Helping women thrive in graduate school! It’s time for CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop
| A.J. Brush
At the workshop, 400 female graduate students in their first, second, or third years will listen to speakers, attend mentoring lunches, meet other graduate students in their research areas, get one-on-one career mentoring and have many informal chats.
AI for the Developing World with Dr. Ranveer Chandra
Episode 18, April 4, 2018 - Dr. Chandra talks about how his research may eventually make your wi-fi signal stronger and your battery life longer, but also shares the story of how spending childhood summers with his grandparents in rural…
In the news | IEEE
IEEE KOJI KOBAYASHI Computer and Communications Award 2018
For contributions to broadband wireless systems.
Awards | American Philosophical Society
Eric Horvitz elected to American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” Eric J. Horvitz, Director, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research Labs; Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of…
Awards | Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller
Best Paper: Honorable Mention, CHI 2018
Awards | SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl, Mike Sinclair receive SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award
Victor Bahl, Eugene Shih, and Michael J. Sinclair received a SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award (2018) for their paper on reducing mobile device battery consumption entitled: “Wake on Wireless: An Event Driven Energy Saving Strategy for Battery Operated Devices,” published in ACM MobiCom…
Four Big Bets For Better AI Research: A Personal Journey
| Sumit Gulwani
It’s a big shift to change from being motivated by getting published in prestigious conferences and journals, to being motivated by solving real problems for real people. Halfway through my 18-year research career working on program synthesis–the task of automatically…
When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
Episode 17, March 28, 2018 - Dr. McDuff talks about why we need computers to understand us, outlines the pros and cons of designing emotionally sentient agents, explains the technology behind CardioLens, a pair of augmented reality glasses that can…
In August 2017, Proginn and Juejin, two very popular online communities and agencies for Chinese CS engineers jointly announced a survey report that had over 100,000 Chinese engineers participating. The report highlighted that only 7.38% of participating engineers in the…