Not exactly newsworthy, but too good to pass up. Read the post here.… Read more →
“The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?”
UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno is interviewed by wired.com regarding concerns recently published July 1 in Neurosurgical Focus. The research paper, written with CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka and CSE Ph.D. student Tammy Denning, highlights neural devices and the potential for security risks. While most current devices carry few security risks, as neural engineering becomes more complex and more widespread, the potential for security breaches will mushroom.
“’Neural devices are innovating at an extremely rapid rate and hold tremendous promise for the… Read more →
Kai Li in Xconomy
UW CSE’s friend and year-long visitor Kai Li is interviewed in Xconomy regarding his startup Data Domain, much in the news lately.
“Now I know why venture capitalists walk the halls at the University of Washington – you never know who you might run into. My timing was impeccable yesterday as I sat down with Kai Li, the co-founder and chief scientist of Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP), the Santa Clara, CA-based data storage company that just got bought by… Read more →
“Defense Agency, Faulted For Scaling Back University Computer Research, Gets New Leader”
“The Pentagon’s research agency has historically maintained a tight relationship with the computing research community. Civilians may recognize some results: the Internet, personal computing, and high-performance computer graphics, says the University of Washington’s Edward D. Lazowska.
“But that relationship ‘has become less close in recent years,’ says Mr. Lazowska, the university’s Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering …
“Now new leaders are taking over the agency. And Mr. Lazowska says ‘we’re looking forward to restoring’ a… Read more →
“Taking the weight off classes”
The UW Daily discusses UW CSE’s Kindle DX pilot program.
“‘The big value is having the content when you need it,’Lazowska said. ‘It will only get better when more and more academic content becomes available.'”
Learn more about the pilot here.
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“Robotics: International Science and Systems Conference comes to UW”
In each of the past four years, experts from all over the world have flocked together to share ideas on a broad range of concepts within the field of robotics. This year, UW hosted the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, which last year was held at ETH Zurich and next year will be held in Spain.
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka served as the conference program committee chair, and UW CSE’s Dieter Fox and Rajesh Rao served as the local… Read more →
UW CSE’s Hydrosense in Technology Review
“When a cell phone or credit-card bill arrives, each call or purchase is itemized, making it possible to track trends in calling or spending, which is especially helpful if you use a phone plan with limited minutes or are trying to stick to a budget. Within the next few years, household utilities could be itemized as well, allowing residents to track their usage and see which devices utilize the most electricity, water, or gas. New sensor technology that consists of… Read more →
UW CSE’s Raj Rao on brain-machine interfaces
UW CSE professor Raj Rao is quoted extensively in this article in TechNewsWorld concerning Toyota’s thought-guided wheelchair.
“‘The promise still remains, and there’s been considerable progress made in the last 10 years in the field,’ Rao said. ‘Now we’re getting better and better at decoding these signals … on the recording side, with better hardware to decrease the amount of noise in the [brain] signal. And we’re getting better at understanding the signals once we receive them, and the computer… Read more →
Balazinska receives HP Labs Innovation Research Award
UW CSE’s Magda Balazinska has been selected as one of 59 professors to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovative Research Award. Her research, entitled “Data Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) as a Cloud Service,” will investigate some of the challenges behind offering MapReduce and similar data intensive scalable computing (DISC) systems as a cloud service. These challenges include (1) running DISC systems in highly dynamic environments with virtualized resources and competing workloads and also (2) performing data intensive computations that span… Read more →
Forbes ranks UW #1 for alumni remaining in-state
Most states suffer a significant “brain drain” of graduates from their flagship universities. Not so for the University of Washington! Forbes Magazine ranks UW #1 in the nation for the proportion of its graduates that are still working in-state 5 years after graduation.
“The state doing the best job of holding onto its top public university graduates is Washington. No fewer than 74% of University of Washington grads remain in the Evergreen State, well ahead of second-ranked Minnesota, which retains… Read more →