The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions. UW CSE’s own WebAnywhere was one of this year’s recipients. Vint Cerf, presenting these awards at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) said the following:
“The MATC Awards have a history of recognizing projects that improve accessibility for people with visual or other impairments, and this year is no exception. The next awardee is the University of Washington, for Project WebAnywhere. By… Read more →
Amazon hopes to cash in on research market
Andrea James’ article and blog (Seattle P-I Seattle Tech Report) highlight how Amazon has had to overcome its public perception as an online bookseller so that developers and researchers would take it seriously as a technology provider.
“Last week, Amazon unveiled a new offering that would make its ‘cloud computing’ service even more appealing to researchers. Amazon will make large data sets available free — some of which are so large they would take hours to download.
“Amazon’s… Read more →
Zoetrope in the News
Zoetrope, an application that is designed to help users easily search the historical web, is in the news this week. This tool is featured as the research highlight of the week by the Computing Community Consortium, and is also profiled by Technology Review‘s Erica Naone.
Technology Review coverage here.
“Computing Research Highlight of the Week” here.
We reported earlier on Zoetrope coverage here and here.… Read more →
Julia Schwarz and Jessica Leung recognized by CRA
UW CSE undergraduates Julia Schwarz and Jessica Leung were among 66 students from across the country recognized in the 2009 Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition.… Read more →
Richard Ladner Receives 2008 Purpose Prize
Richard Ladner, UW CSE professor, was one of 15 recipients of the 2008 Purpose Prize, an award for social innovators over 60. Ladner has shifted his focus from computer science theory to developing better technologies for disabled people. He and his students and colleagues have developed such applications as WebAnywhere, software to allow the blind to use the internet on the go, MobileASL, an application for deaf people to use video communication on cell phones, and… Read more →
Researchers work on developing sign language for cellphones
A group of University of Washington researchers are working on MobileASL (American Sign Language) which would allow the hearing-impaired to use sign language on cellphones. The MobileASL project is led by Eve Riskin, a UW professor in electrical engineering; co-leaders include Computer Science & Engineering professor Richard Ladner, and Information School professor Jacob Wobbrock.
We reported earlier on UW News coverage of MobileASL here.
Read the full article here.… Read more →
Professor’s work erases technological barriers
“For Richard Ladner, it isn’t so much about helping people who are blind or deaf get better use of technology as it is about working with people who have disabilities to help us all get better use out of technology.
“‘Few people seem to be aware that a lot of mainstream technologies started out as access technologies,’ the University of Washington computer scientist said.” …
Read the complete article here.… Read more →
A Leash on Your Laptop
December’s Entrepreneur Magazine features an article on Adeona: New tracking software monitors your missing laptop’s whereabouts.
“Absolute Software and Brigadoon Security Group have long been leaders of the laptop-tracking pack. But in July, a new offering emerged: Adeona. Developed by University of California Ph.D. students Gabriel Maganis and Thomas Ristenpart with University of Washington faculty Tadayoshi Kohno and Arvind Krishnamurthy, the software is open source and, get this, free.”…
We reported earlier on UW News coverage of… Read more →
Adobe dabbles in video-object manipulation
CSE alum Dan Goldman‘s paper at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2008), Interactive Video Manipulation, is featured on the front page of digg. See here.
Read his paper here.… Read more →
ReadWriteWeb on Zoetrope
ReadWriteWeb staff writer Sarah Perez writes about Zoetrope in Zoetrope: New Web Crawler Allows For Searching, Analyzing The Ever-Changing Web. She makes the point that the project brings archival web searching to the masses, quoting CSE professor Dan Weld: “Zoetrope is aimed at the casual researcher. It’s really for anyone who has a question.”
A joint project with Adobe Systems, other researchers working on the project include CSE professor James Fogarty, CSE graduate student Eytan Adar… Read more →