Several years ago, Belkin International acquired Zensi, a “smart home” energy and water sensing startup from the lab of UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel. Zensi’s technology became the heart of Belkin’s WeMo home automation ecosystem.
Today, Belkin announced the creation of WeMo Labs in Seattle.
“‘With a thriving tech industry and an immense talent pool surrounding UW’s world-renowned Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs, Seattle is ground zero for recruiting the top data scientists, software engineers, and… Read more →
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska on GeekWire Radio
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska joins GeekWire‘s Todd Bishop and John Cook for a conversation on GeekWire Radio. Topics include:
Regular GeekWire content:
The Microsoft Band (Todd had a review model – way cool!)
Starbucks home delivery (John thinks they’re transforming into a technology company)
Interview with Ed (9:00-16:25)
What’s cool in computer science?
How much is this reflected in education?
What about student demand for computer science? What’s driving the dramatic increase?
What can we do to meet our local… Read more →
The People’s Choice Prize
Each year at UW CSE’s Industry Affiliates Meeting, we award the People’s Choice Prize to the student project that our alumni and Industry Affiliates think is the coolest, without regard to what the experts may think!
This year’s winner: BiliCam: Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Newborn Jaundice – Lilian de Greef, Mayank Goel, Min Joon Seo, Eric C. Larson, James W. Stout MD MPH, James A. Taylor MD, Shwetak N. Patel.
Congratulations!
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The Madrona Prize
Each year at the UW CSE Industry Affiliates Meeting, the Madrona Prize is awarded to the student projects deemed most likely for entrepreneurial success. This year’s winners:
Third Place: Total Moving Face Reconstruction – Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven M. Seitz.
Second Place: WiBreathe: Estimating Respiration Rate Using Wireless Signals in Natural Settings in the Home – Ruth V. Ravichandran, Elliot N. Saba, Ke-Yu Chen, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, Shwetak N. Patel.
First Place: Arrakis: The Operating System is the … Read more →
“Sound Startups” – KIRO 7
“Sound Startups” – A phenomenal KIRO 7 30-minute profile of the Puget Sound region’s startup ecosystem:
Bill Mitchell / PicoBrew
Dan Shapiro / Robot Turtles
Shwetak Patel (CSE faculty) / SNUPI Technologies + Wally
A stroll through Fremont
Elissa Fink / Tableau
Mike Young (UW President) / UW’s Startup Hall
Amy Ko and Jake Wobbrock (CSE adjunct faculty, iSchool faculty) / AnswerDash
Jeremy Jaech (CSE alum, UW Regent) / serial entrepreneurship (and some wonderful comments on the role of UW… Read more →
SideSwipe: Reflected smartphone transmissions enable gesture control
UW News writes:
“With almost all of the U.S. population armed with cellphones – and close to 80 percent carrying a smartphone – mobile phones have become second-nature for most people.
“What’s coming next, say University of Washington researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone. Some smartphones are starting to incorporate 3-D gesture sensing based on cameras, for example, but cameras consume significant battery power… Read more →
Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports SpiroSmart
The Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund supports the translation of health-related technologies from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace.
LSDF has just awarded $250,000 to Shwetak Patel’s SpiroSmart technology – support for finalizing the development and conducting clinical testing of a mobile app for monitoring lung function and progression of obstructive lung diseases.
Learn about SpiroSmart here.… Read more →
New smartphone app can detect newborn jaundice in minutes
UW News describes a UW CSE cellphone app, Bilicam, developed by Shwetak Patel’s students Lilian de Greef and Mayank Goel:
“Skin that turns yellow can be a sure sign that a newborn is jaundiced and isn’t adequately eliminating the chemical bilirubin. But that discoloration is sometimes hard to see, and severe jaundice left untreated can harm a baby.
“University of Washington engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results… Read more →
Shyam Gollakota, Kuang Chen, Kurtis Heimerl win 2014 TR35 Awards!!!!!
Annually, MIT Technology Review recognizes 35 technology innovators under the age of 35 with TR35 Awards. Hundreds of nominees are reduced to fewer than 100 finalists by the MIT Technology Review editors. A panel of judges rates the finalists on the originality and impact of their work. Finally, the editors take the judges’ scores into account to select the final group of TR35 Award winners.
The TR35 Award competition has always been very good to UW CSE faculty and alums,… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu named 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
2011 UW CSE Ph.D. alum Roxana Geambasu, now on the faculty at Columbia University, is one of 14 faculty members worldwide named 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows.
Roxana’s research concerns computer systems in a broad sense, including distributed systems, the Web, security and privacy, operating systems, and databases. More specifically, her current research focuses on the challenges and opportunities created by today’s emerging technologies, such as the Web, cloud computing, and powerful mobile devices.
Roxana joins a long… Read more →