The Power Over Wi-Fi (PoWiFi) system developed by 蘑菇视频 engineers is one of the most innovative and game-changing technologies of the year, according to Popular Science, which included it in the magazine’s annual “Best of What’s New” awards announced this week.
Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they’ve always given off heat. 蘑菇视频 researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle 鈥� figuring out how to make a laser refrigerate water and other liquids.
The 蘑菇视频 held its first ever Innovation Summit today in Shanghai, China. The event brought together industry leaders from China and the United States, who discussed how they are turning ideas into impact, connecting academia to industry and helping solve the world鈥檚 most pressing problems.
With high-tech weather radars, weather balloons, ground instruments and NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory, scientists will be watching rain and snow storms on Washington’s famously wet Olympic Peninsula.
The 蘑菇视频 and Tsinghua University have agreed to launch an integrated dual degree program through the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) that combines project-based learning in design thinking, technology development and entrepreneurship.
A report from the interdisciplinary 蘑菇视频 Tech Policy Lab on the challenges of augmented reality suggests such systems should be adaptable to change, resistant to hacking and responsive to the needs of diverse users.
The National Science Foundation has selected the 蘑菇视频, along with the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley, to co-lead one of four Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs around the country.
By more accurately predicting how variations in DNA sequences affect gene splicing, a new 蘑菇视频 model and publicly available Web tool can help narrow down which genetic mutations cause disease and which have little effect on a person’s health.
Peering into a grocery store bin, it’s hard to tell if a peach or tomato or avocado is starting to go bad underneath its skin. A new affordable hyperspectral camera technology developed by 蘑菇视频 and Microsoft Research uses both visible and invisible near-infrared light to “see” beneath surfaces and capture hidden details.
A 蘑菇视频 otolaryngology resident and bioengineering student have used 3-D printing techniques to create lifelike models to help aspiring surgeons – who currently practice on soap, apples, and vegetables – learn to perform ear reconstruction surgeries.
Leaders from the 蘑菇视频 and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), one of China’s most prestigious public research universities, signed an agreement Wednesday to work together on “smart cities” research, teaching and collaborations in their respective electrical engineering departments.
Imagine a question-and-answer game played by two people who are not in the same place and not talking to each other. Round after round, one player asks a series of questions and accurately guesses the object the other is thinking about. Sci-fi? Mind-reading superpowers? Not quite. 蘑菇视频 researchers recently used a direct brain-to-brain connection to enable pairs of participants to play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet. The experiment,…
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and 蘑菇视频 computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student, a breakthrough in AI research.
蘑菇视频 CSE professor Pedro Domingos’ book “The Master Algorithm” is an essential primer on machine learning, and a popular science romp through one of today’s hottest scientific topics.. It unveils the deep ideas behind the algorithms that increasingly pick our books, find our dates, manage investments and run our lives 鈥� and what informed consumers ought to know about them.
The 蘑菇视频 is the most innovative public university in the world, according to a new ranking by Reuters released Wednesday. The 蘑菇视频 is ranked fourth overall, behind only Stanford, MIT and Harvard. 鈥淚nnovation and turning ideas into action are at the center of everything we do,鈥� 蘑菇视频 Interim President Ana Mari Cauce said. 鈥淭his is great recognition of the hard work done by our faculty and students working across all disciplines, and I can鈥檛 wait to see what…
A new wearable technology developed at the 蘑菇视频 called MagnifiSense can sense what devices and vehicles its user interacts with, which can help track that individual’s carbon footprint, enable smart home applications or even assist with elder care.
They could easily spend their days poring over statistical methods for a genetic study or sorting through data about consumer behavior on the other side of the globe. But this summer, data scientists at the 蘑菇视频鈥檚 eScience Institute took a break from their typical work helping researchers and professors to incorporate cutting-edge technologies and data-based methods into their academic pursuits. Instead, they harnessed their expertise to address pressing urban issues closer to home. In June, the institute launched…
A scale of simple numbers — the Richter Scale — unnerves us when we think about earthquakes, as Pacific Northwest residents have been prone to do lately. But who was Richter, and how did it all come about? Joe Janes takes a look for an installment of his Documents that Changed the World podcast series.
蘑菇视频 machine learning researchers have developed a new approach to optimization – a key step in predicting everything from election results to how proteins will fold – that won a top paper prize at the world’s largest artificial intelligence conference.
