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CoE
NewsFlash | Vol. 4, No. 9 | Jan. 3, 2011 |
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.
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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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Dec. 14, 2010 | BusinessWeek
(via Associated Press)
UW:
Admiralty Inlet an ideal spot for tidal power
Nearly
two years of monitoring show the Admiralty Inlet is an ideal place to
harness tidal energy. Mechanical engineer Brian Polagye presented recent
findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Jim Thomson, an assistant professor of civil engineering and
oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Lab, is quoted.
SOURCE MATERIAL
Assessing the environmental effects of
tidal turbines |
Dec.
13, 2010
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Oct. 14, 2010 | KING
5
Tides
could be tapped for clean energy
Some
30 meters down, near the mouth of Puget Sound's Admiralty Inlet, sits a
device that is gathering information expected to unlock a powerful
source of clean energy. The device was installed by mechanical engineer
Brian Polagye, civil and environmental engineer Jim Thomson and
colleagues to measure sound and currents 200 feet underwater.
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Assessing the environmental effects of
tidal turbines | Dec. 13, 2010
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Dec. 28, 2010 | PC
World
Student-made
device could bring clean water to the world
A
device built by University of Washington students could help provide
clean drinking water to poor countries. A $40,000 prize was shared by
bioengineering doctoral graduate Jacqueline Linnes; electrical
engineering doctoral student Charlie Matlack; Penny Huang, a senior in
chemical engineering; and Chin Jung Cheng, then an undergraduate in
chemical engineering and now a UW doctoral student in bioengineering.
Electrical engineer Howard Chizeck was the faculty adviser.
SOURCE MATERIAL
Students' water-testing tool wins
$40,000, launches nonprofit | Dec. 20, 2010
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Dec. 26, 2010 | MSNBC
Best
of Microsoft Kinect hacks
Microsoft's
Kinect game controller has become a darling of hackers and the kind of
people who just love to take things apart. One of the featured hacks
comes from UW's BioRobotics Laboratory, thanks to work by visiting
graduate student Fredrik Ryden, doctoral student Hawkeye King, and
electrical engineering faculty Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford.
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MATERIAL
Engineering students hack Kinect for
surgical robotics research | Jan. 3, 2011
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Dec. 21, 2010 | The
New York Times
Smarter,
not faster, is the future of computing research
When
China unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer in October there was no
shortage of hand-wringing in the United States. But priorities for U.S.
computing research, according to a report to the White House and
Congress, should include things such as new techniques for exploring
large-scale data sets and algorithms for machine learning, rather than
only speed. Ed Lazowska, a UW computer scientist and co-chair of the
working group for the report, is quoted.
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Dec. 15, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal
UW
prof: 737 successor will look similar
Aeronautical
engineer Adam Bruckner appreciated the strikingly different design of
the delta-winged Sonic Cruiser, which Boeing briefly proposed in 2001.
But he says that for next 20 to 25 years we’ll continue to see airplanes
that look like streamlined cylinders with conventional wings on them.
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Dec. 19, 2010 | The
Everett Herald
All
eyes on Boeing in next crucial year
With
25 percent of Boeing's work force eligible for retirement, the company
and state are concerned about replacing those employees with skilled
workers over the next decade. An industry group is asking the
Legislature to boost student capacity in engineering programs at
Washington universities. In 2009, UW's engineering program turned away
400 qualified applicants because of a lack of space.
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Dec. 2, 2010 | Nature
News
Video
microscopy reveals molecules in motion
A
microscope developed by Harvard chemists that is capable of imaging
'naked' molecules — without linking them to bulky fluorescent probes —
has had an upgrade and can now gather images at high speed. The team is
now working with UW mechanical engineer Eric Seibel to miniaturize the
fiber optic device.
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Cancer diagnosis: Now in 3-D | Feb. 9, 2009
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Dec. 16, 2010 | Technology
Review
Cell-seeded
sutures to repair the heart
Researchers
have developed a new kind of biological sutures, made from polymer
strands infused with stem cells, that might help surmount two major
obstacles to using stem cells to heal the heart: getting the cells to
the right spot and keeping them there long enough to trigger healing.
Bioengineer Chuck Murry is quoted.
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A strategy to fix a broken heart | Aug. 9, 2010
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Dec. 2, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
And
the Flashies go to...
Electrical
engineer and computer scientist Shwetak Patel beat out some big names,
including Steve Ballmer, Ben Huh, Andy Sack, Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos,
to capture the "Newsmaker of the Year" award. The researcher and
entrepreneur said his next project may relate to sewage systems in
homes.
RELATED
MATERIAL
UW energy- and water-sensing technology
acquired by Belkin |
April
22, 2010
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Dec. 19, 2010 | The
New York Times Magazine
Granting
anonymity
Transparency
is secretive business. Tor is a deliberately byzantine system of
virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and
thus the identity of clients. Jacob Appelbaum, a developer for Tor and
now part-time research scientist in Yoshi Kohno's lab, is quoted.
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Nov. 29, 2010 | The
New York Times (via ClimateWire)
Will
a flood of tiny sensors help us cut emissions?
Advances
in information technology have some companies dreaming of a world abuzz
with sensors, some of which could reduce carbon emissions. Electrical
engineer and computer scientist Josh Smith, who recently moved from
Intel to the UW, discusses efforts to reduce sensors' power needs.
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Nov. 27, 2010 | Popular
Mechanics
Six
innovative robot hands
But
in order to lend us a hand, robots will need some pretty impressive
hands themselves. Engineers are up to the challenge, and over the past
few years they have developed robotic hands with unprecedented
dexterity, strength and sensitivity. Electrical engineer and computer
scientist Josh Smith, previously at Intel, demonstrates his
fish-inspired "hand with a sixth sense."
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Dec. 15, 2010 | IEEE
Spectrum: Automation blog
Willow
Garage sells first PR2 robots
Silicon
Valley robotics company Willow Garage is announcing today that it has
sold its first four PR2 robots, designed to let academics tinker with
the controls. One of the robots is going to computer scientist and
electrical engineer Josh Smith's UW lab.
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Dec. 15, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Inspiring
high school developers
Computer
science alum Helen Martin, a computer science teacher at Garfield High
School, writes that students from around the Puget Sound gathered at the
UW for a battle of the minds. Martin, a member of the Puget Sound
Computer Science Teachers Association, helped organize the biannual
programming competition. Computer science lecturer Stuart Reges
described Fermat’s Little Theorem and its role in cryptography before
the three-hour problem-solving marathon.
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Aug. 28, 2010 | KUOW
Ben
Verellen: An amplified life
When
Ben Verellen graduated from the University of Washington a few years ago
with a degree in electrical engineering, he knew what he wanted: To
keep one foot in the world of his studies and the other foot in the
world of underground rock, where he'd been playing since he was 15.
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Dec. 6, 2010 | The
New York Times
Eye
for art and artistry among jigsaw's jumble
Younger
people are getting into the rebounding jigsaw puzzle business.
Electrical engineer Maya Gupta, 34, set up a laser-cutting puzzle
business, Artifact Puzzles, last year. “I was hoping to find an audience
that would be a lot like me — people who are technology professionals
and want to get away from the computer,” Gupta said.
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Hickey, hickeyh@uw.edu. Notice
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