A.J. Brush
Partner Group Program Manager
Professional Activities
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- Speaker, Grace Hopper Conference, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Speaker, CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022
- Speaker, Microsoft Ignite, November 2019, September 2020
- Keynote Future Technologies Conference, October 2019
- Keynote, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges – Northwest Region, October 2018
- Keynote, Intelligent Environments conference, September 2016
- Closing Keynote, Inventing Technology for Homes and Families, Go, Girl, Go (opens in new tab), ICRA 2015. June 2015.
- MPE 2013+ Workshop on Data-aware Energy Use, Lab of Things: An extensible platform for Home Sensing, Data Collection, and Actuation (opens in new tab), October 2014.
- UC Berkeley Swarm Lab Seminar, Lab of Things: a Devices Research and Teaching Platform for Home and Beyond, September 2014.
- Closing Keynote, Lab of Things: A Devices Research and Teaching Platform for Home and Beyond, SIGCSE 2014 (opens in new tab), March 2014, slides
- Keynote, Inventing Technology for Homes & Families, First Caribbean Celebration of Women in Computing (CCWiC 2014 (opens in new tab)), Feb. 2014, slides
- Invited Speaker, Home Automation: Is It Finally Ready for the Mainstream? Williams College CS25 Anniversary (opens in new tab), April 2013
- Speaker, Balancing Graduate School and Personal Life, CRA-W Grad Cohort (opens in new tab), April 2013
- Speaker, CRA-W CAPP Mentoring Workshop (opens in new tab), Nov. 2012
- Faculty Member, Pervasive 2012 Doctoral Consortium, June 2012
- Featured Speaker, CRA-W Distinguished Lecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (opens in new tab), April 2012
- Keynote speaker, Phone Sense workshop at ACM SenSys 2011
- Panelist, Home Networking (opens in new tab) at IEEE Computer Communications Workshop 2011
- Featured Speaker, New York Celebration of Women in Computing 2011 (opens in new tab)
- Faculty Member, Ubicomp 2010 Doctoral Consortium
- Tutorial Instructor at Pervasive 2010, Pervasive Computing User Studies (opens in new tab)
- Faculty Member, CHI 2009 Doctoral Consortium
- Tutorial Instructor at Pervasive 2008, Field Studies for Pervasive Computing (opens in new tab)
- Panelist, Ubicomp’s Role in CSCW (opens in new tab) at CSCW 2008
- Panelist, Interaction and Infrastructure: Crossing the Divide in Ubicomp Research (opens in new tab) at Ubicomp 2006
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- CRA-W (opens in new tab) Board Member 2010 – present, Chair, 2014 – 2016
- Joint UbiComp and Pervasive Steering Committee 2009 – present
- UbiComp 2015 Broadening Participation Workshop (opens in new tab), Chair
- Ubicomp 2014 (opens in new tab) General co-chair
- UbiComp SIGCHI Community (opens in new tab) chair
- Joint Ubicomp and Pervasive Steering Committee (opens in new tab)
- Organizer, HomeSys 2013 (opens in new tab) workshop at UbiComp 2013
- Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of HCI (Feb. 2008 – Aug. 2011)
- ACM SIGCHI (opens in new tab) VP for Membership & Communications (2006 – 2009)
- Pervasive 2009 (opens in new tab)Program Committee co-chair
- Organizer, CSCW 2008 (opens in new tab)Workshop on Designing for Families (opens in new tab)
- Ubicomp 2008 (opens in new tab) Poster Co-Chair
- Organizer, Pervasive 2008 (opens in new tab) Workshop on Pervasive Computing @ Home
- Group 2007 (opens in new tab)Workshop Co-chair
- CSCW 2004 (opens in new tab) Notes Co-Chair
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- Associate Editor and member of Advisory Board, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2016 – present
- IEEE Pervasive Computing Editorial Board, 2014 – present
- e-Energy 2015 (opens in new tab)
- CHI 2014 (opens in new tab), CHI 2012 (opens in new tab), CHI 2007 Notes (opens in new tab)
- CSCW 2013 (opens in new tab), CSCW 2011 (opens in new tab), CSCW 2008 (opens in new tab), CSCW 2006 (opens in new tab)
- Pervasive 2010 (opens in new tab), Pervasive 2007 (opens in new tab)
- Ubicomp 2013 (opens in new tab), Ubicomp 2011 (opens in new tab), Ubicomp 2009 (opens in new tab), Ubicomp 2008 (opens in new tab), Ubicomp 2007 (opens in new tab) Late Breaking Results, Ubicomp 2007 (opens in new tab), Ubicomp 2006 (opens in new tab)
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- Gabe Martinez, Cortana Devices, Summer 2017 (with Spencer King)
- UWHCID (opens in new tab) Capstone project mentor for the Sound Choice (opens in new tab) project, Summer 2014, Prototype a smart watch system that translates sounds in the home to tactile and visual cues.
