UW CSE professor Emina Torlak and Ph.D. alums Mike Cafarella and Roxana Geambasu were recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today with Sloan Research Fellowships. Recipients of these prestigious awards are nominated by their peers and selected by the foundation based on their early-career research accomplishments and for showing outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to their fields.
From the Sloan Foundation news release:
“‘Getting early-career support can be a make-or-break moment for a young scholar,’ said Paul L.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Emina Torlak wins 2016 AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize
UW CSE professor Emina Torlak has been named the recipient of the 2016 Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize from the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), an organization devoted to advancing research in object-oriented technology. Torlak—a member of UW CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering group (PLSE), which is widely recognized as one of the best in the business—will be honored at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) in Rome this summer.
The Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize recognizes an early career… Read more →
UW CSE researchers create “the most amazing” robot hand IEEE Spectrum has ever seen
IEEE Spectrum highlights the work of UW CSE Ph.D. alum (and current Yale postdoc) Zhe Xu and CSE and Applied Mathematics professor Emo Todorov, who developed a robotic hand that achieves true human-like dexterity and could serve as a model for the development of neuroprosthetics and limb regeneration research.
From the article:
“Because of the inherent complexity of a real human hand, biomimetic anthropomorphic hands inevitably involve lots of compromises to get them to work properly while maintaining a… Read more →
White House recognizes Shwetak Patel, Luke Zettlemoyer with PECASE awards
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced today that UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel and UW CSE professor Luke Zettlemoyer have been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award, which is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows upon scientists and engineers in the early stage of their careers, is designed to support promising young researchers who show exceptional potential to advance the frontiers of scientific… Read more →
Must-See TV: UW’s Shwetak Patel in “The Human Face of Big Data”
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel of the UbiComp Lab is featured in a new documentary, “The Human Face of Big Data,” that will air on PBS next week. The award-winning film examines how our growing capacity to collect and analyze data enables us to understand our world and ourselves in new ways—and at what cost.
From the documentary’s website:
“‘The Human Face of Big Data’ captures…an extraordinary revolution sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, healthcare, and… Read more →
UW CSE teleporter-in-chief Steve Seitz on the future of virtual reality
Our very own Steve Seitz, who splits his time between UW CSE’s GRAIL group and Google, features prominently in a recent article by Xconomy’s Ben Romano that explores the technology behind Google Cardboard and Google Jump. Referring to Seitz as Google’s “teleportation lead” (which has to be one of the coolest tech job titles we have come across thus far), the article looks at what’s next in the quest to bring virtual reality to the masses and our region’s… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yejin Choi named one of IEEE’s “10 to Watch” in AI
UW CSE professor Yejin Choi, an expert in natural language processing, was selected as one of 10 young scientists to watch in the field of artificial intelligence in the latest issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems. The list, which is published biennially, celebrates rising stars in the field and is based on nominations by senior AI researchers in academia and industry.
Choi’s research combines natural language processing, machine learning and computer vision in seeking to connect language with visual… Read more →
CSE’s Tom Anderson, Albert Greenberg elected to National Academy of Engineering
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Today the NAE announced its Class of 2016. Two UW CSE Ph.D. alums, Tom Anderson and Albert Greenberg, are among the eight new members elected in Computer Science & Engineering.
Tom is “one of our own” in two ways: he received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1991 (working with Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy), and after joining the faculty at UC… Read more →
DawgBytes midwinter break workshops for high schoolers – Feb 16 and 20
DawgBytes – “A Taste of CSE,” UW CSE’s K-12 outreach program – will be hosting one-day midwinter break workshops for high school students on February 16 and 20.
Learn more here.
Learn more about the wide range of DawgBytes here.; lots of news on the DawgBytes Facebook page here.… Read more →
Qi Lu and Harry Shum @ UW CSE
Qi Lu and Harry Shum, two of the four engineering members of Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team, spent the day at UW CSE today participating in a wide variety of research interactions.
In the photo, Qi and Harry join Ed Lazowska in the wetlab housing a joint project between UW (principally Luis Ceze and Georg Seelig) and Microsoft Research (principally Doug Carmean and Karin Strauss) concerning extremely high density DNA-based data storage.… Read more →