A KUOW (Seattle NPR) segment on new directions in information technology, featuring UW CSE professors Ed Lazowska and Oren Etzioni. Topics include robotics, mobile computing, entrepreneurship, much more. Download the 20-minute segment here.… Read more →
“McGraw-Hill Education and Amazon Expand Strategic Alliance to Include Higher Education Content on Kindle and Kindle DX”
“‘The Kindle DX enables our students to access their course content anytime, anywhere,’ said Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science & engineering at the University of Washington. ‘We look forward to seeing how the device affects the engagement of both students and faculty in the educational experience.'”
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“Meet the ‘Quantum Pontiff'”
University Week highlights the widely-read “Quantum Pontiff” blog, authored since 2003 by UW CSE professor Dave Bacon.
“Q: What is its purpose and who is its intended audience?
“A: My number one purpose is to slow down my fellow researchers. Every time I spend a few minutes writing a blog post, thousands of others spend a few minutes reading the post. Many of those are my fellow researchers in quantum computing.”
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“Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Mysterious Indus Valley Script”
UW CSE’s Raj Rao, working with a team of researchers from India, is using computer science to extract patterns in ancient Indus symbols. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows distinct patterns in the symbols’ placement in sequences and creates a statistical model for the unknown language. The new study looks for mathematical patterns in the sequence of symbols, and calculations show that the order of symbols is meaningful. The authors… Read more →
Bershad talks Google growth, education funding, VC situation
UW CSE professor and Google Seattle site director Brian Bershad recently spoke with Brier Dudley from the Seattle Times. Among the topics discussed: Google’s plans to continue to build its presence in the Seattle area, and concerns about education funding and the potential impact it may have on the local start-up community.
Read the first part of the article here.
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UW/Microsoft Summer Research Institute 2009
UW CSE and Microsoft Research sponsored their 13th annual Summer Research Institute, held July 27-29th. The purpose of each institute is to gather thought leaders to deeply explore a timely research topic. The 2009 institute focused on “Unraveling the technological knot in homes.” Modern homes are well on their way to becoming one of the richest everyday computing environments with a diverse mix of inter-connected devices, infrastructure and services. The goal of this summer institute was to articulate… Read more →
“Summer program opens high tech world to deaf students”
The Seattle Times describes UW CSE’s Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing, organized by Professor Richard Ladner with support from the National Science Foundation.
“The summer academy – the only one of its kind in the country – introduces deaf and hard-of-hearing students to careers in computer science. For many of the participants, it’s their first glimpse inside the high-tech world. For some, it is the first time as students that they have been able… Read more →
CSE’s Jonathan Carlson wins 2009 UW Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Jonathan Carlson has received the 2009 University of Washington Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award. Carlson’s thesis work on “Phylogenetic Dependency Networks: Inferring Patterns of Adaptation in HIV,” co-supervised by Larry Ruzzo of UW CSE and David Heckerman of Microsoft Research, seeks to enable improved HIV vaccines by identifying HIV adaptations that the virus employs against the immune system. Carlson now works with Heckerman in the Microsoft Research eScience Group in Los Angeles.… Read more →
Bing Travel = UW CSE spinoff Farecast
Microsoft’s Bing Travel technology – which provides advice on when to buy in order to minimize cost – represents technology from UW CSE spinoff Farecast, acquired by Microsoft for more than $100 million last year. See a new spot that captures the magic of Bing Travel, here.… Read more →
The Broader Impact of Technologies for the Blind and Deaf
UW CSE’s Richard Ladner talks with Rachel Tompa in an Xconomy article regarding the hurdles that must be cleared to make a phone or a computer usable to the blind or deaf. He believes that technologies developed for the blind and deaf may eventually lead to broader technological advancements. This belief is not such a far-fetched idea: mobile GPS, now used by milliions, was originally developed as an aid for the blind. Ladner, along with his students, use engineering and… Read more →