Researchers from the 91探花 and 91探花Medicine, along with volunteers from Microsoft, have developed a new contact-tracing app called CovidSafe.
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When the first U.S. COVID-19 patient emerged in Washington, 91探花Medicine, as the state鈥檚 foremost provider of advanced medical care, was thrust into the role of trailblazer. Its clinicians and researchers have since mustered a speedy and sometimes ingenious response.
After surveying smartphone users, 91探花researchers found that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others.
91探花researchers are developing an app that will allow health organizations to monitor coughs from self-quarantined COVID-19 patients from home.
Three undergraduate students at the 91探花 are among 396 around the country who have been named Goldwater Scholars for 2020.
Recent honors to 91探花 faculty and staff have come from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the World Register of Marine Species.
91探花researchers watched 25 participants scroll through their Facebook or Twitter feeds while, unbeknownst to them, a Google Chrome extension randomly added debunked content on top of some of the real posts.
A documentary series produced and released this winter by YouTube features 91探花computer scientist Pedro Domingos and members of the UW-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
Four 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. 12, are Kyle Armour and Jacqueline Padilla-Gami帽o, both assistant professors in the College of the Environment; and Hanna Hajishirzi and Yin Tat Lee, both assistant professors in the College of Engineering.
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.
91探花faculty members Roxanne Hudson and Magdalena Balazinska have received grants for research to be conducted over the next few years.
91探花researchers have created Carpentry Compiler, a digital tool that allows users to design woodworking projects. Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available.
Using a mathematical framework with roots in artificial intelligence and robotics, 91探花researchers were able to uncover the process of how a person makes choices in groups. And, they also found they were able to predict a person鈥檚 choice more often than more traditional descriptive methods.
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.
91探花researchers have found that the third-party genealogy site GEDmatch is vulnerable to multiple kinds of security risks.
91探花researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
91探花security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
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.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to the University of California, San Diego, the 91探花 and the University of California, Berkeley to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to simplify public cloud access for computer science research and education.
Magdalena Balazinska has been named the new director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. The appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2020, and is subject to approval by the 91探花Board of Regents.
91探花researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
The National Science Foundation is awarding a second round of funding for the Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs 鈥� organizations launched in 2015 to build and strengthen data science partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits and government to address scientific and societal challenges. The 91探花, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego, will continue to coordinate the West Big Data Innovation Hub.
91探花researchers have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep 鈥� all without touching them. The tool is essentially an app for a smart speaker or a smartphone that allows it to detect the signature sounds of cardiac arrest and call for help.
91探花researchers have figured out how to take a person from a 2D photo or a work of art and make them run, walk or jump out of the frame. The system also allows users to view the animation in three dimensions using augmented reality tools.
Academics will gather May 31 at the 91探花with policymakers, entrepreneurs, and representatives of corporations, foundations and nonprofits for The xTech + Impact 2019 Summit, a daylong seminar exploring the role of exponential technology and its impact on society.
Researchers at the 91探花have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and the phone’s microphone and speaker.
91探花researchers have led the development of Project Sidewalk, an online crowdsourcing game that lets anyone with an internet connection use Google Street View to virtually explore neighborhoods and label curb ramps, missing or rough sidewalks, obstacles and more.
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.
91探花and Microsoft researchers have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA 鈥� a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and into commercial data centers.
This week in the arts, see In the Heart of America, experience recent augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) projects聽from 91探花students, attend a free concert with the Seattle Symphony and 91探花School of Music faculty, and more! In the Heart of America March 6 – 17 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse In the shadow of the Gulf War, a young Palestinian woman’s quest to learn what happened to her Marine brother, Remzi,聽leads her to a Kentuckian Marine named…
Researchers at the 91探花 have developed a robotic system that can feed people who need someone to help them eat.
The 91探花 today marked the official opening of the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering on its Seattle campus. The building doubles the space available to UW鈥檚 Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering to enable a new wave of computing innovation and to educate more of Washington鈥檚 students for 21st century careers that will help shape the future of technology.
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. 19, include Kelley Harris, an assistant professor of genome sciences at the 91探花School of Medicine; and Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan, both assistant professors in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.
91探花researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose has occurred.
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.
Recent notable books by 91探花faculty members study politics and culture in post-World War II Japan, explore regime change, nonprofit management, documents from the ancient world and more.
The 91探花 will lead one of three teams that will partner with the Honda Research Institute to explore the mechanisms behind curiosity and seek advances in artificial cognition. The UW-led team will receive $2.7 million over the next three years to generate a mathematical model of curiosity.
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.
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.