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Professor, and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington - http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu
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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
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.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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...
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...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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#UWAllen - Q&A: UW professor’s book explores how ‘technology is never culturally neutral’ www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
Q&A: UW professor’s book explores how ‘technology is never culturally neutral’
In her new book, Katharina Reinecke explores how
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September 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Two Allen School teams receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships to advance research in programming languages and AI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/18/t...
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...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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...
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...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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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...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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August 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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...
Does your computer science degree still guarantee you a high-paying job?
For college students, saying you majored in computer science used to be code for a six-figure salary and job stability.  Now some fear those days are behind us.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#UWAllen - With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
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....
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August 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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#Allen_AI #UWAllen - Allen School partners with Ai2 to advance open AI and breakthrough science, with support from NSF and NVIDIA news.cs.washington.edu/2025/08/14/a...
Allen School partners with Ai2 to advance open AI for science
The Allen School has teamed up with Ai2 on a project to develop the first fully open set of artificial intelligence tools to accelerate scientific discovery
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August 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#UWAllen - People who move to more walkable cities do, in fact, walk significantly more www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
People who move to more walkable cities do, in fact, walk significantly more
New research led by the University of Washington provides clear evidence that highly walkable areas lead to significantly more walking. Authors compared the steps per day of 5,424 people who moved one...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Allen School researchers develop machine learning technique to capture the chatter between brain regions news.cs.washington.edu/2025/08/12/a...
Allen School researchers develop machine learning technique to capture the chatter between brain regions - Allen School News
Understanding how different parts of the brain communicate is like trying to follow conversations at a crowded party. Neuroscientists face a similar challenge: even when they can record signals from m...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
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....
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August 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Allen School undergraduates make big contributions to autonomous flying robots with TinySense news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/30/a...
Allen School undergraduates make big contributions to autonomous flying robots with TinySense - Allen School News
Flying insect robots (FIRs) have the potential for use in search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring and even space missions due to their small size and low material cost. The problem, how...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Allen School professor Dan Suciu receives Best Paper Award for a novel solution to the cardinality estimation problem news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/24/a...
Allen School professor Dan Suciu receives Best Paper Award for a novel solution to the cardinality estimation problem - Allen School News
The cardinality estimation problem, or the challenge of accurately predicting the size of the output to a query without actually evaluating the query, is one of the oldest and most important problems ...
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July 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences for contributions in data management and data science research and education news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/23/m...
Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences for contributions in data management and data science research and education - Allen School News
Magdalena Balazinska, professor and director of the Allen School, has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) in recognition of her “contributions in data management f...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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“Enough is enough,” Trump said.
Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Word Epstein
"Enough is enough," he said.
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July 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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‘Laying the foundation for the next generation of robotic learning’: Allen School professor Abhishek Gupta receives RAS Early Academic Career Award news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/17/a...
‘Laying the foundation for the next generation of robotic learning’: Allen School professor Abhishek Gupta receives RAS Early Academic Career Award - Allen School News
Allen School professor Abhishek Gupta is interested in developing ways to help robots learn new skills with minimal human help and engineering. Gupta joined the Allen School faculty in 2022, and alrea...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Technical computer science savvy and deep philosophical commitments”: #UWAllen alum @andreiskiii.bsky.social‬ earned the #UW A&S Dean’s Medal in the Social Sciences for his campus leadership and research contributions spanning #AI and philosophy. #UWdiscovers artsci.washington.edu/news/2025-06...
2025 Dean's Medalists, Energized & Inspiring | UW College of Arts & Sciences
Meet the four new graduates honored as College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Medalists for 2025.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Allen School Ph.D. student Cheng-Yu Hsieh explores how AI technology can be more accessible news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/09/a...
Allen School Ph.D. student Cheng-Yu Hsieh explores how AI technology can be more accessible - Allen School News
Allen School Ph.D. student Cheng-Yu Hsieh is interested in tackling one of the biggest challenges in today’s large-scale machine learning environment — how to make artificial intelligence development ...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Ten charts that tell the story ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Ugliness of the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill, in Charts (Gift Article)
Steven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the “big, beautiful bill.”
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July 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Amidst all the moaning and groaning about tech employment:

- Amazon hired at least 102 2024-25 Allen School graduates. (We don't have complete data yet.)

- Check out the green line in this chart of Microsoft employment from a GeekWire article today.
July 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Allen School researchers receive Best Paper Award for speeding up LLM performance with FlashInfer news.cs.washington.edu/2025/07/01/a...
Allen School researchers receive Best Paper Award for speeding up LLM performance with FlashInfer - Allen School News
A team of University of Washington and NVIDIA researchers developed a system that can help make large language models (LLMs) faster and more adaptable. The researchers introduced FlashInfer, a versati...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Sobering text and data - www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article)
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Cars are software to an increasing extent, and our Ph.D. alum Dave Richardson leads GM's software effort. Photo from tonight's GM EVs for EVeryone event in Seattle.
June 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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‘Go out and build a life that matters’: Celebrating the Allen School’s Class of 2025 news.cs.washington.edu/2025/06/25/c...
‘Go out and build a life that matters’: Celebrating the Allen School’s Class of 2025 - Allen School News
On Friday, June 13, an estimated 5,000 friends, family, faculty and staff packed the Alaska Airlines Arena in the University of Washington’s Hec Edmundson Pavilion to celebrate the Allen School’s grad...
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June 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM