A team of researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research Cambridge have achieved a breakthrough in the design of computational circuit boards using DNA molecules. The group, which was led by Allen School and Electrical Engineering professor Georg Seelig and Andrew Phillips, head of the Biological Computation Group at Microsoft Research, applied principles of spatial organization to create a new “DNA domino” architecture that reduced computation time from hours to minutes compared to existing approaches. The results… Read more →
Seattle PI’s “Famous (and infamous) UW Husky grads”
We have no idea how the Seattle PI chose these 58 UW graduates and near graduates …
The Paul G. Allen School can’t claim credit for Bruce Lee, Anna Faris, or Kenny G. Not Ted Bundy either, thank goodness.
But we’re delighted to claim:
Tim Paterson ’78 (QDOS -> MSDOS)
Loren Carpenter ’74 ’76 (Pixar)
Gary Kildall ’66 ’72 (CP/M, Digital Research)
The other half of Chris DeWolfe ’88 (his Myspace co-founder, Aber Whitcomb, is a 2000 ACMS alum)… Read more →
Allen School’s Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is ready for her close-up as GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman of the Allen School’s Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) flies her geek flag high in this week’s edition of GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week.” Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is one of the brains behind a series of high-profile research projects that combine facial recognition, modeling and 3-D reconstruction — including a new technique to create photorealistic videos of people from audio files, as demonstrated by a lip-syncing Obama.
The goal of her work, Kemelmacher-Schlizerman explains to GeekWire, is to… Read more →
Allen School’s DawgBytes summer camps are in full swing!
DawgBytes is the Allen School’s K-12 outreach program. One component of DawgBytes is a series of girls and co-ed computer science summer day camps for middle school and high school students. Always wildly over-subscribed, they’re in full swing now. This was the second week of a two-week “High School Girls Leadership Camp,” during which the students were joined by (and mentored) students in the Middle School Girls Creative Coding Camp.
More photos here. Info on our summer camps… Read more →
CNBC: America’s Top State for Business 2017 … Washington!
“With the nation’s fastest-growing economy and an all-star business roster of household names and up-and-comers, Washington — the Evergreen State — soars above the competition as America’s Top State for Business in 2017.
“The home of Amazon and Costco, Boeing and Expedia, as well as rising stars like Adaptive Biotechnologies, online marketplace OfferUp and space company Blue Origin, Washington has the old and new economies covered — as well as pretty much everything in between.
“But the success story… Read more →
Allen School professor Michael Ernst receives ICSE Most Influential Paper Award
Professor Michael Ernst of the Allen School’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering group (PLSE) has been recognized by the International Conference on Software Engineering with its Most Influential Paper Award for 2017. Ernst — along with co-authors Carlos Pacheco of Google, and Shuvendu Lahiri and Thomas Ball of Microsoft Research — earned the award for their ICSE 2007 paper, “Feedback-directed random test generation.”
Each year, ICSE selects a paper from 10 years earlier that it judges to have… Read more →
Crossing the “uncanny valley”: Allen School researchers achieve realistic audio-to-video conversion with lip-syncing Obama
Researchers in the Allen School’s Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) have developed a new technique that enables them to generate photorealistic videos from audio clips. The team, which includes recent Ph.D. graduate Supasorn Suwajanakorn and professors Steven Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, demonstrated their approach by producing a video of former president Barack Obama lip-syncing audio on a range of topics, complete with natural-looking facial expressions and mouth movements.
To achieve such a lifelike result, the researchers had to overcome… Read more →
Kevin Jamieson joins Allen School faculty as Guestrin Endowed Professor in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
The Allen School continues to build its expertise in leading-edge areas of the field with the recruitment of Kevin Jamieson as the Guestrin Endowed Professor in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Jamieson, whose research focuses on adaptive data collection algorithms for machine learning, will join the University of Washington this fall after completing a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley.
Jamieson’s research explores how to leverage already-collected data to inform what future measurements to make next, in a closed… Read more →
Allen School set to amplify UW’s leadership in human-computer interaction with new hires Jennifer Mankoff and Jon Froehlich
The University of Washington is preparing to welcome outstanding new faculty hires who will bolster its reputation as a center of human-computer interaction research and teaching. Two of the impending arrivals, Jennifer Mankoff and Jon Froehlich, will join the Allen School faculty in advancing solutions to society’s greatest challenges, focusing on accessibility, education, health, sustainability, and more.
Jennifer Mankoff will join the Allen School as the Richard E. Ladner Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering. She is currently a… Read more →
Allen School’s Martin Kellogg and Calvin Loncaric excel in ACM Student Research Competition
Allen School students Martin Kellogg and Calvin Loncaric have earned national recognition as grand finalists in the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2017 Student Research Competition. The competition, which is sponsored by Microsoft, highlights exemplary student researchers and encourages their participation in top computing research conferences. Kellogg captured third place in the undergraduate category, and Loncaric placed third in the graduate category. A total of 330 students participated in this year’s competition by presenting their work at one of two… Read more →