Eric Larson, a Ph.D. student working with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel, will receive the UW College of Engineering “Student Innovator: Research” Award at the Community of Innovators award celebration on May 29.
Eric’s research concerns sensing and signal processing for health care and sustainability applications.
Congratulations Eric!… Read more →
SoundWave in the news!
PCWorld writes: “Most gesture-based control systems we use today rely on either motion-capture cameras – like the Kinect – or a touchscreen device. But researchers from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington are developing a system that can detect object with sound waves, like how a bat does with echolocation. With the SoundWave project, the researchers aim to bring gesture controls to any computer that has a set of speakers and microphone. The program uses the Doppler Effect… Read more →
UW President Michael Young attends dub retreat
dub – short for “design … use … build” – is the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary effort in human-computer interaction and design, including faculty and students from across the campus.
Over 100 UW faculty, students, and industrial collaborators came out for the 4th annual dub retreat. The meeting included a celebration of awards, short research talks, and poster sessions. The excitement of the event was bolstered by the attendance of UW President Michael Young. President Young saw talks on topics… Read more →
“Unlocking the lab and launching companies”
An article in the Puget Sound Business Journal on UW initiatives in technology transfer leads with a discussion of the work of UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel and his students. Read the article here.… Read more →
Shwetak Patel interviewed on KCTS TV
An outstanding interview on KCTS TV with UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel.
“About the Episode: University of Washington assistant professor Shwetak Patel talks about being named a 2011 MacArthur Genius Award recipient which includes $500,000—no strings attached. Patel has figured out novel ways of using home electrical systems. We talk with Patel about his work and what the MacArthur Award means to him.
“About Shwetak Patel: Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known for… Read more →
Wine, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, and sustainability sensing
On March 27, a dozen friends of UW CSE joined us for an evening of conversation with Shwetak Patel and his students. Shwetak – UW CSE’s most recent MacArthur “genius” Award winner – described his sustainability sensing research to guests including Jim Allchin, Emer Dooley, Bob Fries, Ron Howell, Jeremy & Jacqueline Jaech, Matt & Cathy O’Donnell, Sujal Patel, Rob Short, and Charles Simonyi.… Read more →
Twenty great 15-minute talks about Computer Science futures
On Feb. 16th, over 150 attendees packed a room overlooking the United States Capitol to mark two decades of coordinated Federal investment in networking and information technology research and development with a daylong symposium exploring progress and prospects in the field.
A website has now gone live with complete materials from this extraordinary day — including videos, photos, slides, and written summaries from the 19 15-minute presentations by leaders of the field, plus a luncheon keynote by former Vice President… Read more →
UW CSE at the NITRD Symposium
On February 16th, a technical symposium in Washington DC marked the 20th anniversary of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program – the multi-agency coordinated R&D program that was set in motion by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, sponsored by then-Senator Al Gore.
Among the speakers were UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage (now on the faculty at UC San Diego), UW CSE affiliate professor Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), and… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Prasad Raghavendra, Noah Snavely win Sloan Research Fellowships
UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel, along with recent UW CSE Ph.D. alums Prasad Raghavendra (now a faculty member at Georgia Tech) and Noah Snavely (now a faculty member at Cornell), were named today as recipients of 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships.
Sloan Research Fellowships – among the most prestigious awards available to young scientists – emphasize individual creativity in the selection process. Patel is the 18th UW CSE faculty member to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Shwetak,… Read more →
The Impact of IT R&D – A Webcast Symposium
On Thursday, a daylong “semi-technical” symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the Federal NITRD Program – under which more than a dozen Federal agencies coordinate their investments in networking and information technology research and development – will be held in Washington DC and webcast live.
Speakers (at 15 minutes apiece) include Jeannette Wing, Kevin Knight, Beth Mynatt, Helen Nissenbaum, Sebastian Thrun, UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel, Erik Brynjolfsson, Tom Lange, Vint Cerf, Bill Scherlis, UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Savage, Russ… Read more →