Allen School faculty and students are frequently featured in the media. Below is a sampling of stories from regional, national and international outlets focused on our work. For more news, visit our Media Releases & Announcements page and the Allen School News blog.
2023
- Can AI help increase expression of empathy?, KUOW, 2/7/23
- Can you teach a computer common sense?, NPR, 1/31/23
- Device transmits radio waves with almost no power — without violating the laws of physics, The Conversation, 1/24/23
2022
- Digital health leaders share predictions on what to expect in 2023, GeekWire, 12/29/22
- University of Washington lab pays it forward with democratized health tech, MD+DI Online, 12/29/22
- An A.I. Pioneer on What We Should Really Fear, The New York Times Magazine, 12/21/22
- This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone, Wired, 12/7/22
- Tech that analyzes videos wins top prize at Univ. of Washington computer science showcase, GeekWire, 11/17/22
- A simple smartphone camera and app could be enough to measure your blood oxygen levels at home, ZME Science, 11/8/22
- Affordable hearing screening, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 10/31/22
- MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners, The New York Times, 10/12/22 (Allen School professor Yejin Choi) More coverage
- These volunteers are building cell towers to bring the internet to everyone — and they need help, GeekWire, 9/14/22
- Wandering robots in the wild, IEEE Spectrum, 7/14/22
- These earbuds give everything but your voice the ‘talk to the hand’ treatment, TechCrunch, 7/11/22
- Scientists design a cheap device that can detect ear problems with the help of a smartphone, STAT News, 7/8/22
- A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys, Ars Technica, 6/14/22
- Data visualisations made more accessible to screen reader users, Cosmos, 6/6/22
- Teaching robots to touch, Nature Outlook, 5/26/22
- Univ. of Washington and Meta partner on program linking PhD students to AI mentors at tech giant, GeekWire, 5/19/22
- Why 'bad' ads appear on 'good' websites — a computer scientist explains, The Conversation, 4/13/22
- Can computers learn common sense?, The New Yorker, 4/5/22
- Restoring touch through electrodes implanted in the human brain will require engineering around a sensory lag, The Conversation, 3/30/22
- Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence, Nature Outlook, 3/29/22
- Hear us out: Smartphone lidar can test blood, milk, The Register, 3/18/22
- Team behind high-tech murder hornet trackers finds softer inspiration in dandelion seeds, GeekWire, 3/16/22
- Smartphone system measures clotting time of users' blood samples, New Atlas, 2/11/22
- New 'Science Hub' to launch at Univ. of Washington with $1.9M from Amazon, GeekWire, 2/9/22
2021
- Hear, hear: Sound Life Sciences wins FDA OK for app that uses sonar to measure breathing, Fierce Biotech, 12/3/21
- Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology, Microsoft Research Blog, 12/1/21
- Wearable device can spot, reverse opioid overdoses, researchers say, UPI, 11/24/21
- Can a machine learn morality?, New York Times, 11/19/21
- Univ. of Washington machine learning spinout OctoML raises $85M to expand its partnerships, GeekWire, 11/1/21
- Will it be possible to upload information to my brain?, Gizmodo, 9/20/21
- AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a few photos, New Scientist, 7/29/21
- People of ACM - Shyam Gollakota, Association for Computing Machinery, 7/22/21
- It’s not just bad behavior – why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online, The Conversation, 7/7/21
- Researchers can now make moving videos from just a single photo, Gizmodo, 6/16/21
- 'Lazy' AI: UW researchers find that tech can misdiagnose COVID-19 by taking shortcuts, GeekWire, 6/3/21
- ‘World’s lowest power wireless chip’: UW spinout Jeeva unveils new sensor data streaming tech, GeekWire, 5/12/21
- Smartphone camera senses patients' pulse, breathing rate, IEEE Spectrum, 4/16/21
- Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for supercomputers – a new approach breaks a barrier that’s stood for nearly half a century, The Conversation, 4/9/21
