“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 →
“UW helped seed IBM’s new cloud offerings”
The Seattle Times interviews Dennis Quan, IBM’s director of autonomic computing development in Raleigh, N.C., regarding IBM’s new “CloudBurst” offering:
“Blueprints for IBM’s cloud offerings came from a joint research project with Google. It initially explored business intelligence at big schools and large-scale analytics, which led to the creation of a cloud-computing cluster at the UW and two run by IBM in 2007. ‘The work that was done as part of that project really informed how we can put together… Read more →
Xconomy: Dan Weld on the Future of Search
Rachel Tompa talks with UW CSE professor and search specialist Dan Weld about the future of search in an interview in Xconomy.
Weld explains the significance of the new Microsoft Bing search service in terms of its success in delivering integrated “vertical” search. “All the engines are trying to do it, but the way Microsoft has done it with Bing is somewhat better than what Google has done.”
What does the future of search look like? Weld says “I think… Read more →
5 Cool Cloud Computing Projects
Network World previews this week’s HotCloud conference in San Diego, which boasts a slew of fresh research into this hottest of computer science research topics. UW CSE’s Hank Levy, Steve Gribble, and Roxana Geambasu will present CloudViews, a public version of the cloud that shares resources without sharing data.
Read the full article in here.… Read more →
Pavan Vaswani wins UW President’s Medal!
CSE’s graduating senior Pavan Vaswani has won the University of Washington President’s Medal, awarded annually to the top student in UW’s 7,500+ person graduating class.
Pavan is majoring in CSE, neurobiology and biochemistry. His decision to come to the UW was heavily influenced by the assurance that he could become involved in research the day that he arrived on campus. Indeed, his experience working with faculty in a research setting caused him to broaden his degree ambitions, which had begun… Read more →
Etzioni’s Farecast moves forward “with a Bing, not a wimper”
TechFlash discusses Microsoft’s newly launched Bing Travel — which combines UW CSE’s Farecast’s airfare-prediction and travel-search tools with MSN editorial content — as “a key chess piece in Microsoft’s new effort to challenge Google in Internet search.”
“It’s also a high-profile example of Microsoft benefiting from technology developed in its backyard. Oren Etzioni, the University of Washington computer scientist who founded Farecast in 2003, is watching with pride.”
Read the TechFlash post here.… Read more →
ParkSmart is 2nd in International Student Design Competition
The ParkSmart team, composed of UW CSE’s graduating seniors Alireza Garakani and Jonathan McKay and Informatics’ Linda Le, won 2nd prize at the 2009 Usability Professionals Association Student Design Competition. ParkSmart, which was completed as part of CSE 440, “Introduction to Human Computer Interaction,” aims to reduce drivers’ impact on the environment by making it easier to find parking spaces in congested cities.
Go team!!… Read more →