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 →
“Discover what’s next. It’s the Washington way”
There’s a new UW 30-second promo video that’s a huge improvement over its predecessors. Take a look here (Silverlight) or here (Flash)!… Read more →
Zoetrope in Business Week
Business Week discusses data visualization, including UW CSE’s Zoetrope, created by graduate students Eytan Adar (now on the faculty at the University of Michigan) and Mira Dontcheva (now a researcher at Adobe) and faculty members James Fogarty and Dan Weld.
“Today algorithmically inspired artists are re-imagining the art-science continuum through work that frames the left-brain analysis of data in a right-brain creative story. Some use data visualization as a bridge between alienating information and its emotional impact … Others take… Read more →
The Geek’s Guide to Seattle
Our friends at TechFlash have just published a wonderful “Geek’s Guide to Seattle” – twenty “must see” tourist stops for techies. Among the hotspots:
Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington – “This building, named after Microsoft’s co-founder, is the region’s nerve center for computer science education, sending graduates to Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many others.”
Wilcox Hall, University of Washington – “This was the UW computer center, known as Roberts Hall Annex,… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Vanish” in the Times of London
“Imagine if every time you sent a letter, the postman made a copy … This isn’t 1950s Russia but the internet today. Every e-mail you send is stored on not only your computer but also the recipient’s machine; your internet service provider (ISP) will have one too, as will the many servers that have handled your message in its travels across cyberspace … It’s this Big Brother vision that has inspired researchers in Seattle to create the world’s first self-destructing… Read more →