- Foam sword fencing with a PR2 is the best kind of exercise, IEEE Spectrum, 3/18/21
- OctoML raises $28M to grow machine learning software used by Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, GeekWire, 3/17/21
- Smart speakers can detect abnormal heart rhythms, researchers find, Washington Post, 3/9/21
- The curse of neural toxicity: AI2 and UW researchers help computers watch their language, GeekWire, 3/6/21
- Google to offer heart and respiratory rate measurements using just your smartphone's camera, TechCrunch, 2/4/21
- 2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead, GeekWire, 1/2/21
2020
- We built a 2020 time capsule out of synthetic DNA—here's how, The Verge, 12/21/20
- Computer scientists achieve crown jewel of cryptography, Quanta Magazine, 11/10/20
- DNA-based molecular tagging system could replace printed barcodes, UPI, 11/3/20
- UW researcher put tiny tracking technology on giant hornets to help state deal with murderous pest, GeekWire, 10/24/20
- Could brain implants ever make telekinesis possible?, Gizmodo, 10/19/20
- How to hunt a 'murder hornet': Washington scientists capture and tag invasive bug, KUOW, 10/12/20
- Computer scientists break Traveling Salesperson record, Quanta Magazine, 10/8/20
- These tiny sensors can hitch a ride on mothback, TechCrunch, 10/8/20
- Here comes the Internet of Plastic Things, no batteries or electronics required, IEEE Spectrum, 10/8/20
- UW scientist develops tiny live-streaming camera that can attach to insects, KING 5, 10/5/20
- Your favorite A.I. language tool is toxic, Fortune, 9/29/20
- Q&A: UW researchers clicked ads on 200 news sites to track misinformation, UW News, 9/28/20
- Backed by $12.5 million in federal funding, Univ. of Washington leads new data science institute, GeekWire, 9/1/20
- What is an algorithm, anyway?, Mashable, 8/31/20
- 6 incredible ways the smartphone can help track health and disease, New Atlas, 8/22/20
- An inside look at how Ant-Man tech may solve Washington’s Asian giant hornet problem, KIRO 7, 8/18/20
- Scientists strapped a tiny camera to a beetle to test just how small video technology can get, CNN, 7/15/20
- Microsoft invests $2.5M in CREATE, a new center for accessible tech at the University of Washington, GeekWire, 5/28/20
- Teaming up with artificial intelligence, Communications of the ACM, 5/28/20
- A shiny snack bag's reflections can reconstruct the room around it, Scientific American, 5/4/20
- UW and Microsoft release contact-tracing app, aiming to battle COVID-19 while preserving privacy, GeekWire, 4/22/20
- Researchers challenge AI to give advice as well as humans on Reddit can, VentureBeat, 4/14/20
- How universities are developing COVID-19 solutions in real time, PBS NewsHour, 4/13/20
- Opinion: Alexa, do I have coronavirus?, New York Times, 4/5/20
- The WHO and CDC are all over social media, but are they making a difference?, Adweek, 4/5/20 (registration required)
- Seattle machine learning startup OctoML raises $15M from Amplify and Madrona, GeekWire, 4/3/20
- Artist pays tribute to DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin with DNA-laced paint and DNA-coded images, GeekWire, 2/24/20
2019
- Carpentry Compiler turns 3D models to instructions on how to build them, TechCrunch, 12/2/19
- A smart ring for AR, real-time AI for healthcare, and more University of Washington tech innovations, GeekWire, 11/21/19
- How data from smartphones and apps can inform us about human health on a global scale, Geekwire, 11/21/19
- Discrimination influences student activity and mood, Inside Higher Ed, 11/7/19
- The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen, MIT Technology Review, 10/30/19 More stories
- Meet the hacker professor who's saving lives with smart devices and sonar, GeekWire, 10/29/19
- Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation, GeekWire, 10/18/19
- Machines beat humans on a reading test. but do they understand?, Quanta Magazine, 10/17/19
- Why DNA might be the data storage solution of the future, Discover Magazine, 10/10/19
- Mind-reading systems: Seven ways brain computer interfaces are already changing the world, ZDNet, 10/7/19
- Artificial intelligence can't think without polluting (but researchers are finally trying to make it greener), Slate, 9/20/19
