Every year, we in the Paul G. Allen School invite our new majors to identify their most inspirational high school or community college teacher – the teacher (each of us had one!) who changed their perception of what they should aspire to. We host these teachers, their partners, and the students who nominated them for dinner in the Allen Center (plus a bit of propaganda designed to encourage the teachers to send us more great students!).
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The Allen School’s annual ACM Spring BBQ
OK, so it wasn’t exactly balmy spring weather, and there was the usual 45-minute line for burgers, but a good time was had by all at the 2018 Allen School ACM Spring BBQ!… Read more →
The Allen School and the Microsoft CEO Summit
On Wednesday, ten of Shwetak Patel’s students – undergraduate and graduate, from the Paul G. Allen School and the Department of Electrical Engineering – demonstrated smartphone apps for health screening/diagnosis as part of the Microsoft CEO Summit partner’s program.
Slides from presentations by Ed Lazowska and Shwetak Patel – on the general theme of “Tech to Serve” – here.… Read more →
UW’s RoboFly, the world’s first wireless insect-sized drone, takes flight
A team of University of Washington researchers has achieved liftoff of the world’s lightest wireless flying robotic insect, RoboFly. Developed by members of the Allen School’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Autonomous Insect Robotics Lab, RoboFly represents a milestone in autonomous flight that could launch a new wave of innovation in aerial robotics.
Insect-scale robots tend to rely on wire tethers for power and control, as existing systems for supplying the energy… Read more →
Allen School Ph.D. alumna Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch
Allen School alumna Cynthia Matuszek has been named one of “AI’s 10 to Watch,” a list of rising stars in artificial intelligence published by IEEE Intelligent Systems. Matuszek, who earned her Ph.D. in 2014 working with Allen School professors Dieter Fox of the Robotics and State Estimation Lab and Luke Zettlemoyer of the Natural Language Processing group, is a professor in the Interactive Robotics and Language Lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Allen School and HCDE senior Kaitlyn Zhou awarded College of Engineering Dean’s Medal
Kaitlyn Zhou, a senior who will graduate from the University of Washington this spring with bachelor’s degrees in computer science and human centered design and engineering, has been awarded the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence. Each year, the college selects two students to receive this award recognition of their academic achievement, leadership, and engagement in research and extra-curricular activities. During her time at UW, Zhou has ticked all of these boxes and then some.
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Undergrad Harrison Kwik aims to transfer his knowledge and enthusiasm to a new class of Allen School students
Allen School senior Harrison Kwik will graduate with his bachelor’s in computer science this spring. He has spent the past year and a half as an undergraduate researcher in the Code & Cognition Lab directed by Amy Ko, professor in the Information School and adjunct professor in the Allen School. Kwik also took on the role of teaching assistant for the Allen School’s transfer student seminar, which helps new arrivals from campuses around the state to settle into the… Read more →
UW researchers develop a way to stream high-def video from low-power devices
Video streaming technologies have traditionally had to make trade-offs between portability and power, with high-definition streaming heavily reliant on the latter. Now, thanks to a team of researchers in the University of Washington’s Allen School and Department of Electrical Engineering, the ability to stream high-definition video wirelessly and on the go — without the need for bulky batteries — is in sight. Using a technique called analog video backscatter, the researchers have developed a way to bypass the power-hungry… Read more →
Allen School and CMU researchers introduce SPRITEs for nonvisual access to graphical website content
Many web users have become accustomed to navigating page content with the help of spatial and visual cues such as navigation bars, tabs, and icons. But for those who are blind or low-vision, the proliferation of visually rich, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) make it challenging to locate and consume information online — even with the help of a screen reader or braille display. Now, thanks to Allen School professor Jennifer Mankoff and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, help is literally… Read more →
Making your college choice?
Here’s a lovely video created by a University of Washington senior to encourage his kid sister to choose UW over other schools …
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