When Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom quietly rolled out CallingBullshit.org in January, they hoped a few of their ideas would find their way into classrooms. At best, maybe the University of Washington would let them teach a class. “We...
Nearly 500 new iSchoolers are among thousands of University of Washington students who started classes on Wednesday, Sept. 27. The iSchool student body was expected to include 227 new Informatics students, 156 pursuing their Master...
Four words from Information School Assistant Professor Jevin West provided the key takeaway from a Seattle Times LiveWire event Sept. 13 at the UW: “Think more, share less.” Training people to question the source and veracity of...
Harry Bruce has been a professor with the University of Washington Information School since he was recruited in 1998 by former dean Mike Eisenberg. Bruce was named dean in 2005 and reappointed to the position in 2012. (You can read about...
Would you want to live forever? Lots of stories warn against the perils of immortality from the Greek myth of Tithonus who was given eternal life but not eternal youth, to innumerable vampire stories and even Doctor Who, and yet the...
Put the whole world online and freedom and equality are bound to rise, right? Not necessarily. While access to information is key, access alone isn’t enough to ensure progress around the world. People also need the social and economic...
Tech entrepreneur Leila Janah is on a mission, and while speaking at an iSchool Research Symposium on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the University of Washington, she encouraged everyone to join her cause. “I think that when we unleash human potential by giving work, we can change the world,” she told the...
Two students at the University of Washington Information School are among four recipients of U.S. Bank Cybersecurity Scholarships. The recipients include iSchool students Ryan Keller, a junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Informatics, and Yu Peter Wang, pursuing a master’s degree in information...
Information School Associate Professor Andy Ko recently was awarded a pair of grants totaling more than $1.7 million for research into improving how developers, both novices and experts, learn programming languages, APIs, and problem solving skills. A $549,000 grant from the National Science Foundation...
A project led by iSchool Associate Professor Hala Annabi is among five winners of the University of Washington Population Health Initiative’s inaugural research grants. Annabi, along with Jill Locke of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Gary Stobbe of the Department of Neurology, was...
The health-care industry is always adapting to new technology. Examples include a HealthMap team using Twitter data to track cholera after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and a University of Pennsylvania study finding a correlation between the risk of heart disease and the expression of negative emotions such...
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