September 18, 1997
Member of IBM team behind Deep Blue speaking at UW
Murray Campbell, a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where Deep Blue was developed, will address the challenges and implications involved in the 50- year effort to put a computer atop the chess world in a free public lecture at the University of Washington.
September 11, 1997
White House honors UW program for mentoring students with disabilities
The University of Washington’s Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology Program, which has enlisted scientific luminaries such as British physicist Stephen Hawking to encourage teenagers with disabilities to pursue careers in technical fields, has won a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
August 29, 1997
UW sensors take chemical analysis out of lab and into the field
Doctors needing chemical analyses such as blood tests to make life-saving diagnosis and treatment decisions soon won’t have to lose precious time waiting for results to come back from the lab. New hand-held sensor technology developed at the University of Washington will allow physicians to bring a sophisticated “laboratory” directly to their patients for instant, on-site chemical analysis.
August 1, 1997
UW smogmobile is cleaner, safer alternative to gas or electric cars
When engineers at the University of Washington set out to create a vehicle that is cleaner and safer to operate than gas or electric cars, they jokingly named it the smogmobile after a L’il Abner cartoon depicting a car fueled by air pollution. But the vehicle developed by the UW team almost lives up to its name. Running on liquid nitrogen, the smogmobile generates no harmful emissions and actually creates an opportunity for pollutants to be removed from the air as its fuel is produced.
July 1, 1997
UW materials technology institute gives teachers new ways to turn students on to science and engineering
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Materials science and engineering, a fundamental but often low-profile part of manufacturing, is the subject of a new summer institute at the University of Washington that aims to give high school and community college teachers new tools for designing laboratory projects that turn their students on to science and engineering.
June 2, 1997
Software robot uses UW technology to ease on-line shopping
Frustrated Internet shoppers who are unable or unwilling to wade through a flood of World Wide Web sites to find what they’re looking for soon can call on a computer software robot named Jango to help with their on-line shopping.
May 19, 1997
UW system helps improve Java security on Microsoft, Sun web browsers
A system for running Java programs that is more secure than those found in commercial World Wide Web browsers has been developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington.
May 14, 1997
Social equity of public transit is topic of 1997 UW Evans lecture
Who should be served by public transit and who should pay for it? These were among the questions that confronted Puget Sound voters in November’s Regional Transportation Authority ballot issue and that will be addressed in the 1997 Daniel L. and Irma Evans Lecture May 29 at the University of Washington.
May 2, 1997
New lecture series brings top Japanese high-tech business leaders to UW
Leading research managers from Japanese high-tech giants NTT Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. will kick off a new lecture series sponsored by the technical Japanese program and technical communication department at the University of Washington.
April 25, 1997
UW program for students with disabilities to be featured
As Gen. Colin Powell convenes the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future this weekend in Philadelphia to promote volunteerism and service, representatives of a unique University of Washington program will be on hand to demonstrate how to DO-IT.
April 16, 1997
Race puts UW engineering students up a creek with a concrete canoe
A group of University of Washington civil engineering students will compete April 27 in concrete canoe races on Lake Sammamish.
April 2, 1997
Self-confidence is a key factor for females pursuing non-traditional fields
Many women enrolled in science and engineering classes at the University of Washington suffer a steep drop in self-confidence following their freshman year and never fully recover, according to a six-year study that will be discussed at the seventh annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference.
March 18, 1997
UW engineering alumnus behind Ivory, Pampers to turn 100
Victor Mills, who graduated from the UW in 1926, helped build The Procter & Gamble Co. into a manufacturing giant by revolutionizing the process for making Ivory soap and developing consumer staples such as Jif peanut butter, Duncan Hines cake mixes, Pringles potato chips and, yes, Pampers disposable diapers. Retired since 1961, Mills lives in Tucson with his wife, Ruth, and will turn 100 on March 28.
March 12, 1997
UW students to conduct Zero-G experiments
Two teams of UW students will take their laboratories to the air April 7-19 aboard a NASA research aircraft that simulates the reduced gravity of space.
March 5, 1997
University of Washington computing team tops elite universities at international programming contest
Top computer science students from Stanford, MIT and Harvard were no match for a team of three University of Washington students who were runners up at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual International Collegiate Programming contest Sunday (Mar. 2) in San Jose.
October 30, 1996
Computers with “ears” and other user interfaces to be unveiled at UW as part of international conference
Researchers are now developing new technology and software that allows computer users to simply speak or hand-write commands. These and other innovative computer-user interfaces will be demonstrated 7 to 10 p.m. Nov. 6 at the University of Washington as part of an international symposium on user interface technology and software.
October 14, 1996
Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at UW
Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at UW
September 30, 1996
UW professor elected to National Academy of Engineering
Akira Ishimaru, Boeing Martin Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
September 19, 1996
UW engineer helping Washington company develop instrument enabling semiconductor manufacturers to make faster, cheaper computer chips
An innovative temperature-measuring instrument developed with the assistance of a University of Washington engineering professor has yielded improvements in processing semiconductors that may lead to faster, cheaper computer chips.
September 13, 1996
UW experiment sends shock waves through petrochemical industry
A radical new technique for processing natural gas that could save the petrochemical industry billions of dollars in energy and maintenance costs has been developed by University of Washington researchers.
July 22, 1996
Salesin takes UW undergraduates to the forefront of computer graphics
David Salesin, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the UW. Salesin is the only professor at the UW and possibly in the nation to have received a Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator awards and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Salesin’s most recent achievement is having eight full-length research papers accepted for publication at the 1996 SIGGRAPH conference.
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