Allen School News

Allen School senior Hannah Werbel is among four undergraduates to earn the prestigious Dean’s Medal from the University of Washington’s College of Arts & Sciences. Werbel, who will receive her bachelor’s in Computer Science with minors in Physics and Mathematics this month, was named a Dean’s Medalist in the Natural Sciences category for her academic excellence, leadership, and service. From the moment she stepped on campus, Werbel has distinguished herself through a rigorous program of study and her participation in… Read more →

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When we hear the term “fake news,” more often than not it refers to false narratives written by people to distort the truth and poison the public discourse. But new developments in natural language generation have raised the prospect of a new potential threat: neural fake news. Generated by artificial intelligence and capable of adopting the particular language and… Read more →

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Bottomline, a startup co-founded by students in the Allen School and Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, earned third place at the recent Dempsey Startup Competition hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The company provides data analytics that empowers job candidates and employers in the technology sector to evaluate the value… Read more →

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The following post was authored by Richard E. Ladner, Professor Emeritus at the Allen School and Principal Investigator of AccessComputing Five students from the Allen School joined a group of 25 students from seven different universities who traveled to Silicon Valley last month to participate in the Teach Access program Study Away Silicon Valley (SASV). I led… Read more →

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Allen School undergraduate Asila Maksumova has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Allen AI Outstanding Engineer Scholarship for Women and Underrepresented Minorities sponsored by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Maksumova, who is majoring in Computer Science, is the second Allen School student to receive the scholarship, which was created by AI2 in 2018 to encourage and support students from underrepresented groups pursuing AI education and careers. Maksumova is an experienced programmer with a keen interest in… Read more →

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On February 28th, friends and supporters of the Allen School gathered to celebrate the dedication of the new… Read more →

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In March 2008, Allen School researchers and their collaborators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School revealed the results of a study examining the privacy and security risks of a new generation of implantable medical devices. Equipped with embedded computers and wireless technology, new models of implantable cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers, and other devices were designed to make… Read more →

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Researchers in the Allen School and UW Medicine have come up with a novel way to determine whether children may be suffering from an ear infection with the help of a smartphone and a piece of paper. In a paper published last week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team presents a new app that can detect… Read more →

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Richard Ladner, professor emeritus of the Allen School and a recognized leader in accessible technology research and advocacy, accepted the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award this week from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). The award, which recognizes faculty who combine outstanding research contributions with excellence in mentoring the next generation of… Read more →

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Nine Allen School students were recently honored for excellence in computing-related research by the National Science Foundation as part of the agency’s 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship competition. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program — the oldest fellowship program of its kind — recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research in designated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The goal of the GRFP is to assist recipients in becoming lifelong leaders who will contribute to science and engineering education… Read more →

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