A session Feb. 15 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting will explore how big data scientists can find careers at universities and within academic settings.


A session Feb. 15 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting will explore how big data scientists can find careers at universities and within academic settings.

A research team has found that one group of bilingual speakers used emoticons more often when typing in their second language in casual, online communication than they did when typing in their native tongue.

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ chemistry lab teamed up with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers studying 3-D printing to create 3-D printed objects with new capabilities.

A robot developed at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ will deploy instruments to gather information in unprecedented detail about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy.

The Boeing Advanced Research Center, located in the Department of Mechanical Engineering on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus, will let students and faculty members work collaboratively with Boeing engineers on aircraft and spacecraft assembly and manufacturing. Four initial projects are underway at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, led by Boeing-employed affiliate instructors and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineering professors.

Many of the worst West Coast winter floods involve heavy rains and melting snow, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ hydrology experts are using the physics of these events to better predict the risks.

A new class at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is using comics to explain what, exactly, the field of human-centered design is all about.

From starting his own company – and recruiting 11 friends to join him – and running a successful nonprofit to doing research in the lab and taking a full course load, engineering undergraduate student David Coven is an expert schedule juggler.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ electrical engineers have developed a way to automatically track people across moving and still cameras by using an algorithm that trains the networked cameras to learn one another’s differences.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team’s initial demonstration a year ago.

You can’t predict the future, but you can prepare for it — that’s the thinking behind architect (and architecture graduate student and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staff member) Brian Rich and his principles of “future proofing” existing and historical buildings.

A state-of-the-art imaging machine is coming to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ for use by researchers in a variety of disciplines.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has an $8 million, four-year contract to develop technologies that can harness waves, tides and currents to power naval facilities worldwide.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s College of Engineering 2014 fall lecture series will feature faculty researchers in engineering and medicine who are improving cardiac medical care with new technologies.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.

Jeffrey Heer, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received an award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop new theories, tools and techniques for data visualization that help scientists see and understand big data.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is one of 16 schools invited to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Co. EcoCAR 3 competition that spans four years with stand-alone contests each spring. Their challenge in this next competition is to convert a Chevrolet Camaro into a hybrid-electric car.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new search algorithm that improves a robot’s ability to find and navigate to tagged objects.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have developed a new form of low-power wireless sensing technology that lets users “train” their smartphones to recognize and respond to specific hand gestures near the phone.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have taken inspiration from a centuries-old clock design and created a power harvester that uses natural fluctuations in temperature and pressure as its power source.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results to parents and pediatricians within minutes.

Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three atoms thick.

The popular Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session allows Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students — and some just arriving — to show off their research.

Shyam Gollakota, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has been named one of this year’s “Innovators Under 35” by global media company MIT Technology Review.

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study found that StopInfo, a new hub for bus stop information in the OneBusAway app, is helpful for blind riders and can promote spontaneous and unfamiliar travel. A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ research team launched the program recently in collaboration with King County Metro.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have designed a new communication system that uses radio frequency signals as a power source and reuses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity to battery-free devices.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ bioengineers have discovered a potentially faster way to deliver a topical drug that protects women from contracting HIV. Their method spins the drug into silk-like fibers that quickly dissolve when in contact with moisture, releasing higher doses of the drug than possible with other materials.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ bioengineers have a designed a peptide structure that can stop the harmful changes of the body’s normal proteins into a state that’s linked to widespread diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is part of a new study that shows the disastrous landslide that killed 43 people at Oso, Washington, involved the “remobilizationâ€� of a 2006 landslide in the same place.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s New Ventures Facility has been named emerging incubator of the year in a global ranking of top university business incubators.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have developed visual tools to help self-trackers understand their daily activity patterns over a longer period and in more detail. They found people had an easier time meeting personal fitness and activity goals when they could see their data presented in a broader, more visual way.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have shown that a favorable electrical property is present in a type of protein found in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract, such as the lungs, heart and arteries. These findings are the first that clearly track this phenomenon, called ferroelectricity, occurring at the molecular level in biological tissues.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is one of four institutions receiving four Innova Dash all-electric micro vehicles this summer. They will be able to communicate data such as position, speed and battery charge directly to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s network, which will provide the information to various research projects.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Advanced Vehicle Works team won second place in the international EcoCAR 2 competition this month for turning a Chevrolet Malibu into a highly efficient hybrid vehicle running on electric grid energy and biodiesel.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, the state Department of Ecology and Washington State Ferries are working together to get a better understanding of water circulation in Puget Sound.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineers have designed a low-power sensor that could be placed permanently in a person’s eye to track hard-to-measure changes in eye pressure. The sensor would be embedded with an artificial lens during cataract surgery and would detect pressure changes instantaneously, then transmit the data wirelessly using radio frequency waves.

Computer scientists from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches everything there is to know about any visual concept.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Today profiles some of 2014’s highest-achieving graduates.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is receiving a $31.2 million gift from Washington Research Foundation to boost entrepreneurship and support research that tackles some of society’s most crucial challenges. The award will fund four interdisciplinary initiatives that seek to advance global innovation in clean energy, protein design, big data science and neuroengineering.