SNUPI Technologies is a new startup out of Shwetak Patel’s lab – Shwetak, Gabe Cohn, Jeremy Jaech, Matt Reynolds, etc.
The TechFlash Cup is a startup competition. Sixteen companies were selected as competitors. Every Monday at 9 a.m., the two companies with the fewest votes will be eliminated, until they get down to the final four, at which point there will be a “pitch competition.”
It’s up to YOU to get SNUPI into the “pitch competition.” You can vote DAILY,… Read more →
Julie Kientz: GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“There are talented, hard-working, young people doing good work all over the planet.
“And then there are the MIT Technology Review’s 35 innovators under the age of 35 that are simply on another level.
“Julie Kientz [UW HCDE professor and CSE adjunct professor, and wife of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel] is one of those visionaries.”
Read more here.… Read more →
Julie Kientz wins TR35 Award!
Julie Kientz, a faculty member in UW Human Centered Design & Engineering and an adjunct faculty member in CSE, has won a TR35 Award from MIT Technology Review, which annually recognizes the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Julie was honored for her work in computer software. Her research looks at how technology can be used to support health and education. In particular, she has developed prototype applications to monitor sleep disorders, assist parents in tracking… Read more →
MIT Technology Review on Belkin’s “Echo Electricity” – a UW CSE technology
“If you use a credit card or a cell phone, chances are you get a monthly statement detailing each purchase or call. This may soon expand to your utility bills, too: a project in the works at electronics company Belkin makes it possible to see how much electricity you’re spending on everything from the TV in your living room to the washing machine in your basement.
“Called Belkin Echo Electricity, it’s a small device that connects to your utility… Read more →
Matt Reynolds to join UW CSE+EE
Matt Reynolds, currently Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, will be joining UW this fall with a joint position in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
Matt’s research, which has resulted in 5 best paper awards, focuses on ultra-low power sensing and computation, RFID, wireless power transfer, biomedical applications, and smart materials and surfaces. Matt holds 12 patents and has co-founded three companies. He received his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from… Read more →
UW CSE @ Tesla
200 UW CSE alums and friends gathered at Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto CA this evening for our annual spring Bay Area alumni soiree.
Many thanks to Tesla for hosting a terrific event, featuring remarks and Q&A by co-founder and CTO JB Straubel, plus tours of the R&D facility.
Two-Tesla owners Loren Carpenter and Jeff Dean joined one-Tesla owners Ben Lenail and Shwetak Patel plus many dozens of Tesla-owner-wanna-be’s for a really super evening.
Photos here and (from Adam Perry)… Read more →
WiSee: Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless
The work of UW CSE’s Qifan Pu, Sidhant Gupta, Shyam Gollakota, and Shwetak Patel is described in this UW News article:
“Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.
“University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology… Read more →
Belkin launches home energy and water management technology licensed from UW
Belkin today launched Echo Electricity and Echo Water – technologies licensed from the lab of UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel that provide single-point-of-attachment fully-disaggregated monitoring of the electricity and water consumption in a home or business.
Read a GigaOM post here. Wall Street Journal here. Echo Electricity information here. Echo Water information here.… Read more →
SpiroSmart at TEDMED
UW CSE’s SpiroSmart will be featured next week at TEDMED:
“SpiroSmart is a mobile phone based platform that allows for the analysis of common lung function measures (FEV1, FVC, PEF). By analyzing lip reverberation SpiroSmart is capable of monitoring pulmonary ailments such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis.”
Read more here and here. Read the SpiroSmart research paper here.… Read more →
CSE’s Lilian de Greef wins 2013 Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship
The Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students, designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a Ph.D. This program supports women in the second year of their graduate studies.
Lilian de Greef, a Harvey Mudd College undergraduate in her first year as a UW CSE Ph.D. student in Shwetak Patel’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab, has been named one of 10 recipients of 2013 Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarships.
Lilian joins… Read more →