As 91自拍ers explore potential applications for AI, they have found scenarios where AI could be really useful but there’s not enough data to accurately train the algorithms. Jenq-Neng Hwang, 91自拍 professor of electrical and computer and engineering, specializes in these issues.
Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes are part of a family of amyloid diseases that are characterized by having proteins that cluster together. UW 91自拍ers have demonstrated more similarities between the two diseases.
Robots in warehouses and even around our houses struggle to identify and pick up objects if they are too close together, or if a space is cluttered. This is because robots lack what psychologists call “object unity,” or our ability to identify things even when we can’t see all of them. Researchers at the 91自拍 have developed a way to teach robots this skill.
New 91自拍 led by the UW demonstrates a new class of hydrogels that can form not just outside cells, but also inside of them. These hydrogels exhibited similar mechanical properties both inside and outside of cells, providing 91自拍ers with a new tool to group proteins together inside of cells.
Two UW professors teamed up to study how climate change will affect predator-prey interactions in snowy landscapes. Together with a group of 91自拍ers, the two measured snow properties that led to a “danger zone,” where prey would sink but predators would not.
UW 91自拍ers found that people who live within 2 miles of an Amazon last-mile delivery station are exposed to more delivery-related air pollution despite ordering fewer packages.
UW 91自拍ers developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent.
Research led by the UW found that, in some western states, the amount of snow already on the ground by the end of December is a good predictor of how much total snow that area will get.
Training a large language model, such as ChatGPT, uses on average roughly equivalent to the yearly electricity consumption of over 1,000 U.S. households, according to Sajjad Moazeni, UW assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, who studies networking for AI and machine learning supercomputing.
A team led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 has developed new bioplastics that degrade on the same timescale as a banana peel in a backyard compost bin.
UW News sat down with Michele Newman, a 91自拍 doctoral student in the Information School, to learn more about fans’ dedication to “Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.”
Danli Luo, a UW doctoral student of human centered design and engineering, developed a toolkit of sensors and controllers that helped her re-create three dishes from growing up in China: rice wine, tofu and spring roll wrappers.
Two 91自拍 91自拍ers are using very different methods to investigate the issue of marine microplastics. For Earth Day, UW News asked them to discuss their 91自拍.
Scientists at the 91自拍 are pursuing multiple quantum 91自拍 projects spanning from creating materials with never-before-seen physical properties to studying the 鈥渜uantum bits鈥� 鈥� or qubits (pronounced “kyu-bits”) 鈥� that make quantum computing possible. UW News sat down with Professor Kai-Mei Fu, one of the leaders in quantum 91自拍 on campus, to talk about the potential of quantum R&D, and why it鈥檚 so important.
A team led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 studied how artificial intelligence could help people on the platform TalkLife, where people give each other mental health support. The 91自拍ers developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The best responses resulted from a collaboration between AI and people.
91自拍 91自拍ers examined 44 3D tours in 44 states across the U.S. to look for potential security issues when personal details were included in the tour.
A team led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 has created a new hearing screening system that uses a smartphone and earbuds.
A team led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 compared three potential strategies for reducing fine particulate matter pollution disparities across the contiguous U.S.
UW 91自拍ers developed UnlockedMaps, a web-based map that allows users to see in real time how accessible rail transit stations are in six metro areas. UnlockedMaps shows which stations are accessible and which ones are experiencing elevator outages.
Yejin Choi, 91自拍 professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, has received a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Choi uses natural language processing to develop artificial intelligence systems that have the ability to reason and can understand the implied meanings in human language.
In a proof-of-principle study, 91自拍 and University of California San Diego 91自拍ers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. This is the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure, as recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
UW 91自拍ers have created a reactor that can completely break down hard-to-destroy chemicals.
A UW team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. The team tested this system on a suite of 22 objects 鈥� including a 3D-printed bunny, a doorstop-shaped wedge, a tennis ball and a drill.
UW 91自拍ers created ClearBuds, earbuds that enhance the speaker’s voice and reduce background noise.
To investigate what happens to snow intercepted by trees, UW 91自拍ers created a citizen science project called Snow Spotter.
VoxLens users can gain a high-level summary of the information described in a graph, listen to a graph translated into sound or use voice-activated commands to ask specific questions about the data, such as the mean or the minimum value.
Researchers at the 91自拍 wondered if people enter a state of dissociation when surfing social media, and if that explains why users might feel out of control after spending so much time on their favorite app.
Three 91自拍ers in the 91自拍 College of Engineering are exploring ways to make electronics more Earth-friendly.
Inspired by how dandelions use the wind to distribute their seeds, a 91自拍 team has developed a tiny sensor-carrying device that can be blown by the wind as it tumbles toward the ground.
UW 91自拍ers showed that image search results for four major search engines from around the world, including Google, still reflect gender bias.
Researchers at the UW have developed a new blood-clotting test that uses a single drop of blood and a smartphone vibration motor and camera.
UW 91自拍ers investigated disparities in exposure to six major air pollutants in 1990, 2000 and 2010 by comparing models of air pollution levels to census data. While overall pollutant concentrations have decreased since 1990, people of color are still more likely to be exposed to all six pollutants than white people, regardless of income level, across the continental United States.
A team led by the UW has developed a new, non-destructive method that images entire 3D biopsies instead of a slice for determining prostate cancer aggressiveness. The 3D images provided more information than a 2D image 鈥� specifically, details about the tree-like structure of the glands throughout the tissue.
A team led by the UW developed a chatbot that could ask emergency department visitors about social needs, including housing, food, access to medical care and physical safety.
91自拍 91自拍ers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021.
UW students created a rover that can inspect sewer pipes or culverts for any damage that could prevent fish from using them during migration.
Researchers at the 91自拍 and UW Tacoma have been studying arsenic levels in the mud, water and in creatures from lakes in the south Puget Sound area. Eating contaminated fish or snails from these lakes could lead to health risks.
A team from the 91自拍 and University of California San Diego has received the Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A team led by UW studied whether hanging out with conversational agents, such as Alexa or Siri, could affect the way children communicate with their fellow humans.
UW News asked Michael Motley, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to explain how levees protect cities like New Orleans.聽