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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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August 26, 2025 -
Allen School News
In 2011, a team of researchers that included Allen School professor and alum Franziska Roesner published a paper detailing how they could remotely take control of a car. Their work, which inspired new motor vehicle security standards, received the USENIX Test of Time Award.
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August 22, 2025 -
GeekWire
Aatish Parson (B.S., ‘25) has hit a few bumps in the road since graduation—all the better for building the CivicScan app that uses artificial intelligence to detect potholes and other issues to smooth the way for improved road maintenance.
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August 20, 2025 -
KUOW Soundside
Professor Ed Lazowska joined KUOW’s Soundside program to discuss the prospects for computer science majors and how advances in artificial intelligence will impact many sectors — suggesting that the current “gloom and doom” focused on technology employment is misplaced.
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August 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
The Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project will accelerate scientific discovery and advance the science of AI itself, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure program and NVIDIA.
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August 13, 2025 -
UW News
A study led by Allen School professor Tim Althoff and published in Nature offers the strongest evidence to date of the link between physical activity and the built environment.
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August 12, 2025 -
Allen School News
In a recent paper, a team of researchers led by professor Matt Golub designed a new machine learning technique to understand how different parts of the brain talk to each other even when some parts can’t be directly observed.
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August 9, 2025 -
GeekWire
After nearly half a century at UW — and at the intersection of Seattle tech, education and civic life — Lazowska is logging off from his official duties. But he’s not completely shutting things down, with plans to stay involved in the community and focus on “the big problems.”
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August 6, 2025 -
UW News
Allen School researchers presented a study at ACL 2025 that found people who interacted with a conservative or liberal version of ChatGPT began mirroring the model’s bias in their views on a set of issues and funding priorities—regardless of their own political leanings.
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July 30, 2025 -
Allen School News
Allen School undergraduates Joshua Tran and Claire Li were part of a team in the UW’s Autonomous Insect Robotics (AIR) Lab that earned the ICRA Best Student Paper Award for TinySense, the current lightest avionics system with the potential for flying insect robot sensor autonomy.
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July 29, 2025 -
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics honored Min (Ph.D., ‘24) for her dissertation “Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models,” which expanded the natural language processing community’s understanding of the behavior and capabilities of LLMs.