Articles about University of Washington – Page 31 of 32

These 16 student-led upstarts are trying to transform mobile payments, farming and more

Entrepreneurial students from colleges and universities throughout the region competed Wednesday in the annual University of Washington Business Plan Competition Investment… Read More

Geek of the Week: Oren Etzioni on Siri, Burning Man and the promise of algorithms

Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for… Read More

Geek of the Week: Lauren Bricker, computer science teacher at Lakeside School

Lakeside School in Seattle produced a couple of the most famous computer scientists in the world four decades ago, and… Read More

Dear Stanford: Now that your NYC campus isn’t happening, how about Seattle?

Dear Stanford, First, we want to express our deepest sympathies about the loss in the Fiesta Bowl last night. It… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos spends hours in computer science labs, checking in on the future

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Hélène Martin, UW computer science

Hélène Martin taught hundreds of high-school students the power of computer programming during her two years teaching computer science at Garfield… Read More

UW students hack their way to Facebook campus with music sharing and syncing app

No sleep? No problem. That’s how University of Washington seniors Ryan Ewing, Alex Juarez and Bill Cauchois and freshman Nick… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: Yoky Matsuoka links humans to devices, from thermostats to robots

Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous… Read More

Q&A: Cameron Turtle, 21, Rhodes Scholar in bioengineering

Earlier this week, two University of Washington seniors were named Rhodes Scholars for 2012, making the UW the only public… Read More

Newsmakers 2011: UW’s Shwetak Patel, MacArthur Genius

Is there anything Shwetak Patel can’t do with a home electrical system? We’re often left pondering that question after hearing about… Read More

Bionic eye? Researchers see progress on contact lenses

University of Washington electrical engineering researchers say they have successfully tested a single-pixel, wirelessly powered display on a contact lens… Read More

McGinn: UW, Seattle want great ideas for unused fiber

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and University of Washington President Michael Young are holding a news conference right now outlining plans… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kristina Wang, aerospace grad student

It’s a fascinating time right now in the world of aerospace, as a variety of projects and ventures seek to… Read More

Excerpts: Bill Gates on politics, education, and why his burger is same as yours

One of the most interesting things about Bill Gates’ appearance at the University of Washington yesterday was the way the… Read More

Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW

OK, so maybe this isn’t the greatest invention for society, but purely as a technological trick, it’s pretty neat. A… Read More

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Educating the next generation of geeks

In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast comes with an educational theme — featuring excerpts… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: High-tech football, T-Mobile’s future, inside the world of geocaching

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the UW football team’s use of high-tech cameras… Read More

UW computer science project automates time-lapse pictures

Inspired in part by people who take pictures of themselves every day, showing how they change over a period of… Read More

Scholars study global ‘digital activism’ with a new kind of online think tank

Researchers such as the University of Washington’s Phil Howard study revolutions in places such as the Middle East, often by… Read More

Mind meets machine: $18.5M grant for new UW center to meld humans, devices

An $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering… Read More

Wireless power for heart pumps: Medical breakthrough from UW researchers

Here’s an innovation that might just make Dick Cheney smile. Researchers from the University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh… Read More

Recap: Twitter and Obama reinvent the town hall, with a little help from algorithms

Guest Post: Today, President Obama participated in the first White House Town Hall on Twitter. The White House asked people… Read More

UW computer scientist tries to crack the ancient Indus script

Save this one for when you have time to sit back and really absorb it. Rajesh Rao, a professor in… Read More

What the budget crunch is doing to computer science, and what to do about it

Guest Commentary: For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, the University of Washington has again taken a massive hit… Read More

Dan Savage, Starbucks honored for ‘digital disruption’ by UW program

Columnist Dan Savage and coffee giant Starbucks are being recognized by the University of Washington’s Master of Communication in Digital… Read More

Google Maps adds live transit updates, and Portland wins out over Seattle, again

Google Maps today added real-time transit information — not just scheduling data — to its mobile and desktop offerings in… Read More

UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy

University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by… Read More

Gist CEO T.A. McCann: ‘To be an entrepreneur takes a tremendous amount of courage’

Gist founder T.A. McCann just completed a successful sale of his startup to RIM. So, why did the Seattle entrepreneur… Read More

Livestream: Presentations from the final round of the UW business plan competition

You can watch entrepreneurial activity in real time this afternoon as five teams compete in the University of Washington’s annual… Read More