There’s a new institute brewing at the University of Washington at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and healthcare. The Institute for Medical Data Science launched publicly this week… Read More
A prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life is Europa, a moon of Jupiter that’s covered with a sheet of salty ice. But what kind of salt is there?… Read More
Do full-fledged quantum computers already exist, or will it be a decade before they come into being? Will they have to be the size of a football field? A data… Read More
The sudden rise of ChatGPT — the AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI last fall — has educators across the country rethinking how they teach and assess student work. The University of… Read More
— Siddhartha Srinivasa, a leading robotics expert and professor at the University of Washington, has left his position as director of Robotics AI at Amazon to join Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle… Read More
Across Seattle and from Redmond all the way to Iceland, GeekWire had its eye — and cameras — on stories in technology, business, science, startups, space, geek culture and more in… Read More
Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science… Read More
Some 3,900 companies worldwide have made pledges to cut their carbon emissions. But many, or perhaps most, lack the skilled workers needed to reach those goals. “I commonly find a… Read More
Daniel Chen is only 19, but he’s already a freshly minted University of Washington graduate and a recipient of a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, announced Monday. The scholarship supports graduate education… Read More
If you live in a home built before the 1950s, there’s a chance that lurking in its property records is racist language. For decades in the first half of the… Read More
A documentary film about wildlife conservation and the redemptive power of nature, shot primarily in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru, has a connection to another Amazon — in Seattle. The… Read More
The U.S. midterm elections are Tuesday and academic researchers are expecting another wave of misinformation and rumors related to voter fraud. The explosion of unsupported allegations of election fraud during… Read More
University of Washington leaders filed a motion Monday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an instructor who created his own land acknowledgment statement on the syllabi of courses he taught.… Read More
The University of Washington is ranked No. 24 in a new list of the top 100 universities in the world based on the number of alumni entrepreneurs who came out… Read More
Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That theory will be put to test inside a sprawling new… Read More
Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted by law enforcement officials and debunked by fact checkers. A… Read More
Yejin Choi, a University of Washington computer science professor and senior research manager at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), won a $800,000 “genius grant” given annually by the… Read More
The football game between the Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons was stopped and delayed on Sunday when a drone was reportedly spotted near or over Lumen Field. It was the… Read More
Editor’s note: The headline and story were updated to better reflect CHEQ’s business and technology. Seattle-area startup Cheq Lifestyle Technology has raised $8 million to fuel growth of its mobile… Read More
The University of Washington broke ground Thursday on its new 70,000 square-foot Interdisciplinary Engineering Building designed to support students throughout the College of Engineering’s ten departments. “This is a very… Read More
The University of Washington on Thursday announced that it will divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies by 2027. The university pledged that its overall investment portfolio would… Read More
Somalytics, a University of Washington spinout developing tech to sense human gestures, body functions and eye movement, raised $1.9 million. The seed round was led by IP Group, with participation from… Read More
The University of Washington is breaking ground next month on its Interdisciplinary Engineering Building. The new facility should help the UW’s College of Engineering better serve its growing enrollment: since… Read More
A lecturer at the University of Washington is suing university leaders over his free speech rights, claiming he was made “a pariah” for a statement he made about Pacific Northwest… Read More
News this week that a big earthquake in Seattle could trigger destructive tsunami waves that would hit some shorelines in a matter of minutes left at least one GeekWire reader… Read More
If a really big earthquake hits offshore from Seattle, the city’s shorelines could be struck with massive tsunami waves within a matter of three minutes. In a worst-case scenario, the… Read More
A University of Washington program to support STEM students from low-income and underserved backgrounds is now nine years old. And it aims to spread the model to other institutions. The… Read More
Could far-off aliens be sending out signals telling us they exist? If so, how would we know where to look? Researchers focusing on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI,… Read More
You’re young, you’re ambitious, you love tech. Your heart is set on the nationally ranked Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Except,… Read More
Before enrolling last fall in the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Mya Baker and Mia Huynh were not writing lines of code. Or… Read More