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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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December 10, 2024 -
Allen School News
Researchers in the UbiComp Lab and UW Medicine earned an IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award for their work on an app that turns a smartphone into a thermometer.
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October 23, 2024 -
UW News
Researchers in the Makeability Lab developed MobiPrint, a 3D printer that can map a room and generate objects on demand — from accessibility enhancements to a custom cat food bowl.
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November 18, 2024 -
UW News
In this Q&A, Allen School professor Sheng Wang talks about his work on a new medical AI model, BiomedParse, that works across nine different types of medical images to better predict systemic diseases. Clinicians can load images into the system and ask questions in plain English.
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October 1, 2024 -
MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation honored the Allen School alum with a "genius grant" for her work on technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations.
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September 25, 2024 -
GeekWire
OctoAI, a UW startup that sells tools to help build and run generative AI models more efficiently, has been acquired by chip giant Nvidia. Allen School professor and OctoAI co-founder Luis Ceze joined Nvidia following the deal, which is the latest AI-related acquisition for the chipmaker.
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September 25, 2024 -
WIRED
Farhadi, who is CEO of AI2, talked about the their latest release, Molmo, which can interpret images as well as converse through a chat interface.
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September 17, 2024 -
UW News
Allen School postdoc Niloofar Mireshghallah discusses why math and reasoning have so challenged artificial intelligence models and what the public should know about OpenAI’s new release.
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September 12, 2024 -
Allen School News
In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Lab introduced a new approach to long-range, single-molecule protein sequencing by demonstrating how to read each protein molecule by pulling it through a nanopore sensor.
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September 11, 2024 -
Allen School News
In a paper published in the journal Nature Medicine, a team of researchers co-led by Allen School professor Su-In Lee introduced a medical concept retriever, MONET, that can connect images of skin diseases to semantically meaningful medical concept terms.
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August 21, 2024 -
Allen School News
In 2014, René Just and Michael Ernst demonstrated that mutants function as an effective substitute for real defects in software testing. Their work, which spawned a robust line of follow-on research, earned the Most Influential Paper Award at FSE 2024.