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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 →
Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall team win 2007 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
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ACM will present the 2007 Eugene Lawler Award to Randy Wang and the Digital Study Hall team for innovative use of cost-effective digital technology that helps improve the education of underserved children in South Asia. Wang’s vision was for a system that harvested community-generated videos of the best grassroots teachers to help schools in urban slums and rural areas in India.
Wang was a Ph.D. student of UW CSE professor Tom Anderson. A number of… Read more →
CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka in Columns
Columns, the UW alumni magazine, interviews CSE professor and MacArthur “Genius” Award winner Yoky Matsuoka here.… Read more →
Columns recognizes CSE alums and near-alums
Columns, the UW alumni magazine, celebrates its 100th year by highlighting the accomplishments of 100 distinguished living alumni. Among those included with ties to CSE are:
Tim Paterson, author of QDOS, which became MS-DOS
Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal
Chris DeWolfe but inexplicably not Aber Whitcomb, co-founders of MySpace
James Sun, founder of Zoodango
Jeremy Jaech, co-founder of Aldus, Visio, and Trumba, and board member of RealNetworks
Loren Carpenter, part of the Pixar founding team… Read more →
UW CSE 2008 commencement!
Photographs and videos from the 2008 UW Computer Science & Engineering commencement ceremony.… Read more →
CSE’s Susumu Harada recognized by NISH
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Harada was recognized for his “‘Hands-Free Voice-Driven Drawing and Diagram Creation Method for People with Motor Impairments,’ a voice activated speech recognition technology that allows the user to create diagrams and drawings on the computer. This technology successfully bridges the gap that has existed between voice activated technology for dictation and hands free control of the computer. It also serves as a low cost method of drawing and designing via the computer. Harada was… Read more →