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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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October 20, 2025 -
UW News
The institute, which is housed in the Information School, leverages expertise from the Allen School, Foster School of Business and other collaborators to advance meaningful employment opportunities and career experiences for neurodivergent people.
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October 8, 2025 -
Allen School News
Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) was recognized for his work on Batfish, an open source network configuration analysis tool that helps find errors and prevent costly outages that could disrupt air travel, banking, communications and more.
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October 2, 2025 -
Allen School News
Asai (Ph.D., ‘25), research scientist at Ai2 and incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, was recognized for her pioneering research that has helped establish the foundations for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and showcase its effectiveness at reducing LLM hallucinations.
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September 25, 2025 -
Allen School News
Allen School researchers earned multiple awards at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for laying the foundation for how AI systems understand and follow human instructions, exploring how LLMs pull responses from their training data, and more.
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September 19, 2025 -
UW News
In her new book “Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters,” Reinecke examines how culture shapes the design and use of technology — and why we should resist a one-size-fits-all approach.
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September 18, 2025 -
Allen School News
Winners Andrew Alex and Megan Frisella aim to advance research in user-scheduled programming languages, while fellow Allen School winner Zixian Ma and UW ECE collaborator Yushi Hu will develop multi-modal AI agents capable of performing complex tasks.
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September 10, 2025 -
UW News
In an article in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, members of the AIMS Lab led by Allen School professor Su-In Lee discuss how explainable AI techniques are essential for ensuring accuracy and trust in AI models used in clinical settings.
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September 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
To help Reddit moderators make data-driven decisions on what rules are best for their community, a team of researchers in the Allen School’s Behavioral Data Science Group and Social Futures Lab conducted the largest-to-date analysis of over 67,000 Reddit rules and their evolution.
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September 9, 2025 -
Allen School News
There has been a lot of chatter about new computer science graduates and employment in the AI era. Allen School professors Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Grossman examine the myths and realities surrounding AI and the prospects for current and future Allen School majors.
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September 3, 2025 -
IEEE Spectrum
Companies are pouring billions into developing humanoid robots. In an op-ed, Allen School professor Maya Cakmak considers the results of a survey exploring whether people would welcome such robots — and looks forward to taking one for a spin (for science).