A team of researchers in the Networks & Mobile Systems Lab led by Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota and the Autonomous Insect Robotics (AIR) Laboratory led by Mechanical Engineering professor Sawyer Fuller have designed a new mobile platform that combines sensing, computation, and communication in a package small enough to be carried by a bumblebee. Dubbed Living IoT, the system allows nature to take its course while enabling new capabilities in agricultural and environmental monitoring.
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MISL researchers earn Best Student Paper Award for designing and demonstrating content-based media search directly in DNA
Researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) have taken another step forward in their quest to develop a next-generation data storage system with the introduction of new mechanisms for content-based similarity search of digital data stored in synthetic DNA. The team, which includes researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft, took home the Best Student Paper Award in recognition of its work from the 24th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA 24) in October.
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Allen School’s Yin Tat Lee earns Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018 for new algorithms for distributed optimization
A team of researchers that includes professor Yin Tat Lee of the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group has captured a Best Paper Award at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018). The paper presents two new algorithms that achieve optimal convergence rates for optimizing non-smooth convex functions in distributed networks, which are commonly used for machine learning applications to meet the computational and storage demands of very large datasets.
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Allen School kicks off Computer Science Education Week with Code.org and the Computer Science Teachers Association
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.
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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.
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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 →