of the Week
The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have selected UW CSE’s Rome in a Day project as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“Several years ago, a collaboration between computer graphics and computer vision researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft yielded Photosynth, a revolution in organizing and navigating digital photographs.
“Now, that same collaboration has yielded Rome In A Day, which reconstructs entire cities from images harvested from the web, in less… Read more →
“Kirkland startup is a family affair”
“Gary and Pamela Hammer did more than help their son Jeremy find a job when he graduated from the University of Washington three years ago.
“The Hammer family decided that was a good time to start a technology company, employing Jeremy, two of his classmates and another son who had been working at Fluke in Everett.
“Now their company, Kirkland-based Ceton, is releasing a gadget that has caught the imagination of digital-media enthusiasts and could find its way into… Read more →
“Charles Simonyi, Software Giant Turned Space Tourist, Talks Technology and Exploration at UW”
Xconomy reports on Charles Simonyi’s kickoff of the 2009-10 UW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series.
“Simonyi, the father of Microsoft Word and Excel, and now head of Bellevue, WA-based Intentional Software, regaled the crowd of a couple hundred students, faculty, and guests with stories and videos from his second trip to space last March. Simonyi rode a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), docked and spent some time there, and returned safely to Earth, looking… Read more →
“Intel Labs Seattle’s New Director, Dieter Fox, on Why the Future of Robotics Matters to Intel”
UW CSE’s Dieter Fox is the fourth director of Seattle’s Intel Labs, officially succeeding UW CSE’s David Wetherall two weeks ago. At Intel Labs Seattle’s open house yesterday afternoon, Xconomy’s Gregory Huang had a chance to talk to both about the lab’s role in shaping the future of computing.
“‘Our role with respect to Intel is performing what they call disrupting research that is off-roadmap, but essentially our task is also to surprise Intel,’ Fox says. ‘If we show what… Read more →
“Fighting Botnets with Doc Savage”
Voice of San Diego profiles UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus and UCSD CSE faculty member Stefan Savage.
“The poster outside the third-floor office in the University of California, San Diego’s computer sciences building depicts Doc Savage, the big-muscled, bald-headed, fearsome-faced comic book hero. Inside the office sits a different Doc Savage.
“Stefan Savage is a pale-faced, 40-year-old, T-shirt-and-shorts-wearing college professor. But in the world of cybercrime fighting — where the strength of your code, not your biceps, is what matters —… Read more →
UW CSE Professional Master’s Program expands
For the first time since its inception in 1996, the UW CSE Professional Master’s Program (PMP) is expanding: from 130 students to 160, and from three offered courses each quarter to four. The PMP – a part-time evening program targeted towards talented software industry professionals with strong undergraduate preparation in computer science or computer engineering and three or more years of professional experience – has awarded nearly 500 degrees since its inception.
Longtime PMP Advisor Dave Rispoli is excited about… Read more →
“Hands on: UW students get Kindles for pilot project”
TechFlash interviews UW CSE students participating in the Kindle DX academic pilot project.
“At the University of Washington, more than 30 computer science graduate students are taking part in the pilot, and are just receiving their devices. We sat in on a Kindle DX orientation on the UW campus this morning, and talked to a couple students about their expectations for the reader, which they’ll be using in various courses.”
See the article and video here. Learn more about… Read more →