Public Talk

Intelligence ARPA – An Overview

Dr. Peter Highnam

Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

4:30-5:30PM

Wed., October 1^st, 2014

Loew Hall, Room 355

Summary

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) executes high risk, high payoff research for the US Intelligence Community. IARPA Director Dr. Peter Highnam will provide an in-depth perspective on the latest advanced research and development work going on at IARPA.  He’ll also discuss IARPA’s current research priorities, preview what’s on the horizon, discuss its business model, describe the best ways to best engage in IARPA funded research, and engage in open dialogue with the audience during a Q&A session.

Bio – Dr. Peter Highnam

Dr. Peter Highnam was named IARPA Director on 30 August 2012. Dr. Highnam  joined IARPA in February 2009 as the Office Director for Incisive Analysis. Prior to IARPA, he was a senior advisor in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and then in the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). From 1999 to 2003, Dr. Highnam was a DARPA program manager with programs in electronic warfare and airborne communications. Before joining DARPA, he worked for more than a decade in applied research in industry. Dr. Highnam holds a Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award and a Department of Defense Civilian Exceptional Service Award. He is a co-inventor on three patents in commercial seismic exploration and holds a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

James Fogarty	10:00 AM (40 minutes ago)
to faculty, cs-grads, cs-ugrads

Reminder that Johnny Lee is our DUB speaker this week, to please join
for MHCI+D capstone presentations, and to please RSVP for food.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mglarson/242192

If you don’t get to RSVP, please still join us. But don’t eat until
after I do.  😉

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:58 AM, James Fogarty
<jfogarty@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> We have two special events Wednesday 8/20 that will interest many in CSE.
>
> Johnny Lee will be our DUB speaker. He’s done many things, but is
> currently the lead for Google’s Project Tango. He’ll be giving a talk
> on “Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate” and bringing a Project
> Tango demo. Additional info below, including a request to RSVP for
> help in coordinating our food order.
>
> Immediately following, we will have poster sessions and presentations
> for capstone projects from this year’s MHCI+D students. These 30
> interdisciplinary students have been doing great stuff, and these
> group capstones are the culmination of their degrees. Please join us.
>
> == RSVP plus Location ==
>
> Please RSVP:
> https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mglarson/242192
>
> Location: Alder Commons, 1315 NE Campus Parkway
> (note: Please enter at the Alder commons entrance on the corner of
> Brooklyn Avenue and 40th Street)
>
> == DUB Talk ==
>
> Speaker: Johnny Lee, Google
> Title: Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate
>
> Abstract:
> Over the past 10 years, I have been fortunate enough to witness the
> life cycle of successful projects on multiple occasions at vastly
> different scales, from personal research to large scale commercial
> products. I would like to share my observations of the skills of the
> individuals that helped make these efforts successful. It is my hope
> that this talk may be helpful to students who have not yet figured out
> their own identity as researchers, engineers, designers, or artists as
> you decide how to invest your time in the coming years.
>
> Bio:
> Johnny Lee is a Technical Project Lead at Google’s Advanced
> Technologies and Projects group, where he leads Project Tango – a
> focused effort to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of
> space and motion.  He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a
> PhD in Human-Computer Interaction in 2008 and recognized in the MIT’s
> TR35.  He was a core contributor to Microsoft Xbox Kinect, and his
> work with the Wii Remote has accumulated over 15 million views on
> YouTube as well as a top rated TED talk. His motto: Have fun and make
> new things.
>
> == MHCI+D Capstone ==
>
> Students from the first graduating class of the new MHCI+D
> Interdisciplinary Program will present an overview of their capstone
> team projects with time for questions and discussion.
>
> 1:30 – 2:00: Early Poster Session
> 2:00 – 3:45: Team Presentations
> 3:45 – 4:30: Poster Session and Mingling
>
> James
>
> —
> James A. Fogarty, Associate Professor
> Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
>
> http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/

James Fogarty	11:58 AM (4 hours ago)
to faculty, cs-grads, cs-ugrads

We have two special events Wednesday 8/20 that will interest many in CSE.

Johnny Lee will be our DUB speaker. He’s done many things, but is
currently the lead for Google’s Project Tango. He’ll be giving a talk
on “Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate” and bringing a Project
Tango demo. Additional info below, including a request to RSVP for
help in coordinating our food order.