- Dimitris Papanikolaou (opens in new tab), Summer 2014, Connected Furniture
- Erin Griffiths, Summer 2013, Healthy Furniture
- Sarah Mennicken (opens in new tab), Summer 2013, Interactive Furniture
- Jason Wiese (opens in new tab), Summer 2012 (with Scott Saponas) Human activity inference
- Ryder Ziola (opens in new tab), Summer 2011 (with Scott Saponas) Human activity inference
- Hong Lu (opens in new tab), Summer 2010 (with Bodhi Priyantha, Jie Liu, Amy Karlson) Speech recognition for mobile devices
- Shah Amini (opens in new tab), Summer 2010 (with John Krumm, Amy Karlson, Jaime Teevan) Mobile search with destination prediction
- Andres Neyem (opens in new tab), Summer 2009 (with Ranveer Chandra) Proximity sensing
- Lana Yarosh (opens in new tab), Summer 2009 (with Kori Inkpen) Free play over video by children
- Junius Gunaratne (opens in new tab), Spring 2009 Sharing during mobile calls
- Marshini Chetty (opens in new tab), Summer 2008 Home computer power management
- Adrienne Andrew (opens in new tab), Spring 2008, (with Amy Karlson) Mobile micronote capture using voice and ink
- Serge Egelman (opens in new tab), Winter 2008, (with Kori Inkpen) Account management on home computers
- Kate Everitt (opens in new tab), Summer 2007, (with Merrie Morris) Linking paper and digital documents
- Andrea Grimes (opens in new tab), Summer 2006, Life scheduling and home/work calendar management
- Kimberly Tee (opens in new tab), Summer 2006, Spring 2007, Communication and Sharing between extended family members
- Carman Neustaedter (opens in new tab), Summer 2004, Summer 2005, LINC, an inkable family calendar
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- Paul G. Allen School Celebrates its first graduating class (opens in new tab). Allen School News, June 2016
- Quoted in “UW researchers looking into field of ubiquitous computing,” UW Daily (opens in new tab), June 2015
- Lab of Things (opens in new tab) press page (many articles and blogs)
- Williams Computer Science 25th Anniversary (opens in new tab), April 2013
- HomeOS: Microsoft Works on Bringing Smart Homes to the Masses (opens in new tab), Time TechLand, Apr 2012
- Microsoft forges ahead with new home-automation OS (opens in new tab), CNET, Apr 2012
- Microsoft’s Smart House: Microsoft Research presents ‘HomeOS’ (opens in new tab), Technology Review, May 2012
- From Smartphone to Smart Home: Automating the Modern Home (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Connections Blog, April 26, 2012
- New from Microsoft Research: Controlling Home Heating Using Occupancy Prediction (opens in new tab), Software Enabled Earth, The Official Blog of Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability Team, October 31, 2011
- TechFest: A thermostat that knows when you’re home (opens in new tab), Seattle Times, March 9, 2011, (Includes video about system)
- Finding Our Way with Digital Bread Crumbs (opens in new tab), Technology Review, 18 August 2010
- Kids experiment with ‘video playdates’ (opens in new tab), CNN Tech, 11 June 2010
- The Intersection of Work & Life (opens in new tab), 850 Business Magazine, 7 January 2010
- Password reminders: hard to remember, but easy to hack (opens in new tab), Ars Technica, 19 May 2009
- Study: Secret Questions Don’t Safeguard Passwords (opens in new tab), PC World Business Center, 19 May 2009
- Are Your “Secret Questions” Too Easily Answered? (opens in new tab), Technology Review, 18 May 2009
- Microsoft’s latest is flat-out impressive (opens in new tab), Seattle Times, 19 July 2006