This RSS news feed from uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 40 in the Technology category. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByCategoryName&categoryName=Technology&numToShow=40 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:56:11 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ On Monday from 10:30 to 12:30, undergraduate students will present accessibility tools they built for mobile phones running the Android platform. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=56382 Technology Education Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=56382 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:26:22 GMT A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the industry. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=56284 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=56284 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:12:48 GMT A team of experts led by a UW civil engineer traveled to Haiti to evaluate the impact of the magnitude-7 earthquake. The report to the U.S. Geological Survey and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute finds no surface evidence of the fault, but widespread damage related to poor building practices. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55878 Technology Environment Science Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55878 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:04:33 GMT Electrodes attached to the surface of the human brain show that imagining movements to control a computer cursor generates larger-than-life brain signals in less than 10 minutes of training. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55693 Technology Science Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55693 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:05:00 GMT A material derived from crustacean shell and algae supports the growth of new stem cells, offering a possible replacement to today's Petri dishes lined with animal byproducts. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55374 Science Health and Medicine Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55374 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:16:14 GMT Civil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different climate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55131 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55131 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:18:40 GMT Greenroads, developed over the past three years by UW engineers and collaborators at the global engineering firm CH2M Hill, aims to do for road construction what the LEED system has done for the building industry. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54839 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54839 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being demonstrated in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit underway there. It also is the subject of a presentation Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54383 Environment Technology Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54383 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:17:03 GMT In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Social Science Technology Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:09 GMT Dime-sized temperature sensors that were first built for the refrigerated food industry have been adapted to sense mountain microclimates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54337 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54337 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:30:00 GMT In most of the world children must share computers. A new device lets up to four children share a computer screen to do interactive math problems, effectively quadrupling the number of computers available for such exercises. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54290 Technology Education Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54290 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:34:00 GMT The University of Washington will be part of a team that will conduct a regional smart energy grid demonstration project. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53890 Technology Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) and Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53890 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:09:48 GMT Computer scientists at the UW are using Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to transform a cell phone into a flexible data-collection tool. Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53209 Science Technology Health and Medicine Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53209 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:42 GMT University of Washington leaders today officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building. The underground instrumentation space that minimizes vibrations and electromagnetic interference will be the largest such lab space on the West Coast. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52619 Campus Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52619 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:57:41 GMT Robots equipped with wireless and sensing capabilities are available for use in the home. But the safety and privacy risks of these devices are not yet adequately addressed, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52615 Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52615 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:47:49 GMT The newly named Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Lab will test the safety of structures built out of new composite materials. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52479 Technology Campus Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52479 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:07:01 GMT An event will be held Tuesday to formalize a partnership between the UW and Automobili Lamborghini on composites research for sports cars. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52435 Campus Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52435 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:47:03 GMT Less than a year ago a UW engineering lab was the first to generate ceramic objects in a 3-D printer. Now the lab has done it again, for glass. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52160 Arts and Humanities Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) and Gerald Barnett (barnett@uw.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52160 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:09:43 GMT The UW was among nine research institutions from around the world that collaborated on the first successful demonstration of multiple biomedical robots operated from locations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. UW engineers also helped develop the standard protocol used in the tests. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52044 Science Technology Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) and Lindsay Sheppard (lindsay.sheppard@sri.com) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52044 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:58:53 GMT Using tourist photos downloaded from the Web, computer scientists created a digital version of Rome in about a day. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51970 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51970 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:33:59 GMT For the first time researchers have run an electrical circuit entirely off power in trees. The findings suggest a new power source for wireless sensors. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51869 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51869 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:57:00 GMT A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. It permits a simpler design of organic electronics, using a single material for transporting positive and negative charges. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51503 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51503 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:16:20 GMT UW experts who can address a variety of computer-related issues. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51431 Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51431 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:36:12 GMT A statistical analysis reveals distinct patterns in the placement of Indus symbols, and creates a hypothetical model for the unknown language. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51251 Technology Arts and Humanities Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51251 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT A team of engineers and medical experts has been able to illuminate brain tumors by injecting fluorescent nanoparticles into the bloodstream. The tiny particles can safely cross the blood-brain barrier, an almost impenetrable barrier that protects the brain from infection. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51245 Health and Medicine Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51245 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:27:46 GMT For the first time, researchers combine nanoparticles used for medical imaging and therapy in one tiny package. