The Allen School teamed up with Code.org and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) on Monday to host the kickoff event marking the 2018 start of Computer Science Education Week and the largest-ever Hour of Code. The event featured special guests Melinda Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft.
Gates engaged in a question and answer session with a local student about her … Read more →
Allen School team earns Best Paper Award at SenSys 2018 for new low-power wireless localization system
Researchers in the Allen School’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab have developed the first low-power 3D localization system for sub-centimeter sized devices. The system, µLocate, enables continuous object tracking on mobile devices at distances of up to 60 meters — even through walls — while consuming mere microwatts of power. The team behind µLocate was recognized with a Best Paper Award at the recent Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2018) organized by the Association for Computing Machinery… Read more →
Allen School welcomes nine new faculty with expertise in cryptography, data science, machine learning, and more
The Allen School is thrilled to introduce nine outstanding educators and researchers who have joined or will soon join our faculty in the current academic year. The new arrivals strengthen our leadership in areas such as software engineering, networking, machine learning, and computer science education while enabling us to expand into exciting new territory spanning cryptography, computational design for manufacturing, and data science for human health and well-being.
Meet the latest additions to our scholarly community and discover how they… Read more →
Allen School undergrads are blazing new trails as first-generation college students
Frequent readers of the blog may be familiar with our Undergraduate Spotlight, an occasional feature in which we highlight an Allen School student who represents the next generation of innovators and leaders in the field of computing. For our latest feature, we shine the spotlight on a group of students who are among the first in their families to attend college as part of a nationwide celebration of the contributions that first-generation students make to our campus communities.
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Draco, a constraint-based model for formalizing principles of good visualization design, earns Best Paper at InfoVis 2018
A team of researchers in the Allen School’s Interactive Data Lab (IDL) collected the Best Paper Award at InfoVis 2018 for Draco, an open-source, constraint-based system that formalizes guidelines for visualization design and their application in visualization tools. Draco provides a one-stop shop for researchers and practitioners to apply and test a set of accepted design principles and preferences and to make adjustments to their visualizations based on the results.
“There is a robust, ongoing line of research devoted… Read more →
Paul G. Allen, 1953-2018
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is proud to participate in this weekend’s tribute to Mr. Allen. We re-commit ourselves to fulfilling his vision.
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Allen School roboticists and Honda Research Institute are on a quest to create a Curious Minded Machine
A team of researchers led by professor Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa of the Allen School’s Personal Robotics Lab is contributing to an ambitious new project to better understand human curiosity and how that principle can be applied to robot learning. The initiative, Curious Minded Machine, was launched by Honda Research Institute USA to support academic research that will advance artificial cognition by instilling curiosity in intelligent systems — with the ultimate goal of enabling robots to continuously and independently acquire… Read more →
Long-range backscatter earns ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award
Researchers in the Allen School and University of Washington’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering were recognized this week with the IMWUT Vol 1. Distinguished Paper Award for their 2017 paper, “LoRa Backscatter: Enabling the Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity.” The award, which was announced during the Ubicomp 2018 conference in Singapore, recognizes outstanding research contributions published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
Long-range backscatter is the first system of its… Read more →
Mourning the loss of Paul G. Allen
It is with great sadness that the faculty, staff, and students of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering mark the passing of Paul Allen — pioneering innovator, generous philanthropist, and faithful friend. Mr. Allen was a visionary who opened up new frontiers and pushed the limits of scientific discovery. His connection to the University of Washington ran deep. Through his vision, his leadership and his generosity, he transformed our program, our campus, our region, and the… Read more →
“Prescience” interpretable machine-learning system for predicting complications during surgery featured in Nature Biomedical Engineering
A team led by Allen School professor Su-In Lee and Ph.D. student Scott Lundberg has developed a machine-learning system that both predicts and explains why some patients are at risk for developing hypoxemia, a potentially dangerous drop in blood oxygen levels that can occur in people under general anesthesia. A growing number of predictive machine-learning models have shown high accuracy in medical applications, but understanding how they arrive at their predictions remains a challenge. The aptly-named Prescience analyzes factors specific… Read more →