Thursday marked the public debut of the Global Innovation Exchange, an exciting partnership between the University of Washington and Tsinghua University, established with $40 million in foundational support from Microsoft.
GIX will bring together students, faculty, professionals and entrepreneurs from around the world to collaborate on real-world technology and design projects. It will be based on a new campus located in Bellevue’s Spring District.
GIX is a long-term play. In the fullness of time there will be many programs.… Read more →
The next paradigm of computing: UW’s Shwetak Patel and Mayank Goel featured in UW Daily
UW Daily reporter Arunabh Satpathy writes:
“A house that knows when you’re inside. A cellphone that doubles as a spirometer. A sensor that gauges how much energy is being consumed and by what device. These are some of the applications of a developing field of computing called ‘ubiquitous computing,’ or ‘ubicomp.’
“Shwetak Patel, professor in the Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, defines ubicomp as ‘the next paradigm of computing.’
“‘Computing is going to be pushed into… Read more →
UW Innovation Research Award to CSE’s James Fogarty, Julie Kientz, Sean Munson, Shwetak Patel
The UW Innovation Research Award supports unusually creative early and mid-career faculty in engineering, health, natural and social sciences.
The Provost has just announced an award to team of six investigators: Shwetak Patel and James Fogarty (Computer Science & Engineering); Julie Kientz and Sean Munson (Human-Centered Design & Engineering; both are also Adjunct faculty in CSE); Jasmine Zia (UW Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology); and Roger Vilardaga (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences). They are building tools used on a mobile device that… Read more →
Lilian de Greef and Irene Zhang win Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships
UW CSE’s Lilian de Greef and Irene Zhang have been named 2015 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellows. Only 12 recipients were selected from among 169 nominees received by the company for this highly competitive fellowship, which provides financial support as well as the opportunity to work alongside leading computer scientists as part of a 12-week paid internship at Microsoft Research.
Lilian works with Shwetak Patel in the UbiComp Lab. Her interests include computer vision, embedded systems, machine learning and… Read more →
Congratulations – yet again – to Shwetak Patel
Shwetak Patel has been appointed as the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Shwetak’s research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor-Enabled Embedded Systems, and User Interface Software and Technology. He is particularly interested in developing new sensing technologies with an emphasis on energy monitoring and health applications for the home.
He was a founder of Zensi, Inc., a residential energy monitoring company, which was acquired by Belkin,… Read more →
UW CSE’s BiliCam named among “Ten of the year’s promising technologies for global development”
E4C (Engineering for Change) writes:
“These are our picks for 10 promising technologies for global development that made headlines in 2014 …
“BiliCam is a smartphone application that diagnoses jaundice in newborns. It is still in development and available now only for clinicians, but in the future it could be a low-cost, powerful tool for parents and rural clinics in developing countries and anywhere in the world.”
BiliCam is the work of UbiComp lab members Lilian de Greef, Mayank … Read more →
UW CSE’s Sidhant Gupta wins WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award
2014 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Sidhant Gupta – now at Microsoft Research – has been honored with this year’s Innovation in Technology Award from the Western Association of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International.
Sidhant invents new sensing techniques and builds innovative hardware and software systems to address hard challenges in sustainability sensing and human computer interaction. His research often requires identifying and exploiting physical phenomena around us in unique ways to continually redefine what, and how, signals can be… Read more →
UW Columns: “Phone Training”
Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine, reports on research by UW CSE+EE professors Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds:
“Mobile phones have become second-nature for most people. What’s coming next, say UW researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone … The technology – developed in the labs of Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel, UW associate professors of electrical engineering and of computer science and engineering… Read more →
UW CSE hosts Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent 90 minutes in UW CSE this morning – discussing our trajectory with Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy, and interacting with four groups of faculty and students: Ubiquitous Computing (Shwetak Patel and students), Data Visualization (Jeff Heer), Datacenter Systems (Arvind Krishnamurthy, Franzi Roesner and students), and Computer Vision (Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, Steve Seitz, and students).
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Crosscut on UW’s Shwetak Patel: “Seattle genius tackles energy, healthcare and the future of computing”
Crosscut writes
“For every variation in sound, pressure, temperature or electromagnetic wave, Shwetak Patel sees an opportunity. He is the master of white noise, the enemy of inefficiency. He made a name for himself with ElectriSense, a home energy monitor that reads noise to tell you how much electricity is used by each lightbulb and appliance in real time. But ElectriSense is only the beginning; there are no limits to what he and his lab might achieve.
“What drives Patel… Read more →