UW CSE Videos

Partnership between UW and the Seattle Public Schools, 1997 Windows Media

The Alliance for Education presented the University of Washington with its 1997 "A+ Partnership Award" for Outstanding Contributions to the Seattle Public Schools. Special recognition went to Ed Lazowska of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Steve Corbato, Scott Mah, and Bill Mar of the UW Office of Computing & Communications, for their work in designing and implementing a metropolitan-area network for the Seattle School District. This video was prepared by KOMO TV and shown at the awards ceremony.

Undergraduate Software System Design Capstone, 1997 Windows Media

Three teams of CSE undergraduates, led by Professor John Zahorjan and professional software developer Dennis Canady from Microsoft, learned commercial software development methodology and synthesized knowledge from a variety of previous courses by designing, implementing, documenting, and demonstrating 3-D multi-player distributed videogames built using VC++, Visual SourceSafe, and DirectX.

Undergraduate Computer Engineering Capstone Design , 1997 Windows Media

A documentary describing seven projects from 1997's undergraduate Computer Engineering capstone design course, including a computer-controlled Etch-a-Sketch, an interface for controlling hardware devices over the web, a system for unobtrusively getting the instructor's attention in distance learning situations, a small robot car that holds a "wheelie," an Internet mouse that controls multiple computers simultaneously, a Bloedel rotating chair used by physicians at the UW Medical Center, and an industrial robot programmed to physically play checkers (including visual recognition of the human opponent's moves).

Undergraduate Digital System Design Capstone, 1996 Windows Media

A documentary describing three neat embedded system projects from 1996's undergraduate Computer Engineering capstone design course: an autonomous vehicle, a 4-legged walking robot, and a voice-activated talking toaster.

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