February 3, 2014
News & Events > Department News Science & NSF Announce the 2013 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners
Alumna Anna Pyayt Wins People’s Choice Award Alumna Anna Pyayt (EE PhD ’09) and fellow collaborator Howard Kaplan have received the People’s Choice Award in the photography category of the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. The purpose of the competition is to communicate science, engineering and technology for education and journalistic purposes. Both NSF…
February 2, 2014
Alumnus Simon Sze (MSEE ’60) wins 2014 COE Diamond Award
February 1, 2014
Bilmes’ Paper Selected for Inclusion in “25 Years of International Conference on Supercomputing”
A paper written by Professor Jeff Bilmes as a graduate student has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming volume of “25 years of International Conference on Supercomputing.” The selection committee considered 100 most cited papers out of approximately 1800 papers published in the ICS proceedings between 1987 and 2011. Bilmes’ paper titled, “Optimizing Matrix…
January 6, 2014
Nest Competitor Monitors Your House’s Leaks on the Cheap
January 5, 2014
Rishabh Iyer Wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Graduate student Rishabh Iyer has been awarded this year’s Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Out of the 181 applicants, Rishabh is one of only twelve winners. Rishabh works with Professor Jeff Bilmes, and his main research interests are at the intersection of discrete optimization, specifically submodularity and machine learning. Over the last year, Bilmes and Iyer…
January 4, 2014
Jessica Tran Receives the kynamatrix Research Network “Innovation through Collaboration” 2014 Grant Award
EE graduate student Jessica J. Tran has received the kynamatrix Research Network “Innovation through Collaboration” 2014 Grant Award. Jessica’s project was one of six selected to receive a $1000 grant. The award was given to students with Masters- or Doctoral-level collaborative projects that study interactive communication within the academic disciplines of design, engineering, and computer…
January 3, 2014
Seattle co. makes wireless sensors to detect moisture in homes
January 2, 2014
Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) Research Lab: A Computing Research in Action Showcase
January 1, 2014
SNUPI Technologies Raises $7.5M from WRF, Madrona to Take Wally to Market
December 6, 2013
Bilmes and Iyer Win Best Paper at the 2013 Neural Information Processing Systems Conference
Congratulations to Jeff Bilmes and EE graduate student Rishabh Iyer for receiving the best paper award at the 2013 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference. Their paper titled, “Submodular Optimization with Submodular Cover and Submodular Knapsack Constraints” was one of three papers selected at the conference to receive the Outstanding Paper Award. These awards were…
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