Aleesha Wiest, a program operations specialist with UW CSE, was recognized today with a UW College of Engineering Professional Staff Award. Each year, the College honors faculty, students and staff who go above and beyond—be it through teaching, research, or, in Wiest’s case, their vital work behind the scenes that makes faculty, students and fellow staff members look good.
When Wiest joined UW CSE in 2013, she managed administrative projects and budgets for the UW-hosted Intel Science and Technology … Read more →
UW researchers transform a piece of paper into a smart interface with PaperID
Researchers in the University of Washington’s UbiComp Lab have devised a way to turn a piece of paper into an interactive interface. PaperID—which was developed by UW CSE Ph.D. student Hanchuan Li, EE Ph.D. student Josh Fromm, and CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel in collaboration with colleagues at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University—leverages inexpensive RFID sensors to integrate real-world items into the Internet of Things.
From the UW News release:
“Researchers from the University… Read more →
K-12 Math and Science teachers! Join UW CSE at our CS4HS summer workshop!
Registration is now open for UW CSE’s popular CS4HS professional development workshop for educators to be held July 6-8 on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.
CS4HS is designed for teachers who have no previous computer science knowledge or programming experience. Aimed at middle and high school math and science teachers, CS4HS offers three action-packed days of insights and best practices that empower educators to incorporate computational thinking into their teaching and inspire their students’ curiosity about this rapidly expanding… Read more →
UW CSE robot hand teaches itself to manipulate objects
Researchers in UW’s Movement Control Laboratory have built a dexterous robot hand that learns from experience, enabling it not only to perform tasks that are typically challenging for robots, but also improve its performance without human intervention. In contrast to a typical robotics application in which each individual movement must be programmed, the autonomous learning system developed by CSE Ph.D. student Vikash Kumar, CSE and Applied Mathematics professor Emo Todorov, and CSE professor Sergey Levine enables the robot… Read more →
UW CSE celebrates scholarship and fellowship donors
UW CSE’s Scholarship and Fellowship Donor Recognition Luncheon is an annual tradition and one of our favorite events of the year. On Thursday, we held our 2016 luncheon to honor the individuals, families and organizations whose generosity keeps a CSE education within reach for undergraduate students regardless of means, and also enables us to recruit the most talented graduate students to our research program. With their support, UW CSE’s 29 endowed scholarship funds and 19 endowed fellowship funds are assisting … Read more →
UW researchers shine at CHI
UW faculty and students are gearing up for the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI 2016 conference that begins this weekend in San Jose, California. As the top conference for human-computer interaction research, CHI offers a terrific opportunity to showcase the breadth and depth of the University of Washington’s expertise in HCI and design as well as the strength of our interdisciplinary collaborations. UW CSE professor James Fogarty put together a terrific overview of UW-authored papers featured at this year’s conference… Read more →
PECASE ceremony: Shwetak Patel and Luke Zettlemoyer go to (the other) Washington
UW CSE and Electrical Engineering professor Shwetak Patel and CSE professor Luke Zettlemoyer traveled to our nation’s capital to collect their Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE Award is the highest honor bestowed by our nation’s government on early career researchers in science and engineering fields.
The 106 winners named in February gathered yesterday to be recognized at ceremonies hosted by the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Alvin Cheung receives U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
Professor Alvin Cheung, who works with UW CSE’s PLSE and database research groups, has received an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Cheung’s winning proposal, “Using Verified Lifting to Optimize Legacy Stencil Codes,” was one of 49 projects selected for funding by DOE out of 720 proposals submitted.
Cheung’s proposal describes how verified lifting can enable legacy stencil computations to leverage domain-specific languages (DSLs) and frameworks to improve performance. Stencil computations are… Read more →
Use of soap now allowed in MIT dormitories
In a desperate attempt to rehabilitate the image of MIT engineers, the Division of Student Life has agreed to provide soap in dormitories.
In recent years, renegade MIT students on the leading edge of 18th century personal hygiene had installed their own soap dispensers in residence halls, but the Division of Student Life had removed them.
Honestly – you can’t make up stuff like this. Read more here.
(Will the Stata Center be next?)… Read more →
Why tech startup CEOs love Seattle
GeekWire reports on today’s State of Technology luncheon. More than 1,000 attendees heard from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, preceded by 3 tech startup CEOs: Clayton Lewis (Arivale), Forest Key (Pixvana), and Chris Diorio (Impinj). Our favorite excerpts from the GeekWire article:
“Cost of living . A competitive talent pool. The University of Washington …
“Lewis also credited the University of Washington as an important part of the technology ecosystem in Seattle. That was echoed by Diorio, who co-founded RFID-maker Impinj… Read more →