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2005 John R. Hogness Symposium on Health CareThis year's John R. Hogness Symposium on Health Care presents Harold P. Freeman, M.D., President and Medical Director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, Harlem, New York. He sp ... A Conversation with bell hooksbell hooks is known mainly as a feminist thinker, but her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture. Her work emphasizes t ... A Day in the Life: Erin, Kiera, CrystalComputer programming stereotypes are no longer valid as an increasing number of women gain jobs in the software industry. From Seattle to San Francisco, three young women describe their career paths a ... A Day in the Life: Tessa, Kiera, CrystalWhat takes place during a day in the life of a University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering graduate who is now employed with a software or Internet company? The IT, software and gaming i ... A Decidable Class of Sequentially Consistent ProtocolsCache coherence protocols coordinate access to shared memory in multi-processor systems. A central correctness requirement for such protocols is sequential consistency: A protocol is sequentially cons ... A Scalable, Component-driven OSWindows runs on a variety of hardware and with a wide range of applications. In this talk, Rob Short of Microsoft presents an overview of the challenges, tradeoffs, and technical solutions used to des ... A Stateless Core Approach for Scalable Internet ServicesAs the Internet evolves into a global communication infrastructure, there is a growing need to support powerful and flexible services such as traffic management and quality of service (QoS). Over the ... A View from the Commissioner of Public LandsThe Honorable Doug Sutherland, commissioner of Public Lands, speaks on the current state of our Washington's forests, our urban environments, and our natural resources and their importance to our futu ... A Warmer Pacific Northwest: Lessons from the PastFrom devastating hurricanes to subtle changes in insect and plant populations, global climate change affects all aspects of life on Earth. Linda Brubaker, UW professor of dendrochronology, shows how c ... ABCD: Access to Baby & Child DentistryA group of concerned dentists, dental educators, public health agencies, the state dental association, and State Medicaid representatives came together to address the problem of the severe lack of den ... Abstract State MachinesComputation models and commercial specification methods seem to be worlds apart. The standard computation models, e.g. Turing Machine or Random Access Machine, would not allow you even to deal with yo ... Abusive RelationshipsNeil Jacobson is the author of "When Men Batter Women," with University of Washington Professor John Gottman. They did an in-depth survey of over 200 couples in abusive relationship to reach startling ... Accessible Information Technology in Education: Building Toward A Better FutureInformation technology (IT) is used in most educational settings. Students use a variety of IT tools such as email, websites, discussion boards, and courseware. They may use IT to attend school from a ... Active Pages: Intelligent Memory for Commodity SystemsMicroprocessors and memory systems suffer from a growing gap in performance. This talk summarizes my research in Active Pages, a novel computation model that addresses this gap by partitioning computa ... Activity Recognition: Context Aware ApplicationsAccurate recognition and tracking of human activities is an important goal of ubiquitous computing. The goal is to create a personal portable device that can determine a user's activity and make it av ... Adaptive Algorithms:: Price-Setting & Overlay RoutingProblems of sequential decision-making under partial information commonly arise in the design of algorithms for networked systems and the applications they support. In such tasks, a decision-maker mus ... Advanced Internet Systems with Professor Dan WeldA summary of student's final projects in the course. Students designed their own websites and search engines and focused on searching music files on the Internet. One of these projects focused on unre ... Advances in Cervical CancerLearn more about human papillomavirus and how to prevent related diseases in "Advances in Cervical Cancer." Laura Koutsky, epidemiology professor in the University of Washington School of Public Healt ... Advancing the Health of the World's ChildrenThe Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu and a panel of international health leaders discuss the impact of health issues – such as AIDS treatment and prevention, malnutrition, inadequate medical supplie ... Adventure EducationThe director of teacher education at the University of Washington interviews students and teachers in Washington about their experiences with Adventure Education, a form of Contextual Teaching and Lea ... African American Entrepreneurs: Bill McIntoshCyril Miller and Bill "Mac" McIntosh share how they founded and built successful companies and discuss their perspectives on the experience of African American entrepreneurs. ... African American Entrepreneurs: Bill McIntoshCyril Miller and Bill "Mac" McIntosh share how they founded and built successful companies and discuss their perspectives on the experience of African American entrepreneurs. ... Ahimsa: Beyond Violent Traditions of Science and TechnologyVandana Shiva advocates an approach that is based on the principle of ahimsa - meaning non-violence or harmlessness, drawing on the ethics of ecological and feminist thought that promotes diversity an ... Ahimsa: Beyond Violent Traditions of Science and TechnologyVandana Shiva advocates an approach that is based on the principle of ahimsa - meaning non-violence