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CoE
NewsFlash | Vol. 3, No. 11 | February 26,
2010 |
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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Jan. 30, 2010 | Wall
Street Journal
Toyota
recall shows how lean manufacturing can backfire
A
manufacturing defect causing Toyota gas pedals to stick has forced the
company to halt sales of more than half of its U.S. models. "There is a
lot of emphasis of cost reduction and streamlining," says industrial
engineer Kailash Kapur, "but something can slip by and have a big
impact."
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Jan. 31, 2010 | The
New York Times
Smart
dust? Not quite, but we're getting there
Years
ago, enthusiasts predicted the coming of “smart dust” — tiny digital
sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering all sorts of information and
communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and
understand the physical world in new ways. Some ambitious sensor
research projects provide a glimpse of where things are headed. “The
ability to eliminate batteries for these sensors brings the vision of
smart dust closer to reality,” says Joshua Smith, principal engineer at
Intel Labs Seattle and an affiliate professor in the UW's departments of
electrical engineering and computer science & engineering.
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Feb. 24, 2010 | TechNewsWorld
Tech
titans lend credibility to Bloom Box hype
Bloom
Energy, a company that's won major media attention starting with a spot
on "60 Minutes" last weekend, has unveiled its Bloom Energy Server, a
fuel cell system designed to provide electricity to homes and
businesses. The technology it uses isn't 100 percent new, but Bloom's
manufacturing process -- and the attention it's brought to the
technology -- could benefit the overall fuel cell industry, says
chemical engineer Stu Adler.
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Jan. 18, 2010 | KING
5 News
Seattle
company promising portable power plants
A
Seattle company, HydroVolt, says it's on the verge of bringing portable
power plants to just about anywhere they're needed. The company worked
with UW mechanical engineer Bruce Adee and students to test the device
in the Cedar River.
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Feb. 19, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
A
geek's guide to the climate, from the country's 'Green Czar'
Arun
Majumdar, director of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy,
spoke at the University of Washington about the agency's efforts to
find and fund technologies with the potential to lead to breakthrough
solutions to the climate crisis.
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Feb. 17, 2010 | New
Scientist
Fake
foot with smarts boosts walking efficiency
Dutch
and American engineers have developed a smart artificial foot that uses
springs and electronics to recycle energy otherwise lost during
walking. Glenn Klute, a UW affiliate associate professor of mechanical
engineering, will soon be supervising tests of the foot on 20 amputee
volunteers at the Seattle Veterans Hospital.
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Feb. 23, 2010 | Los
Angeles Times
Lab
rats with cell phones?
Our
wireless lifestyle is making us all unwitting test subjects, writes
Christopher Ketcham in an opinion piece. Consider research done by UW
bioengineer Henry Lai: Only 25% of studies funded by the wireless
industry show some type of biological effect from microwave radiation.
Independently funded studies, however, are far more damning: 75% of
those studies -- free of industry influence -- show a bioeffect.
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MATERIAL
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Feb. 1, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal
Asking
the impossible: Odd interview questions abound
The
long-standing technology industry practice of subjecting potential
recruits to odd, perplexing questions is still alive and well, at least
at some companies. Computer science senior Ian Gienger, master's student
Victoria Kirst and computer scientist Ed Lazowska comment on recent
interview experiences.
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Feb. 22, 2010 | Network
World
10
hot computer science schools
Enrollment
in the 10 top U.S. computer science programs are up significantly. For
example, this year the UW's computer science program received three
applications for every slot, compared to only two applications for every
slot in 2007.
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Feb. 4, 2010 | The
New York Times
Plan for
free access to a cloud computing service
The
National Science Foundation and Microsoft Corporation have agreed to
offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new
cloud computing service. Computer scientist Ed Lazowska is quoted.
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Feb. 12, 2010 | Puget
Sound Business Journal: TechFlash blog
Microsoft
and Amazon square off, sorta, in a very Seattle rivalry
If
Microsoft and Apple are old rivals, and Microsoft and Google bitter
enemies, then Microsoft and Amazon.com are starting to look a lot like
passive-aggressive neighbors. Ed Lazowska, professor of computer
science, is quoted.
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Feb. 24, 2010 | The
(UW) Daily
CSE
students provide Kindle feedback
Computer Science& Engineering graduate students who participated in
the pilot test for Amazon’s electronic reader found benefits and
disadvantages to using the device in a classroom setting. Computer
scientist Ed Lazowska and CSE graduate students Aditya Sankar, Andrew
Hunter, Ryder Ziola and Adrian Sampson are quoted.
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Feb. 5, 2010 | The
(UW) Daily
Dealing
with dirty Drumheller
Senior
Michael French wants to change the Drumheller fountain's dirty image.
Along with his research group from the mechanical-engineering
department, which is comprised of seniors Scott Bissell, Joseph
Jonathan, and Luke Murchison, he plans to test the fountain for
compatibility with a filtration system.
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Feb. 5, 2010 | The
(UW) Daily Double Shot
Zombies
on campus
Electrical
engineer John Sahr, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs,
comments on the humans-versus-zombies tag game in the first issue of the
Daily's weekly TV show (at 1:48).
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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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