Yeah, it’s a house organ, but we’ll take whatever coverage we can get …
“Steve Rabin’s Game is Artificial Intelligence”
“NAE Honors Hank Levy”
“Four Engineering Faculty Named UW Entrepreneurial Fellows”
“Low-cost ultrasound system wins Gates grant”
“Energy Monitoring Innovations Put Shwetak Patel in Media Spotlight”
2011 Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF Career Award recipients
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CSE alum Jeremy Jaech in the news
UW CSE alum and winner of a 2006 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award and 2011 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award Jeremy Jaech has stepped down as CEO of Verdiem.
“… Considered one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in the city, it will be interesting to see where he lands,” writes John Cook in GeekWire.
Why the change? “I wanted to get back to the early-stage stuff,” he tells GeekWire. Jaech has been spending time at UW… Read more →
“‘Quadricopters’ Take Over UW’s Allen Center”
Xconomy covers professor Shwetak Patel’s EE 472 “Embedded Microcomputer Systems” course, in which student teams build controllers for the Parrot AR.Drone.
Read the article (and watch the video) here. Watch course videos here and here.
Seattle Times article here. And don’t miss Dancing with the Drones! GeekWire article here.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel on KUOW’s “The Conversation”
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel was interviewed on “The Conversation,” a news and information program on Seattle’s NPR station, KUOW.
“University Of Washington Innovator Shwetak Patel: Seattle Business Magazine recently named a UW computer science professor Seattle’s Top Innovator of 2010, and the technology news website TechFlash named him Newsmaker of the Year. Shwetak Patel came up with a device that monitors how much energy your appliances use. He joins us.”
Listen to the interview here. Learn… Read more →
“Freedom to Tinker” profiles UW CSE professor Shwetak Patel’s research
“Recent ‘gee whiz’ research by Professor Shwetak Patel’s group at the University of Washington provides a really elegant solution. Every appliance you own – your refrigerator, your flat-screen TV, your toaster – has a different ‘electrical noise signature’ that it draws from the wires in your house. When you turn it on, this signal is (inadvertently) sent through the electric wires to the circuit-breaker box. It’s not necessary to buy ‘smart appliances’ that send purpose-designed on-off signals; your ‘dumb’ appliances… Read more →
Shwetak Patel makes the TechFlash 2010 Top 10
TechFlash has named its Top 10 startup stories of 2010 – including “UW prof, 27, sells home-energy monitoring startup to Belkin.”… Read more →
“Go to Market”
UW CSE professors Oren Etzioni and Shwetak Patel are featured in this article concerning University of Washington entrepreneurship in the latest issue of Columns, the UW alumni magazine.
The “best quote in the article” award goes to Oren – who has started multiple companies and holds the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering: “The obligation of venture capitalists is to make money. My professional obligation is to satisfy my curiosity. Curiosity-driven research – it’s a… Read more →
TechFlash “Newsmaker of the Year”
The Flashies have been awarded! One winner in each of 15 categories, chosen by reader balloting among a half dozen candidates.
In the “Newsmaker of the Year” category, who was the winner?
Was it Paul Allen, who “recovers from non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, sues some of the Internet’s biggest names for patent infringement, and pledges along with other billionaires to give the majority of his fortune to charity”?
Was it Steve Ballmer, who “attempts to reverse the company’s mobile fortunes,… Read more →
Vote for Shwetak!
It’s time to vote for the TechFlash “Newsmaker of the Year.” There are six nominees — five guys you’ve never heard of, and UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel.
“Shwetak Patel, a 28-year-old assistant professor in the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, sells home energy monitoring startup Zensi to Belkin and separately develops a novel method of using electrical wiring as a wireless antenna system, spawning another startup.”
Vote here!… Read more →
Shwetak Patel, Top Innovator!
Seattle Business magazine has announced the winners of its 2010 Top Innovators Awards. And the cover boy is … UW CSE’s Shwetak Patel!
“You probably don’t know it yet, but each appliance in your home sings its own particular song. Recognizing that song could help households cut their energy consumption. Shwetak Patel and his students at the University of Washington have developed intelligent in-home sensors that are able to differentiate between different appliances … Using such devices, consumers can… Read more →