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Nov. 24, 2009
| The
Associated Press
NW
power grid project gets $89M from DOE
A project to examine
how high technology can improve the Pacific Northwest's electric
power grid has received an $88.8 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Energy. Among those taking part in the project are
the campuses of the University of Washington in Seattle and
Washington State University in Pullman.
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Nov. 5, 2009
| Technology
Review
A
battery-free implantable neural sensor
Thanks to the
shrinking size of electronics, researchers have been exploring
increasingly sophisticated implantable devices, paving the way
for new prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces. But a big
challenge has been how to deliver power to electronic components
embedded within the body. A tiny radio chip created by electrical
engineer Brian Otis harvests power and senses neural activity in
a moth.
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Nov. 15, 2009
| Scientific
American
Nanodevices
bend under the force of light
Researchers at Cornell
University have engineered minute structures that deform by 20
nanometers when light passes through them. It builds on work last
year by Yale researchers and UW electrical engineers Michael
Hochberg and Tom Baehr-Jones, which showed that laser light
routed through a tiny bridge-shaped resonator induced the bridge
to vibrate up and down within a range of a few nanometers.
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Oct. 29, 2009
| Popular
Science
Muscle-based
PC interface lets you literally point and click, no mouse
required
A research
collaboration between UW computer scientist James Landay and
graduate student Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research and the
University of Toronto is developing a muscle-controlled interface
enabling Minority Report-esque, gesture-driven interaction with
computers. It's perhaps the most promising of the billion or so
Minority-Report-aspiring prototype interfaces.
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Nov. 22, 2009
| The
New York Times
Supercomputing
for the masses
For decades, the
world’s supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of
universities and governments. But what would happen if regular
folks could get their hands on one? Bill Howe, a senior scientist
at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington, urges
research organizations to reveal their information to help
so-called citizen scientists.
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Nov. 24, 2009
| NPR
The
mysterious disappearance of Phil Agre
Charlotte Lee, an
assistant professor in the UW College of Engineering's Department
of Human Centered Design & Engineering, is one of several
people mobilizing online efforts to find Phil Agre, a UCLA information
studies professor who has been missing for more than a year.
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Nov. 22, 2009 | Fox News (via the
Associated Press)
Scientist
discovers way to cut an open refrigerator's energy
Keeping food cold in
open store display cases is an ongoing challenge for designers.
Researchers at Michigan's Kettering University are working with
UW aeronautical engineer Dana Dabiri to make refrigerated cases
more energy-efficient.
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Nov. 14, 2009
| Skagit
Valley Herald
Faster
than the wind
When it races in
America’s Cup this February, the BMW Oracle Racing team's
trimaran will sport a wing instead of a cloth sail. The
190-foot-tall wing made in Skagit County is by far the largest
wing ever created. Not only does the Oracle sail look like a wing,
it acts like one, says UW professor Bob Breidenthal, who studies
aerodynamics, fluid mechanics and turbulence.
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Nov. 1, 2009
| Seattle
Business Monthly
The
top 25 innovators and entrepreneurs
Meet the new pioneers
of Washington's idea factory. UW udergraduate Sunil Garg and
classmates had a unique idea for their final project in the
computer science capstone course: attack the shortage of
computers in developing countries by allowing students to share
computers. The CEO of Skytap, a startup co-founded by UW computer
scientists, also made this year's list.
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Dec. 2, 2009
| Xconomy
Rested
and ready, Pathway Medical founder scouts UW, gets itch to start
something new
One of the Northwest’s
leading medical device entrepreneurs, Tom Clement, has been
sniffing around campus for the next big idea. He spent time in
the UW’s bioengineering and electrical engineering departments
getting a better feel for what’s happening in the labs. He says
it’s also given him a sense that he can be helpful.
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Nov. 20, 2009
| Christian
Science Monitor
New
Economy cities: A Seattle slew of advantages
With a vibrant
entrepreneurial climate and deep pool of venture capital, Seattle
capitalizes on high-tech, exports, and world health. Part of the
reason is the University of Washington, a research-money magnet,
that has developed and patented hundreds of ideas.
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Nov. 18, 2009
| ABC
News
Five
brain boosters to keep your mind sharp
A good memory can help
you ace a test, work the New York Times crossword puzzle, and
figure out a complex computer program. Eric Chudler, a research
associate professor of bioengineering, says: "Sleep is very,
very important to consolidate information that we learned the day
before."
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Nov. 4, 2009
| SeattlePI.com
Geek
of the week: Wendy Chisholm
Wendy Chisholm,
research consultant and champion of tech tools for the disabled
who works on WebAnywhere, is seattlepi.com's "Geek of the
Week."
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Dec. 1, 2009
| Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Microsoft
exec: Quitting Google as tough as quitting smoking
There were some great
insights at last night's Xconomy Forum on the Future of Search
and Information Discovery. Oren Etzioni and Ed Lazowska,
professors of computer science and engineering, are quoted.
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Nov. 2, 2009 | Puget Sound Business
Journal: TechFlash blog
Preview:
Futuristic demos from Microsoft's 2009 college tour
Craig Mundie, chief
research and strategy officer at Microsoft, will provide at
glimpse into upcoming technology during his tour of several
college campuses this week -- starting at Cornell University
today and ending at the University of Washington on Thursday.
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Nov. 7, 2009
| SeattlePI.com
Clippings
from Craig Mundie's stop at UW
Craig Mundie,
Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, finished up his
2009 Microsoft College Tour at the University of Washington on
Thursday. He spoke to a packed audience at Kane Hall Room 120 and
demoed a few prototype technologies Microsoft Research is working
on.
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Nov. 6, 2009
| The
Daily
Microsoft
exec visits UW
Last night, Kane 120
was filled with students in computer-related study fields as well
as many local technology enthusiasts because Craig Mundie, the
chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft, stopped by the
UW to speak on the future state of technology that will be
provided by the corporation.
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Nov. 4, 2009
| Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Kindle
on campus: Reality check
It's been more than a
month since a group of University of Washington computer science
grad students each got a Kindle DX as part of a pilot project to
test the device for reading course materials. Graduate students
Franzi Roesner, Peter Hornyack, Michael Bayne and Adrian Sampson
share their experiences so far.
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If you have a newsworthy result about one
month from publication, presentation or demonstration, please
contact Hannah Hickey, hickeyh@uw.edu. Notice
of student and faculty awards and grants is also welcome.
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