UW CSE Ph.D. student Raphael Hoffman is one of 20 students nationwide who have been recognized in Yahoo!’s “Key Scientific Challenges” program, which provides unrestricted research funds and the opportunity to interact with Yahoo! scientists.
Raphael, who is working with UW CSE professors Dan Weld and James Fogarty, is attempting to make computers easier to use by combining ideas from Information Extraction, Machine Learning, and Human Computer Interaction.… Read more →
“Finding Pages from Browser History”
UW CSE Ph.D. student Eytan Adar‘s research is among the projects described in this Technology Review article.… Read more →
UW CSE students clean up in Putnam Competition
The Putnam Mathematical Competition, offered each year by the Mathematical Association of America, began in 1938, and is open to undergraduate students in the United States and Canada. The six-hour test is administered on the first Saturday in December. Roughly 4,000 students typically participate.
In this year’s competition, UW CSE junior Will Johnson finished sixth – an extraordinary performance. (In a typical year, more than half of the competitors earn a grand total of zero points. Will scored 99 –… Read more →
Yoshi Kohno and Luis Ceze Win NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards
We are pleased to announce that UW CSE faculty members Yoshi Kohno and Luis Ceze have both won 2009 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Yoshi’s award is for his work to develop the framework and applications to enhance the security and privacy of records such as email (home or business) and electronic voting audit logs. Luis’ award will fund his research to make it easier to program multicore processors. His work will improve software reliability and lead to… Read more →
“Washington’s State Budget and Washington State’s Competitiveness”
An Xconomy post by UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska – see full post here.
“In Washington, higher education is slated for far deeper cuts than in any other high-tech state. In other words, a system that already disadvantages smaller companies and kids who grow up here is going to get far worse.
“This craziness could be addressed by making different budgetary choices (as all other high-tech states seem to be doing), and/or by allowing tuition to rise in order to… Read more →
“UW’s Yoky Matsuoka is leading the quest for robotics that take orders from the brain”
The Seattle Times profiles UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka in Pacific Northwest magazine.
“At the University of Washington, MacArthur ‘genius’ award-winner Yoky Matsuoka is leading the effort to build robotic hands and other devices that will take commands directly from the human brain — and revolutionizing the opportunities for people with disabilities to function more fully.”
See the complete Seattle Times article here, and a great set of 10 accompanying photographs here.
See Yoky’s web page here,… Read more →
“Skytap, With New VC Bucks in Tow, Takes on Big Boys in the Cloud”
Xconomy profiles, yet again, UW CSE startup Skytap. “‘One of the key attributes of Skytap is that they give you cloud computing with your existing apps, whereas the others require you to develop specially for their restricted model of computing,’ says Ignition partner Brad Silverberg. ‘It means you can go cloud computing right now.'” Read the full post here.… Read more →
Venture Capitalists Reflect on the Past 10 Years
Celebrating VentureWire’s 10th anniversary, The Venture Capital Dispatch blog (part of the Wall Street Journal) recently asked a panel of venture capitalists to share their favorite memories of business in the past decade or so. Matt McIlwain, one of our friends at Madrona Venture Group, talks about CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Farecast.
Read the full article here.… Read more →
Building an Artificial Human Hand
CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka, recently interviewed by KPLU radio’s Keith Seinfeld, talks about her research on prosthetic hands. The human hand has been one of the most difficult limbs for medicine to replace. War veterans are learning the hard way–as their best option continues to be a mechanical claw.
Listen to the complete interview here (5min MP3). Read about the hand on Keith’s KPLU blog here.… Read more →
HydroSense wins UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
HydroSense — a team led by UW CSE graduate student Jon Froehlich and advised by UW CSE faculty members Shwetak Patel, James Fogarty, and James Landay, won the $10,000 grand prize in UW’s Environmental Innovation Challenge. Other members of the Hydrosense team included CSE graduate student Kate Everitt, MechE junior Tim Campbell, EE senior Alex Horton, EE graduate student Jianlei Shi, BioE graduate student Rahber Thariani, and Community, Environment and Planning senior Conor Haggerty.
HydroSense focused on the problem… Read more →