Every year, the National Academy of Engineering invites roughly 100 of the top engineers under the age of 45 from around the country to participate in its Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a two-and-a-half day event focused on cutting-edge research in various fields of engineering. The 2015 symposium, which is taking place this week in Irvine CA, features a diverse range of topics, including the search for exoplanets, metamaterials, forecasting natural disasters, and cybersecurity and privacy.
It is an honor… Read more →
UW CSE’s Haichen Shen wins inaugural Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award at UbiComp 2015
UW CSE faculty and students are on a roll when it comes to conference awards. Last week, we reported that a team of researchers in our natural language processing group earned one of only two Best Paper Awards granted from among 600 submissions at EMNLP 2015. This week, we are celebrating more recognition at UbiComp 2015, where UW CSE Ph.D. student Haichen Shen and his team captured a Best Paper Award and the inaugural Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper… Read more →
UW CSE’s Zach Tatlock learns to wear shoes!
UW CSE professor Zach Tatlock – a.k.a. Mr. “I wear open sandals even in the snow” – has finally succumbed to peer pressure from his colleagues and is trying out a new foot covering technology known as “shoes.”
As part of the experiment, Zach even learned to tie shoestrings by watching YouTube videos on the topic. (Note the use of so-called “socks” as well!)
Way to go, Zach!… Read more →
New wearable technology from UW tracks your carbon footprint, and so much more
UW researchers have developed a prototype of a low-power, wearable system that can sense an individual’s interactions with different devices, from household appliances to motor vehicles. The new technology, MagnifiSense, analyzes near-field electromagnetic radiation from common components to measure usage in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings – and with a high degree of accuracy.
MagnifiSense was developed by a team of researchers at UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab, led by CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel,… Read more →
Remembering Donald Tsang
Donald Tsang, a UW CSE graduate student from 1990-93, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Seattle on Wednesday September 2. He was 47.
Donald earned a Bachelor of Science in EECS from Berkeley in 1990. He spent three years in the UW CSE graduate program before he followed his passion for working in startups. He was one of the earliest developers at Amazon.com, creating the technology that secures customers’ credit cards. Donald also worked at a number of other… Read more →
UW CSE captures Best Paper honors at EMNLP 2015
Yoav Artzi, Kenton Lee and Luke Zettlemoyer of UW CSE’s natural language processing group have captured a Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2015 – one of only two best papers selected from more than 600 submissions to the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing.
The paper, Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR, describes an approach for learning parsers that build Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), a recently proposed, general formalism for representing core aspects of sentence meaning. … Read more →
Microsoft, Steve & Connie Ballmer provide $21M for Washington State Opportunity Scholarships
The Washington State Opportunity Scholarship (WSOS) was established by the legislature in 2011 to help students from low- and middle-income families pursue degrees in STEM and health care fields in the face of rapidly rising tuition. Microsoft and Boeing donated $25 million each to get the program off the ground in 2011. Yesterday, Steve and Connie Ballmer made an $11 million gift, and Microsoft added $10 million more. All private donations are matched 1:1 with state funds.
Xconomy writes:
“Microsoft… Read more →
The University of Washington “Innovation Imperative”
You’re smart enough to know that one aspect of this matters far more than any of the others: increased capacity for Computer Science & Engineering. But please humor our colleagues by reading the whole thing, here.… Read more →
“UW students put data science skills to use for social good”
A terrific article on this summer’s Data Science for Social Good program spearheaded by the UW eScience Institute, which is led by CSE’s Ed Lazowska and Bill Howe.
“In June, the Institute launched the Data Science for Social Good program, an initiative that paired data scientists with students and local nonprofit and government partners. These interdisciplinary teams worked on projects to reduce family homelessness, improve paratransit bus service, foster community well-being, and map better sidewalk routes for people with… Read more →
2015 UW Engineering Lecture Series: All CSE, all the time!
The 2015 UW Engineering Lecture Series – three evening public lectures sponsored by the UW Alumni Association – is all CSE this year!
Wednesday October 7: Franzi Roesner, “The Invisible Trail: Pervasive Tracking in a Connected Age”
Wednesday October 21: Dieter Fox, “Our Robotic Future: Building Smart Robots that See in 3D”
Wednesday November 3: Yoshi Kohno (along with Batya Friedman from the Information School and Ryan Calo from the School of Law), “Responsible Innovation: A Cross Disciplinary Lens on… Read more →