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UW CSE News » UW CSE’s Tom Anderson, James Fogarty and Dan Ports win Google Faculty Research Awards , a competition designed to support world-class faculty conducting cutting-edge research that advances core and emerging areas of computer science.

A new UW system that uses Wi-Fi networks to power sensors such as cameras as well as a Jawbone device is covered by BBC.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33020523?SThisFB&fb_ref=Default

Power beamed to camera via ambient wi-fi signals - BBC News Ambient wi-fi signals have been used by US researchers to power a small surveillance camera.

Best Paper at NSDI!

https://news.cs.washington.edu/2015/05/04/uw-cse-scores-best-paper-at-nsdi-15/

UW CSE News » UW CSE scores “Best Paper” at NSDI ’15 A team of faculty and students from UW CSE’s Computer Systems Lab today received the Best Paper Award at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’15) for the paper “Designing Distributed Systems Using Approximate Synchrony in Data Center Networks.” The team was…

Check out our project on diagnosing sleep apnea on a smartphone!

http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/04/27/new-uw-app-can-detect-sleep-apnea-events-via-smartphone/

New UW app can detect sleep apnea events via smartphone | UW Today Determining whether your snoring is merely annoying, or crosses the threshold into a life-threatening problem, isn’t convenient or cheap.

uProxy.org uProxy is a browser extension that makes it easy to setup and access proxy services for your trusted friends and family.

Rajalakshmi wins the Best Presentation Award at Sensys 2014.

https://news.cs.washington.edu/2014/11/05/sensys-2014-best-presentation-award-to-uw-cse-ph-d-student-rajalakshmi-nandakumar/

UW CSE News » SenSys 2014 “Best Presentation” Award to UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar Congratulations to UW CSE Ph.D. student Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, who just received the “Best Presentation” Award at SenSys 2014, the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

Arrakis wins best paper award at OSDI 2014.

https://news.cs.washington.edu/2014/10/06/uw-cses-arrakis-is-osdi-14-best-paper/

UW CSE News » UW CSE’s Arrakis is OSDI ’14 Best Paper Congratulations to Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe – authors of Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane, just named Best Paper of this week’s 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Imp…

Tom Anderson and Mike Dahlin's OS book is the #1 bestseller on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Computer-Operating-Systems-Theory/zgbs/books/3863

Congratulations to Shyam Gollakota!

35 Innovators Under 35 | 2014 | MIT Technology Review Our 14th annual celebration of people who are driving the next generation of technological breakthroughs.

If you missed it, Tom Anderson won won the Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award a couple weeks ago.

Flame Award | USENIX The USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame") recognizes and celebrates singular contributions to the UNIX community of both intellectual achievement and service that are not recognized in any other forum.

Vincent and Vamsi win the Qualcomm Fellowship for ambient backscatter.

http://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2014

Innovation Fellowship 2014 | Research and Development University Relations | Qualcomm Effective October 1, 2012, QUALCOMM Incorporated completed a corporate reorganization in which the assets of certain of its businesses and groups, as well as the stock of certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, were contributed to Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary...

We released a new video today for one of the wireless projects under development in our lab!

AllSee Gestures We introduce AllSee, the first gesture-recognition system that can operate on a range of computing devices including those with no batteries.