Immediately following, we will have poster sessions and presentations
for capstone projects from this year’s MHCI+D students. These 30
interdisciplinary students have been doing great stuff, and these
group capstones are the culmination of their degrees. Please join us.

== RSVP plus Location ==

Please RSVP:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mglarson/242192

Location: Alder Commons, 1315 NE Campus Parkway
(note: Please enter at the Alder commons entrance on the corner of
Brooklyn Avenue and 40th Street)

== DUB Talk ==

Speaker: Johnny Lee, Google
Title: Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate

Abstract:
Over the past 10 years, I have been fortunate enough to witness the
life cycle of successful projects on multiple occasions at vastly
different scales, from personal research to large scale commercial
products. I would like to share my observations of the skills of the
individuals that helped make these efforts successful. It is my hope
that this talk may be helpful to students who have not yet figured out
their own identity as researchers, engineers, designers, or artists as
you decide how to invest your time in the coming years.

Bio:
Johnny Lee is a Technical Project Lead at Google’s Advanced
Technologies and Projects group, where he leads Project Tango – a
focused effort to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of
space and motion.  He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a
PhD in Human-Computer Interaction in 2008 and recognized in the MIT’s
TR35.  He was a core contributor to Microsoft Xbox Kinect, and his
work with the Wii Remote has accumulated over 15 million views on
YouTube as well as a top rated TED talk. His motto: Have fun and make
new things.

== MHCI+D Capstone ==

Students from the first graduating class of the new MHCI+D
Interdisciplinary Program will present an overview of their capstone
team projects with time for questions and discussion.

1:30 – 2:00: Early Poster Session
2:00 – 3:45: Team Presentations
3:45 – 4:30: Poster Session and Mingling

James

—
James A. Fogarty, Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Tom Anderson <tom@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 6:14 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Camlistore/Go, Thursday 3:30 in Gates Commons
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, cs-grads Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>

Brad Fitzpatrick, CSE undergrad alum (’02), and this year’s college alumni early career achievement winner, will be giving a talk in the Gates Commons (CSE 691) at 3:30 today (Thursday), in the normal colloquium slot, but not the normal location. Brad developed memcache to support the exploding user community at  LiveJournal, a website he founded; memcache has since become the foundation for most social networking web sites.

The talk will be on Camlistore and the Go programming language, two projects Brad has been working on recently at Google.  Camlistore is a zero-delete content-addressable file system for personal data.  Go is a strongly typed, multithreaded variant of C.

So, come find out what you can do with a UW CSE degree.  Snacks too, or so I’ve been promised.

tom

CSE majors, attend this event co-hosted by your classmate Brian Pak!

“Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to the Engineering for Social Justice Student Forum. This is the culminating event of an innovative student-facilitated seminar, Engineering for Social Justice. Students from a variety of engineering disciplines have participated in this seminar, exploring the challenges and opportunities that face engineers striving to include social justice in their careers and lives. We have enjoyed sharing our perspectives of the role of technology in world, and now we are excited to include the you in our discussion!

During the forum, students will facilitate discussions on the embedded politics and social implications of everyday technologies, from websites to city buses. Come and join us, in what should be a fun and relaxed time to reflect on engineering and social justice.

Here are the details:

What: Engineering for Social Justice Student Forum

When: Tuesday, June 3rd 5-7PM
Where: Anderson Hall Room 22
Food: Light refreshments to be provided

We look forward to seeing you there! Please invite anyone you feel might be interested. Contact Brian (bpark92@uw.edu) or Daniel (ulohdan@gmail.com) for more information.

Best,
Daniel Ullom and Brian Park
Co-facilitators, ENGR 202″

______________________________

James R Lee	4:46 PM (20 hours ago)
to cs-ugrads

2:30 pm  MathAcrossCampus Talk
         Kane 110
         Introduction by Ioana Dumitriu

         Reception 3:30-4:30

Title: Physical metaphors for graphs and networks.

Abstract:

We will show how physical metaphors can help us understand the
structure of a graph. The graphs arising in different disciplines can
have very different characteristics: social networks, protein-protein
interactions networks, road networks, and scientific meshes are all
graphs. But, they can look very different from each other. This diversity
makes it difficult to understand arbitrary graphs.

