Gabe Cohn, Franzi Roesner, and Julia Schwarz are three of the twelve winners (from 198 nominees) of this year’s Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowships.
Gabe is a UW EE Ph.D. student working with Shwetak Patel on embedded systems and VLSI in ubiquitous computing applications. He was an undergraduate at Caltech.
Franzi is a UW CSE Ph.D. student working with Yoshi Kohno in the areas of security, privacy, and systems. She was an undergraduate at UT Austin.
Julia, a UW CSE… Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni: GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for building businesses based on complex algorithms that help people make decisions. If you’ve used the price prediction engine in Microsoft Bing Travel, you’re familiar with his work. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, which Microsoft acquired to form the basis for that service.
“The University of Washington computer science professor and Madrona Venture Group venture partner is currently the… Read more →
“I love teaching the students to teach themselves”
An India Abroad cover story on UW CSE/EE’s MacArthur Award winner Shwetak Patel discusses Shwetak’s formative years in Birmingham, Alabama. Then there’s the bit about how he proposed to UW HCDE and iSchool professor Julie Kientz:
“He proposed to her at a ski resort in January of 2009, near Mt Rainier. The two sat down on the side of the slope overlooking Mt. Rainier.
“‘He then popped the question; he still had his snowboard gear on, so there wasn’t… Read more →
“Sensor Sensation”
Prism, the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, features the teaching of UW CSE/EE’s Shwetak Patel:
“The 50 students who enrolled in Shwetak Patel’s Embedded Microcomputer Systems class last winter could not have expected to draw a public spotlight. But once they rose to his challenge, building and programming controllers for a fleet of remotely piloted quadrocopters, a video of their drones’ successful flight leapt from YouTube into the local media.
“Engaging students in exciting practical… Read more →
Geeks can’t sing …
But that didn’t keep them from celebrating Shwetak Patel‘s EE472, “Embedded Microcomputer Systems”:
On the 12th day of lab, Patel gave to me …
12 shattered spirits
11 sleepless nights
10 colored papers
9 dented rotors
8 cracked hulls
7 missing tags
6 red LEDs
5 broken drones
4 rusty motors
3 frozen makeboards
2 crappy routers
And some code that was written in C!
Watch the video here (be sure to turn captions on)!
Also, don’t miss… Read more →
Jeff Bezos @ UW CSE
Jeff Bezos spent several hours in UW CSE labs on December 16 – discussing ubiquitous computing and sensing with Shwetak Patel and students; the future of search with Oren Etzioni; and the security of computer-controlled personal devices (such as automobiles) with Yoshi Kohno and students; as well as discussing future directions for the computer science field with Ed Lazowska and Hank Levy.
Photos from the Ubicomp lab here.
Our friends at GeekWire picked it up, here.… Read more →
UW 360 (UWTV) features Shwetak Patel
The December 2011 edition of UW 360 – a UW TV magazine-style show profiling the fascinating people, programs and community connections that define the University of Washington – features UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel. The segment shows how he combines computer science and engineering to solve health and energy problems.
“‘You can’t really come up with new solutions unless you try to attack the problem from a different angle.'”
Watch the video here. Learn more about his research here… Read more →
Columns (UW alumni magazine) features Shwetak Patel
“Shwetak Patel, a UW assistant professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering for the past three years, has been honored as one of this year’s MacArthur Fellows. Patel is the 15th UW faculty member to receive the prestigious ‘genius grant,’ which comes with a no-strings-attached award of $500,000 …
“Besides his time teaching at the UW, Patel, 29, already founded and sold a start-up company, Zensi, Inc., a demand-side, energy-monitoring solutions provider; he has been named a Microsoft… Read more →
GeekWire reprises Steve Yegge as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011″
Today, a fourth UW CSE family member has been highlighted as a “GeekWire Newsmaker of 2011”: UW CSE alumnus and Google engineer Steve Yegge, “the accidental newsmaker,” who ” made news this year by accident, when an exceptionally insightful rant that he intended for internal consumption was inadvertently made public through the Google+ social network — generating widespread headlines for its brutal candor …”
Read the rest here.
And see GeekWire on other CSE 2011 Newsmakers Yoky Matsuoka,… Read more →
UW CSE 2011 Holiday Party
More than 200 graduate students, staff, faculty, and family members gathered on Friday evening for the annual UW CSE Holiday Party.
The critics have already weighed in regarding the faculty skit (see photos):
Mike Ernst’s 5-year-old: “They’re not actually acting, they’re just standing there talking.”
Steve Seitz’s 6-year-old: “When does the real play start?”
Oren Etzioni has delivered the faculty response:
“Years ago, my 6 year-old said the same thing when I took him to see Waiting for Godot.”… Read more →