In a complex world, educating children about adult issues like climate change may present a daunting challenge. However, for iSchool Ph.D. candidate Itza Carbajal, equipping youth with the skills to understand these topics is second...
Despite the morning’s sparkle as snow covered the UW Seattle campus, iSchool students and alumni gathered for the 2025 UW iSchool Career Fair.The annual iSchool Career Fair offers the community the opportunity to network with employers...
The HUB ballroom buzzed with the sounds of typing, conversation and event organization as 255 students teamed up for the 13th annual WINFO Hackathon. Over the course of 12 hours, students developed and submitted 70 unique projects, all...
Researchers from the Information School joined scholars from across all three University of Washington campuses and various disciplines recently to celebrate the inaugural convening of Society + Technology. The initiative is dedicated...
Researchers studying firearm-related incidents face significant challenges in gathering relevant data. Critical resources, such as police and hospital records, are often left incomplete, inconsistently filled out or lack necessary detail...
Informatics stretched to the limit: Demand for the Informatics program continues to soar. Support from the state and industry hasn't kept pace.• Read the storyThrough its teaching and research, the University of Washington Information...
A couple of years ago, Robert Wolfe was experimenting with an artificial intelligence system. He wanted it to complete the sentence, “The teenager ____ at school.” Wolfe, a University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School, had expected something mundane, something that most teenagers...
As last month’s devastating wildfires raged in Los Angeles, the city’s residents faced a barrage of falsehoods on social media along with erroneous evacuation alerts from official sources. In search of timely, accurate information, millions turned to Watch Duty, a free and nonprofit app that tracks...
While most people like giving gifts, plenty don’t particularly like shopping for those gifts — drifting through online search results, comparing 4.3 stars to 4.5 stars. But big tech is racing for a future in which artificial intelligence bots can shop for you. Among the buzziest tech this season is a new...
Trained as a computer scientist in the late 1970s, Batya Friedman has been asking questions about how to live well in the world and how to treat people with dignity and respect. These questions, along with an interest in tools and technology, drew Friedman to ask herself how she could build something that...
The future of hiring, it seems, is automated. Applicants can now use artificial intelligence bots to apply to job listings by the thousands. And companies — which have long automated parts of the process — are now deploying the latest AI large language models to write job descriptions, sift through...
