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Wired riffs on CSE professor Yoshi Kohno’s undergraduate computer security course. “Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail … I’ve often speculated about how much of this is innate, and how much is teachable … Which is why CSE 484, an undergraduate computer-security course taught this quarter at the University of Washington, is so interesting to… Read more →
CSE’s Alexei Czeskis featured in College of Engineering “Campaign Update”
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“Alexei Czeskis … is one of the initial recipients of the new Students First fellowships — the Hacherl Endowed Graduate Fellowship established by alumnus Don Hacherl (’85) … Czeskis is now immersed in computer security research under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Yoshi Kohno, who last fall was recognized by Technology Review as one ofthe nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35.”… Read more →
“Hacking the Heart” (KOMO-TV News)
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“A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that could stop the devices from delivering a lifesaving shock …”… Read more →
“Tracking technology in the corridors of learning: An American university is testing a system that allows participants to follow others’ movements around campus”
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“‘Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people’s privacy at the same time,’ says Magda Balazinska, the project leader and assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UW. ‘We want to get a handle on the privacy issues that will crop up if these systems become a reality.'”… Read more →
“Hackers can attack heart devices”
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“A Seattle computer scientist who helped expose how hackers can mess with electronic voting machines is part of a team that has shown how new, wireless cardiac devices implanted in thousands of heart patients also are vulnerable to electronic attack … “[UW CSE’s Yoshi] Kohno and others have shown they can wirelessly extract personal medical information from an implantable cardiac defibrillator as well as reprogram or disrupt the device. The team includes Harvard University cardiologist… Read more →
UW CSE / UW Oceanography / Microsoft Research collaboration featured at 2008 Microsoft Research TechFest
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UW CSE, UW Oceanography, and Microsoft Research are collaborating to create an “Ocean Scientists’ Workbench” in connection with the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. This work was featured prominently in press coverage of the 2008 Microsoft Research TechFest.
UW oceanographers Debbie Kelley and Mark Stoermer appeared in ComputerWorld. CSE’s Keith Grochow and Microsoft’s Jared Jackson appear in Microsoft’s own coverage of the event. Other coverage in Scientific American, AppScout, and CosmicLog.… Read more →
KUOW (NPR) interviews CSE’s Steve Gribble concerning spyware
“Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna wants to better protect computer users from spyware. He’s called for legislation to close loopholes in existing law. KUOW’s Joshua McNichols has more.”
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Technology Review on Photosynth
“Photosynth was born from … the marriage of Seadragon and Photo Tourism, a Microsoft project intended to revolutionize the way photo sets are packaged and displayed. Photo Tourism had begun as the doctoral thesis of a zealous 26-year-old University of Washington graduate student named Noah Snavely. One of Snavely’s advisors was Rick Szeliski, a computer-vision researcher at Microsoft Research, the company’s R&D arm … Working with Szeliski and a University of Washington professor named Steve Seitz, Snavely was intent on… Read more →
“CRA A. Nico Habermann Award 2008 presented to Richard E. Ladner”
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This award honors the late A. Nico Habermann, who headed NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate and who was deeply committed to increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computing research. Ladner, Boeing Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UW, is recognized for his lifelong, strong and persistent advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities in the computing community.… Read more →
DUB dominates CHI (University Week)
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“Members of the UW’s Design:Use:Build (DUB) Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design swept the top conference in their field, which explores the interface between human and machine. UW researchers nabbed three out of seven Best Paper Awards selected from more than 700 submissions to this April’s CHI 2008 meeting. Not only that – they had 16 papers accepted, more than any other university.”… Read more →