Each year, the Madrona Prize is awarded to students participating in UW CSE’s Open House whose work shows the greatest potential for commercialization. This year’s crop of one winner and three runners-up earned their awards by doing groundbreaking research in computer vision, systems and networking, health sensing, and ubiquitous computing.
WINNER
What Makes Tom Hanks Look Like Tom Hanks (Total Moving Face Reconstruction): Supasorn Suwajanakorn, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
RUNNERS-UP
ApneaApp – Diagnosing Sleep Apnea: Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
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UW and Microsoft Research develop camera that reveals what we can’t see
UW faculty and students worked with Microsoft Research on the development of a new, affordable hyperspectral camera called HyperCam that is capable of capturing details unseen by the naked eye – including those beneath the surface of an object. The system, which has many potential applications, was created by UW CSE+EE professor Shwetak Patel; UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello; CSE graduate students Mayank Goel, Eric Whitmire and Alex Mariakakis; and Scott Saponas, Neel Joshi, Dan Morris,… Read more →
UW spinout SNUPI and Sears make a deal for WallyHome technology
SNUPI Technologies, the startup resulting from the research of UW CSE and EE professors Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds and graduate student Gabe Cohn, and led by serial entrepreneur (and UW CSE alum) Jeremy Jaech, has sold its WallyHome sensing technology to Sears. SNUPI, which stands for “Sensor Network Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure,” also plans to license related technology to the company and to consult on the development of future products. As part of the deal, Sears announced… Read more →
NY Times: “Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood”
Nick Wingfield writes in the New York Times:
“Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
“There were the obvious features, like a roadside assistance service that communicates to a satellite. But Dr. Patel, a computer science professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, flipped up the hood to show the real brains of the operation: the engine control unit, a computer attached to the side… Read more →
UW’s wearable sensor technology featured in GeekWire
Earlier this month, we reported on MagnifiSense, a new low-power, wearable sensor system that tracks an individual’s usage of various devices that was developed by a team of UW CSE and EE researchers in the Ubiquitous Computing Lab led by professor Shwetak Patel.
Today, GeekWire published an excellent article showcasing MagnifiSense that quotes Shwetak and EE graduate student Edward Wang, who presented the team’s research at UbiComp 2015 in Osaka, Japan last week.
From the article:
“The coolest… Read more →
Changing the world: Faculty and students demonstrate CSE’s impact to the UW Foundation Board
Last week, UW CSE faculty and students joined the University of Washington Foundation board at its fall meeting to offer hands-on demonstrations and chat with members about their latest research. The UW Foundation advances the mission of the university by raising private support for its many programs that serve students and society – including UW CSE.
CSE professor Ed Lazowska provided an overview of CSE’s impact across campus and in the community before inviting board members to learn more about… Read more →
Innovation at UW
“Innovation across the UW occurs across disciplines” … but 3 of the 6 examples that the UW alumni magazine chose to highlight in its September issue are from CSE:
“Shyam Gollakota captures energy out of thin air …
“Now a phone can diagnose sleep apnea …
“Computer scientist Shwetak Patel leads the UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab on projects to harvest power from variations in temperature, use humans as antennae, and use cell phone cameras to judge jaundice in newborns …”… Read more →
UW CSE’s Haichen Shen wins inaugural Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper Award at UbiComp 2015
UW CSE faculty and students are on a roll when it comes to conference awards. Last week, we reported that a team of researchers in our natural language processing group earned one of only two Best Paper Awards granted from among 600 submissions at EMNLP 2015. This week, we are celebrating more recognition at UbiComp 2015, where UW CSE Ph.D. student Haichen Shen and his team captured a Best Paper Award and the inaugural Gaetano Borriello Best Student Paper… Read more →
New wearable technology from UW tracks your carbon footprint, and so much more
UW researchers have developed a prototype of a low-power, wearable system that can sense an individual’s interactions with different devices, from household appliances to motor vehicles. The new technology, MagnifiSense, analyzes near-field electromagnetic radiation from common components to measure usage in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings – and with a high degree of accuracy.
MagnifiSense was developed by a team of researchers at UW’s Ubiquitous Computing Lab, led by CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel,… Read more →
UW’s SideSwipe featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research led by UW CSE and EE professors Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel that will enable “command by gesture” for smartphones is the topic of a special report on human-machine interfaces in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. The technology, known as SideSwipe, relies on a phone’s own wireless transmissions, using small antennae to read changes in the signal caused by different hand motions.
From the article:
“Smartphones have become increasingly affordable and more widely used… Read more →