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“The technology, developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, identifies patterns in pictures, then matches these with related photos to produce overlapping montages that users can then navigate in a browser.”
Articles that fail to credit UW appeared in the New York Times (“Photosynth is brought to you by a 15-person team at Microsoft Research …”), the Wall Street Journal (“Microsoft is a little like the General Motors of technology … Photosynth, based… Read more →
“Intel Moves to Free Gadgets of Their Recharging Cords”
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“Intel has made progress in a … technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers, a development that could allow a person to simply place a device on a desktop countertop to power it.”
The work was carried out at Intel Research Seattle by UW CSE Affiliate faculty member Josh Smith.… Read more →
Widespread coverage of P4P
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Research by UW CSE professor Arvind Krishnamurthy has yielded dramatic bandwidth conservation for peer-to-peer file sharing. Extensive press coverage of Arvind’s P4P includes:
“Throttling P2P traffic is shortsighted, experts say” (ITbusiness.ca) (8/22/08)
“The Internet’s New Shortcut” (Forbes) (8/21/08)
“Can P4P Solve Bandwidth Bloat? (GIGaom) (8/21/08)
“Comcast Does About-Face: Declares Love for P2P” (Wired) (8/21/08)
“Share Locally, Unclog the Internet” (Chronicle of Higher Education) (8/20/08)
“Local Sharing Saves Bandwidth on BitTorrent/P4P Tests” (Slyck News) (8/20/08)
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CSE’s Ed Lazowska featured in Harborview Medical Center’s Report to the Community
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska is featured in UW Medicine’s 2008 Report to the Community. Lazowska contracted a life-threatening spine infection that was successfully treated by a team at Harborview Medical Center led by Dr. Jens Chapman.
“As a patient at Harborview, Lazowska said he received expert care but perhaps the most extraordinary part of the experience was seeing how employees at every level, not just those providing direct patient care, took pride in patients doing well.
“‘After surgery, I… Read more →
Noah Snavely and Photosynth on Microsoft Channel8
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“There’s no denying that some of the coolest research and projects going on happens right on your campuses by you and your professors … One of my favorite projects going on here at Microsoft’s Live Labs is PhotoSynth … It turns out this project originated at the University of Washington by a graduate student there, Noah, the ‘PhotoSynth Mastermind.’ He joined us in MSR’s fancy new building 99 to talk about how it all works,… Read more →
Dr. Dobb’s CodeTalk interviews UW CSE alumnus Ethan John
“Ethan John professes to not enjoy writing code. Testing, on the other hand, he enjoys immensely. That makes him my kind of Computer Science graduate: the kind who codes only because it gives him an excuse to test. Ethan currently works for Isilon Systems, who I am sure is happy to have the advantage of his love for testing.
“Here is what Ethan has to say:
“DDJ: What was your first introduction to testing?
“EJ: I was in school, and… Read more →
“The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load”
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“Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same … Peer-to-peer networking, or P2P, has become the method of choice for sharing music and videos … Experts estimate that peer-to-peer systems generate 50 to 80 percent of all Internet traffic … Tensions remain, however, between users of bandwidth-hungry peer-to-peer users and struggling Internet service providers …
“To ease this tension, researchers at the University of Washington and Yale University propose a… Read more →
“IT School to Watch: University of Washington”
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“In its report ‘Cybercities 2008,’ the AeA said that Seattle led the nation in net new technology jobs in 2006, adding 7,800 people to the local tech workforce. Indeed, the Washington offices of Microsoft, Amazon.com, Adobe Systems, Google and Intel say a lot about the opportunities for graduates of the University of Washington.”… Read more →
Raj Rao’s “Morpheus” on cover of Journal of Neural Engineering
Christian Bell, Pradeep Shenoy, Rawichote Chalodhom, and Raj Rao’s paper “Control of a humanoid robot by a non-invasive brain-computer interface in humans” was the featured article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Full cover.… Read more →
“UW-Microsoft Photosynth team back at it with new mind-blowing demo”
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“When I saw Photosynth for the first time about two years ago, it joined a small handful of new products that really captured my attention. The software arranges sets of photos in 3-D context and allows viewers to navigate fluidly from image to image, moving their gaze from a building’s facade to a detail shot of a specific fresco, for example.
“Photosynth is a distinctly Seattle invention. It emerged from a collaboration of University of… Read more →