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51016 Science Technology Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51016 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:41:00 GMT Private information scattered all over the Internet and impossible to control. A new system, called Vanish, puts an expiration date on electronic text. Electronic communication sent using Vanish -- such as e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages -- would have a brief lifetime and then self-destruct. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50973 Technology Science Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50973 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:00:00 GMT University of Washington engineers used a novel underwater manufacturing technique to build biomimetic cilia. The hairlike appendages mix tiny volumes of liquid to speed up biomedical reactions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50683 Technology Science Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50683 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:13:44 GMT Robotics experts to meet Sunday through Wednesday for an international conference. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50652 Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50652 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:04:42 GMT A team of graduate students and faculty advisors in the UW's aeronautics and astronautics department are available today to show off the rocket they built from scratch. The team leaves tomorrow for Utah, where the rocket will compete to carry a 10-pound payload to 10,000 feet. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50499 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50499 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00:00 GMT Weaving chitosan, found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, with an industrial polyester creates a promising new material for biomedical applications, including the tiny tubes that support repair of a severed nerve. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50407 Technology Science Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50407 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:50:00 GMT UW experts who can comment on the newest communications software, technologies and trends. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50313 Technology Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) and Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50313 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:33:00 GMT The space shuttle Atlantis, leaving Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope, will be piloted by UW engineering graduate Gregory C. Johnson. The shuttle will carry a camera that UW astronomers helped build, which will replace Hubble's existing camera. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Science Technology Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) and Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:45:00 GMT The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles in length under the ice at Davis Strait. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49154 Science Environment Technology Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Peter West (pwest@nsf.gov) and Dena Headlee (dheadlee@nsf.gov) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49154 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:49 GMT Scholars have recently questioned whether ancient Indus inscriptions code for language. A UW computer scientist used statistics to show that the 4,500-year-old Indus symbols' pattern follows that of other spoken languages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49046 Technology Science Arts and Humanities Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49046 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT Experienced women researchers in the private sector are invited to apply for a workshop that will offer support to women who are considering making the jump to academia. Recruiting women from industry is a new approach that seeks to boost the number of women in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48966 Technology Campus Community Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48966 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:52:03 GMT By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 percent, compared to 45 percent for the scorpion venom alone. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48796 Health and Medicine Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48796 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:00 GMT The University of Washington will apply cloud computing to analyze climate simulation results and astronomical images. The new grants are part of a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Google and IBM that brings cloud computing to U.S. universities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48747 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48747 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:05:07 GMT Baby Steps is a multimedia system that combines sentimental snapping with medical record-keeping. The experimental product feels like a fun toy for parents, but researchers found in a pilot study that parents who used it regularly collected twice as much medically relevant information about their child's developmental progress. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48536 Science Technology Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48536 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:23:47 GMT Modern technology increasingly is encroaching into human connections with the natural world and University of Washington psychologists believe this intrusion may emerge as one of the central psychological problems of our times. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Social Science Technology Environment Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:53:54 GMT A new, not-so-secret recipe uses artist-grade ceramics powder for 3-D printing. Ceramics objects can now be printed for about 3 percent the cost of commercial printing mixes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48302 Science Technology Arts and Humanities Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48302 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:45:46 GMT Two UW graduate students have created a free tool, OneBusAway, that lets Seattle bus-riders use a cell phone, iPhone or computer to see if their bus is running late. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47120 Technology Science Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47120 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:00 GMT University of Washington researchers helped develop a new kind of microscope to visualize cells in three dimensions, an advance that could bring great progress in the field of early cancer detection. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47061 Health and Medicine Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47061 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:19:00 GMT Matthew O'Donnell, dean of the University of Washington's College of Engineering and professor in the department of bioengineering, and David Auth, a UW affiliate professor in bioengineering, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47076 Campus Health and Medicine Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47076 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:54:00 GMT Researchers have created a credit-card sized tool can be stored for months and then used to test for malaria--part of a larger project to develop high-tech tools for global health. The prototype dehydrated the reagents to store them without refrigeration, and delivered a diagnosis in just nine minutes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46484 Science Technology Health and Medicine Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46484 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:52:10 GMT UW researchers have devised a new planning tool to help people keep track of day-to-day information that's parked in too many places -- multiple phones, mutiple computers, multiple Web applications. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45962 Technology Catherine O'Donnell (cath2@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45962 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:37:17 GMT Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45276 Technology Health and Medicine Environment Rachel Tompa (rtompa@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45276 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:04:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are grabbing hold of the fleeting Web and storing historical Web sites that users can easily search using an intuitive application called Zoetrope. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45255 Technology Science Rachel Tompa (rtompa@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45255 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:40:00 GMT Energy experts from the University of Washington want to help local businesses cut their utility bills. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45244 Business Technology Rachel Tompa (rtompa@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45244 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:29:46 GMT The Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering will host a workshop this week, sponsored by the University of Washington, the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44151 Science Technology Rachel Tompa (rtompa@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44151 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:30:59 GMT