Economics columnist Jon Talton wrote an interesting piece for the Seattle Times exploring how our economy has changed and the complexion of the future job market given globalization, automation and the rise of the “gig economy,” among other forces that are reshaping how people work and live. UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos provided his take on the potentially radical changes in store, a topic to which he gave much thought in writing his recent book, The Master Algorithm.
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UW CSE generates three of the 10 “Best of UW” news stories of 2015
We love data here at UW CSE – especially when it makes us look good. And we’re looking pretty good as 2015 comes to a close: according to our friends in UW’s Office of News & Information, UW CSE research inspired three of their 10 most viewed news stories over the past year. So join us in raising a toast to the amazing year that was – and to our amazing faculty and students!
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UW Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering scores major NSF funding to reanimate paralyzed limbs
The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, led by UW CSE professor Raj Rao, will receive $16 million over the next four years from the National Science Foundation to support the development of implantable devices that will enable patients who have suffered stroke or spinal cord injury to move again. The new funding will enable CSNE to continue its groundbreaking work on bi-directional brain-computer interfaces that interpret and wirelessly transmit brain signals across damaged regions of the nervous system.… Read more →
Kathryn Barnard, 1938-2015
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.
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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.
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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 →