Last night the new documentary The Human Face of Big Data premiered on PBS. UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel contributed his expertise and insights to the film, which examines how the vast amounts of data collected in our increasingly connected world is changing the way we live and shaping our future. As big data’s big night approached, Patel and executive producer Rick Smolan joined Jeremy Hobson, host of NPR’s “Here & Now,” to talk about the… Read more →
UW’s Passive Wi-Fi named one of the 10 breakthrough technologies of 2016
Passive Wi-Fi, a new low-power Wi-Fi communications system developed by researchers at UW CSE and EE, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2016. The system, which can generate Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, was developed in UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab by a team that includes EE graduate students Bryce Kellogg and Vamsi Talla and joint UW CSE and EE professor… Read more →
Zootopia @ UW CSE
UW’s Animation Research Labs, led by CSE’s Barbara Mones, brings students from CSE, Art, Music, and other programs together each year for an intensive set of capstone courses in digital animation, culminating in the production of an animated short shown at our graduation ceremony (and often at major festivals).
On Monday, UW CSE / ARL alum Kira Lehtomaki, who joined Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2007, enthralled current students with a special behind-the-scenes Q&A.
See a subsequent… Read more →
UW CSE’s Emina Torlak, Mike Cafarella, Roxana Geambasu win Sloan Research Fellowships
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 →