Researchers at the 91探花 have developed a new machine-learning system, called Prescience, which uses input from patient charts and standard operating room sensors to predict the likelihood that a patient will develop hypoxemia 鈥� a condition when blood oxygen levels dip slightly below normal. Prescience also provides real-world explanations behind its predictions.
The National Science Foundation will support a state-of-the-art marine facility that continues delivering data and new insight to the ocean science community, policymakers and the public worldwide.
Margaret O’Mara, 91探花professor of history, explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an essay and podcast from the news website The Conversation.
Two 91探花polar scientists were among a dozen experts who advised NASA on its upcoming ICESat-2 mission to monitor the 3D surface of the Earth. The mission is scheduled to launch Sept. 15 from California.
The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering is updating its name to the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) to highlight the key role that neurotechnologies play in its mission.
Researchers at the 91探花 have developed a new method that gives aircraft a backup system in case GPS fails: An antenna on the ground that can tell a drone where it is. The team successfully tested their system in June.
Hans Scholl, professor in the 91探花Information School, discusses the challenges and opportunities of digital government. The website Apolitical has named him among the “Top 100 Most Influential People in digital government.”
When young children talk to voice-activated technologies, the devices don’t always respond in a helpful way. A new 91探花 study suggests that these interfaces could be designed to be more responsive 鈥� repeating or prompting the user, for example 鈥� and be more useful to more people.
A team led by the 91探花 has created an environmentally friendly way to remove color from dyes in water in a matter of seconds.
Earth鈥檚 oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planetwide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, new research from the 91探花 shows.
Daniel Schwartz, a 91探花 professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Institute, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation this week.
Researchers with the UW-led Virtual Planetary Laboratory are central to a group of papers published by NASA researchers today in the journal Astrobiology outlining the history 鈥� and suggesting the future 鈥� of the search for life on exoplanets, or those orbiting stars other than the sun.
More than 100 scientists and crew from more than 20 U.S. research institutions, including the UW, will depart in August for a month-long expedition to study how the ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere.
Through Alexis Hiniker’s Designing for Evil course, which is unique to the UW, students have identified “emerging evil” technologies and redesigned them so that they are more likely to enhance 鈥� not detract from 鈥� users’ lives.
Family-focused science lessons, robotics for young children and touch-based programming for the visually impaired are among the 91探花 research videos featured in the STEM for All Video Showcase, funded by the National Science Foundation. The weeklong online event, in its fourth year, highlights more than 200 projects from universities around the country and allows viewers to vote for their favorites. This year鈥檚 theme is 鈥淭ransforming the Educational Landscape.鈥� Researchers from the 91探花have submitted projects from the…
Engineers at the 91探花 have created RoboFly, the first wireless flying robotic insect. This might be one small flap for a robot, but it’s one giant leap for robot-kind.
Victoria Meadows, 91探花 astrobiologist, professor of astronomy and leader of NASA’s UW-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory, has been named recipient of the 2018 Frank Drake Award from the SETI Institute. She is the first woman to receive the award.
Engineers at the 91探花 have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn鈥檛 need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry components and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead.
By using a keyboard to provide tactile feedback along with with a screen reader, blind and low-vision users were three times more successful at navigating complex modern webpages, similar to a typical Airbnb booking site.
Researchers at the 91探花 have designed a convenient and natural product that uses proteins to rebuild tooth enamel and treat dental cavities.
This week, the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) announced that it has achieved the necessary sensitivity to 鈥渉ear鈥� the telltale signs of dark matter axions. This technological breakthrough is the result of more than 30 years of research and development, with the latest piece of the puzzle coming in the form of a quantum-enabled device that allows ADMX to listen for axions more closely than any experiment ever built.
A pair of anglerfish, a species never before seen alive by humans, was recorded recently on camera by researchers aboard the LULA1000, a submersible operated by the marine science-focused Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation.
If online shopping continues to grow at its current rate, there may be twice as many trucks delivering packages in Seattle鈥檚 city center within five years, a new report projects 鈥� and double the number of trucks looking for a parking space.
91探花 engineers have turned tissue paper 鈥� similar to toilet tissue 鈥� into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement.
High-speed recordings of Egyptian fruit bats in flight show that instead of using a primitive form of echolocation, these animals actually use a technique recently developed by humans for surveillance and navigation.
A team of astronomers including Eric Agol of the 91探花 has found that the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are all made mostly of rock, and some could even have more water 鈥� which can give life a chance 鈥� than Earth itself. The research was led by Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland, and published Feb. 5 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Agol is among about two dozen co-authors. The scientists…
The Department of Energy鈥檚 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the 91探花 announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology 鈥� or NW IMPACT 鈥� a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
The 91探花Reality Lab is launching with $6 million from Facebook, Google, and Huawei to accelerate innovation in augmented and virtual reality and educate the next generation of researchers and practitioners.
Jeff Hou, 91探花professor of landscape architecture, discusses the new book he co-edited with Sabine Knierbein, “City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy.”
Now serving its sixth cohort of students, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship has helped more than 8,400 students attend the state鈥檚 universities and colleges. The 91探花has the largest number of scholarship recipients 鈥� 1,679 across all three campuses 鈥� and has seen more than 1,300 scholars graduate.
91探花engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics, including a laundry bottle that can detect when soap is running low and automatically order more.
A team of 91探花 students and faculty has won Amazon鈥檚 inaugural Alexa Prize, a university competition designed to produce an artificial intelligence agent capable of coherent and sustained conversation with humans.
Two faculty members in the 91探花 College of Engineering have been elected as 2018 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Tom Furness, professor of industrial and systems engineering, was honored for 鈥渓eadership in virtual and augmented reality鈥� and Siddhartha 鈥淪idd鈥� Srinivasa, professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, was recognized for 鈥渃ontributions to robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction.鈥�
The amount of biomass 鈥� life 鈥� in Earth’s ancient oceans may have been limited due to low recycling of the key nutrient phosphorus, according to new research by the 91探花 and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
The CleanTech Alliance has presented the 91探花 with the organization’s 2017 CleanTech Achievement Award. The honor recognizes the UW’s dedication to research and development of transformative clean energy technologies, facilities, pipelines for startups and industry partnerships. The award was announced on Nov. 8 at the annual meeting and 10th anniversary of the CleanTech Alliance, a Seattle-based consortium of more than 300 businesses and interest groups across six U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The organization cited the UW’s…
Two 91探花 engineering students were selected by Forbes magazine for its list of the top 30 people in the world under age 30 working in energy.
91探花researchers who used machine learning tools to analyze language in 800 Hollywood movie scripts found subtle but widespread gender bias in the way male and female characters are portrayed.
91探花computer scientists have created fabrics and fashion accessories that can store data 鈥� from security codes to identification tags 鈥� without needing any on-board electronics or sensors.
New 91探花 research finds that for a budget of roughly $1000, it is possible for someone to track your location and app use by purchasing and targeting mobile ads. The team hopes to raise industry awareness about the potential privacy threat.
91探花and UCLA engineers have developed a flexible sensor 鈥渟kin鈥� that can be stretched over any part of a robot鈥檚 body or prosthetic to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration, which are critical to tasks ranging from cooking an egg to dismantling a bomb.