- Hao Peng wins 2019 Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Allen School News, 9/17/19
- Geek of the Week: UW's Justin Chan uses computer science skills to democratize medical devices, GeekWire, 9/13/19
- Allen School's Samia Ibtasam receives Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, Allen School News, 9/13/19
- Robotic race car platform from Univ. of Washington designed to speed research around A.I., GeekWire, 8/21/19
- Allen School’s latest faculty additions will strengthen UW’s leadership in robotics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more, Allen School News, 8/16/19
- Artificial intelligence scores another victory in diagnosing breast cancer, GeekWire, 8/9/19
- Allen School's Tim Althoff and Carlos Guestrin recognized by SIGKDD for research advancing the field of data science, Allen School News, 8/9/19
- With AI and other tech, Anat Caspi focuses on helping people with disabilities, Seattle Times, 8/4/19
- DNA data storage is about to go viral, Forbes, 8/3/19
- Allen School's Kuikui Liu and Shayan Oveis Gharan earn Best Paper Award at STOC 2019 with new technique for counting the bases of a matroid, Allen School News, 8/2/19
- Professor Pedro Domingos receives IJCAI John McCarthy Award for excellence in artificial intelligence research, Allen School News, 7/29/19
- Univ. of Washington names veteran data scientist to lead booming computer science school into new era, GeekWire, 7/17/19
- Mind meld: Tetris players electronically connect their brains, IEEE Spectrum, 7/11/19 Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2019: DNA data storage is closer than you think, Scientific American, 7/1/19
- A cardiac arrest-detecting smart speaker could save your life, Digital Trends, 6/20/19 More stories
- University of Washington computer science leader Hank Levy reflects on 13 years of massive change, GeekWire, 6/14/19
- UW student virtual reality projects demonstrate empathy, education, entertainment use cases, GeekWire, 6/13/19
- To detect fake news, this AI first learned to write it, TechCrunch, 6/10/19 More stories
- Hacking Nature, Anthropocene Magazine, June 2019
- Groundbreaking study that served as the foundation for securing implantable medical devices earns IEEE Test of Time Award, Allen School News, 5/23/19
- A smartphone app and a paper funnel could help parents diagnose kids' ear infections, NPR, 5/15/19 More stories
- UW and Microsoft researchers demonstrate digital microfluidics automation for scaling DNA data storage, Allen School News, 4/15/19
- Shwetak Patel, UW computer scientist and prolific inventor, wins prestigious ACM Prize at age 37, GeekWire, 4/3/19
- Microsoft and University of Washington demonstrate automated DNA data storage, GeekWire, 3/21/19
- Allen School's TVM deep-learning compiler framework transitions to Apache, Allen School News, 3/18/19
- New app aims to prevent opioid deaths, Reuters, 3/11/19
- "Feed me, Alexa." University of Washington team creates voice-controlled robot to help people eat, GeekWire, 3/9/19
- Alvin Cheung and Shayan Oveis Gharan named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows, Allen School News, 3/4/19
- UW's Jennifer Mankoff, Batya Friedman and Jacob Wobbrock elected to CHI Academy, Allen School News, 2/13/19
- Here's what's cooking inside Nvidia's new AI robotics research lab in Seattle, GeekWire, 1/11/19 More stories
- This smartphone app can detect an opioid overdose and save your life, CNBC, 1/9/19 More stories
- Ras Bodik, Alec Wolman, and Aaron Hertzmann recognized as Fellows of the ACM for outstanding contributions to the field of computing, Allen School News, 1/8/19
2018
- 6 of the most amazing things that were 3D-printed in 2018, MIT Technology Review, 12/24/18
- Could Washington state be the next AI frontier?, Crosscut, 12/21/18
- Machine vision can create Harry Potter-style photos for muggles, MIT Technology Review, 12/21/18
- Ph.D. student Ewin Tang recognized in Forbes' "30 Under 30" in science for taking the "quantum" out of quantum computing, Allen School News, 12/21/18
- How tiny backpacks are turning bees into living drones, NBC Mach, 12/14/18 More stories
