“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 →
UW students develop online social networking technology
King5 News reports on Friendbo in this video.
“Sharing photos online can be a bit scary for Facebook and MySpace
users because they don’t necessarily want everyone to see
everything. But new technology developed by UW students [including CSE graduate student Michael Toomim ] could soon change online social
networking.”… Read more →
“The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load” (New York Times)
“Opportunities for social networking abound on the Internet, but not when it comes to one standard job: using a browser and search engine to comb the Web for information. That task is still typically done solo, because browser displays and search procedures have traditionally been designed for a single user.
“Now tools are being developed by Microsoft and other companies that let people at different computers search as a team, dividing responsibilities and pooling results and recommendations in a shared… Read more →
Washington State Academy of Sciences Launched
“When the federal government needs the best scientific information on any subject, it turns to the National Academy of Sciences.
“Now, the state of Washington will be able to do the same thing with a group of local luminaries. … The Washington group is modeled after the National Academy of Sciences, established by President Lincoln in 1863 to ‘investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art.’ …
“‘An increasing number of public-policy questions require scientific input,’… Read more →
KING5 Healthlink reports on UbiFit
KING5 HealthLink reports on UbiFit, a joint project of the University of Washington Design, Use, Build Laboratory and Intel Research Seattle in Use your cell phone to lose weight.
“Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created a new cell phone application that could help you keep those holiday pounds off. UbiFit helps you track your workouts using a colorful display… [using] a sensing device, clipped to the user’s waist, which determines what the user is… Read more →
Track your fitness, environmental impact with new cell phone applications
“Planning on gobbling a few extra treats this holiday season? Soon, your cell phone may be able to help you maintain your exercise routine and keep the pounds off over the winter months, without your having to lift a finger to keep track.”
“Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbitFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation. The programs display motivational pictures on the phone’s background screen that… Read more →
Recent Additions to CSE Faculty
UW CSE welcomes new faculty members Luis Ceze, Michael Ernst, Mausam, Shwetak Patel, Georg Seeling, and Emo Todorov.
See brochure here.… Read more →