Students, faculty and guests packed the Allen Center atrium today to hear former Google executive Alan Eustace tell the exciting story of his world record-setting space jump and the technical challenges he had to overcome to, in his words, “scuba dive in the stratosphere,” as part of UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Eustace broke the altitude record and traveled faster than the speed of sound, reaching 822 miles per hour at one stage of his jump from a balloon… Read more →
Join UW CSE, UW President Ana Mari Cauce and 400+ novice programmers in doing the Hour of Code!
UW CSE has organized a series of events on campus this week to engage UW students and their friends and family members in the Hour of Code, an annual event organized by Code.org to engage people in computer programming. More than 190,000 Hour of Code events are being held around the world to celebrate Computer Science Education Week.
As UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska noted in a column published today in Xconomy:
“CS Ed Week was kind of… Read more →
What makes Tom Hanks look like Tom Hanks? UW CSE researchers can show you!
This week, UW CSE’s GRAIL Group demonstrated the ability to construct digital models of celebrities such as Tom Hanks by applying a novel combination of 3-D face reconstruction, tracking, alignment and multi-texture modeling to photos and videos mined from the Internet. The research team, which includes graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn and professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz, also engaged in some high-tech puppeteering, using footage of one person to control another’s expressions while preserving the latter’s own character.… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alums Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage immortalized
UC San Diego Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. student Neha Chachra defended her thesis today. In an effort to divert the attention of her thesis advisors – UW CSE star Ph.D. alums and long-time UCSD CSE star faculty members Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage – she presented each with a hand-crafted bobblehead as a parting gift.
Stunning likenesses! (And Geoff and Stefan are probably easier to take in plastic form … at the very least, they can be made to… Read more →
Don’t miss space jumper Alan Eustace at UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer series!
Join UW CSE on Tuesday, December 8th for a presentation by former Google engineering executive Alan Eustace on stratospheric exploration – “the ultimate science project.” Eustace will share what it took to achieve the highest free-fall skydive, plummeting at faster than the speed of sound.
Before Eustace and the Paragon StratEx team could break three world records, they had to figure out how to successfully launch him into the atmosphere and return him safely to earth without power. On Tuesday,… Read more →
UW CSE and Microsoft Research efforts to use DNA for data storage featured in The New York Times
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze and affiliate faculty members Doug Carmean and Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research are featured in a New York Times article by John Markoff today showcasing their efforts to build a new kind of data storage system inspired by the natural world.
By using DNA molecules, Ceze and his colleagues in the Molecular Information Systems Lab are working to enable archival storage of all of the world’s digital information in roughly the same amount of physical… Read more →
LMN Architects – designers of UW CSE’s Allen Center – wins 2016 AIA Architecture Firm Award
Seattle’s LMN Architects – the designers of UW CSE’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, and of our second building (now halfway through design), as well as of UW’s PACCAR Hall, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall and McCaw Hall, and major projects across the nation – has been selected by the American Institute of Architects to receive its 2016 Architecture Firm Award.
AIA writes: “The 120-person firm blends the multidisciplinary backgrounds of its principals into an approach that… Read more →
Picture this: Google team led by UW CSE’s Steve Seitz creates app that enables anyone to create 360-degree 3-D VR photos
UW CSE Professor Steve Seitz’s team of virtual reality researchers at Google released a new app today called Cardboard Camera, the next step in the company’s effort to bring virtual reality to the masses. The app, which is free, allows anyone with an Android smartphone to create 360-degree three-dimensional photos that can be viewed using the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewer.
From the Wired article:
“Anyone who’s taken a panoramic shot using their smartphone already knows how to use… Read more →
UW’s star shines brightly in the new Seattle Tech Universe Map
You don’t need a telescope to see the entrepreneurial impact of the University of Washington thanks to the new Seattle Tech Universe Map. The map, which was developed by our friends at the Washington Technology Industry Association and Madrona Venture Group, illustrates the evolution of our local tech ecosystem and the extent to which companies and organizations large and small have contributed to its growth.
UW shines brightly as an engine of innovation and local company creation in large… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Wen-Hann Wang named first-ever Intel Senior Fellow Emeritus
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Wen-Hann Wang completed his 24-year tenure at Intel today. To mark the occasion, Intel named him its first-ever Senior Fellow Emeritus – a tremendous honor that recognizes Wen-Hann’s many outstanding contributions during nearly a quarter of a century with the company.
Wen-Hann earned his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1989 working with professor Jean-Loup Baer. He joined Intel in 1991 as an Intel® Pentium® Pro platform architect, working on the highly successful P6 product family.… Read more →