The New York Times published an excellent article this week about CrowdSignals, a new initiative spearheaded by UW CSE alum Evan Welbourne (Ph.D., ’10) that seeks to build the largest set of rich, longitudinal mobile and sensor data through crowdsourcing. The community data set, which will include user interactions, geo-location and sensor data from a demographically diverse pool of users, would be available to academic and corporate researchers across a variety of disciplines to advance research, teaching and product… Read more →
UW CSE’s Noah Smith receives UW Innovation Award to map the “perspectives landscape”
UW CSE professor Noah Smith, an expert in natural language processing, has received a 2016 Innovation Award from the University of Washington’s Office of Research to create a large-scale visualization of people’s perspectives on current events and issues based on digital text.
By developing tools to map the “perspectives landscape” from the vast amounts of text data available online, Smith will be able to reveal differences in framing that can affect public attitudes. His research will advance the state… Read more →
UW CSE, Microsoft Research bring together the brightest minds in PLSE research in the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is known to be a hotbed of programming language and software engineering (PLSE) innovation. Now, the brightest local minds in PLSE research have a forum in which to share their latest work and discuss emerging topics in the field with their colleagues from throughout the region, thanks to the efforts of professors Ras Bodik and Alvin Cheung of UW CSE’s world-class PLSE group and Rishabh Singh of the RiSE (Research in Software Engineering) group at Microsoft Research.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shyam Gollakota: 1 of 5 CNN Money “Visionaries 2020”
UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota was selected by CNN Money as one of five innovators who are changing the world for a recent segment called Visionaries 2020. The segment highlighted Gollakota’s works on ambient backscatter, a groundbreaking technology that leverages existing TV and wireless signals to provide battery-free power and connectivity to enable the Internet of Things.
Watch the CNN Money video here.
Congratulations yet again, Shyam!!… Read more →
UW continues winning ways at NSDI with Best Paper Award for Passive Wi-Fi
A team of UW CSE and EE researchers captured the Best Paper Award at the 13th USENIX Sympoxium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’16) for Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions. The Passive Wi-Fi project was developed in CSE’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab by EE graduate students Bryce Kellogg and Vamsi Talla, CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, and CSE and EE professor Josh Smith.
Passive Wi-Fi is capable of generating Wi-Fi transmissions… Read more →
UW CSE’s Luis Ceze breaks leg on Oregon Trail
Today UW CSE’s Mark Oskin brought his graduate computer architecture class plus computer architecture faculty colleagues on an end-of-the-quarter expedition to Paul G. Allen’s phenomenal Living Computer Museum.
Student Amrita Mazumdar sends this photo documenting Luis Ceze’s downfall in the retro game Oregon Trail.
(A bit less than 2 years ago, Luis actually broke his leg, with a bit of help from CSE chair Hank Levy – check it out here.)… Read more →
UW researchers cure fat-finger syndrome with sonar-based gesture tracking system
A new technology developed by UW CSE and EE researchers could take the “touch” out of touchscreen and transform the way we interact with our mobile devices. FingerIO, which was developed in the Networks & Mobile Systems Lab led by CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, employs sonar to enable users to interact with their smartphones and smartwatches by gesturing or writing on any nearby surface.
From the UW news release:
“As mobile and wearable devices such as smartwatches… Read more →
Josue Rios’ journey from Venezuela to UW CSE
UW CSE senior Josue Rios was one of the first students to benefit from Washington State’s REAL Hope Act, an initiative that enables undocumented immigrants to access state financial aid for higher education. Nearly 20 years ago, Rios and his family left Venezuela in fear; these days, he is looking forward to graduating from UW CSE with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. An excellent article by UW journalism student Kayla Roberts that was published today in Seattle’s civic-focused online… Read more →
UW CSE’s Tianqi Chen, Arvind Satyanarayan win 2016 Google Ph.D. Fellowships
Today, Google announced that UW Ph.D. student Tianqi Chen has been chosen as a 2016 Google Ph.D. Fellow in machine learning. Chen works with professor Carlos Guestrin in the UW MODE Lab (Machine Learning, Optimization, Distributed Systems and Statistics) and is the creator of XGBoost, an open-source, end-to-end tree boosting system that is designed to be efficient, flexible and portable.
Tree boosting is a highly effective and widely used machine learning method. Researchers have embraced XGBoost because it is… Read more →
UW CSE’s Sergey Levine wins ONR Young Investigator Award
Sergey Levine, who will join the UW CSE faculty this spring, has been recognized with a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
Sergey’s research focuses on the intersection between control and machine learning, with the aim of developing algorithms and techniques that can endow machines with the ability to autonomously acquire the skills for executing complex tasks. In particular, he is interested in how learning can be used to acquire complex behavioral skills, in order to… Read more →