UW CSE Ph.D. students Hanchuan Li and Alex Mariakakis are one of eight teams selected to receive a 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They won one of these coveted awards with their proposal for IDCam, a hybrid RFID-computer vision system that enables simultaneous localization and identification for individuals and objects that will increase our understanding of how people interact with the physical world.
IDCam observes how RFID tags instrumented on everyday objects are disturbed by their motion, and then correlates… Read more →
UW Regents approve new master’s in technology innovation offered through GIX
The University of Washington Board of Regents has approved the first interdisciplinary master’s degree program to be offered through the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), a partnership between the UW and Tsinghua University launched last spring with support from Microsoft. The new Master of Science in Technology Innovation (MSTI) degree was developed with the collaboration of UW CSE and other units within the College of Engineering, the Foster School of Business, the iSchool and the School of Law.
From the… Read more →
Don’t miss the New Tech Seattle meetup at UW CSE!
New Tech Northwest and UW CSE are co-hosting the fourth annual New Tech Seattle UW meetup on Tuesday, April 12th. The event, which features good food, great company and great content from local innovators, will take place from 5:00 to 7:15 pm in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel will kick off the program, which will also feature presentations by five companies developing solutions in big data, machine learning… Read more →
UW CSE’s Noah Smith receives UW Innovation Award to map the “perspectives landscape”
UW CSE professor Noah Smith, an expert in natural language processing, has received a 2016 Innovation Award from the University of Washington’s Office of Research to create a large-scale visualization of people’s perspectives on current events and issues based on digital text.
By developing tools to map the “perspectives landscape” from the vast amounts of text data available online, Smith will be able to reveal differences in framing that can affect public attitudes. His research will advance the state… Read more →
Watch, listen and read: UW’s Shwetak Patel and “The Human Face of Big Data”
Last night the new documentary The Human Face of Big Data premiered on PBS. UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel contributed his expertise and insights to the film, which examines how the vast amounts of data collected in our increasingly connected world is changing the way we live and shaping our future. As big data’s big night approached, Patel and executive producer Rick Smolan joined Jeremy Hobson, host of NPR’s “Here & Now,” to talk about the… Read more →
White House recognizes Shwetak Patel, Luke Zettlemoyer with PECASE awards
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced today that UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel and UW CSE professor Luke Zettlemoyer have been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award, which is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows upon scientists and engineers in the early stage of their careers, is designed to support promising young researchers who show exceptional potential to advance the frontiers of scientific… Read more →
Must-See TV: UW’s Shwetak Patel in “The Human Face of Big Data”
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel of the UbiComp Lab is featured in a new documentary, “The Human Face of Big Data,” that will air on PBS next week. The award-winning film examines how our growing capacity to collect and analyze data enables us to understand our world and ourselves in new ways—and at what cost.
From the documentary’s website:
“‘The Human Face of Big Data’ captures…an extraordinary revolution sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, healthcare, and… Read more →
UW CSE generates three of the 10 “Best of UW” news stories of 2015
We love data here at UW CSE – especially when it makes us look good. And we’re looking pretty good as 2015 comes to a close: according to our friends in UW’s Office of News & Information, UW CSE research inspired three of their 10 most viewed news stories over the past year. So join us in raising a toast to the amazing year that was – and to our amazing faculty and students!
Here are the ways UW CSE… Read more →
UW’s Ubicomp Lab and Oculus VR develop magnetic sensing technology for virtual reality
The Ubiquitous Computing Lab led by UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel has teamed up with virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR on the development of a novel system for precisely tracking finger movements that could pave the way for a more immersive and elegant virtual reality experience.
The system, called Finexus, uses four magnetometers to track small electromagnets placed on a user’s fingertips. Unlike camera-based motion tracking systems, the new technology does not require a direct line of… Read more →
UW’s and Microsoft’s HyperCam featured on KING 5 and KOMO 4 news
HyperCam, the new low-cost hyperspectral imaging camera developed by UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab and Microsoft Research, recently got some screen time of its own thanks to KING 5 and KOMO 4 news. Crews from our local NBC and ABC stations interviewed UW CSE Ph.D. student Mayank Goel, who demonstrated how HyperCam works and explained its potential commercial applications.
Watch the KING 5 segment here and KOMO 4 segment here.
The HyperCam project has been in the limelight since… Read more →