technology
March 5, 2022
Tech can be tricky
A pilot project will establish a public-interest technology clinic to serve local community organizations and governments.
November 19, 2021
Starring role for research
Improvements in data collection allow a UW researcher and colleagues to swiftly make new discoveries in the cosmos.
September 4, 2021
Hope and healing
A researcher combats cancer with the help of UW doctors and tools developed by his colleagues.
November 30, 2018
The sci-fi future is here
Science fiction has come alive in our modern world—from robots in our homes to the search for life across the universe.
Tech for mental health
UW Medicine researchers are exploring how a smartphone might help someone manage a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
A life in computing
We explore the legacy of Microsoft’s late co-founder by photographing items from one of his museums.
March 1, 2016
Test driven
Here, we present the tales of two clinical trials of technology that one day could alleviate suffering and improve lives for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from severe heart problems and kidney failure.
December 1, 2015
Tech that knows
A new wearable technology developed at the UW called MagnifiSense can detect what devices and vehicles the user interacts with.
September 1, 2015
Cellphone guilt
A new UW study finds that cellphone use at playgrounds is a significant source of parental guilt, as well as a powerful distraction when children try to get caregivers’ attention.
December 1, 2014
Phone training
Mobile phones have become second-nature for most people. What’s coming next, say UW researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone.
March 1, 2012
More pressure, less tech
A UW Information School study found that college students—only weeks away from final exams and studying in the library—intentionally pared down their use of information technology devices.
June 1, 2010
Mobile goes global
The Open Data Kit, a suite of tools developed by computer scientists and engineers at the University of Washington, makes it possible to use mobile devices for social change in the developing world.
December 1, 2009
Record grant
The University of Washington is slated to receive its largest-ever federal award—$126 million over 5+ years—to connect the ocean to the Internet.
Vision for contacts
Babak Parviz’s vision of the future can be summed up in one word: plastic. A circle of flexible plastic imprinted with tiny electronic circuits, that is.
September 1, 2009
Changing classroom
Some classrooms are equipped with banks of desktop computers, but even that is blasé nowadays, since most students bring laptops. The classroom experience at the UW is being transformed because of new, sophisticated technology.
December 1, 2008
Brilliance unleashed
With the recruitment of luminaries like Michael Hochberg, the UW is fast becoming a nanophotonics powerhouse.
September 1, 2008
Nature's calmer
When it comes to defeating stress, hi-def can’t hold a candle to the real thing, according to a study by the UW Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems Lab.
September 1, 2007
Star searcher
Finding the best time to buy plane tickets is just one of the amazing Web search breakthroughs created by Oren Etzioni.
The right stuff
Once composites were just used for fishing rods and snowboards. Now they are a key component of the next generation of passenger airplanes. UW experts talk about the 787 and what’s next in the materials revolution.
June 1, 2006
Tech visionary in HD
Richard Citta, '71, and a team of Zenith Electronics Corp. engineers invented a delivery system that makes HDTV possible.
September 1, 2005
High-tech art
When the UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) started four years ago, it set the standard for digital arts education and became the envy of other institutions around the world.
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.
June 1, 2001
Then and now
The heart of the UW campus may look like it did in 1970, but inside the classroom, a transformation is taking place.
June 1, 2000
Road to relief?
While everybody's talking traffic, the UW is actually doing something about it, but is anyone listening?
High-tech hall
Inside the shell of a 1928 structure sits the University's first true 21st century building.
June 1, 1998
The world of 2088
Looking ahead, UW experts envision internet implants, a colony on Mars, obsolete books and the end of the United States.
September 1, 1996
Inventions made for war adapted to heal people and help the planet
Figuring out how to provide aid during the critical "golden hour" has been the impetus behind a number of projects.
June 1, 1996
UW to see higher enrollments, better technology, thanks to state budget
Students will graduate faster and citizens will have more degree options, thanks to the 1996 legislative session which ended March 7.
December 1, 1995
Plugged in
The UW embarked on UWired, an ambitious experiment that integrates the computer into undergraduate education.
December 1, 1994
Traffic tracking
Several hundred Puget Sound commuters will use an existing FM wireless messaging network to plan their trips.
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
Parkinson’s assist
Sport glasses that allow a viewer to watch TV while mowing the lawn may someday allow Parkinson's disease victims to walk at a normal pace.
September 1, 1993
The ultimate biotech
The emerging field of biomimetics draws on some of the most powerful source material imaginable: hundreds of millions of years of evolution.