In the 15 years since the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change opened its doors, the 91探花has nearly doubled the number of female faculty across 19 science, technology, engineering and math departments.
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A $50 million endowment for the newly established Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering will propel the 91探花to the forefront of computer science education and innovation for generations to come.
A new technique pioneered by 91探花 engineers enables “singing” posters and “smart” clothing to send audio or data directly to your car鈥檚 radio or your smartphone by piggybacking on ambient FM radio signals.
91探花researchers have bypassed Google鈥檚 new machine learning system that aims to curb toxic comments in online discussion forums can by simply misspelling or adding unnecessary punctuation to abusive words.
91探花 Computer Science & Engineering announced today the establishment of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. This $1 million endowment will further enhance 91探花CSE鈥檚 ability to recruit and retain the world鈥檚 most outstanding faculty members in these burgeoning areas.
Three faculty members at the 91探花 have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 21, include Ali Farhadi, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Emily Levesque, assistant professor of astronomy; and John Tuthill, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics.
Cleantech Businesses and Academic Researchers can Prototype and Test Clean Energy Devices, Software and Systems at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds A new facility for accelerating the clean energy innovation cycle opened in Seattle Feb. 16. The Clean Energy Institute, a research unit at the 91探花, created the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds to increase the rate at which breakthrough science and engineering discoveries turn into market-adopted clean energy technologies. The state-of-the-art user facility has labs for manufacturing prototypes,…
Longtime philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi have given a second Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) building on the 91探花鈥檚 Seattle campus a major boost with a $5 million gift.
A unique application of a medical camera developed by a 91探花 mechanical engineer could one day help physicians know who is at risk for stroke or heart attack by providing a better view of potential problem areas.
The STARS program, which offers engineering students from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds extra academic support, will receive a one-time grant of $2.2 million from the Opportunity Expansion Fund passed by the Washington Legislature and funded by Microsoft.
AccessMap 鈥� a 91探花 project spearheaded by the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology 鈥� launched a new online travel planner offering customizable suggestions for people who need accessible or pedestrian-friendly routes when getting from point A to B in Seattle.
The specific cues that trigger an animal’s natural defense vary depending on the species and its history in the ecosystem, a new 91探花 study finds.
A new national program at the 91探花鈥� LATTICE 鈥� aims to diversify the national engineering faculty population by building supportive communities during the critical transition from graduate studies to permanent tenure-track positions.
Two 91探花 professors have received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.
Zillow Group, the Seattle-based company that houses real estate and home-related brands on mobile and web, has committed $5 million toward the development of a second Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) building on the 91探花Seattle campus.
Miqin Zhang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the 91探花, is looking for ways to help the body heal itself when injury, disease or surgery cause large-scale damage to one type of tissue in particular: skeletal muscle. Her goal is to create a synthetic, porous, biologically compatible “scaffold” that mimics the normal extracellular environment of skeletal muscle 鈥� onto which human cells could migrate and grow new replacement fibers.
At the Hack for Access: Holiday Toy event on Dec. 11 and the UW, community volunteers will disassemble and rewire toys to make them more accessible for children with disabilities.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded approximately $14 million over five years to a multi-university, regional transportation center led by the 91探花 to fund research aimed at improving the mobility of people and goods across the Pacific Northwest.
91探花researchers have published the first demonstration of humans playing a simple, two-dimensional computer game using only input from direct brain stimulation 鈥� without relying on any usual sensory cues from sight, hearing or touch.
MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset designed to allow machine learning algorithms to tackle everything from automated music transcription to listening recommendations based on the structure of music itself.
In a paper published Sept. 27 in the journal Small, scientists at the 91探花 describe a new system to encase chemotherapy drugs within tiny, synthetic “nanocarrier” packages, which could be injected into patients and disassembled at the tumor site to release their toxic cargo.
91探花engineers have developed the first transgenic grass species that can take up and destroy RDX 鈥� a toxic compound that has been widely used in explosives since World War II and contaminates military bases, battlegrounds and some drinking water wells.