or harmlessness, drawing on the ethics of ecological and feminist thought that promotes diversity an ... AIDS Treatment in AfricaAccess to AIDS treatment for all has recently become a possibility worldwide. Medicines and laboratory tests are now effective and affordable. Projects have demonstrated the feasibility of treatment i ... Alex St. John, CEO and co-founder, WildTangentAlex St. John attended the University of Alaska for a few years, but accepted a position in Boston with Hell Graphics and never graduated. He soon become the resident PostScript expert and helped make ... Alex St. John, CEO and co-founder, WildTangentAlex St. John attended the University of Alaska for a few years, but accepted a position in Boston with Hell Graphics and never graduated. He soon become the resident PostScript expert and helped make ... Algorithms for ClusteringClustering problems arise in various contexts including classification, information retrieval and data mining. Roughly speaking, clustering refers to partitioning a set of objects into groups of simil ... Algorithms for Path-PlanningIn this talk, Shuchi Chawla presents an approximation algorithm, a 3-approximation, for Orienteering. She also discusses other path-planning problems and an application of path-planning to robot navig ... All I Really Need to Know I Learned from GoogleFor the last quarter century, the KnowItAll project has focused on accumulating massive amounts of information from the web by utilizing domain-independent, fully automated techniques. If successful, ... Alzheimer's Disease - Part 1Can Alzheimer’s disease be prevented? This program addresses the evolving approaches to this disease, providing evidence that some common medicines may delay or prevent the onset of dementia. See wh ... Alzheimer's Disease - Part 2Can Alzheimer’s disease be prevented? This program addresses the evolving approaches to this disease, providing evidence that some common medicines may delay or prevent the onset of dementia. See wh ... Amazon.com: Differentiating with TechnologyJeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com explains the dynamic technology behind Amazon.com's store. Also find out about the company's commitment to excellent customer experience, scalability issues, real-time sy ... Amy Schmid, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology ProgramMolecular and Cellular Biology graduate student, Amy Schmid, describes her work using a biological strategy to clean up radioactive waste. The Hanford site in eastern Washington and similar nuclear si ... An Introduction to IslamDirector of the Jackson School of International Studies, Jere Bacharach, leads this overview of the basic tenets of the Islamic faith. ... An Introduction to Venture CapitalSecuring financing is a critical step for most startup companies in the progression from an initial idea to a fully staffed company shipping real products. For an entrepreneur starting a company, havi ... An Introduction to Venture CapitalSecuring financing is a critical step for most startup companies in the progression from an initial idea to a fully staffed company shipping real products. For an entrepreneur starting a company, havi ... And the Beat Goes On - Advances in Cardiac Care, Part 1From interventional cardiology and the use of intravascular ultrasound to using stem cells to regenerate heart muscle, this program brings together an array of experts from several fields who will dem ... And the Beat Goes On - Advances in Cardiac Care, Part 2From interventional cardiology and the use of intravascular ultrasound to using stem cells to regenerate heart muscle, this program brings together an array of experts from several fields who will dem ... Angioplasty and StentingThis program’s discussion focuses on the management of an individual suffering from an acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack, and includes an analysis of areas of controversies. These controv ... Annika Andrews, Northwest HospitalLaura Schildkraut chats with Annika Andrews, Vice President of Business Development and Information Technology for Northwest Hospital in Seattle, Wash., who climbed to hospital CIO in just four short ... Anterior Cervical Spine SurgeryAnterior neck surgery allows for a very meaningful and complete surgical decompression of a compromised spinal cord and nerve roots. Limitations of this technique, however, exist in terms of its poten ... Anterior Cruciate Ligament SurgeryDr. Roger Larson explains the new medical techniques used to repair knee injuries. The program focuses on ACL injuries featuring four patients who suffered knee and joint pain or damage. The discussio ... Aortic Surgical Treatment: Marfan SyndromeChris King, M.D., Peter H. Byers, M.D., and Gabriel S. Aldea, M.D., physicians with the University of Washington Regional Heart Center, review the medical evaluation and surgical techniques for the tr ... Applied GeometryFrom 3D surfaces in graphics to higher dimensional manifolds in mechanics, computational sciences must deal with sampled geometric data on a daily basis, leading to an increasing interest in applied g ... Appropriate Technology in HealthA discussion about the institutional barriers to bringing lifesaving health technologies to developing countries. Two innovations are described: a diaphragm for birth control and a jet injector for in ... Approximate ReplicationReplication is fundamental to managing data in distributed computing environments. Chris Olston describes a new framework for data replication called TRAPP (Tradeoff in Replication Precision and Perfo ... Approximation Algorithms for some Clustering and Classification ProblemsClustering and classification problems arise in a wide range of application settings from clustering documents, placing centers