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 →
Google honored as UW Presidential Laureate
Google was honored on Friday, at the University of Washington Annual Recognition Gala, as the latest UW Presidential Laureate – individuals and organizations who have donated more than $10 million to the University of Washington.
The vast majority of Google’s generosity has come to CSE, in the form of research gifts and matches of philanthropic gifts by employees. We’re extremely grateful to companies such as Google for their support of our work.
At the event, recent UW CSE Ph.D. alum… Read more →
UW CSE and Gaetano Borriello continue to rock UbiComp 2015!
Yesterday we were thrilled to announce that UW CSE Ph.D. student Haichen Shen and his team captured a Best Paper Award and the inaugural Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award at UbiComp 2015, the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, currently underway in Osaka Japan. (The Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award was named this year for long-time UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello, who passed away earlier this year, decades before his time.)
But wait… Read more →
Innovation at UW
“Innovation across the UW occurs across disciplines” … but 3 of the 6 examples that the UW alumni magazine chose to highlight in its September issue are from CSE:
“Shyam Gollakota captures energy out of thin air …
“Now a phone can diagnose sleep apnea …
“Computer scientist Shwetak Patel leads the UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab on projects to harvest power from variations in temperature, use humans as antennae, and use cell phone cameras to judge jaundice in newborns …”… Read more →
Intercollegiate athletics in proper perspective
This wonderful New York Times article has nothing to do with computer science, but it has everything to do with the business we’re in – higher education – and with the proper role of intercollegiate athletics.
“[Notre Dame’s] president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, … adamantly opposes a model in which college sheds what is left of its amateur ways for a semiprofessional structure…. ‘Our relationship to these young people is to educate them, to help them grow,’ he says….… Read more →
Wired magazine: UW CSE’s and UCSD’s original car hack “far ahead of its time”
Wired published a fascinating article today on the car industry’s slow response to security flaws revealed by the car hack led by UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno and UCSD professor (and UW CSE Ph.D. alum) Stefan Savage five years ago. The article notes that it took the affected manufacturer, General Motors, five years to issue a fix to its millions of vehicles equipped with the OnStar system that the team demonstrated was vulnerable to attack.
From the article:
“When a… Read more →
Come play with UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the Seattle Design Festival!
This weekend, people of all ages and abilities are invited to discover the Universal Play Kiosk presented by UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology as part of the Seattle Design Festival. In keeping with the festival’s theme, “Design for Equity,” the Universal Play Kiosk provides a configurable space designed to facilitate equal participation of all.
The kiosk, which is a partnership between the Taskar Center, Gensler Design Firm and Hoffman Construction Co., creates an immersive, collaborative environment that truly… Read more →