Jofish Kaye of Nokia to Present Talk at CSS Seminar
Feb. 15, 2012 -- Jofish Kaye, a Senior Research Scientist and Ethnographer at Nokia’s Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, will be featured in this CSS Seminar on February 15. Mr. Kaye will be discussing how his study of tablet users in the Bay Area helped him explore three key areas of research in computing. To learn more about the talk and Mr. Kaye, visit our Events page.
Prof. Stiber Presents at Next Faculty Research Talk
Feb. 8, 2012 -- Prof. Stiber will be presenting on his field of research (neural simulations utilizing graphical processing units (GPUs)) at the next Faculty Research Talks event on February 8 at 7:45pm in UW1-302. In this talk, Prof. Stiber will be reviewing his work in the UW Bothell Biomedical Laboratory on large-scale, long-duration neural simulations and will outline the next stage of his work.
To learn more about the talk, visit the Events page.
CSS Lecturer, Jeff Howbert, Gives Talk on Netflix Prize Competition
Feb. 6, 2012 – CSS lecturer, Jeff Howbert, will be giving a talk on the Netflix Prize – a competition to build a better recommender system for the website. The talk will take place in UW2-005 on Monday, February 6 at 8pm. You can find the abstract about this talk on our Events page.
Prof. Olson Presents Paper at IEEE Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications
Jan. 13, 2012 -- Prof. Olson, along with his colleague Andreas Robinson (Primordial, Inc.), presented their paper titled ‘Camera-Aided Human Navigation: Advances and Challenges’ at the IEEE Conference on Emerging Signal Procession Applications.
Prof. Asuncion Kicks-Off Series of Faculty Research Talks
Jan. 11, 2012 -- Prof. Asuncion will be giving a brief presentation about her research on traceability and provenance on January 11 from 7:45 - 8:45pm in UW1-302. Her presentation will be the first in a series bi-monthly CSS Faculty Research Talks geared towards the MSCSS students.
The goal of these talks is to help MSCSS students better understand the different areas of research CSS faculty are engaged in in order to help them choose a faculty advisor for their capstone project, independent study, or Master’s thesis.
These events are open to the general public and attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions after the presentation.
Prof. Socha Hosts UW Bothell Innovation & Creativity BootCamp
Jan. 6, 2012 -- David Socha hosted the UW Bothell Innovation and Creativity BootCamp on January 6-8. Seventeen participants, and 7 consultants (people helping the "campers"), came together for 2 and 1/2 days of exploring how to be a great team. As part of BootCamp the campers produced some amazing art.
Some of the campers also participated in the launch of David's research project about great teams and their connection with multiperson flow. Participants answered short surveys sent to their cell phone multiple times per day about what they were doing and their mood. This technique was pioneered by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and is called the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Using it will help us study how BootCamp changes people's ability to be in "flow".
David will host additional BootCamps in the future as he expands his research program.
Prof. Asuncion Presents Paper at eScience Conference in Sweden
Dec. 21, 2011 -- Prof. Hazeline Asuncion recently attended the 7th IEEE International Conference on eScience in Stockholm, Sweden where she presented her paper on "In Situ Data Provenance Capture in Spreadsheets" (preprint). The four-day event (Dec. 5-8) was collocated with Microsoft Research's annual e-Science Workshop.
CSS Undergrads Win UW Bothell Undergrad Research Award
Dec. 12, 2011 -- Three CSS undergraduates earned awards in the UW Bothell Undergraduate Research Award competition. The winners were: Hannah Van Eenoo, working with Prof. Munehiro Fukuda ("Communication Link for Hyper-threaded, networked multi-agent spatial simulation library"), Mitchell Erickson, working with Prof. Mark Kochanski ("Using Computing Tools to Enhance Online Instruction"), and Jebediah Pavleas, working with Prof. Kelvin Sung ("Kinect Math"). Congratulations to all three!
Prof. Sung’s Students’ Game Makes Round 2 at Imagine Cup 2012
Dec. 1, 2011 -- ‘Immune’, a game that teaches a younger audience about the dangers of diseases and how to protect oneself from them, has made it to the second round of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 competition. The game was created by Evan Harris, Craig Nishina, and Peter Luangrath of Team Credit/No Credit from Prof. Sung’s CSS 385 class. Final competition will be held in April 2012 in Seattle.
Prof. Sung’s ‘Kinect Math’ Project Video
Dec. 1, 2011 -- Since this past summer, Prof. Sung and his student research group have been developing a program to teach students math using the new Microsoft Kinect. His group has created two videos to help explain how it works. The first is a project introduction in which the team members explain why this project was undertaken. The second video illustrates how Kinect Math can be used in a classroom setting.
Unconference on Technology & Social Justice
Nov. 12, 2011 -- The Center for Serious Play is co-sponsoring an unconference on technology and social justice. To learn more about the event and to register, please visit THATCamp’s event page.
Prof. Olson's Paper Accepted for 2012 IEEE International Conference
Nov. 1, 2011 -- Prof. Clark Olson, along with colleague Andreas Robinson of Primordial, had their paper, ‘Camera-Aided Human Navigation: Advances and Challenges’, accepted to the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications.
Reverse Engineering of Malware (Presentation)
Oct. 19, 2011 -- Remy Baumgarten and Rob Rahmer of Booz Allen will speak about and demonstrate computer viruses—how to dissect and counter them. The event will be start at 7:45pm in UW2-005 on Oct. 19.
Petabytes and Terawatts (Speaker Series)
Oct. 18, 2011 -- LinkedIn's Senior Software Engineer Jakob Homan (CSS '08) will be sharing with us what Apache Hadoop is, how it works, the plethora of projects that have grown up around it, and how you too can get involved. A small networking session will be held from 5pm - 5:30pm in UW1-370 with the presention to follow in UW2-240 from 5:45pm - 6:45pm. Learn more...
UW Bothell ACM Chapter Hosts Meet 'n Greet
Oct. 8, 2011 -- The UW Bothell ACM Chapter will be hosting a Meet 'n Greet event at the Red Hook Brewery in Woodinville. The event is open to all CSS and non-CSS undergrad, graduate, and alumni. The event will be begin at 2pm and go until 5pm. There is no age limit for attendence and attendees are encouraged to bring resumes. The first round of appetizers will be complimentary courtesy of UW Bothell ACM Chapter.
Summer '11 Edition of 'Bits & Bytes' Newsletter Available
Sept. 30, 2011 -- CSS's bi-annual newsletter is now available for download. This edition highlights Prof. Sung's various serious play projects, Kimberly Walkers' CSS 497 project, and explores the recent collaboration between MSCSS and Master of Education students for a course-long project.