- 5 Entrepreneurs on the Rise in AI: Ali Farhadi, Co-Founder and CEO, Xnor.ai, Forbes, 11/29/18
- Working Geek: UW computer scientist Jennifer Mankoff channeled adversity into a career path, GeekWire, 11/7/18
- Colleges Grapple With Teaching the Technology and Ethics of A.I., New York Times, 11/2/18
- From fighting Alzheimer's to AR captions, UW computer science students show cutting-edge innovations, GeekWire, 11/2/18
- Researchers develop 3D printed objects that can track their own use, Engadget, 10/10/18 More stories
- Scientists connect three people's minds so they can communicate using brainwaves alone, Newsweek, 10/3/18
- Geek of the Week: Rajalakshmi Nandakumar's wireless tech research could help us sleep easy, GeekWire, 9/14/18
- Allen School's new VTA accelerator enables developers to combine leading-edge deep learning with hardware co-design, Allen School News, 7/12/18
- Inside Amazon's $3.5 million competition to make Alexa chat like a human, The Verge, 6/13/18
- Susan Eggers receives Eckert-Mauchly Award for outstanding contributions to computer architecture, Allen School News, 6/5/18
- This insect-sized flying robot is powered by lasers, Wired, 5/15/18 More stories
- Secrets of the $500K Amazon Alexa Prize winner: Inside the Univ. of Washington's 'socialbot', GeekWire, 4/26/18
- Technique to beam HD video with 99 percent less power could sharpen the eyes of smart homes, TechCrunch, 4/19/18 More stories
- Device helps blind, low-vision users better browse web pages, UPI, 4/19/18
- Who's a good AI? Dog-based data creates a canine machine learning system, TechCrunch, 4/11/18
- What people see in 157 robot faces, IEEE Spectrum, 4/3/18
- This Seattle Startup is Developing AI Technology that Works for Smartphones, Seattle Business, March 2018
- Allen School faculty and alumni recognized with Google Faculty Research Awards, Allen School News, 3/26/18
- An archive written in DNA, Nature Biotechnology, March 2018
- Inside the Alexa Prize, Wired, 2/27/18
- The phone charger of the future will go pew pew, Wired, 2/23/18 More stories
- DNA data storage gets random access, IEEE Spectrum, 2/20/18 More stories
- How DNA could store all the world's data in a semi-trailer, Financial Times, 2/4/18
- DARPA wants to build an image search engine out of DNA, Wired, 1/24/18
- UW researchers "MERGE" machine learning and medicine to enable targeted treatment of cancer, Allen School News, 1/5/18
2017
- UW students teach Alexa to have a little chat with us, Seattle Times, 11/28/17
- Siddhartha Srinivasa and Tao Xie named Fellows of the IEEE, Allen School News, 11/22/17
- University of Washington's computer science clout on full display at annual student showcase, GeekWire, 11/16/17
- Robotics expert moves entire team to University of Washington, including famous Oreo-cracking robot, GeekWire, 11/16/17
- Your Next Password May Be Stored in Your Shirt Cuff, MIT Technology Review, 10/31/17 More stories
- Who Is Thinking About Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality?, MIT Technology Review, 10/19/17
- Professor Jennifer Mankoff Recognized with GVU Impact Award, Allen School News, 10/18/17
- It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads, Wired, 10/18/17 More stories
- Smartphones Are Changing Medical Care in Some Surprising Ways, NBC MACH, 10/13/17
- How the 'Internet of Things' Will Change Everything, NBC MACH, 10/6/17
- Allen School and AWS team up on new NNVM compiler for deep learning frameworks, Allen School News, 10/6/17
- In 1,000 Years, This Recording Of Miles David Preserved In DNA Will Still Be Perfect, Fast Company, 10/5/17
- Nvidia to open robotics lab near University of Washington, expanding Seattle-area footprint, GeekWire, 10/5/17
- Geek of the Week: Duke grad Alex Mariakakis finds a home at UW and a vision for continued success, GeekWire, 9/22/17
- A clever way to transmit data on the cheap, The Economist, 9/13/17 More stories
- Jeffrey Heer wins IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award, Allen School News, 9/12/17
- Securing the Fourth Estate: What the Panama Papers and Confidante reveal about journalists' needs and practices, Allen School News, 9/11/17
