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 →
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.
From the… Read more →