My grad school buddy Satish Tripathi steps down after 15 extraordinary years at the helm of the University at Buffalo.

Allen School professor Jon Froehlich receives SIGCHI Societal Impact Award for addressing accessibility challenges through HCI and AI - Allen School News As the director of the Allen School’s Makeability Lab, Allen School professor and alum Jon Froehlich (Ph.D., ‘11) utilizes human-computer interaction (HCI) and machine learning to tackle high-impact s...

Allen School professor Jon Froehlich receives SIGCHI Societal Impact Award for addressing accessibility challenges through HCI and AI news.cs.washington.edu/2026/04/07/a...

Silicon Valley Has Stopped Talking Politics—Except for This Google Executive AI pioneer Jeff Dean is a rare tech leader who has been publicly criticizing actions by the Trump administration.

Jeff came to #UWAllen with this moral compass, but at least we can take credit for not having beaten it out of him. Keep making us proud, Jeff!

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Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner honored by ACM SIGCSE for expanding access to computer science education to empower students with disabilities - Allen School News Although Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner started his career as one of the founders of the University of Washington’s theoretical computer science group, he has grown to become a leading...

Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner honored by ACM SIGCSE for expanding access to computer science education to empower students with disabilities news.cs.washington.edu/2026/03/26/a...

Allen School Ph.D. student Er-Cheng Tang earns Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at FOCS 2025 for obfuscating quantum programs - Allen School News Program obfuscation, which aims to obscure the inner workings of a computer program while maintaining its functionality, is a central goal in cryptography and software protection. Allen School Ph.D. s...

Allen School Ph.D. student Er-Cheng Tang earns Machtey Award for Best Student Paper at FOCS 2025 for obfuscating quantum programs news.cs.washington.edu/2026/03/12/a...

This City Was Just Named the Most Livable in the U.S.—With Clean Air, Easy Outdoor Access, and Job Stability A global study named Seattle the best place to live in the U.S. and the eighth best in the world. See the full ranking here.

SEATTLE!

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Allen School professor Ratul Mahajan named an ACM Fellow for transforming network verification and control systems - Allen School News As a computer systems researcher, Allen School professor and alum Ratul Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) has helped develop technologies powering the networks that support multiple aspects of modern society — fro...

Allen School professor Ratul Mahajan named an ACM Fellow for transforming network verification and control systems news.cs.washington.edu/2026/02/27/a...

Never has an award been more richly deserved! - Former UW President Dr. Ana Mari Cauce to Receive the 2026 Charles E. Odegaard Award www.washington.edu/omad/2026/02...

DopFone app can accurately track fetal heart rate using only a smartphone www.washington.edu/news/2026/02...

2026 ACM SIGCHI Awards and Special Recognitions We are excited to announce this year’s ACM SIGCHI awardees, Academy inductees, and Special Recognition recipients!

2026 ACM SIGCHI Awards:

CHI Academy: #UWAllen Ph.D. alum Jeff Bigham

CHI Societal Impact Award: #UWAllen professor Jon Froehlich

CHI Special Recognition: AVELA, co-founded by #UWAllen Ph.D. students Kyle Johnson and Vicente Arroyos

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Judge Bars Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Documents

Of course she did ... Judge Bars Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Documents www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Four Allen School undergraduates honored by the Computing Research Association for advancing work in AI, robotics, LLMs and more  - Allen School News Last month, the Computing Research Association (CRA) recognized a select group of undergraduate students from across North America who have made notable contributions to the field through research. Th...

Four Allen School undergraduates honored by the Computing Research Association for advancing work in AI, robotics, LLMs and more news.cs.washington.edu/2026/02/19/f...

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS blocked this interview with James Talarico from airing.

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Allen School professor Thomas Rothvoss earns inaugural Trevisan Prize for advancing the study of optimization problems - Allen School News Allen School professor Thomas Rothvoss has carved a career out of complexity. As a member of the school’s Theory of Computation Group, Rothvoss examines the theoretical limits of computer algorithms t...

Allen School professor Thomas Rothvoss earns inaugural Trevisan Prize for advancing the study of optimization problems news.cs.washington.edu/2026/02/09/a...

Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Undaunted from the Bench Judge Ana Reyes calls out Trump regime racism

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#UWAllen #Allen_AI - In a study, AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts www.washington.edu/news/2026/02...

Allen School professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman elevated to IEEE Fellow for breakthroughs in people modelling and virtual try-on technology - Allen School News In the 1995 movie “Clueless,” lead character Cher Horowitz has a digital closet that allows her to virtually try on outfits. Proving some ideas never go out of style, Allen School professor Ira Kemelm...

Allen School professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman elevated to IEEE Fellow for breakthroughs in people modelling and virtual try-on technology news.cs.washington.edu/2026/02/03/a...

Did A.I. Take Your Job? Or Was Your Employer ‘A.I.-Washing’?

NY Times on "AI Washing."

The situation is changing rapidly, but I think this is an accurate assessment of where we are today.

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Allen School researchers earn EMNLP Best Paper Award for making Internet-scale texts efficiently searchable with infini-gram mini - Allen School News As large language models become more popular and widespread, it becomes increasingly important to understand the composition of their training data and how it affects the model’s behavior. The first s...

Allen School researchers earn EMNLP Best Paper Award for making Internet-scale texts efficiently searchable with infini-gram mini news.cs.washington.edu/2026/01/29/a...

Allen School researchers earn NeurIPS Best Paper Award Using a benchmark dataset of 26,000 real-world, open-ended queries, the team discovered an “Artificial Hivemind” effect across major LLMs where different models would generate similar outputs.

Allen School researchers earn NeurIPS Best Paper Award for revealing the ‘Artificial Hivemind’ effect across LLM open-ended generation news.cs.washington.edu/2026/01/22/a...

UW researchers receive SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award for helping make mobile devices more accessible - Allen School News In a user study published in 2009, a team of UW researchers including Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner examined how participants with visual and motor disabilities select, adapt and use ...

UW researchers receive SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award for helping make mobile devices more accessible news.cs.washington.edu/2026/01/07/u...

Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened January 6, five years later

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‘Huge red flag’: Top Biden tech adviser warns of AI and the authoritarian moment

Allen School professor Jeffrey Heer receives InfoVis Test of Time Award for creating Voyager visualization tool for more efficient data exploration - Allen School News To help make datasets easier to understand and examine, in 2015, a team of researchers led by Allen School professor Jeffrey Heer introduced Voyager, a system that automatically generates and recommen...

Allen School professor Jeffrey Heer receives InfoVis Test of Time Award for creating Voyager visualization tool for more efficient data exploration news.cs.washington.edu/2025/11/19/a...

Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program Initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.

We're proud to have 7 #UWAllen Ph.D. students named among the inaugural cohort of #AmazonAIFellowship recipients at @uofwa.bsky.social! Their research will drive the future of #AI innovation to solve real-world problems: www.amazon.science/news/amazon-... #HuskyExperience #AIforGood 1/2

Ph.D. alum Akari Asai recognized as one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 for reducing LLM hallucinations - Allen School News Despite their increasing potential and popularity, LLMs can often get facts wrong or even combine tidbits of information into a nonsensical response, also known as hallucinations. For Akari Asai (Ph.D...

Ph.D. alum Akari Asai recognized as one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 for reducing LLM hallucinations news.cs.washington.edu/2025/10/02/p...

#UWAllen - Q&A: UW professor’s book explores how ‘technology is never culturally neutral’ www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...