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“Yoky Matsuoka, professor of computer sciences and engineering at the University of Washington and a 2007 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award, wants robots to function more like human beings. Her lab at the UW – full of mechanical hands, fingers and arm parts – looks like a repair shop for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator.”… Read more →
“Project makes web more accessible to blind” (KGO San Francisco)
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UW CSE Ph.D. student Jeff Bigham describes the WebInSight project on KGO TV San Francisco.… Read more →
“Playing the Science Game” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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“Could the person who finds the cure for cancer be a gamer? The creators of an online game that allows players to help scientists design new proteins with therapeutic properties hope so.” The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses UW’s Foldit game.… Read more →
UW’s Oren Etzioni, Farecast, in Wired (pdf)
“In 2001, Oren Etzioni was on a plane chatting up his seat mates when he realized they had all paid less for their tickets than he did. ‘I thought, ‘don’t get mad, get even,” he says. So he came home to his computer lab at the University of Washington, got his hands on some fare data, and plugged it into a few basic prediction algorithms. He wanted to see if they could reliably foresee changes in ticket prices. It worked:… Read more →
“Gates Retires from Daily Role at Microsoft” (NPR)
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“Forty years ago, while an eighth-grader at the private Lakeside School in Seattle, Gates was introduced to his first computer. He was immediately smitten, as was fellow student Paul Allen.
“The two became fast friends, says Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
“‘They did the scheduling for Lakeside School – there are rumors they and their friends got into the classes… Read more →
“Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere” (UW News)
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“WebAnywhere, launched today, lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go. The tool, developed at the University of Washington, turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections.”… Read more →
“Washington: All Geared Up To Fight The Last War” (Xconomy)
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CSE’s Ed Lazowska in Xconomy: “By now you’ve seen the 2008 Milken Institute “State Technology and Science Index.” Washington ranks fifth, behind Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado, and California. Not too shabby? Let’s take a look under the covers.”… Read more →
“Bill Gates steps down, but not out of public eye” (MSNBC)
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“‘It’s easy to lose track of the fact that [Microsoft] was two kids with a dream,’ said Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science amp; Engineering at the University of Washington and serves on the technical advisory board for Microsoft’s research arm.
“Lazowska credits Gates with helping inspire many students to go into computer science, and he says the mystique surrounding Gates still exists even as other technology luminaries,… Read more →
“Imagine Cup 2008: Web-based Screen Reader Wins Top Accessibility Prize: Student designs technology that makes any computer usable by people who are blind”
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“When Jeff Bigham started developing a Web-based screen reader for people who are blind, he had no idea his work would bring him international recognition as one of the brightest young stars of computer science and accessible technology. He was just trying to help people.
“Bigham, 27, and a Ph.D candidate in computer science at the University of Washington, won the first-ever Accessible Technology Award for Interface Design in the 2008 Imagine Cup technology competition… Read more →
“Scientists tap gaming’s power: You, too, can help figure out proteins”
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The Seattle PI describes the “Foldit” videogame, a collaboration involving UW CSE’s Zoran Popovic, David Salesin, and Adrien Treuille, and UW Biochemistry’s David Baker. “Benjamin Baker is a 13-year-old middle school student who, like most boys his age, probably thinks his father is kind of a geek, if not a dork.
“His father, David Baker, is, after all, a scientist. He is the type of wild-haired, frequently disheveled deep thinker who could play the role… Read more →