Ed Lazowska
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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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Aug 19
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Aug 13
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Aug 13
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Aug 6
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 30
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 25
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 24
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 17
‘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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 9
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jul 1
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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jun 25
‘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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Ed Lazowska
@edlazowska.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Kovacs, first woman tenured in UW Chemistry, retires | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington
As of April 1, 2025, Professor Julie Kovacs retired and was appointed Professor Emerita of Chemistry. Kovacs, an expert in bioinorganic chemistry, joined the University of Washington faculty in 1988 a...
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