Tom Anderson is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Allen School’s Tom Anderson elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Shyam was awarded the Sigmobile Rockstar award. https://news.cs.washington.edu/2017/03/23/allen-schools-shyam-gollakota-wins-2017-sigmobile-rockstar-award/
Check out our work on connected cities and smart fabrics. http://www.washington.edu/news/2017/03/01/singing-posters-and-talking-shirts-uw-engineers-turn-everyday-objects-into-fm-radio-stations/
http://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-2017/all-star-alumni/#49b1a02c6330
Money Inc. names interscatter and ambient backscatter as two of ten technology inventions of 2016! http://moneyinc.com/top-10-technological-inventions-2016/
Interscatter is being featured in the “Incredible Works Here” ad campaign by Challenge Seattle. This includes various print and bus ads, and even this cookie from their launch event. Check out the website for more details: http://www.incredibleworkshere.com/
Shyam talked about our work on the Internet of Disposable Things at EmTech 2016. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602630/this-contact-lens-will-kick-start-the-internet-of-disposable-things/?utm_campaign=internal&utm_medium=readnext&utm_source=item_1
Madrona Awards the Madrona Prize to our Backscatter work. http://www.madrona.com/madrona-awards-madrona-prize-backscatter-team-uw-industrial-affiliates-day/ “2016 marks the 11th year of the Madrona Prize which is awarded to a ground breaking and commercially viable technology developed at the University of Washington. Since Madrona’s inception, more than two decades ago, Madrona has funded 16 companies Read More ...
Quoting the article “Now researchers at the University of Washington have found a way to eliminate the airtime and the hassle—by using the human body as a conduit for passing security codes from one device to another. By holding a smartphone in one hand, for example, and touching a doorknob Read More ...
We show for the first time that commodity devices can be used to generate wireless data transmissions that are confined to the human body. Specifically, we show that commodity input devices such as fingerprint sensors and touchpads can be used to transmit information to only wireless receivers that are in Read More ...