August 5, 2011

Grad Student Paper Wins Sezai Innovation Award

EE graduate student Ben Waters is lead author on a paper that won the Sezai Innovation award at the 19th Congress of the International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps. The conference was held in Louisville, Kentucky, September 8th through the 10th. Ben is working with Professor Joshua Smith on his wireless LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist…


August 4, 2011

Artificial heart goes wireless — and gets safer


August 3, 2011

Patel named Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow

Shwetak Patel has been named a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow for 2011. MRF Fellows are nominated by their universities and represent a selection of the best and the brightest in their fields. From the award: “Shwetak Patel’s research is at the intersection of hardware, software, and human-computer interaction. His research focuses on building easy-to-deploy and…


August 2, 2011

How Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Kinect help surgeons in the OR


August 1, 2011

New NSF research center established at UW

The National Science Foundation today announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington. The ERC/SNE is a multi-university partnership between the University of Washington, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and San Diego State University. The director for the center is CSE Professor…


July 9, 2011

University of Washington Wins NIH Grant To Develop A New Integrated Endoscope System


July 8, 2011

Wireless power could cut cord for patients with implanted heart pumps


July 7, 2011

OpSIS in July Issue of SPIE Professional Magazine

The July 2011 issue of SPIE Professional Magazine features an article on OpSIS, UW’s recently launched foundry service for silicon photonic chips, directed by Assistant Professor Michael Hochberg. In the article, it mentions that opening such a service “signals a ‘new age’ for optical integrated circuits, one that could revolutionize the computing industry as well…


July 6, 2011

Google I/O Sandbox Case Study: MobileASL


July 5, 2011

Kinect hacks finally legit – is Skype next?



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