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 →
Researchers in UW’s UbiComp Lab turn any phone into a health sensing tool
Researchers in the UbiComp Lab led by UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel have come up with a way to measure lung function using any phone, anywhere in the world. SpiroCall accurately measures lung function over a telephone call, enabling patients and doctors to monitor chronic lung diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis without requiring frequent visits to a clinic. The project extends the benefits of SpiroSmart, the smartphone app developed by the same team of researchers… Read more →
UW CSE students in the Husky 100
Four UW CSE students—Krittika D’Silva, Victor Farkas, Karolina Pyszkiewicz and Sarah Yu—have been selected as members of the inaugural class of the Husky 100. This new award recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students from across the three UW campuses who are making the most of their time as members of the UW community—and making a difference inside and outside of the classroom.
Krittika D’Silva is a senior majoring in computer engineering and bioengineering. She works with UW CSE professor… Read more →
#CSforAll – Sign the Code.org petition!
Please take a minute to sign Code.org’s #CSforAll petition – launched yesterday by America’s top leaders from business, politics, and education:
“As business leaders, elected officials, educators, and members of the public, we join forces to deliver a bipartisan message about opportunity and the American Dream. Technology is transforming society at an unprecedented rate. Whether it’s smartphones or social networks, self-driving cars or personalized medicine, nothing embodies the American Dream so much as the opportunity to change or even reinvent… Read more →
UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research receives ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz, technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research in Redmond, has been recognized with the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking contributions in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.
The Newell Award recognizes career contributions that have breadth within computer science and/or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. Horvitz’s work does both, combining the theoretical with the practical and leveraging human and machine intelligence to deliver technologies that improve people’s lives. He… Read more →
UW CSE and Intel Labs win inaugural SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award
“Test of Time” awards recognize research papers that, with the benefit of a decade’s hindsight, are viewed as having had particularly great impact.
SIGMOBILE, the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group focused on mobile computing and communications, has just introduced a Test of Time award and has selected Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild as one of the inaugural winners.
Place Lab was a collaboration between researchers at UW CSE, Intel Research Seattle, Intel Research… Read more →
UW CSE @ Engineering Discovery Days!
Thousands of K-12 students, teachers, and parents visit UW each year for Engineering Discovery Days. Today: elementary and middle schoolers. Tomorrow, high schoolers. Amazing energy!… Read more →
Vote for UW CSE’s 3D Face Reconstruction in the GeekWire Awards!
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 →