蘑菇视频 researchers have released new guidelines to make MakerSpaces more accessible to people with disabilities, as more communal spaces with soldering irons, 3-D printers, sewing machines and other “making” tools pop up on campuses and neighborhoods nationwide.
The 蘑菇视频 is investing up to $37 million in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, which makes things for researchers and outside companies that aren’t practical, economical or possible to fabricate at commercial foundries: inconceivably tiny devices, chips made from unconventional materials that industrial factories won’t touch and devices that probe the boundaries of our universe.
The U.S. Geological Survey today announced $5 million in funding that will allow the 蘑菇视频 and three other institutions to help transition the prototype ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, under development since 2005, into a public-facing tool.
In recognition of their outstanding records of scientific achievement, 12 蘑菇视频 professors聽will be inducted this fall into the聽Washington State Academy of Sciences. The professors will be honored for their 鈥渨illingness to work on behalf of the academy鈥� to bring top-quality scientific methods to research issues pertaining to Washington state. The induction ceremony will聽be held Sept. 17 at the organization’s eighth-annual meeting at the Seattle Museum of Flight. One 蘑菇视频 professor joins as a member by virtue of his…
Despite heightened awareness of surveillance tactics and privacy breaches, existing computer security tools aren’t meeting the needs of journalists working with sensitive material, a new 蘑菇视频 study finds.
蘑菇视频 professor Philip Howard discusses his new book, “Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set us Free or Lock Us Up,” published this spring by Yale University Press.
蘑菇视频 researchers who conducted the first academic review of nine mhealth iPhone apps on the market in March 2014 found none met all the criteria that would make them accessible to blind customers. Accessibility shortcomings ranged from improperly labeled buttons to layouts that confuse built-in screen readers that assist low-vision smartphone users.
Twenty years in, the law is finally starting to get used to the Internet. Now it is imperative, says Ryan Calo, assistant professor in the 蘑菇视频 School of Law, that the law figure out how to deal effectively with the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence.
The Natural Capital Project, with offices at 蘑菇视频, wants to integrate the socioeconomic, cultural and spiritual values of nature into all major decisions affecting the environment and human well-being.
A conversation with 蘑菇视频 astronomer Andrew Connolly on the coming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the promise of big data to the study of the universe.
New research comparing traditional hunter-gatherer living conditions to a more modern setting shows that access to artificial light and electricity has shortened the amount of sleep humans get each night.
In pursuit of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges, two of the world鈥檚 leading research universities, the 蘑菇视频 and Tsinghua University, are partnering to create the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), an institute dedicated to educating the next generation of innovators. With $40 million in foundational support from Microsoft, GIX will bring together students, faculty, professionals and entrepreneurs from around the world to collaborate on real-world technology and design projects. Based in a new facility in the…
Microsoft Corp. is awarding a $10 million gift to kick-start a campaign to build a second Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) building on the 蘑菇视频 campus as an “investment in students who will become the innovators and creators of tomorrow,”
What researchers have discovered about the hummingbird-sized hawkmoth could help the next generation of small flying robots operate efficiently under a broad range of lighting conditions. The research is published in the June 12 edition of Science.
The Large Hadron Collider has started recording data from the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved on Earth. This new data, the first recorded since 2012, will enable an international collaboration of researchers 鈥� including many from the 蘑菇视频 鈥� to study the Higgs boson, search for dark matter and develop a more complete understanding of the laws of nature.
A new 蘑菇视频 study finds that cell phone use at playgrounds is a significant source of parental guilt, and that caregivers absorbed in their phones were much less attentive to children’s requests.
蘑菇视频 researchers easily hacked a next generation teleoperated surgical robot 鈥� one used only for research purposes 鈥� to test how easily a malicious attack could hijack remotely-controlled operations in the future and to make those systems more secure.
The Trace app turns a digital sketch that you draw on your smartphone screen 鈥� heart, maple leaf, raindrop 鈥� into a walking route that you can send to a friend. The recipient of the “gift” receives step-by-step walking directions that eventually reveal the hidden shape on a map.
A new 蘑菇视频 study demonstrates that perovskite materials — superefficient crystal structures that have recently taken the scientific community by storm — contain previously undiscovered flaws that can be engineered to improve solar cells and other devices even further.
蘑菇视频 and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers studied how mobile-based food journals integrate into everyday life. A new study suggests how future designs might make it easier and more effective.
Researchers from the 蘑菇视频 have teamed up with medical device manufacturer Medtronic to use the Activa庐 PC+S Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system with people who have essential tremor.