Balloting is open for the 2016 GeekWire Awards in several categories. Check ’em all out here.
But be sure to vote for UW CSE’s 3D Face Reconstruction in the “Innovation of the Year” category, here.
Congratulations to Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher for being nominated!
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UW CSE’s Hanchuan Li and Alex Mariakakis win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
UW CSE Ph.D. students Hanchuan Li and Alex Mariakakis are one of eight teams selected to receive a 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They won one of these coveted awards with their proposal for IDCam, a hybrid RFID-computer vision system that enables simultaneous localization and identification for individuals and objects that will increase our understanding of how people interact with the physical world.
IDCam observes how RFID tags instrumented on everyday objects are disturbed by their motion, and then correlates… Read more →
UW CSE’s Anna Karlin and Jeff Dean elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
UW CSE professor Anna Karlin and Ph.D. alum Jeff Dean have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The American Academy, established in 1780, is one of the nation’s oldest and most revered learned societies whose members are among the most accomplished individuals in their disciplines—disciplines that span mathematics, the biological and physical sciences, medicine, the social sciences, business, government, humanities and the arts. Karlin and Dean are among only six computer scientists who were elected… Read more →
UW Regents approve new master’s in technology innovation offered through GIX
The University of Washington Board of Regents has approved the first interdisciplinary master’s degree program to be offered through the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), a partnership between the UW and Tsinghua University launched last spring with support from Microsoft. The new Master of Science in Technology Innovation (MSTI) degree was developed with the collaboration of UW CSE and other units within the College of Engineering, the Foster School of Business, the iSchool and the School of Law.
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UW CSE @ Amazon
On Thursday UW CSE hosted an alumni event at Amazon’s still-under-construction new buildings on 7th Avenue in downtown Seattle. Amazon is one of the largest employers of UW CSE graduates, and UW CSE is one of the largest sources of new graduates to Amazon.
Can’t wait for those domes to be finished!… Read more →
GeekWire: “Ruling on University of Washington building paves way for computer science program expansion”
GeekWire reports on a King County Superior Court ruling that UW may replace More Hall Annex – an abandoned research nuclear reactor building that a local preservation group has tried to nominate as a landmark under a city ordinance – with a facility that will enable the expansion of UW Computer Science & Engineering.
“On Thursday, Judge Suzanne Parisien ruled that the ordinance does not apply to the UW, adding that ‘public purpose requires that the campus continue to be… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota: powering the Internet of Things and making magic through collaboration
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota of the Networks & Mobile Systems Lab recently shared with Medium details about the development of Passive Wi-Fi—the breakthrough technology that could usher in a new era of mobile computing and power the Internet of Things—with industry blog Inside Frequency Control.
In the interview, Gollakota talked about how Passive Wi-Fi could eliminate power consumption as a barrier to creating a truly smart environment in which every device and every object can communicate. He… Read more →
UW students set sail with Microsoft
Last night, Microsoft treated UW students who will join the company this year as either full-time employees or interns to a dinner cruise on Lake Union and Lake Washington. More than 60 of the more than 100 UW recruits heading to Microsoft this year—the majority from CSE—joined in the fun, including a spectacular Seattle sunset.
Thanks to Microsoft for its continuing support of UW CSE and our students! (And special thanks to our phenomenal Microsoft recruiter, Becky Tucker!)
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UW Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture: General Kevin Chilton on deterrence in the 21st century
The UW Tech Policy Lab will welcome General Kevin Chilton, retired head of U.S. Strategic Command, to campus next week as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. General Chilton will address the topic “Deterrence in the 21st Century: From Nuclear, to Space, to Cyberspace.”
General Chilton served for nearly 35 years as a member of the U.S. Air Force. As Commander of U.S. Strategic Command from 2007 until his retirement in 2011, he directed planning and operations… Read more →
UW CSE’s Austin Stromme wins Goldwater Scholarship
UW sophomore Austin Stromme, who is pursuing a double major in computer science and mathematics, has been selected as a 2016 Goldwater Scholar.
Stromme worked with professor James Lee of UW CSE’s Theory group last year on graph theoretic methods in computational linear algebra. Currently, he is working with math professor Jim Morrow on the use of discrete harmonic cohomology modules to understand the geometry of boundary graphs, and with Ph.D. student Matthew Junge to analyze the frog… Read more →