October 5, 2010

Borriello named 2011 IEEE Fellow

EE Adjunct Professor Gaetano Borriello has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 1, 2011. His citation reads “for contributions to embedded computing devices and systems”. Gaetano holds the Jerre D. Noe Endowed Professorship in UW’s Computer Science and Engineering department. Congratulations Gaetano! More Information About the IEEE Fellow Program Böhringer, Ritcey named 2011 IEEE…


October 4, 2010

Patel wins 2010 TechFlash Newsmaker of the Year

EE and CSE Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel has been awarded the 2010 TechFlash Newsmaker of The Year Award. Patel faced stiff competition as his fellow nominees in this category included Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos, Ben Huh, and Andy Sack. Patel has been making quite a news splash for “selling Zensi, a home energy monitoring…


October 3, 2010

Will a Flood of Tiny Sensors Help Us Cut Emissions?


October 2, 2010

Hand With a Sixth Sense


September 12, 2010

Böhringer, Ritcey named 2011 IEEE Fellows

       Professors Jim Ritcey and Karl Böhringer have been named IEEE Fellows effective January 1, 2011. Karl’s citation is “for contributions to microelectromechanical systems, parallel and distributed robotic manipulation, and self-assembly”, while Jim’s reads “for contributions to bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding”. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE…


September 10, 2010

Professor Jandhyala Named an Inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Vikram Jandhyala for being selected by the UW Center for Commercialization to receive the inaugural Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow. Candidates for this honor were nominated by department chairs and C4C technology managers.  Interim President Phyllis Wise established the Provost’s UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows Program in recognition of the value that UW faculty entrepreneurship…


September 7, 2010

College of Engineering putting diversity front and center


September 6, 2010

A Riveting Puzzle Full of Whimsy (and “Whimsies”)


September 5, 2010

Shwetak Patel receives Top Innovator Award

Professor Shwetak Patel has been honored by Seattle Business magazine with a 2010 Top Innovator award. He also will be featured on the cover of the soon-to-be released November issue and on seattlebusinessmag.com. The award ceremony was held on October 21 at Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe. Congratulations Shwetak!


September 4, 2010

2010 Outstanding Paper awarded to Kaibao Nie

EE Adjunct Professor Kaibao Nie was lead author on the paper recently selected by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering to receive its 2010 Outstanding Paper award. The paper, “Encoding frequency modulation to improve cochlear implant performance in noise”, was authored by Nie, Ginger Stickney, and Fan-Gang Zeng. The award was presented at the 32nd Annual…



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