The Department of Electrical Engineering’s 2016 Lytle Lecture series will explore bridging theory and practice in compressed sensing, which has enabled speedups in medical imaging and scientific signal processing.
For the first time in humans, 91探花Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) researchers have used direct stimulation of the human brain surface to provide basic sensory feedback through artificial electrical signals, enabling patients to control movement while opening and closing their hand.
Your wait time for an Uber ride in Seattle is shorter if you are in a lower income neighborhood. Alternatively, wait times are longer for an Uber in wealthier neighborhoods, according to a new 91探花 study that measures one dimension of whether TNCs are providing equitable access.
An IV drip technology developed by Shift Labs, founded by 91探花 Human Centered Design and Engineering Professor Beth Kolko, has been recognized by Popular Science with a 2016 “Best of What鈥檚 New鈥� Award.
A flat-screen panel that resembles a TV on your living room wall could one day remotely charge any device within its line of sight, according to new research from 91探花and Duke University engineers.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a prestigious fellowship to 91探花 assistant professor Thomas Rothvoss to fuel his passion to balance precision and efficiency in complex mathematical calculations. The Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering honor early-career academics pursuing innovative research in all fields of science and engineering. “It’s a great honor 鈥� and frankly, I’m still digesting the news,” said Rothvoss, who has joint appointments with the Department of Mathematics and the Department of…
A technique to store and retrieve digital data in DNA developed by 91探花 and Microsoft researchers is one of the most innovative and game-changing technologies of the year, according to Popular Science’s 2016 鈥淏est of What鈥檚 New鈥� Awards.
As online retailing booms, the new 91探花Urban Freight Lab will partner with UPS, Costco, Nordstrom and SDOT to research solutions for businesses delivering goods in urban settings and cities trying to manage limited street space.
Amazon is giving a major push to the campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering building on the 91探花 campus with a $10 million gift, the university announced Thursday. 鈥淥ur state鈥檚 economy 鈥� and the world鈥檚 economy 鈥� depends on innovation and on innovators. 91探花graduates with skills in computer science are highly sought after, yet we are turning away excellent students who want to pursue studies in the field because we simply don鈥檛 have enough…
A new 91探花disaster investigation center funded by a $4 million National Science Foundation grant will collect and analyze critical data that’s often lost in the immediate aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes but that can help create more resilient communities.
Accelerating growth in effectively delivering new oral and transdermal drug delivery techniques will be the focus of the 91探花 Department of Bioengineering鈥檚 2016 Allan S. Hoffman Lecture on Oct. 10.
In a paper published Sept. 22 in Scientific Reports, engineers at the 91探花 unveiled peptides that could help bridge the gap where artificial meets biological 鈥� harnessing biological rules to exchange information between the biochemistry of our bodies and the chemistry of our devices.
As the fourth-fastest growing city in the United States, Seattle faces important questions in its quest to remain a resilient and sustainable community. Can we build to withstand natural disasters, reduce environmental toxins as consumption rises, meet urban transportation challenges so food, supplies and consumer products can get where they need to go? Over the next month, College of Engineering鈥檚 annual fall lecture series will feature faculty focusing on these questions and developing technologies to build more resilient urban communities….
91探花engineers have devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body, instead of over the air where they’re vulnerable to hacking.
Researchers at the 91探花 are among the winners of a startup challenge to shorten the transition time from lab bench to patient. The team, including members of professor Suzie Pun’s research group in the 91探花Department of Bioengineering, was selected based on its proposal and business plan to develop a targeted drug delivery system for breast cancer.
Jim Pfaendtner, 91探花 associate professor of chemical engineering, is leading a new endeavor funded by the National Science Foundation to bring big data to graduate education in clean energy research at the UW.
Is life better or worse after sticking your Fitbit in a drawer? 91探花researchers surveyed hundreds of people who had abandoned self-tracking tools and found emotions ranged from guilt to indifference to relief that the tracking experience was over.
91探花engineers have developed HemaApp, which uses a smartphone camera to estimate hemoglobin concentrations and screen for anemia without sticking patients with needles.