UW CSE’s computer graphics team— including professor Steve Seitz, graduate student Ian Simon, graduate alumnus Noah Snavely, affiliate professor Rick Szeliski, and acting professor Sameer Agarwal— has developed a new computer algorithm that automatically reconstructs an entire city from hundreds of thousands of tourist photos in about a day (of computing). The tool is the most recent in a series developed at UW CSE to harness the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing… Read more →
“Test run: Kindle enters UW classrooms”
KOMO news reports on the UW CSE Kindle DX pilot project.
“‘Our students are going to have these devices. They are going to use them. They are going to share with us their experiences. I can assure you they will give us an honest appraisal,’ said Grossman.
“Lazowska says whether its an Amazon device, an Apple device or another company’s technology, he believes the textbook is heading the way of the blackboard.
“There may be no more pencils and no… Read more →
CSE’s Yoshi Kohno featured in Xcomony
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno talks to Xconomy reporter Rachel Tompa about computer security and privacy.
“‘We’re seeing computers in all aspects of our lives, in medical devices, exercise equipment, cars, airplanes, utility systems, power lines, everywhere,’ Kohno said. ‘One of my main concerns is that while we’ve thought a lot about security for our desktop computers, computing is much broader than that, and we need to address security for all of it.'”
Kohno, who is kicking off the Technology’s Alliance’s… Read more →
Yoky Matsuoka Featured in Engineering: Go for It
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka is featured in the “Fresh Faces” section of Engineering: Go for It, a publication that opens up the world of engineering for students, their parents, teachers, and counselors. eGFI is published twice a year by the American Society for Engineering Education.
View the eGFI magazine here.
Interactive eGFI 1-12 site here.… Read more →
Pinpoint Utility Meter Featured on NAE broadcast and podcast
UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel‘s “pinpoint utility meter” is featured on the National Academy of Engineering’s weekly radio broadcast and podcast.
“Ever wonder why you can get itemized bills for credit cards and telephone calls but not electricity and water? A new technology promises that possibility.
“The engineering breakthrough would allow just one easy-to-install sensor per utility. Simply plug into an outlet to monitor your house’s entire electric system. The inventor, Shwetak Patel of the University of Washington, says everything… Read more →
SNIFF – Karolina Sobecka and Jim George
2009 UW CSE Bachelors alumnus Jim George writes to faculty members Brian Curless and Raj Rao: “Since graduating this spring I’ve been working with an artist in New York to make an interactive dog for storefront windows. The project has been accepted into a few festivals and is really well received by the public. I couldn’t have done it without the great background in computer vision and computer graphics I got from your classes this spring, it’s been incredible to… Read more →
“Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud”
Cloud services propose to save companies money by allowing them to run new applications without having to buy new hardware. Now researchers from UCSD and MIT, including UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Savage, have launched a “side-channel” attack on data stored in the cloud.
“‘A virtual machine is not proof against all of the kinds of side-channel attacks that we’ve been hearing about for years,’ said [UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus] Stefan Savage, associate professor with UC San Diego, and one… Read more →
New additions to the UW CSE faculty
A brochure introducing the three new members of the UW CSE faculty is now available – you can download it here.
Su-In Lee, whose research focuses on devising machine learning techniques for understanding the genetic basis for complex traits, will have appointments in CSE and the Department of Genome Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford and spent the following year as a visitor at Carnegie Mellon.
Anup Rao joins our theory group. He received his Ph.D. from UT-Austin,… Read more →
Announcing the 2009-10 UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series!
Spaceflight, molecular gastronomy, wireless, and computer science:
Charles Simonyi (Intentional Software), “Return to the Final Frontier”
Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young (Intellectual Ventures), “Cooking in Silico: Understanding Heat Transfer in the Modern Kitchen”
Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), “From Cell Phones to Smart Phones to Smart Books – An Exciting Journey” (also the 2009-10 UW Electrical Engineering Dean Lytle Memorial Lecture)
Craig Mundie (Microsoft), “Rethinking Computing”
Pat Hanrahan (Stanford), “Why are Graphics Systems So Fast?”
Be there!
See the schedule here. … Read more →
CSE’s Mike Ernst wins Inaugural IBM John Backus Award
UW CSE professor Michael Ernst has received the inaugural John Backus Award from IBM Research for his research contributions to enhancing programmer productivity. Ernst is best known for his work on dynamic invariant detection, testing, type systems, and security.
Created by IBM to honor mid-career university faculty members, the award is named for IBMer John W. Backus, the creator of the Fortran programming language.
Ernst received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 2000, working with David Notkin. He… Read more →