Xconomy reports on the major UW presence at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, in Qatar.
“Seattle-area researchers, specifically from the UW, made quite a showing at the meeting. Several Microsoft projects were presented too, and Bill Gates showed up to give the keynote talk.”
“‘Technology is naturally mixing with global health as there is much low-hanging fruit where a little tech can make a big difference,’ Gaetano Borriello, a University of Washington computer… Read more →
“Crowd Forms Against an Algorithm”
The New York Times offers a followup to a previous article regarding Amazon.com’s temporary de-listing of more than 50,000 books a week ago.
“‘Whenever something like this happens, people immediately blame it on conspiracy,’ said Ed Lazowska, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. ‘There are all kinds of ways for things to go wrong that are what I would call unintended consequences of either computer algorithms or human behavior.'”
Unfortunately, however, in typical “he said,… Read more →
“Robots that Take Orders From the Brain”
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka is the Computing Community Consortium’s “Computing Research Highlight of the Week.”
“At the University of Washington, MacArthur ‘genius’ award-winner Yoky Matsuoka is leading an 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 post here.… Read more →
“Harnessing cloud computing for data-intensive research on oceans, galaxies”
The University of Washington has won three recent awards from the National Science Foundation related to cloud computing. Two of the grants will fund projects examining ocean climate simulations and analyzing astronomical images. Both provide tools so researchers can use cloud computing to easily interact with the massive datasets that are becoming more and more common in science. A third grant to the UW provides curriculum and training to teach cloud computing. The awards are to eScience Institute research scientist… Read more →
“Microsoft Live Labs Reorganization, Questioned by Many, is Great for Innovation, says Lazowska”
An Xconomy post describes UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska‘s take on the recent reorganization of Microsoft Live Labs, the organization that (among other things) created Photosynth by combing Seadragon’s streaming technology with UW and Microsoft Research’s PhotoTourism photo navigation technology. See the full post here.… Read more →
Yoshi Kohno and Magda Balazinska Make ‘Five Hot Prospects’ List
When asked by Xconomy to name five young talents in the UW College of Engineering who are shaping the future of information technology, biotechnology, and clean technology, UW Dean of Engineering Matt O’Donnell’s list included UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno and Magda Balazinska. Yoshi’s cybersecurity research has a number of potential applications, including helping people find stolen laptop computers, and protecting wireless signals given off by implantable medical devices. Magda’s research focuses on the use of the databases for science… Read more →
Raphael Hoffman recognized in Yahoo!’s “Key Scientific Challenges” program
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 →