Freedom Education Project Puget Sound is a nonprofit that provides a higher education program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. The accredited program previously offered a research skills course that gave first-year students the skills necessary to conduct academic research in a context where there is no access to the internet or academic resources. This project is a re-visioning of the research instruction program that involved building information literacy workshops into a required first-year course by creating and delivering a new curriculum. It is part of a broader effort to expand the research program for FEPPS students.

PATH and MSR® Global Health developed the SafiStation™, an innovative and easy-to-use device that generates chlorine for infection prevention and water treatment in low-resource health care facilities. PATH is preparing to conduct a field test of up to 50 SafiStation devices across three countries to evaluate device performance, impact, and usability. We created a web-based dashboard to combine data automatically collected by the device with digital surveys in order to visualize chlorine production and cost savings. The dashboard will help PATH efficiently and effectively monitor the device in the field and make conclusions about the best market for the SafiStation.

PATH and MSR® Global Health developed the SafiStation™, an innovative and easy-to-use device that generates chlorine for infection prevention and water treatment in low-resource health care facilities. PATH is preparing to conduct a field test of up to 50 SafiStation devices across three countries to evaluate device performance, impact, and usability. We created an integrated web-based data dashboard to automatically collect and visualize technical performance data collected directly from the device using cellular networks. The dashboard will give PATH and MSR access to real-time performance and functionality data to monitor device usage and identify challenges with the technical performance.

Small business owners are often willfully ignorant to the threats of data breaches, deeming it too costly and unnecessary which leaves them prime targets to cyber-attacks. Schniffer, created by INFO students Jason Peacher-Ton and Jingyu Yang, is a low-cost, all-encompassing network monitoring and vulnerability scanning tool, acting as a first line of defense for small businesses against cyber-threats.

There are many applications that use file transfer and storage internally. In some cases, like that of medical file transfer, we are constrained by security requirements and regulations such that there is zero tolerance for security vulnerabilities both from a technological point of view and social point of view. Our solution is to enable people to leverage the blockchain for secure file transfer. SentIO is an API that abstracts the blockchain details away such that the implementation of our secure file storage and transfer system is simple and accessible to any client-side application.

Our capstone sponsor is PitchBook, a company that provides financial database and platform for Private Equity and Venture Capital professionals. While VC’s today have access to millions of data points, determining the hard-to-grasp “market sentiment” is still difficult. Various heuristics can be deployed to test sentiment, including financial news data. We built SentiSage, a working prototype which provides VC and PE professionals with sentiment analysis on news data and presents insights through visualizations and a user interface. Because of SentiSage, our users can better access the data points and trends they need when making crucial decisions in a volatile market.

Shelves transforms KEXP's library of 70,000 vinyl and CD albums into a digital curation tool that preserves the sonic identity of the world's premier listener-supported radio station. It amplifies radio hosts’ abilities to craft creative broadcasts by augmenting the physical music library with tools for searching, organizing, and discovering music in the collection. In response to a musical landscape dominated by algorithmic suggestion, Shelves uses technology to aid KEXP in its mission to preserve “robot-free radio” and place human curation and connection back at the heart of the listener experience.

In 2015, Washington State Public Defenders were taking over 1000 cases a month and spending an inadequate 36 minutes per case. Current legal processes do not support the variety of clients defenders must serve, such as the low income populations where permanent residence affects legal information delivery. By automating reminders of critical dates and visualizing long-term history, our client-case management system, Shield , allows public defenders to focus on protecting the public interest without getting caught up in tedious workflows

Amazon's Strategic Recruitment Team (SRT) handles their Executive level hiring for Machine learning (ML) experts. The current challenge with their hiring procedure is that it needs a lot of manual effort to browse through Google Scholar/other academic websites to know about a ML expert’s research. We proposed an academic perspective solution which provides Amazon’s SRT with a portal displaying their well sought ML expert's collaboration network, conference research trends and his affiliations. Our solution makes it easier for recruiters to initiate networking with ML experts at Top conferences as it provides vital information about the candidate.

We used participatory design (PD) as a way to fully incorporate the voice of children in the development of children’s library programming. Using KidsTeam-UW as a model, we worked for ten weeks with a group of eight 6-9 year-old children, focusing on a different aspect of 3D printing each week. Data in the form of session notes, photos, and video recordings were analyzed to determine important elements and best practices for a printing program, as well as guidelines for librarians to incorporate the practice of PD in their own program development.