{"id":1755,"date":"2011-07-25T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2011-07-25T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:30:59","slug":"shwetak-patel-wired-and-named-ms-research-faculty-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/shwetak-patel-wired-and-named-ms-research-faculty-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shwetak Patel Featured in July Cover Story of Wired Magazine and Named a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1757\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/06\/ff_feedbackloop\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/July_Cover_Wired.jpg\" alt=\"Feedback Loops on the cover of Wired\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1757\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feedback Loops on the cover of Wired<\/p><\/div>Wired magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/06\/ff_feedbackloop\/3\/\">profiled UW Computer Science and Engineering Professor Shwetak Patel<\/a>, focusing on the research that led him to develop his startup Zensi, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ee.washington.edu\/news\/2010\/belkin_buys_zensi.html\">a part of Belkin<\/a>, for their July cover story. The story explores current applications of feedback loops \u2013 a process that Wired summarizes as providing \u201cpeople with information about their actions in real time, then giving them a chance to change those actions, pushing them toward better behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The potential of Patel\u2019s research was also recently recognized by Microsoft Research when he was selected as a <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/awards\/msrff_all.aspx\">2011 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow<\/a>. Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows explore breakthrough, high-impact research that has the potential to help solve some of today\u2019s most challenging societal problems. Microsoft Research annually selects seven of the top early-career professors in the field of computer science and provides them each with a cash award.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/06\/ff_feedbackloop\/\">Wired July Cover Story on Feedback Loops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/awards\/msrff.aspx\">Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired magazine profiled UW Computer Science and Engineering Professor Shwetak Patel, focusing on the research that led him to develop his startup Zensi, now a part of Belkin, for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}