computers
December 1, 2006
Cool idea
University of Washington researchers have succeeded in building a cooling device tiny enough to fit on a computer chip.
December 1, 2003
Paul Allen, unplugged
Paul Allen looms over Seattle and the nation as one of America's legendary entrepreneurs, computer visionaries and philanthropists.
September 1, 2002
Light speed
By harnessing light instead of electricity to send information, Larry Dalton promises to change the way we work and live.
March 1, 1998
Major malfunction
The 1987 collapse of the newly built addition to Husky Stadium may have drawn more attention, but one of the most painful crashes at the UW that year happened in Loew Hall.
December 1, 1995
Plugged in
The UW embarked on UWired, an ambitious experiment that integrates the computer into undergraduate education.
December 1, 1994
Smarter computers
Software engineers are creating programs that will turn computers into the ultimate in personal assistants.
September 1, 1994
Eye-catching tech
Take a good long look at your laptop computer screen. It soon could become a collector's item. And it will have company.
June 1, 1994
Making video move
Electrical Engineering Professor Yongmin Kim's computer system compresses and decompresses full-motion video signals at 30 frames a second.