The phone buzzed the same moment the email arrived last spring. Vikram Puri answered the call first.Puri had landed a prized summer internship in software development at SanMar, an Issaquah-based company that is the largest supplier of...
When you cross the bridge from the main campus of the University of Washington to the athletic complex east of Montlake Boulevard, you can enter a different world. Past the lush leaves that flank the Burke-Gilman Trail, the arched stone...
When Anne Longman was offered her dream job, she wasted no time.“The week after graduation, I packed up my car, put my pet goldfish in a Home Depot bucket, and floored it 4,000 miles to Maine,” she said. Shortly after graduating...
When Tahlequah made headlines across the globe in 2018 for carrying her stillborn orca calf around the Salish Sea for 18 days, she was not just seen as another sign of climate change. She was a mother, and her devastating tour of grief...
iSchool Teaching Professor Helene Williams asks a lot of tough questions. Who, she challenges Master of Library and Information Science students, are libraries serving? Importantly, who are they not serving? What can libraries do...
Professor Jacob O. Wobbrock and two colleagues recently were recognized with the prestigious ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Lasting Impact Award for a paper that became a foundation of gesture-recognition technology.The...
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...
The 2024 election cycle is accompanied by a wave of rumors surrounding policies and candidates. Some of these rumors may hold truth, while others are false or unsubstantiated. To address this, the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is working to educate about these rumors through its election blog series, a...
The iSchool will surpass 2,000 students next quarter, a milestone that reflects the growing urgency of an education in information science. Students see the value of programs that blend technology and liberal arts and put them on a path to a rewarding career.This academic year, we will admit close to 600...
