“Lunch Break” is an online video series featuring Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for Enterprise Client & Mobility at Microsoft, interviewing tech industry luminaries from the comfort of his car during – what else? – his lunch break. This week’s episode features UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska, who chatted with Brad about topics ranging from Seattle’s contributions to civilization (coffee, grunge, retail), to UW-based efforts to enable data-intensive discovery in a variety of fields.
Along the… Read more →
UW’s and Microsoft’s HyperCam featured on KING 5 and KOMO 4 news
HyperCam, the new low-cost hyperspectral imaging camera developed by UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab and Microsoft Research, recently got some screen time of its own thanks to KING 5 and KOMO 4 news. Crews from our local NBC and ABC stations interviewed UW CSE Ph.D. student Mayank Goel, who demonstrated how HyperCam works and explained its potential commercial applications.
Watch the KING 5 segment here and KOMO 4 segment here.
The HyperCam project has been in the limelight since… Read more →
Recruiting fair for established companies packs ’em into the Allen Center
UW’s Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering was rocking today as recruiters from 60 established companies – and many hundreds of CSE students – descended upon the Allen Center as part of our 2015 Industry Affiliates meeting. Thanks to everyone who showed up – it was especially great to reconnect with so many of our alums who have carved out careers in industry and who return to campus to talk to future graduates about their next… Read more →
UW CSE and Madrona Venture Group celebrate student innovation
Each year, the Madrona Prize is awarded to students participating in UW CSE’s Open House whose work shows the greatest potential for commercialization. This year’s crop of one winner and three runners-up earned their awards by doing groundbreaking research in computer vision, systems and networking, health sensing, and ubiquitous computing.
WINNER
What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks (Total Moving Face Reconstruction): Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
RUNNERS-UP
ApneaApp – Diagnosing Sleep Apnea: Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
Building … Read more →
The Seattle Times visits UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates meeting
“Ricardo Martin-Brualla has created a time-lapse video that shows a massive glacier in Norway receding over the course of 10 years from a giant block of ice to a smaller frozen patch.
“But Martin-Brualla didn’t set up a camera to take photos for a decade. Instead, the University of Washington computer science Ph.D. student used computer-vision technology to find photos online of the popular landmark, warp them so they all appear to be taken from the same angle and stitch… Read more →
Don’t miss UW CSE’s Dieter Fox talking about our robotic future
UW CSE professor Dieter Fox, head of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab, is headlining the next installment of the 2015 Engineering Lecture Series this Wednesday, October 21st. Dieter will talk about the latest advances in robotics, including the development of robots that can do 3D mapping, track human movement and manipulate objects. The lecture will begin at 7:30 pm in Kane Hall on the UW’s Seattle campus. Attendance is free, but advance registration is required. Learn… Read more →
Center for Game Science and Allen Institute for Brain Science team up to unlock mysteries of the human brain
UW CSE’s Center for Game Science, led by professor Zoran Popović, and Paul Allen’s Institute for Brain Science are teaming up with a growing community of citizen scientists to develop a new game aimed at creating a “periodic table of the neurons.” The project, which is made possible in part with support from the National Science Foundation, is one of several new initiatives announced by the White House yesterday that are designed to engage more students and adults… Read more →
It’s nuts at the UW CSE startup recruiting fair
Today’s the first day of the 2015 UW CSE Industry Affiliates meeting – an afternoon of recruiting by startups and small companies, followed by a “startup pitch gong show.” And it’s nuts!
Tomorrow: research interactions and our annual evening Open House, concluding with the awarding of the Madrona Prize.
Wednesday: recruiting by established companies.
A million thanks to all of our supporters in the tech community! You play a big role in making what we do possible,… Read more →
Tom Alberg, Amazon, and Seattle’s tech scene
On the 20th anniversary of Madrona Venture Group, and the day before the annual awarding of the Madrona Prize at our Industry Affiliates meeting, a lovely Seattle Times profile of its co-founder and our friend Tom Alberg.
“As one of the first investors in Amazon.com, Tom Alberg has been an active participant in the Seattle area’s tech industry for decades. He talks about those years, Amazon and investing in risky startups.”
Related: A post by Amazon’s Jay Carney, “What The … Read more →
Grace and Magda
A terrific crew of UW CSE students returned from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing just in time for a brunch for CSE’s women graduate students hosted by Magda Balazinska.
We are proud to have received, last spring, the inaugural annual award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology for Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing.
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