It’s the year 2020, and where two or more are gathered, it seems, there is a podcast. Given the level of creativity among 91探花 faculty and staff, it’s no surprise that many high-quality podcasts are now being produced on campus. Here鈥檚 a look at three podcasts being created by 91探花departments or people, including a couple that have been underway for quite a while. 91探花Notebook will occasionally report on campus podcasts and ask a few questions of…
91探花researchers have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand movements.
Recent honors to 91探花faculty and staff include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Brian Johnson, assistant professor in the 91探花Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received a $4.9 million grant across three years from the U.S. Department of Energy.
91探花researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily lives. Over the course of two academic quarters, the team compared students’ self-reports of unfair treatment to passively tracked changes in daily activities, such as hours slept, steps taken or time spent on the phone.
A team led by scientists at the 91探花 has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.
Researchers at 91探花and UCLA have developed an artificial intelligence system that could help pathologists read biopsies more accurately, and lead to better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
Eight scientists and engineers from the 91探花 have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
A 91探花 professor, Shwetak Patel, is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health, the Association for Computing Machinery or ACM announced today.
The 91探花, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft Quantum announced this week that they have joined forces in a new coalition, the Northwest Quantum Nexus, to bring about a revolution in quantum research and technology.
Three teams led by 91探花 researchers 鈥� Scott Dunham, Hugh Hillhouse and Devin MacKenzie 鈥� have received competitive awards totaling more than $2.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office for projects that will advance research and development in photovoltaic materials, which are an essential component of solar cells and impact the amount of sunlight that is converted into electricity.
Farmers can already use drones to soar over huge fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health. But these machines need so much power to fly that they can’t get very far without needing a charge. Now, engineers at the 91探花 have created a sensing system that is small enough to ride aboard a bumblebee.
In a paper published Oct. 8 in the journal Nano Letters, a team from the 91探花 and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers 鈥� less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick.
Engineers at the 91探花 have developed 3D printed devices that can track and store their use 鈥� without using batteries or electronics. Instead, this system uses a method called backscatter, through which a device can share information by reflecting signals that have been transmitted to it with an antenna.
The National Science Foundation announced on Sept. 11 that it is awarding grants totaling $8.5 million to 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities for the study of complex and entrenched problems in data science. Three of these projects will be based at the 91探花 and led by researchers in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences.
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.
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.
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.
Researchers at the 91探花 and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have developed a new method to classify and track the multitude of cells in a tissue sample. In a paper published March 15 in the journal Science, the team reports that this new approach 鈥� known as SPLiT-seq 鈥� reliably tracks gene activity in a tissue down to the level of single cells.
Engineers at the 91探花 have for the first time developed a method to safely charge a smartphone wirelessly using a laser.
In a paper published Feb. 9 in Science Advances, scientists at the 91探花 announced that they have successfully combined two different imaging methods 鈥� a type of lens designed for nanoscale interaction with lightwaves, along with robust computational processing 鈥� to create full-color images.
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.
Lisa Zurk, a 91探花aluma in electrical engineering, professor at Portland State University and program manager at DARPA, will become the eighth director of the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory.
91探花researchers have demonstrated for the first time that devices that run on almost zero power can transmit data across distances of up to 2.8 kilometers 鈥� breaking a long-held barrier and potentially enabling a vast array of interconnected devices.
91探花 researchers are developing a smartphone app that is capable of objectively detecting concussion and other traumatic brain injuries in the field, which could provide a new level of screening for athletes and accident victims.
A new app could lead to earlier detection of pancreatic cancer simply by snapping a smartphone selfie. The disease kills 90 percent of patients within five years, in part because there are no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools to catch a tumor before it spreads.
91探花engineers have designed the first battery-free cellphone that can send and receive calls using only a few microwatts of power, which it harvests from ambient radio signals or light. It’s a major step forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones.
For the first time, 91探花 researchers have delivered targeted treatment for essential tremor – the world’s most common neurological movement disorder – by decoding brain signals to sense when patients’ limbs are shaking.
91探花synthetic biology researchers have demonstrated a new method for digital information processing in living cells, analogous to the logic gates used in electric circuits. The team built the largest circuits published to date in eukaryotic cells, using DNA instead of silicon and solder.
91探花 security researchers have shown that Google鈥檚 new tool that uses machine learning to automatically analyze and label video content can be deceived by inserting a photograph periodically into videos. After they inserted an image of a car into a video about animals, for instance, the system thought the video was about an Audi.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Interscatter” communication developed by 91探花engineers allows power-limited devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to everyday devices such as smartphones and watches.