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Shwetak Patel wins MacArthur
Chair's message
CSE leads new Intel center
Alum profile: Wen-Hann Wang
News
Aram Harrow joins CSE
CSE’s newest ACM Fellows
iGEM 2011 world champs!
Datagrams
Awards
Refraction wins NHK prize
CRA recognizes CSE ugrads
2012 Diamond Award winners
Events
Susan Eggers retires!
Jean-Loup Baer turns 75
2011 Industrial Affiliates meeting
CSE @ 2011 Hopper Conference
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Shwetak Patel Receives MacArthur “Genius” Award
Shwetak Patel Receives MacArthur “Genius” Award
Shwetak Patel, assistant professor in Computer Science &
Engineering and Electrical Engineering, has been named a 2011
MacArthur Fellow. Often colloquially referred to as the “Genius
Award,” this $500,000 prize was awarded to Shwetak for developing
low-cost, easy-to-deploy sensor systems that leverage existing
infrastructures to enable users to track household energy and resource
consumption. Shwetak was the youngest of the 22 individuals across the
nation honored with the prestigious award this year. Chair's message
Hank Levy
The last few months have been especially exciting for us in CSE. In
particular, in September we learned that Shwetak Patel, who has a
joint position in CSE and EE, was awarded a prestigious MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship for his research in easy-to-deploy energy
sensors and human-computer interaction technology. We are featuring
Shwetak and his work on the front page of this issue of MSB. At about
the same time, the news broke that a group of online players of
Foldit, a protein folding game developed by Zoran Popović and his
research group in collaboration with UW biochemist David Baker, had
solved a decade-old mystery in the structure of a key enzyme related
to HIV/AIDS in monkeys. This scientific advance may lead to the design
of better anti-viral drugs. CSE leads new Intel center
ISTC-PC UW team
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing (ISTC-PC) launched in the fall 2011. Led by CSE professor Dieter Fox and Intel principal engineer (and CSE PhD alum) Anthony LaMarca, UW serves as the hub, coordinating research among five other top-tier universities involved in the collaboration. The center's mission is to develop fundamental technologies needed
for pervasive computing systems that are trustworthy, richly aware of
their users and their activities, and continuously learn and
adapt. The ISTC-PC brings together leading researchers whose focus is
on pervasive computing, wireless communication and sensing, artificial
intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, and human computer
interaction, fifteen faculty participants in total. Nine are from UW,
two from Georgia Tech, and one each from Cornell, the University of
Rochester, Stanford, and UCLA. From the UW, participating faculty are
Jeff Bilmes, James Fogarty, Dieter Fox, Yoshi Kohno, Richard Ladner,
Shwetak Patel, Josh Smith, David Wetherall, and Luke Zettlemoyer. In
addition to faculty, the ISTC-PC will fund roughly 30 grad students
and post docs and provide research experiences for undergrads. ![]() Alum profile: Wen-Hann WangCSE’s collaboration with Intel shoots to new heights with the Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing. An enthusiastic booster for the center is CSE alumnus Wen-Hann Wang (PhD ’89), a vice president of Intel Labs and director of circuits and systems research, based in Hillsboro, Oregon. News
UW 2011 winning iGEM team members Faculty, student, staff, and alum achievements highlighted:
Awards![]() Andersen accepting NHK Japan prize
Events
CSE at the Grace Hopper Celebration
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