In three recent papers, UW researchers explore technologies used in prisons and to monitor people before incarceration and after release.

What Ada Lovelace can teach us as we develop artificial intelligence.

In their 2017 paper, Roesner and her co-authors were among the first to investigate end-user security and privacy perspectives on then-emerging smart home technologies and recommend ways to help users...

Professors Andrea Coladangelo, Matthew Golub, Ranjay Krishna, Chinmay Nirkhe, and Stephanie Wang are shaping the future of computing through projects spanning AI, systems, computational neuroscience, ...

In the first installment of a new Q&A series exploring grand challenges in computing, Reinecke and Smith discuss how they and their colleagues aim to answer the question, “How do we design AI in a way...

Undeterred by traffic, transit woes, weather or the World Cup, nearly 7,500 participants and guests packed the Alaskan Airlines Arena at the University of Washington the evening of June 12th to cheer ...

Allen School faculty recognized 2025 alumni Wei and Zhu for their outstanding doctoral dissertation research identifying new methods for tackling online harassment introducing more secure techniques f...

Researchers in the Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group introduced egg, an open-source library that uses e-graphs along with equality saturation to optimize term representations. ...

Li (B.S., ‘13) and his collaborators received the award for resolving a foundational problem in robust statistics, proving that a broad class of high-dimensional statistical problems can be both effic...

jennifer_dowling_reports on August 3, 2026: "Western Washington bars and restaurants are holding a donation drive for wildfire victims in Eastern Washington through Wednesday : 🥣 Non-perishable food 🧼...

At the Fields Medal press conference, I watched some journalists miss the story unfolding in front of them.

Grossman, who has served as vice director of the school for the past nine years and is a recognized leader in programming languages education and research, will succeed Magdalena Balazinska at the con...

The International Mathematical Union honored Oveis Gharan, a member of the Allen School’s Theory of Computation Group, with one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics for “landmark contribution...

Smith, who serves as the UW vice provost for artificial intelligence and is also senior director of Natural Language Processing Research at AI2, was honored for his influential contributions to his fi...

An "American Flag Blue" paint sheet was seen floating on Thursday as workers cleaned algae after Trump's $14 million renovation.

The award, which is based on nominations from University of Washington alumni, honors “UW educators whose profound influence continues to shape the lives of their students long after they’ve left the ...

Dawson and Khoussainova, the 2026 Alumni Impact Award recipients, have combined their computing skillset with their entrepreneurial spirit to build companies that are making a positive impact in peopl...

Dawson and Khoussainova, the 2026 Alumni Impact Award recipients, have combined their computing skillset with their entrepreneurial spirit to build companies that are making a positive impact in peopl...

Ph.D. students Vicente Arroyos and Kyle Johnson recently received special recognition from ACM SIGCHI for co-founding AVELA - A Vision for Engineering Literacy & Access, which connects K-12 students w...

Three University of Washington faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their work spans environmental science, computing and engineering, addressing...

After more than four decades on the faculty, Henry M. Levy (Hank) officially retired from the University of Washington last summer. Now, friends and colleagues are contributing to the creation of a ne...

Two current University of Washington graduate students and one recent alumnus received this year’s prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

We celebrate outstanding teachers through the Inspirational Teachers Celebration, a tribute to those who inspire the next generation.

Allen School Ph.D. student Shangbin Feng aims to build a more open and democratic artificial intelligence future. To that end, his research focuses on model collaboration, where “multiple AI models, t...

At the recent ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026), Allen School researchers brought home multiple accolades for their innovative work in human-computer interaction (HCI...

As the director of the Allen School’s Makeability Lab, Allen School professor and alum Jon Froehlich (Ph.D., ‘11) utilizes human-computer interaction (HCI) and machine learning to tackle high-impact s...

AI pioneer Jeff Dean is a rare tech leader who has been publicly criticizing actions by the Trump administration.

Although Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner started his career as one of the founders of the University of Washington’s theoretical computer science group, he has grown to become a leading...

Program obfuscation, which aims to obscure the inner workings of a computer program while maintaining its functionality, is a central goal in cryptography and software protection. Allen School Ph.D. s...

A global study named Seattle the best place to live in the U.S. and the eighth best in the world. See the full ranking here.

As a computer systems researcher, Allen School professor and alum Ratul Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) has helped develop technologies powering the networks that support multiple aspects of modern society — fro...

Former UW President Dr. Ana Mari Cauce to Receive the 2026 Charles E. Odegaard Award

A team led by University of Washington researchers has created DopFone, a system that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone’s existing speaker and microphone to accurately estimate fetal heart rate. The...

We are excited to announce this year’s ACM SIGCHI awardees, Academy inductees, and Special Recognition recipients!

Last month, the Computing Research Association (CRA) recognized a select group of undergraduate students from across North America who have made notable contributions to the field through research. Th...

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Allen School professor Thomas Rothvoss has carved a career out of complexity. As a member of the school’s Theory of Computation Group, Rothvoss examines the theoretical limits of computer algorithms t...

Judge Ana Reyes calls out Trump regime racism

A UW and Ai2 research team built OpenScholar, an open-source AI model designed specifically to synthesize current scientific research. In tests, OpenScholar cited sources as accurately as human...

In the 1995 movie “Clueless,” lead character Cher Horowitz has a digital closet that allows her to virtually try on outfits. Proving some ideas never go out of style, Allen School professor Ira Kemelm...