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CoE
NewsFlash | Vol. 3, No. 3 | June 30, 2009 |
NewsFlash is a monthly email of press items featuring our College's researchers. For a more complete and regularly updated list of COE media coverage, see In the Media.
Click on a headline to read that article on the web. Some links may require a subscription or no longer be active.
NewsFlash is a service of the UW College of Engineering and the UW Office of News and Information. If you have a newsworthy result about one month from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah Hickey at (206-543-2580, hickeyh@uw.edu). |
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June 15, 2009 | The
Seattle Times
Intel
aims to capture wild electricity
Scientists
at Intel's University of Washington lab are "harvesting" a small but
free power supply in the sky. Intel researcher Joshua Smith, an
affiliate professor in computer science and engineering, and UW
electrical engineering graduate student Alanson Sample are doing it with
a cheap TV antenna pointed across Interstate 5 toward KING-TV's tower
on Queen Anne. If it's pointed in the right direction, it draws enough
power to replace the batteries in an LED thermometer from RadioShack.
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June 22, 2009 | Technology
Review
Intel's
wireless power play
Of 45
projects that Intel displayed the project that received the most
attention by far was the demo of a wirelessly charged iPod speaker. Lead
researcher Joshua Smith, affiliate professor of computer science and
engineering, says the receiving coil was tuned to the same frequency as a
nearby electric device, and thus is able to accept an energy transfer
with about 80 percent efficiency within a range of about a meter.
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June 10, 2009 | The
Guardian
Nokia
developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity
Nokia
has developed a prototype charging system that is able to power itself
on nothing more than ambient radiowaves – the weak TV, radio and mobile
phone signals that permanently surround us. The article mentions
research earlier this year at Intel and the University of Washington
that was able to power a small sensor using a TV signal 4.1 kilometers
away.
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June 26, 2009 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Clean
Tech Open rewards 12 startups from the Northwest
The
first Pacific Northwest Clean Tech Open has companies compete for three
$50,000 regional prizes. The 12 finalists include Soluxra, a solar
energy startup by materials scientist Alex Jen, and LivinGreen
Materials, by materials scientist Guozhong Cao.
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June 8, 2009 | Wall
Street Journal: Venture Capital Dispatch blog
Will
one of these start-ups emerge as the next Cisco?
The
Wall Street Journal profiles 18 start-ups that received first-time
venture capital funding in the week of Oct. 6, 2008, when the Dow Jones
Industrial Average experienced its worst-ever weekly decline. Among the
companies profiled is Seattle's EnerG2, which formed around technology
developed by UW materials scientist Guozhong Cao and his former doctoral
student, Aaron Feaver.
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June 11, 2009 | Xconomy
UW
spinout, Beat BioTherapeutics, aims to make stem cells for damaged
hearts
Stem
cell researchers have a lot of big dreams, and one is to someday
regenerate damaged hearts. That is still many years away from becoming a
commercial reality, if ever, but a few UW scientists have formed a new
company that hopes to make cells that can replace pacemakers, and
someday rebuild damaged heart tissue. The company, Bellevue-based Beat
BioTherapeutics, is the brainchild of Chuck Murry and Michael Laflamme, a
pair of UW stem cell researchers, and UW bioengineering professor Buddy
Ratner.
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June 24, 2009 | The
UW Daily
Blasting off
A
10-foot, 8-inch rocket that can reach the speed of sound in roughly
three seconds was designed and built by a team of 11 graduate students
and four professors from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The team has been working on the project for the past two quarters to
compete in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC),
which will take place June 25 and 26 in Utah.
SOURCE
MATERIAL
Media advisory: UW team takes off tomorrow for rocket
competition | June 22, 2009
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May 27, 2009 | Technology
Review
How IBM plans to
win Jeopardy!
IBM
will showcase the latest tricks in natural-language processing by
pitting its Watson supercomputer against human contestants on the
popular trivia show. Computer scientist Dan Weld, who has applied to be
part of a new DARPA effort to advance natural language processing, is
quoted. "I expect that this whole area will heat up significantly in the
next few years," Weld says.
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June 10, 2009 | Technology
Review
Extracting
meaning from millions of pages
University
of Washington software TextRunner, developed by computer scientist Oren
Etzioni, pulls facts from 500 million Web pages. Some experts say that
this kind of "automated information extraction" will form the basis for
next-generation Web searches, in which nuggets of information are first
gleaned and then combined intelligently.
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June 1, 2009 | Columns
(UW alumni magazine)
His
own devices
From
Idaho farmboy to the world's first bioengineer, Wayne Quinton, a 1959
graduate of the UW, has lived one extraordinary life—and saved many
more. The UW alumni magazine profiles Quinton in its cover story.
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June 26, 2009 | ABC
News
Sink or
swim: Sub races test students
Aspiring young engineers from around the world are in D.C. competing in
the International Submarine Races. Unfortunately, the UW’s sub “Beluga”
had to abort its mission after having a whale of a problem. "We were
having some buoyancy issues, like it sank," a UW student commented.
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If you have a newsworthy result about one month
from publication, presentation or demonstration, please contact Hannah
Hickey, hickeyh@u.washington.edu. Notice
of student and faculty awards and grants is also welcome.
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