We will explore an approach to understanding graphs that has been
unreasonably successful: imagining that a graph represents a phyisical
object. For example, we may pretend that the edges of a graph are
springs, rubber bands, or resistors.  Linear algebraic techniques
for understanding these physical systems naturally lead to the
development of spectral and algebraic graph theory.  We will survey
some of the fundamental ideas from these fields.

From: SAFS Quantitive Seminar <safsquan@uw.edu>
Date: Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:09 AM
Subject: [Safs_quantitativeseminar] Friday’s Quantitative Seminar – Neeraj Kumar (5/9)
To: safs_quantitativeseminar@uw.edu

Neeraj Kumar of the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be Friday’s speaker from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in FSH 203.

Title: Leafsnap – A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification

Abstract: Botanists in the field are racing to capture the complexity of Earth’s flora before climate change and development erase their living record. To greatly speed up the process of plant species identification, collection, and monitoring, we have built and publicly released the first hand-held botanical identification system.  The system — called Leafsnap — identifies tree species from photographs of their leaves. With nearly a million downloads, we believe it is the most widely deployed non-commercial computer vision system in the world. In this talk, I will describe the development of this system from its early motivations to its current success. In particular, I will cover our efforts to digitize the Smithsonian’s collection of type specimens of 100,000 plant species, and the subsequent creation of an app for public use.
The key technical pieces of the app are segmenting the leaf from the background, computing curvature features robustly along the boundary of the segmented leaf, and performing identification using these extracted features. I’ll also describe the insights learned from creating and deploying such a large-scale system to a non-technical set of users. Finally, I’ll try to place this work in the larger context of the vision community, in particular within the burgeoning “fine-grained visual recognition” area.

Google Office Hours:
Here is a chance to meet and chat with Corin Anderson.
Wednesday, April 30:
1:30 – 3:00 p.m., 4^th floor breakout area
4:30-6 p.m., Atrium

—

Google Tech Info Session: Web client development in Google Search
CSE403, Wednesday, April 30, 3:30-4:30 pm

Abstract: Web client development is a microcosm of software engineering where the web browser is a virtual machine and where the best developers understand memory management, networking, threading, graphics, and user behavior.  This environment is forgiving for simple tasks and supports sophisticated applications from Search to Maps to Gmail. In this presentation I will share several technical challenges in Web client development within Google Search and argue that this is an ideal environment for well-rounded software engineers.

Speaker: Corin Anderson is a Principal Engineer at Google working in search on Visual Search Experience.  This team is responsible for everything that makes Google Search look and act like Google Search, from the instant search-as-you-type feature to the excepts shown for each result and down to minute but important visual design aspects.  Prior to Google Corin studied at the University of Washington, earning B.S. degrees in Math and Computer Science and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science.

Just a reminder, you can sign up for the CSE events list to hear about all the talks in the department. This is just one of many that are open to ugrads. You are all encouraged to attend.

Here is a link to all the talks.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science & Engineering
RESEARCH SEMINAR

SPEAKER:   Corin Anderson, Google

TITLE:     Web client development in Google Search

DATE:     Wednesday, April 30, 2014
TIME:      3:30pm
PLACE:   CSE403

ABSTRACT:
Web client development is a microcosm of software engineering where the
web browser is a virtual machine and where the best developers understand
memory management, networking, threading, graphics, and user behavior.

This environment is forgiving for simple tasks and supports sophisticated
applications from Search to Maps to Gmail. In this presentation I will
share several technical challenges in Web client development within Google
Search and argue that this is an ideal environment for well-rounded
software engineers.

BIO:
Corin Anderson is a Principal Engineer at Google working in search on
Visual Search Experience.  This team is responsible for everything that
makes Google Search look and act like Google Search, from the instant
search-as-you-type feature to the excepts shown for each result and down
to minute but important visual design aspects.

Prior to Google, Corin studied at the University of Washington, earning
B.S. degrees in Math and Computer Science and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Science.
Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.

*NOTE* This lecture will NOT be broadcast live via the Internet. See
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu
Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/
(206) 543-1695

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal
opportunity and reasonable accomodation in its services, programs,
activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities.
To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services
Office at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450/V,
(206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or email at
dso@u.washington.edu.