"You can't really come up with new solutions unless you try to attack the problem from a different angle."
- 2011 MacArthur Genius Award winner Shwetak Patel

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UWEE's Babak Parviz, Brian Otis and grad student Andrew Lingley have successfully developed a wirelessly-powered single pixel display on a lens as a proof of concept. Such lenses could display short emails and other messages directly before a wearer's eyes.

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Their uniforms are lab coats. They don’t have a team cheer, but 23 UW students and their five advisers were on cloud nine Nov. 7 when they won the World Championship in what is called synthetic biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Alumnus Xiao Li has been paving the way for next-generation search engines by detecting and understanding a user's intent with a search query.

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Department Calendar

Tuesday February 14, 2012 3:00pm | PAC AE107
General Exam - Linda Bai
Title: "Compressive detection and estimation with applications to network management and cognitive radio/radar"

Monday February 20, 2012
Presidents' Day (Holiday)

Tuesday February 21, 2012 10:30am | EEB 105
Research Colloquium
Speaker: Naga Bhushan, Ph.D., VP of Technology, Qualcomm

Tuesday March 6, 2012 10:30am | EEB 105
Research Colloquium
Speaker: Pablo Tapia, Member of Technical Staff, T-Mobile

Thursday March 8, 2012
Graduate Student Visit Days

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Department News

UWEE in the News: Robot flash mob: Bots come out to dance, assist humanity on Red Square
UW Today - February 10, 2012

UWEE in the News: Flipping a Light Switch in the Cell: Quantum Dots used for Targeted Neural Activiation
The Optical Society of America - February 8, 2012

UWEE in the News: Bright red phosphor is based on silicon quantum dots
Laser Focus World - February 8, 2012

Henrique Malvar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
EE Affiliate Professor Malvar is Chief Scientist at Microsoft Research.

UWEE in the News: UW launches technology startup incubator, aims to double startups in three years
UW Today - February 8, 2012

On-Ramps into Academia
IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine - December 2011 Issue

Gabe Cohn Wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Out of 198 nominees, Cohn is one of twelve winners.

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