Just how accurate are facial recognition algorithms—which may have been trained and tested on fewer than 15,000 photos—when put to the test on a larger scale? Researchers in UW CSE’s Graphics and Imaging Lab (GRAIL) aimed to find out by launching the MegaFace Challenge, a new competition in which teams from all over the world were invited to put their algorithms through their paces using the MegaFace dataset of one million images.
The results showed that, when it comes… Read more →
UW CSE’s Anup Rao wins 2016 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
Professor Anup Rao of UW CSE’s Theory group has been recognized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) with its Outstanding Paper Prize for the 2013 paper, How to Compress Interactive Communication. Each year, SIAM selects just three papers from among thousands published in its journals over the previous three years for the award, which honors authors who have made original contributions to the field of applied mathematics.
In 1948, Claude E. Shannon published his foundational paper… Read more →
UW CSE’s Will Scott wins Best Student Paper Award at 2016 USENIX ATC
Newly minted UW CSE Ph.D. Will Scott has captured the Best Student Paper Award at the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference underway in Denver for the paper Satellite: Joint Analysis of CDNs and Network-Level Interference.
The winning paper presents Satellite, an efficient tool for understanding global trends in the distribution and accessibility of website content from a single vantage point. The system, which collects and analyzes data on DNS resolution and resource availability by monitoring the IPv4 address… Read more →
Team led by UW researchers reaches the finals of the GSK Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge
An international team led by researchers at the UW has been chosen as one of three finalists in the GlaxoSmithKlein Bioelectronics Innovation Challenge—and made itself eligible for $1 million in new research funding as a result.
UW CSE and electrical engineering professor Josh Smith is working with colleagues at UW’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), the University of Cambridge and University College London to develop an implantable device that would restore bladder function for people living with spinal… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Martha Kim wins 2016 Borg Early Career Award
UW CSE alum Martha Kim, now a member of the computer science faculty at Columbia University, has been honored with a 2016 Borg Early Career Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). This award—named in honor of the late Anita Borg, an early member of CRA-W and a leading advocate for increasing women’s participation in computing—recognizes one or two women each year in the early stages of their careers who have made significant… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ras Bodik wins Influential Paper Award at ISCA 2016
Professor Ras Bodik, a member of UW CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group, collected the 2016 ACM SIGARCH and IEEE-CS TCCA ISCA Influential Paper Award (a “test of time” award) at the International Symposium on Computing Architecture being held this week in Seoul, South Korea. Bodik and his co-authors, former University of Wisconsin-Madison Ph.D. students Brian Fields and Shai Rubin, received the award for their 2001 ISCA paper, Focusing Processor Policies via Critical-Path Prediction, in which… Read more →
Sen. Maria Cantwell @ UW CSE
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell spent nearly two hours at UW CSE on Saturday afternoon, along with staffers Dayna Lurie and Nate Caminos. The agenda:
Ed Lazowska: student demand, workforce demand, diversity, and data science.
Yoshi Kohno: cybersecurity.
Alex Mariakakis: smartphone medical diagnostic apps.
Steve Seitz: virtual reality.
Many thanks to Senator Cantwell for taking time from her busy schedule to learn more about what we do. Washington State is blessed with an extraordinary… Read more →
What courses do high school students like “a lot”?
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AP Computer Science blows away all other STEM fields! Among 52 fields, its popularity is exceeded only by Dance, Drawing, Graphic Design, Painting, and Choir.
The study, by Change the Equation, the Amgen Foundation, and C+R Research, was unearthed and analyzed by Code.org’s Hadi Partovi.
Hadi corrected the study for selection bias, and aggregated related fields – the results were just as dramatic!
Read Hadi’s blog post here.… Read more →
Oren Etzioni in Wired: “Deep learning isn’t a dangerous magic genie. It’s just math”
Oren Etzioni – CEO of Paul G. Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and long-time UW CSE professor – writes in Wired:
“Deep learning is rapidly ‘eating’ artificial intelligence. But let’s not mistake this ascendant form of artificial intelligence for anything more than it really is. The famous author Arthur C. Clarke wrote, ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ And deep learning is certainly an advanced technology – it can identify objects and faces in photos, recognize spoken… Read more →
UW CSE’s Anat Caspi, changemaker, at the United States of Women Summit
Anat Caspi, director of UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, is attending the United States of Women Summit convened by the White House this week. She was invited to participate in recognition of her efforts to lead change on issues important to women and girls.
The summit is bringing together 5,000 people from all industries and walks of life to celebrate the progress that has been made to advance gender equality and identify the actions needed to… Read more →