Technology

Whichfaceisreal.com is the new website from Jevin West of the University of Washington Information School and Carl Bergstrom of the biology department.

Taber Hand (MA, 1983) has found a cost-effective solution for sewage treatment in challenging settings.

Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara. 

UW associate professor of philosophy, Sara Goering, to lead team studying how brain-computer interfaces affect whether patients feel they are in charge of their own actions.

Analysis from Professor of International Studies, Saadia Pekkanen

A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

International cybersecurity expert, Dr. Jessica Beyer, weighs in on potential motivations for election hacking. 

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.

Two UW scientists, Abigail Swann (assistant professor, biology and atmospheric sciences) and Marlies Kovenock (biology doctoral student),  have discovered that plants with thicker leaves may exacerbate the effects of climate change because they would be less efficient in sequestering atmospheric carbon, a fact that climate change models to date have not taken into account.

Margaret O'Mara explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an episode of a new podcast series.

The University of Washington opened the doors to a new Life Sciences Building that will transform learning, teaching and research for generations.

Expected to open in early September, the 207,000-square-foot building will be ready to host students in the fall. 

Saadia Pekkanen, director of the Space Security Initiative at the UW's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, weighs in on space force.

For a team led by scientists at the UW, the 2-D form of one metallic compound — tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2 — is a bevy of quantum revelations. 

Professor Margaret O'Mara weighs in on the impact of Amazon on cities that bid to be the location of its HQ2.