Editor’s Note: This is part of a series profiling “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change. All six will be recognized this week at the GeekWire Gala on… Read More
It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to turn ordinary smartphones into monitoring devices to detect pulmonary function,… Read More
Shwetak Patel has made a habit of pushing the ordinary stuff around us to do things far beyond the original intent — using the standard wiring inside a home as… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Phyn, a joint venture between Belkin International and plumbing products giant Uponor that grew out of technology developed at the University of Washington in Seattle, debuted a smart… Read More
Growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C., Alex Mariakakis got his first taste of research in a region known for its exceptional universities. Oh, and he fell for basketball, too, of… Read More
University of Washington researchers have created a smartphone app that can let users screen themselves for pancreatic cancer and other diseases by taking a selfie. But not just any selfie.… Read More
Shwetak Patel is a certified genius. The University of Washington computer science and electrical engineering professor won a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship, joining the ranks of the MacArthur “geniuses,” as the… Read More
Computer scientist Shwetak Patel talks a mile a minute. And there’s a reason for that: he’s got a lot on his mind. Introducing GeekWire’s new Health Tech podcast, exploring the… Read More
BOSTON – University of Washington computer scientist Shwetak Patel’s work with sensors and smart devices has already spawned a wide range of ventures, but his latest experiments hold the promise of… Read More
PayScale, a fast-growing, Seattle-based company that offers online salary comparison services, announced the promotions of two new vice presidents this week: Lydia Frank was promoted to Vice President of Content… Read More
Another California tech company is setting up shop in Seattle. This time, Los Angeles-based Belkin announced today that it is opening a research and development center called WeMo Labs that will work… Read More
Entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech has been at the center of two of Seattle’s biggest technology successes, helping to create Aldus (sold to Adobe) and Visio (sold to Microsoft). Now, Jaech, after… Read More
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday break — getting demos of the latest projects, and talking… Read More
Is there anything Shwetak Patel can’t do with a home electrical system? We’re often left pondering that question after hearing about the latest high-tech exploits of the University of Washington assistant… Read More
Dieter Fox, a University of Washington associate professor of computer science and engineering, has been chosen to co-lead the new Intel Science and Technology Center on the UW campus. The… Read More