- UW's Sounding Board names a finalist for $2.5 million Amazon Alexa Prize, Allen School News, 9/1/17
- Allen School's open-source TVM framework bridges the gap between deep learning and hardware innovation, Allen School News, 8/17/17
- 35 Innovators Under 35: Franziska Roesner, University of Washington, MIT Technology Review, 8/16/17
- Malware Stored in Synthetic DNA Can Take Over a PC, Researchers Find, The Wall Street Journal, 8/10/17 More stories
- Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA, Wired, 8/10/17
- Storing Data in DNA Brings Nature into the Digital Universe, Scientific American, 7/29/17
- The Technology That Will Make It Impossible for You to Believe What You See, The Atlantic, 7/11/17 More stories
- This cell phone can make calls even without a battery, Wired, 6/28/17
- Allen School set to amplify UW's leadership in human-computer interaction with new hires Jennifer Mankoff and Jon Froehlich, Allen School News, 6/28/17
- Researchers use ridesharing cars to sniff out a secret spying tool, Wired, 6/2/17 More stories
- Allen School's Jeffrey Heer wins ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, Allen School News, 5/3/17
- Video Games Help Model Brain's Neurons, New York Times, 4/24/17
- Six Allen School faculty members win NSF CAREER Awards, Allen School News, 4/18/17
- Allen School's Tom Anderson elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Allen School News, 4/13/17
- Apple's Turi acquisition funds new $1M UW professorship in AI and machine learning, GeekWire, 2/23/17
- Learning to love our robot co-workers, New York Times Magazine, 2/23/17
- UW 'genius' Shwetak Patel works on health monitoring apps for Senosis startup, GeekWire, 2/17/17
- AccessMap finds routes that avoid common pitfalls for those with limited mobility, TechCrunch, 2/1/17
- Jeeva Wireless, founded by UW researchers, raises $1.2M to develop 'breakthrough' passive Wi-Fi system, GeekWire, 1/30/17
- Senior faculty hires Sidd Srinivasa and Michael Taylor set to advance UW's leadership in robotics and computer engineering research, CSE News, 1/17/17
2016
- Geek of the Week: UW Ph.D. student Irene Zhang has big ideas to make life easier for programmers, GeekWire, 12/16/16
- Shwetak Patel named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, CSE News, 12/8/16
- Direct brain stimulation lets gamers play blind, New Atlas, 12/6/16
- Is DNA the Future of Data Storage?, Wall Street Journal, 10/25/16
- This Contact Lens Will Kick-Start the Internet of Disposable Things, MIT Technology Review, 10/19/16
- Can Passwords Be Sent Through the Human Body?, Wall Street Journal, 10/7/16
- From digital to biological: Why the future of storage is all about DNA, ZDNet, 9/23/16
- 10 Scientists to Watch: Shayan Oveis Gharan finds the shortest route to success, Science News, 9/21/16
- A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can't Do It All Yet, The New York Times, 9/19/16
- Have stencil, will lift, ASCR Discovery, September 2016
- How DNA could store all the world's data, Nature, 8/31/16
- Devices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with new ‘interscatter’ technique, TechCrunch, 8/17/16 More stories
- They really are watching you: web tracking surges with online ads, USA Today, 8/16/16 More stories
- Shyam Gollakota in the Brilliant 10: The Man Who Powers Devices with Wi-Fi, Popular Science, 8/11/16
- The Robot You Want Most Is Far from Reality, MIT Technology Review, 8/10/16
- Apple acquires Turi in major exit for Seattle-based machine learning and AI startup, GeekWire, 8/5/16
- RFID tag maker Impinj prices IPO at $14, shares soar in rare public offering, GeekWire, 7/21/16 More stories
- This amazing search engine automatically face-swaps you into your image results, TechCrunch, 7/21/16 More stories
- Researchers stored an OK Go music video on strands of DNA, Mashable, 7/7/16 More stories
- The Ultimate Facial-Recognition Algorithm, The Atlantic, 6/28/16 More stories
- Students demonstrate their HoloLens apps after a quarter of VR and AR design, TechCrunch, 6/10/16
- Tech Turns to Biology as Data Storage Needs Explode, Scientific American, 5/31/16
- Intelligent water: New $40M Phyn joint venture taps UW tech expertise with Seattle R&D lab, GeekWire, 5/26/16