There are many reasons why the University of Washington’s School of Nursing has consistently been ranked among the very best in the nation. One of them is Kathryn Barnard, who passed away on June 27 at the age of 77.
Kathryn was one of 29 individuals profiled in today’s New York Times Magazine, in the annual “The Lives They Lived” issue that marks the end of the year. She was an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of infant mental… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Igor Mordatch aims to teach robots to learn for themselves
UW CSE alum Igor Mordatch (Ph.D., ’15), now a postdoc at UC Berkeley, is attracting attention for his efforts to enable robots to teach themselves how to perform complex movements and tasks. Mordatch’s latest work, which is featured in MIT Technology Review, relies in part on his past collaboration with UW CSE professors Emo Todorov, who leads the Movement Control Laboratory, and Zoran Popović, director of the Center for Game Science.
From the article:
“For all the talk… Read more →
UW’s Ubicomp Lab and Oculus VR develop magnetic sensing technology for virtual reality
The Ubiquitous Computing Lab led by UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel has teamed up with virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR on the development of a novel system for precisely tracking finger movements that could pave the way for a more immersive and elegant virtual reality experience.
The system, called Finexus, uses four magnetometers to track small electromagnets placed on a user’s fingertips. Unlike camera-based motion tracking systems, the new technology does not require a direct line of… Read more →
A holiday thank you to UW Facilities Services
Monday marked UW CSE’s annual holiday luncheon for our friends from UW Facilities Services – the men and women who keep the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering looking great and working great. 110 Facilities Services professionals joined us.
Thanks for all you do!… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska in the Seattle Times: “Now is the wrong time and the UW is the wrong place for a unionized faculty”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska and UW Chemistry’s Paul Hopkins in a Sunday Seattle Times op-ed regarding the effort by the Service Employees International Union to represent UW faculty:
“Unionization is like throwing sand in the gears of what is, by any measure, an institution that performs at an extraordinarily high level.”
Read the op-ed here. Visit the UW Excellence website here.
(This op-ed represents the personal opinion of Lazowska and Hopkins.)… Read more →
UW CSE’s Luis Ceze speaks on “The Record” about groundbreaking DNA data storage research
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze spoke to Bill Radke on NPR radio station KUOW yesterday about the DNA data storage project spearheaded by the UW’s Molecular Information Systems Lab and Microsoft Research.
Speaking on “The Record,” Ceze explained what makes DNA attractive to computer scientists as a storage vehicle, pointing out that “nature evolved it and tested it for us.” He also noted that, as DNA is unlikely to become obsolete any time soon (unlike those old floppy disks sitting… Read more →
PLSE fashion statement …
The UW CSE PLSE (Programming Languages and Software Engineering) faculty – following their domination of the faculty skit at the UW CSE holiday party (Ras Bodik as Linus, Alvin Cheung as Schroeder, Zach Tatlock as Charlie Brown, and Emina Torlak as Little Red-Haired Girl) – salute 2015 on its way out the door by making a fashion statement in their new Zach Tatlock lookalike outfits!… Read more →
UW CSE leads the nation in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards
Each year, the Computing Research Association recognizes stellar undergraduate students throughout North America in its Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards program. This year, three UW CSE students – Krittika D’Silva, Darby Losey and Daryl Zuniga – were cited by CRA for excellence in research as part of its 2016 competition.
Krittika D’Silva, who was named a finalist by CRA, is completing a double major in computer engineering and bioengineering. She worked with the late professor Gaetano Borriello and Ph.D. alum… Read more →
UW CSE helps launch new professional master’s degree program in data science
UW CSE has partnered with the iSchool and the departments of Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and Statistics – under the auspices of the eScience Institute – on the creation of a master’s degree program in the growing field of data science. The new program, which will begin in fall 2016, was developed with input from industry leaders and will combine statistical modeling, machine learning, software engineering, data management and visualization, and user interface design.
From… Read more →
UW CSE faculty star in typically brilliant holiday party skit …
Video here!
(The faculty skits weren’t always “family entertainment” – see, for example, here, in Hank Levy’s basement in the early 1980s.)… Read more →