April 3, 2012

Robotic Surgery Systems Shipped to Medical Research Centers


April 2, 2012

Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time


March 6, 2012

Shwetak Patel Awarded Sloan Fellowship

EE and CSE Professor Shwetak Patel has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.  Each year, these extraordinarily competitive two-year fellowships are awarded to researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial…


March 5, 2012

Robot flash mob: Bots come out to dance, assist humanity on Red Square


March 4, 2012

Bright red phosphor is based on silicon quantum dots


March 3, 2012

Rico Malvar Elected to National Academy of Engineering

EE Affiliate Professor Henrique (Rico) Malvar has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Rico is Chief Scientist at Microsoft Research and has contributed substantially to EE’s programs as well as others at UW. His citation reads “for contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards”. Election to the Academy is…


March 2, 2012

UW launches technology startup incubator, aims to double startups in three years


March 1, 2012

Gabe Cohn Wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

Graduate student Gabe Cohn has been awarded this year’s Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Out of the 198 nominees, Gabe is one of only twelve winners. Gabe works with Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel on embedded systems and VLSI in ubiquitous computing applications. Congratulations Gabe! More Information Gabe Cohn’s web page Ubiquitous Computing Lab


February 7, 2012

Atlas Receives the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar Award

Professor Les Atlas has just received the prestigious Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar Award. This three-year Award is for Professor Atlas’ innovative new approach to signal processing for hearing research and devices. He has adapted the mathematical statistics behind modern 4G internet and the latest high-speed wi-fi communications to help understand how our normally-functioning auditory system…


February 6, 2012

UW develops diet aid designed to work with smartphone



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