“Researchers have created custom-generated software interfaces for the individual that can make it possible to close the performance gap between able-bodied and disabled users.”
Supple project here. Article is here.… Read more →
“Barron’s editorial slags federal support for basic research; Lazowska responds” (Computing Research Policy Blog)
“Continued investment is necessary to maintain our leadership and competitiveness. Achieving many of the ‘societal grand challenges’ of this century will depend critically on further fundamental advances in IT: the engineering of new tools that will transform scientific discovery; advancing personalized learning; shifting towards predictive, preventive, personalized, participatory medicine; enhancing national security; developing smart controls and smart electric grids needed to address energy and climate challenges. Many of the ‘grand challenges’ of IT itself will have broad implications for society:… Read more →
“‘Can you see me now?’ Sign language over cell phones comes to United States”
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“A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing people to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this spring, and recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a 20-person field project that will begin next year in Seattle …”… Read more →
CSE Affiliate Professor Dave Cutler wins National Medal of Technology
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The National Medal of Technology honors America’s leading innovators. Cutler is best known for his contributions to operating systems: RSX-11/M, VAX/VMS, VAXeln, and Windows NT. CSE’s Ed Lazowska, in his letter of support for Bill Gates’s nomination of Cutler, wrote: “Cutler … has an incredible facility for creating designs that will work, for leading teams that implement these designs according to spec – correct, on-time, within budget, and meeting performance goals – and for building… Read more →
“Vocal Joystick controls PCs for those with hand injuries”
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“The project, known as the Vocal Joystick, is designed to allow someone to control a computer cursor using nothing more than their voice … Malkin demonstrated the software in real-time, showing how it is used in conjunction with a simple game where a player controls a fish swimming around trying to catch other fish. He proceeded to sound out vowel after vowel, and sure enough, on-screen, his fish moved around dexterously, chomping up snack… Read more →
“An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops”
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UW’s Adeona project garnered lots of press and blog coverage after a presentation at Gnomedex.
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“Microsoft test-driving Wi-Fi use in vehicles: Researchers show potential of public wireless networks”
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Press coverage of the SIGCOMM paper “Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Mobile Vehicles” by John Zahorjan (UW), Ratul Mahajan (UW Ph.D., now at Microsoft Research), and Aruna Balasubramanian, Brian Neil Levine, and Arun Venkataramani (UMass Amherst).
“‘Today’s Wi-Fi handoff protocols are incredibly fragile in outdoor environments and mobile environments,’ Mahajan said in an interview. Under existing approaches, he explained, computers and devices are ‘artificially limited to talking to only one access point, or only one base… Read more →
UW CSE friends and family among 2008 TR 35 (Technology Review)
Each year since 1999, Technology Review has honored 35 young innovators under the age of 35 — the TR 35. The 2008 TR 35 includes:
Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft Live Labs, recognized for creating Photosynth by combining work from his startup Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft) with work by UW CSE professor Steve Seitz, UW CSE graduate student Noah Snavely, and Microsoft Research computer vision researcher Rick Szeliski.
Tanzeem Choudhury from Dartmouth, an Affilate faculty member in UW CSE,… Read more →
“Microsoft launches free Photosynth for combining shots into one picture”
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“Photosynth is a distinctly Seattle innovation. It makes use of technology for smoothly streaming large digital images, developed by Seadragon Software, a Ballard startup Microsoft acquired. The system for arranging photo collections in their three-dimensional context was developed by University of Washington computer scientists.”… Read more →
“Microsoft launches 3D photo program”
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“Available at photosynth.com, the program is a combination of technologies from Microsoft Research, the University of Washington and Seadragon Software, a Seattle-based startup that Microsoft acquired in 2006. Up until now, it has been a technology preview. Everyday users could view custom synths of photos created by Microsoft and selected others, but they couldn’t create collections of their own.”… Read more →