Bill Howe, along with collaborators at Drexel University, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) BIGDATA grant on responsible data science. The award is $1.2 million total, with $364k coming to the UW.

Andy Ko was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation! Along with collaborators from George Mason University, their Programming Strategies grant totals $1,199,555.  Along with the UW College of Education, Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts totals $549,857.

Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, and Tadayoshi Kohno received a gift of $550K from Microsoft Corporation to support their on-going work at the UW Tech Policy Lab. This gift will support a range of TPL activities including the UW Distinguished Lecture Series, tech policy curriculum development led by David Hendry, and policy implications of artificial intelligence.

Lassana Magassa, Meg Young, and Batya Friedman have co-authored Diverse Voices: A How-to Guide for Creating More Inclusive Tech Policy Documents. Published by the Tech Policy Lab. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2017.

Liz Mills co-presented in the ALSC/TEC Center webinar Apps to Robots: How to Evaluate Digital Media for Literacy and Learning, Part I. The webinar addressed the following question: In the age of media mentorship, how do children's librarians and educators know which new media to share with families?

Annie Searle was the ISACA Puget Sound luncheon speaker at the Columbia Tower Club on September 19th. She spoke on “Malicious Insider Threats and Conduct Risk.” Annie also spoke on Monday at the iSchool orientation for incoming international students on the topic of professionalism.