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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...

Two Allen School teams receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships to advance research in programming languages and AI - Allen School News Each year, Qualcomm recognizes exceptional Ph.D. students with the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. Two of this year’s winning teams from North America featured Allen School Ph.D. students. Andrew Alex...

Two Allen School teams receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships to advance research in programming languages and AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/18/t...

Allen School researchers receive ICWSM Best Paper Award for analyzing how Reddit rules influence online community outcomes - Allen School News Rules are vital for building a safe and healthy functioning online community, and Reddit is no exception. For community moderators, however, it can be difficult to make data-driven decisions on what r...

Allen School researchers receive ICWSM Best Paper Award for analyzing how Reddit rules influence online community outcomes news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/10/a...

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Another vicious criminal is set free to roam the streets of our nation's capital, just one day after the case against 15 rogue federal judges in Maryland was thrown out. What is this world coming to? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

A 20-minute KUOW piece on AI and tech employment: Libby Denkmann interviews Natasha Singer from The New York Times and me. - www.kuow.org/stories/does...

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

#UWAllen - With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...