The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) today announced a significant breakthrough in AI research in the form of GeoS, a new AI system that is capable of solving SAT geometry problems as well as the average American 11th grade student through a combination of visual processing and textual analysis. The creation of GeoS was led by AI2, in collaboration with UW faculty and students with expertise in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and computer vision at the University… Read more →
Check out the latest from DawgBytes!
DawgBytes (“A Taste of CSE”), UW CSE’s vibrant K-12 outreach program, has just concluded a summer of daycamps for elementary, middle school, and high school students, and the 9th year of our CS4HS teacher workshop. The academic year will be just as exciting. Check it out here!… Read more →
UW CSE to host Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings vs. QANTA in trivia showdown
It’s man vs. machine when Ken Jennings, a former UW student and the most successful Jeopardy! player of all time, returns to campus to take on QANTA, a cutting-edge computer question-answering system, in a quiz bowl showdown. UW CSE is hosting the event at Kane Hall on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus on Friday, October 2.
This is not the first time Jennings has gone head-to-CPU with a computer: he came in second on Jeopardy! – which… Read more →
Join the quest for the “Master Algorithm” with UW CSE’s Pedro Domingos
UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos is generating considerable buzz with his new book, The Master Algorithm, “a popular science romp through one of today’s hottest scientific topics.” In the book, Pedro explores how machine learning is increasingly shaping the way we live and what he and his colleagues are doing to find the “Master Algorithm” – the ultimate learning algorithm that will be able to do what we want before we even have to ask.
UW Today has a… Read more →
The University of Washington: One of the 5 most innovative universities in the world
Stanford…MIT…Harvard…University of Washington!
That’s right, UW is ranked #4 among the most innovative universities in the world according to Reuters, which examined hundreds of universities and ranked them based on the strength of their research and patent activity. In its assessment of UW’s performance, Reuters noted our competitiveness for federal research funding (UW consistently dominates among public institutions), the number of students pursuing STEM majors (roughly 37% of the entire student body), and our record-high commercialization activity.
From Reuters’ announcement:… Read more →
UW’s wearable sensor technology featured in GeekWire
Earlier this month, we reported on MagnifiSense, a new low-power, wearable sensor system that tracks an individual’s usage of various devices that was developed by a team of UW CSE and EE researchers in the Ubiquitous Computing Lab led by professor Shwetak Patel.
Today, GeekWire published an excellent article showcasing MagnifiSense that quotes Shwetak and EE graduate student Edward Wang, who presented the team’s research at UbiComp 2015 in Osaka, Japan last week.
From the article:
“The coolest… Read more →
IEEE and UW CSE organize symposium to honor the humanitarian contributions of Gaetano Borriello
UW CSE is co-presenting a very special event, the Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium, in memory of our friend and colleague who passed away earlier this year. The symposium, which will take place on Saturday, October 10 from 1:30 to 6:20 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport, is being organized as a special session of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC15).
The event will feature talks by… Read more →
Changing the world: Faculty and students demonstrate CSE’s impact to the UW Foundation Board
Last week, UW CSE faculty and students joined the University of Washington Foundation board at its fall meeting to offer hands-on demonstrations and chat with members about their latest research. The UW Foundation advances the mission of the university by raising private support for its many programs that serve students and society – including UW CSE.
CSE professor Ed Lazowska provided an overview of CSE’s impact across campus and in the community before inviting board members to learn more about… Read more →
Nicki Dell receives UW CSE’s 500th Ph.D.
Nicola (Nicki) Dell has earned the 500th Ph.D. awarded by UW Computer Science & Engineering – a milestone by any measure!
Nicki was advised on her thesis – “Mobile Camera-Based Systems for Low-Resource Settings” – by Gaetano Borriello and Linda Shapiro. In January, she will be starting her new position as an Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech in New York City.
Nicki was born in Zimbabwe and received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of East Anglia (UK)… Read more →
UW research on battery-free camera networks featured at UbiComp 2015
UW faculty and student contributions to UbiComp 2015 are so extensive, we can barely keep up. The latest news to come out of the conference that puts UW innovation in the spotlight: technology from the Sensor Systems Laboratory led by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith that enables the creation of smart networks of self-localizing, battery-free cameras.
A team that includes Alanson Sample (a UW EE Ph.D. alum who also completed a postdoc in CSE before joining Disney Research),… Read more →