UW CSE faculty member Chris Diorio, who co-founded the RFID company Impinj based on technology developed here at UW CSE and at his Ph.D. alma mater, Caltech, was named Innovator of the Year at the ACE (Annual Creativity in Electronics) Awards by the EDN Network and EE Times.
Chris was honored for “his pioneering work in advancing next-generation UHF RFID technology,” and for being a “tireless promoter of RFID’s potential since entering the industry in 2002.” In addition to… Read more →
UW CSE’s resident car-hacking expert, Yoshi Kohno, in the Washington Post
UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno was quoted in this week’s big, scary story in The Washington Post on hacking and the Internet of Things, inspired by his past research on the vulnerability of motor vehicle systems.
Last fall, Yoshi and a team of students were featured in this segment that aired on 60 Minutes in which they remotely took control of a car driven around a UW parking lot (a deserted UW parking lot!) by correspondent Lesley Stahl. Recently, another… Read more →
UW’s SideSwipe featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research led by UW CSE and EE professors Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel that will enable “command by gesture” for smartphones is the topic of a special report on human-machine interfaces in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. The technology, known as SideSwipe, relies on a phone’s own wireless transmissions, using small antennae to read changes in the signal caused by different hand motions.
From the article:
“Smartphones have become increasingly affordable and more widely used… Read more →
UW CSE’s Franzi Roesner co-authors study of computer security practices and pitfalls for journalists
UW CSE professor Franzi Roesner, graduate students Polina Charters and Tobin Holliday of UW’s DUB Group, and Susan McGregor of the Columbia Journalism School have released the results of a new study examining journalists’ computer security practices in an age of widespread data collection and surveillance.
The researchers analyzed the security habits of 15 working journalists, including how they communicate with sources and what tools and strategies they use to protect sensitive information that they receive in the course… Read more →
Tech.Co: Which universities produce the best tech talent?
Our rule-of-thumb for evaluating the veracity of rankings:
If we look good, it’s authoritative.
If we look bad, the methodology was garbage.
Here’s Tech.Co‘s authoritative assessment of “the best public and private universities that produce the best-equipped graduates to make an impact in the world of technology.”
The methodology involved “a composite of the rankings from US News and World Report for Computer Science, LinkedIn university rankings for Software Developers and Software Developers at Startups, and finally the number of… Read more →
The Master Algorithm
The latest book by UW CSE professor Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, is available for pre-order from Amazon. Amazon says:
Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world. Like curious children, they observe… Read more →
“The doctor is in (your phone)” – UW’s ApneaApp featured in Scientific American
The August issue of Scientific American profiles several new smartphone apps that help diagnose and manage disease. Among those featured in the article is ApneaApp, which was developed by UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota, UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar and Dr. Nathaniel Watson of the UW Medicine Sleep Center to enable wireless diagnosis of sleep apnea.
The article noted, “An initial laboratory trial has shown ApneaApp to be just as effective as hooking up patients to tracking… Read more →
GeekWire: “Secrets of computer science: Tips for aspiring programmers, and advice for their teachers”
Our friends at GeekWire report on the alumni panel of this week’s CS4HS workshop for middle school and high school teachers:
“Understanding how to work effectively on a team is critical for a successful career in computer science, you can be a great programmer no matter when you start learning – and, yes, the perks for employees at big tech companies are pretty sweet.
“Those were some of the takeaways from a panel that the University of Washington Computer Science… Read more →
UW CSE and HCDE researchers discover many mobile health apps let down low-vision users
A team of researchers that includes UW CSE professor Richard Ladner, CSE Ph.D. student Lauren Milne and HCDE Ph.D. student Cynthia Bennett, conducted a review last year of nine mobile health apps developed for the iPhone to monitor blood pressure and blood glucose levels. Using a set of seven criteria, they gauged how accessible each app was to blind and low-vision users, who are more likely to suffer from health problems such as obesity or diabetes and for whom… Read more →
Alumni panel at CS4HS
This is the 9th year of UW CSE’s CS4HS, a 3-day summer workshop on computer science for middle school and upper school math and science teachers from the Puget Sound region.
A highlight every year is a panel of alums who discuss what their work life is like, how their UW CSE education prepared them for their careers, and what K-12 experiences prepared them for UW CSE. This year’s panel included (L-R) Taylor Williams (Intentional Software), Jeff Prouty (Google),… Read more →