Peter Brook spent his undergraduate days in Joshua Smith’s Sensor Systems Laboratory and at Facebook. In 2013 he took his newly-minted Computer Engineering bachelors degree to Vergence Labs, where he was lead software engineer on Epiphany Eyewear – fashion-conscious eyewear that captures video snippets with the touch of a button. Vergence was acquired by Snapchat, where Peter has led the software side of Snap Spectacles from early prototypes through mass production.
Snap Spectacles have now hit the big time –… Read more →
UW startup WiBotic among GeekWire’s 2016 “Seattle 10” hot startups
“From the brick walkways of Pioneer Square to the funky facades of Fremont, there’s a lot of startup action in Seattle.
“So trying to identify the 10 hottest entrepreneurial ventures in the region is no easy task. But that’s what we’ve set out to do with this year’s class of The Seattle 10, which we’re hosting again in partnership with the Museum of History & Industry …
“We’re putting our entrepreneurs to work, asking each of The Seattle 10 winners… Read more →
Cybercrime-fighters of Batman’s Kitchen cook up a 3rd place finish at CSAW ’16
Last week, a team of UW undergraduates known as Batman’s Kitchen became cybersecurity superheroes when they earned third place at the U.S. finals of Capture the Flag at Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW ’16). The CSAW CTF competition, which was hosted by New York University’s Tanton School of Engineering, featured 15 teams battling it out in response to a series of computer security challenges inspired by real-world scenarios that tested their cybercrime-fighting mettle. The New York competition was… Read more →
UW CSE earns yet another Best Paper Award at OSDI
UW CSE continued our winning ways this week with a Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16). The winning paper, Push-Button Verification of File Systems via Crash Refinement, was co-authored by a team of researchers from UW CSE’s Computer Systems Lab and Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group that includes Ph.D. students Helgi Sigurbjarnarson and James Bornholt, and professors Emina Torlak and Xi Wang.
The… Read more →
Seattle Business explores the region’s – and UW CSE’s – emergence as a high-tech magnet
For its November cover article, Seattle Business magazine examines the factors that contribute to our region’s growing attractiveness to tech companies looking to expand or open new engineering operations outside of their hometowns. The list of firms who have put down roots in and around the Emerald City is a who’s who of fast-growing firms, multi-national powerhouses, and household names, including Airbnb, Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Magic Leap, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Uber. In some cases, the newcomers’ local workforce has… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska named to Seattle magazine’s 50th anniversary Hall of Fame
“Every city possesses its own, unique spirit — its zeitgeist. It’s what makes a metropolis move, defines its identity and propels it forward. We owe much of ours to our city’s shapers — those leaders, trendsetters and trailblazers who, over the past 50 years, have transformed the town in extraordinary ways…
“The people on these pages — living legends who have made a major contribution during the past five decades — are influential in their own right, but are also… Read more →
UW’s Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Eli Shlizerman to timeshare with Facebook
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a professor in UW CSE’s GRAIL group, and Eli Shlizerman, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, have joined the Research at Facebook team. Facebook’s gain is not UW’s loss, however, as the duo will be splitting their time between the company and campus.
In a welcome post, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning, expressed excitement at what Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, an expert in computer vision and graphics, and Shlizerman, an expert… Read more →
When it comes to cybersecurity, UW student team is full of tricks
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month draws to a close, we thought we would treat you to some news on Batman’s Kitchen, UW’s frightfully good team of undergraduate hacking heroes who are preparing once again to battle the virtual bad guys. The team — CSE’s Alex Kirchhoff and Bo Wang, Dan Arens of Atmospheric Sciences, and Stanley Hsieh of Physics — will compete in the finals of the Capture the Flag competition hosted by New York University next month.
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UW CSE and AI2 in the New York Times: “Artificial intelligence at your fingertips”
The New York Times published an article over the weekend exploring recent advances in approximate computing in response to a slowdown in Moore’s Law. In the article, UW CSE professor Ali Farhadi, who splits his time between campus and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, shared the results of work with CSE Ph.D. student Joe Redmon and his AI2 colleagues, Mohammad Rastegari and Vicente Ordóñez, to develop efficient variations of convolutional neural networks for object recognition and detection.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Will Strimling combines a passion for data and politics at FiveThirtyEight
Will Strimling is a UW CSE undergraduate with a passion for data visualization and politics. This quarter, he has taken a break from hitting the books for an opportunity to work as a Visual Journalism Intern with Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, one of the most influential sites for analysis of the 2016 election. If you are following the race for the Oval Office — and like the proverbial car wreck, who could look away? — you have probably seen some… Read more →