“I’ve always thought that our most important and highest impact role is as educators.” Today, #UWAllen professor emeritus @edlazowska.bsky.social receives UW's Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award for his impact on thousands of students over the years. www.cs.washington.edu/allen-school... #ThisIsUW

Professor emeritus Ed Lazowska receives Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

The award, which is based on nominations from University of Washington alumni, honors “UW educators whose profound influence continues to shape the lives of their students long after they’ve left the ...

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UW’s Ed Lazowska adds ‘Distinguished Teaching Legacy Award’ to his long list of honors https://www.geekwire.com/2026/uws-ed-lazowska-adds-distinguished-teaching-legacy-award-to-his-long-list-of-honors/

Register for the A.I. ABCs; a workshop that teaches the many AI/ML tools available for analyzing structured data. The workshop is targeted at researchers with some programming experience but modest exposure to advanced math, stats, and computation. uwescience.github.io/ai-abcs_2026...

Nature @nature.com published a technology feature article about tips for debugging scientific code, with insights from Information School Professor and Associate Dean for Academics Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software

Computer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it’s supposed to do.

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Thanks to the amazing work by @uwescience.bsky.social's Noah Benson, NeuroHackademy now has a beautiful new website, with an emphasis on improved accessibility: neurohackademy.org

Corinne Scown grew up running barefoot through Sacramento's smoky days. Now she's making sure her kids won't have to. Through our VIFF program, she's turning agricultural biomass — the organic byproducts from farming — into cleaner air. #WomenInScience youtu.be/E-k36CbsCAo

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

We had the honor of hosting Senator Patty Murray at the eScience Institute after she secured $10 million in federal funds for AI infrastructure at UW. Check out @geekwire.com's coverage to learn more. www.geekwire.com/2026/ai-rese...

AI research boost: University of Washington expands infrastructure with $10M in federal funding

Sen. Patty Murray said the funding will help provide a counterweight to AI development driven primarily by private capital. "If just billionaires are creating and using AI for their own projects that ...

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Attention UW researchers! Need data science and AI resources to take your research to the next level? Hit up our weekly office hours. Learn more at escience.uw.edu/oh

We ♥️ our collaborators at @uwescience.bsky.social! Thank you for @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for supporting the partnership. Thanks to them, the calbioscape.org tool is lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...

Interested in doing exploratory analytics interactively on data sets that exceed your workstation’s capacity? Learn about Arkouda, and how it compares to Pandas, Dask, and Spark, in this talk and demo given at the @uwescience.bsky.social Data Science Seminar: www.youtube.com/watch?si=c_o...

UW Data Science Seminar: Brad Chamberlain

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Applications for the eScience Winter School are due Wednesday, February 4th. This introductory program is for researchers from domains such as health, social sciences, and business interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of data science tools. escience.washington.edu/data-science...

@schmidtsciences.bsky.social awarded us access to scientific computing support from @uwescience.bsky.social & it has been a game changer. calbioscape.org is fast & allows for high-res feedstock filtering by composition and seasonality. Thank you, team! 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-biositing...

Neel Gupta (@neel2112.bsky.social) just gave a great talk about BookTok and romance fiction, drawing on large-scale TikTok data. This research is based on work with @uwescience.bsky.social and Spencer Wood through the Data Science & AI Accelerator. Stay tuned for more soon!

Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.

Curious about how AI is changing the way we do research? Join our Scientific Software Engineering Center on October 29th at 6:00 pm this #SeattleAIWeek for a community-driven event and panel on building better tools for AI in research. escience.washington.edu/events/agent...

Head to IEB G109 tomorrow to hear Elle O'Brien's seminar titled "The Future of Scientific Code in the Era of Generative AI" escience.washington.edu/events/uw-da...

Join us for a 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images that will demonstrate how to build neural networks capable of addressing common computer vision tasks such as classifying patterns in images, detecting objects, etc. escience.washington.edu/events/pixel...

Hey University of Washington researchers! Come check out our fall office hour offerings. Head to escience.uw.edu/oh to learn more.

Hey UW research community, come check out Tillicum - a GPU-accelerated computing platform designed to support cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, data science, and scientific simulation. Join us and UW IT for the official launch event here: escience.washington.edu/events/tilli...

In the first part of this video series exploring how UW researchers our cloud computing resources, we meet with the Denolle Quake Lab to learn about their NSF supported project on a global seismic activity database. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Gt...

A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW

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New pub alert 📖 Our very own @arokem.org co-authored "A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight" for PLoS Computational Biology. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight

Author summary The human brain is a highly inter-connected system. Information about the environment and about internal states is effectively distributed and integrated through neural pathways that ra...

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#UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social ‬has been a fixture on the WA innovation scene longer than Microsoft. After nearly half a century as UW educator, researcher & local tech champion, he’s logging off from official duties—but not shutting it down just yet. #UWserves www.geekwire.com/2025/after-4...

After 48 years at UW, Ed Lazowska reflects on computer science, education, AI, and what’s next

After nearly a half-century at the University of Washington, Ed Lazowska reflects on his career, the future of AI and computer science education, and his plans beyond retirement.

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NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube

Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...

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The @uwescience.bsky.social has an ethnographer to study our data scientists and their rituals escience.washington.edu/staff-spotli...

Congratulations to #UW #UWAllen professor Magda Balazinska on her election to the WA State Academy of Sciences, which honored her contributions in data management and data science—including the award-winning Borealis stream processing engine. #UWdiscovers 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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The Data Science & AI Accelerator pairs eScience data scientists with UW researchers from any disciplinary field to work on collaborative projects. Project proposals for Fall 2025 must be received by August 14th. Check out the link below for more details! escience.washington.edu/using-data-s...

Recently, SSEC offered an interactive session to over 90 researchers at the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Science Summit to help shape a grounded, practical, and scientist-centered vision for AI in scientific discovery. schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/growing...

Growing Interdisciplinary Community at Our Largest Ever Summit • Schmidt Science Fellows

Our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit was our largest and most engaged event ever, growing and galvanizing a community of interdisciplinary researchers and supporters ready to change how science i...

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The 2025 edition of OceanHackWeek will be held from August 18th to 22nd. Applications close July 14th. The OceanHackWeek program consists of hands-on tutorials, visual presentations, and collaborative hack projects throughout a 5-day period. Apply here: oceanhackweek.org/ohw25/index....

🙌 Thrilled to announce $20K in Azure Service Credits from @uwescience.bsky.social @microsoft.com for #SPARK2025! Thanks to Dr.Mehmet Kiurt @kurtlab.bsky.social , SPARK Faculty & Mentor, this award supports 300 trainees across 36 countries with cloud tools for #MICCAI research & submissions🌍☁️🧠