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- In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics
- UW students win Amazon's inaugural Alexa Prize for most engaging socialbot
- New tool quantifies power imbalance between female and male characters in Hollywood movie scripts
- How to store information in your clothes invisibly, without electronics
- For $1000, anyone can purchase online ads to track your location and app use
- UW team shatters long-range communication barrier for devices that consume almost no power
- PupilScreen aims to allow parents, coaches, medics to detect concussion, brain injuries with a smartphone
- New app could use smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer
- Computer scientists use music to covertly track body movements, activity
- DNA sequencing tool lack robust protections against cybersecurity risks
- Lip-syncing Obama: New tools turn audio clips into realistic video
- First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power
- Catching the IMSI-catchers: SeaGlass brings transparency to cell phone surveillance
- Kids, parents alike worried about privacy with internet-connected toys
- Period tracking apps failing users in basic ways, study finds
- Food photos help Instagram users with healthy eating
- Scientific discovery game significantly speeds up neuroscience research process
- Two UW faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- $50M endowment establishes the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
- Singing posters and talking shirts: UW engineers turn everyday objects into FM radio stations
- UW CSE announces the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Three UW scientists awarded Sloan Fellowships for early-career research
- New route-finding map lets Seattle pedestrians avoid hills, construction, accessibility barriers
- Two UW professors win Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
2016
- No peeking: Humans play computer game using only direct brain stimulation
- What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music
- Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air
- HemaApp screens for anemia, blood conditions without needle sticks
- Interscatter communication enables first-ever implanted devices, smart contact lenses, credit cards that ‘talk’ Wi-Fi
- Unearthing trackers of the past: UW computer scientists reveal the history of third-party web tracking
- Imaging software predicts how you look with different hair styles, colors, appearances
- UW, Microsoft researchers break record for DNA data storage
- How well do facial recognition algorithms cope with a million strangers?
- UW-led team awarded $1M bioelectronics innovation prize
- Paper gets ‘smart’ with drawn-on, stenciled sensor tags
- This five-fingered robot hand learns to get a grip on its own
- New health sensing tool measures lung function over a phone call, from anywhere in the world
- UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly
- Smartwatches can now track your finger in mid-air using sonar
- UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
- Three UW professors win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- UW computer scientists to make financial products better and more available for the poor
2015