in networks, to image processing, biometric analysis, language modeling ... Architectural Redesign for Internet ProtocolsThe Internet is a remarkable engineering triumph, but it has fundamental limitations in security, reliability and flexibility that have made it increasingly ill-suited to the demands being placed on i ... Art-Based Modeling for Computer GraphicsWe can apply techniques from art and illustration to increase the expressive power of 3D computer graphics. Markosian explains what we stand to gain from an "art-based" approach to modeling virtual 3D ... Art-Based Modeling for Computer GraphicsWe can apply techniques from art and illustration to increase the expressive power of 3D computer graphics. Markosian explains what we stand to gain from an "art-based" approach to modeling virtual 3D ... Arthroscopic Shoulder StabilizationWhat happens when a shoulder dislocates? Dr. Chris Wahl, an orthopaedic surgeon, talks with University of Washington Huskies basketball player Mike Jensen, who severely dislocated his left shoulder an ... Asian American EntrepreneursThis special addresses the obstacles encountered by Asian-American owned and operated businesses in the Seattle/Puget Sound region, and how these businesses were built. ... Asian American EntrepreneursThis special addresses the obstacles encountered by Asian-American owned and operated businesses in the Seattle/Puget Sound region, and how these businesses were built. ... ASM Models using AsmLYuri Gurevich, senior researcher at Redmond, WA-based Microsoft Research, leading the Foundations of Software Engineering group, explains why executable specifications will change the way software is ... Assessing Prenatal Risk: Current State of the ArtThe term prenatal diagnosis has historically been synonymous with amniocentesis and the prenatal detection of Down Syndrome. In the 1970s, a woman’s choice in assessing her fetus for birth defects a ... Assisted CognitionAssisted cognition systems are proactive memory and problem solving aids that help an individual perform the tasks of day-to-day life. Henry Kautz describes the goal of the Assisted Cognition project: ... At the Leading Edge of an Environmental RenaissanceThe oceans are mysterious, dangerous and largely unexplored, yet they are central to the habitability of life on Earth. Many natural phenomena that occur throughout the world's oceans and seafloor als ... Atrial Fibrillation: A Surgical PerspectiveDr. Gabriel Aldea outlines the latest in surgical techniques to repair the irregular rhythms, rapid heart beats, blood clots and ineffective heart muscle contractions associated with atrial fibrillati ... Autism: New Advances in Understanding and TreatmentProfessor Dawson discusses the latest research on the diagnosis and treatment of one of the most puzzling and challenging of childhood disorders—autism. Dawson, working with funding from the Nationa ... Autobiography as Farewell: Stephan Zweig and Sarah KofmanThis episode analyzes the autobiographies of two distinctly modern Jews: the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and Sarah Kofman, the French feminist and deconstructionist scholar. Presented by Michael Stan ... Automatic I/O Prefetching Hints through Speculative ExecutionMany applications, ranging from simple utilities to databases, manipulate data too large or infrequently used to be reliably found in memory caches. Due to the huge disparity between processor speeds ... Automatic Software TestingModern software pervasively uses structurally complex data such as linked data structures. The standard approach to generating test suites for such software is tedious and error prone. This program fo ... Automatic Tools for Building Secure SystemsDawn Song explains why building a secure system is a complex and error-prone process in computing. System signers and developers face many challenges. Song proposes a new automatic approach for buildi ... Automating the Design of VisualizationsIn this colloquia, Agrawala presents a new two-step approach for building automated visualization design systems. The first step is to analyze the best examples of hand-designed visualizations within ... Autonomous ComputingPat Helland of Microsoft Research examines the notion that today's new computing model revolves around the interactions between computers that don't trust each other, which he calls autonomous computi ... Baltic Studies Summer InstituteThe Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is the national center for intensive summer courses in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian language. Language courses are complemented by concerts, films, ar ... Basic End of Life SupportThis program is based on a workshop on basic end of life support (BEOLS), which includes: presenting a research based model of best practices in end-of-life care from clinician, patient, and family ca ... Bats in Managed ForestsHow have timber management activities altered the use of forests by bats? Can we identify forest conditions that inhibit or promote bat welfare? Information from new field techniques and results of re ... Beating Cancer At Its Own GameThe annual Mary Gates Lectureship brings together scientists, physicians, biotechnologists, cancer survivors, philanthropists and the community for a lecture by a notable scientist to leverage knowled ... Becoming a Living BookAnalyzations of dramatic encounters of the most famous teachers in Jewish tradition (the very founders of rabbinic Judaism) with their students in the heat of debate during study. Relationships betwee ... Behind the CodeIn order to demonstrate that computer scientists work in a broad range of interesting fields, Keith Kaplan, Microsoft software architect, provides insights into the development of the broadcast series ... Best of Chamber DanceWhat’s old is new again! In 2001, UWTV aired “The Best of Chamber Dance,” featuring outstanding performances by University of Washington's Chamber Dance Company. In honor of CDC’s ongoing perf ... Beyond Hubs and Authorities: Web Resource Discovery and SegmentationAfter crawling and keyword indexing, the next wave that has made a significant impact on Web search is topic distillation: analyzing properties of the hyperlink graph for enhanced ranking of Web pages ... Beyond the Genome: Deciphering What All the Proteins Do to Make a LivingThe total sequence of DNA has now been determined for the human (in draft form), for several organisms commonly used in the laboratory, and for dozens of bacteria and other pathogens. These DNA sequen ... Beyond the Genome: Deciphering What All the Proteins Do to Make a LivingThe total sequence of DNA has now been determined for the human (in draft form), for several organisms commonly used in the laboratory, and for dozens of bacteria and other pathogens. These DNA sequen ... Beyond the Information Superhighway: Searching for the Next Policy MetaphorLeading policy makers, academic experts, and industry representatives convened in at The Center for Law, Commerce and Technology at the University of Washington School of Laws annual conference. Prese ... BigTable: A System for Distributed Structured StorageBigTable is a system for storing and managing very large amounts of structured data. The system is designed to manage several petabytes of data distributed across thousands of machines, with very high ... Bill Baxter, BSQUARE CorporationBill Baxter is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Bsquare Corporation. He’s also a study in dualities. Just look at him and you’ll see someone who was probably always in the majority, yet, he was a ... Bimanual and Multi Degree-of-Freedom Interaction for Computer GraphicsWith some notable exceptions, current user interfaces for interacting with computer graphics can be characterized as "point-pushing" with one hand. Regardless of whether the graphical primitive being ... Bimanual and Multi Degree-of-Freedom Interaction for Computer GraphicsWith some notable exceptions, current user interfaces for interacting with computer graphics can be characterized as "point-pushing" with one hand. Regardless of whether the graphical primitive being ... Bioenergy and Biofuels: An Overview of Bioenergy and Biofuels ProductionRick Gustafson teaches us the basics of biofuels and Tim Stearns gives us the Washington state perspective. Joyce Cooper also speaks about lifecycle assessment and bioenergy. ... Bioenergy and Biofuels: Biomass Processing for Bioenergy and BiofuelsShulin Chen discusses the technologies and processes for cost-effective use of crops and agricultural residues for chemicals, fuels, biogas, and other value-added products. Renata Bura talks about the ... Bioenergy and Biofuels: The Biomass Resource in WashingtonCraig Frear starts with an overview of agricultural biomass resources for biofuel production in Washington state. Larry Mason continues to talk about forests as a source of raw material for biofuels p ... Bioinformatics: The Search for Non-Coding RNAOne of the biggest users of scientific computing cycles in Europe is a bioinformatics application -- genome-wide searches for 'non-coding RNAs' (ncRNAs) routinely monopolize 1000 computers for an enti ... Biology Is NanotechnologySequencing the human genome, which consists of 3,000,000,000 letters (or "bases") in a particular sequence, was a landmark in human history - a giant step forward in our understanding of ourselves as ... Biomarkers and Early Cancer DetectionSee how UW Medicine’s Division of Oncology is contributing to scientific advances that are producing potential new biomarkers for the early detection of cancer and improved disease management. Advan ... Biomedical Research in SpaceAstronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar describes bioastronautics and how space travel can be used to improve human health. Examples include views from space that identify the movement of diseases across the globe ... Biotechnology and Its ImplicationsJeremy Rifkin on the coming Biotech Century ... Biotechnology and Its ImplicationsJeremy Rifkin on the coming Biotech Century. ... Bloodless Surgery, Part 1Imagine cauterizing a lesion or blood vessel or destroying unwanted tissue and tumors without making an incision. This program demonstrates extending technology to medical treatment and therapy. ... Bloodless Surgery, Part 2Imagine cauterizing a lesion or blood vessel or destroying unwanted tissue and tumors without making an incision. This program demonstrates extending technology to medical treatment and therapy. ... Boeing: Enterprise-wide InnovatorScott Carson, newly appointed CEO and President of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Business, builds on the Boeing 787 Harvard Business School Case study of the innovation and leadership, which has resulte ... Boolean Methods for Arithmetic ReasoningDetecting and correcting errors in computer systems before run-time is increasingly important in today's ubiquitous computing environment. The success of design verification and static program analysi ... Borealis: Distributed Stream Processing EnginesRecently, a new class of data management applications has emerged in areas such as sensor-based environmental monitoring, financial services, network monitoring, and military applications. These strea ... Brain AneurysmsBrain aneurysms are challenging to treat, especially since a patient may have no symptoms until the aneurysm ruptures and becomes a life-threatening condition. This University of Washington program fo ... Brain Science as a Means of Understanding Delinquency and Substance Abuse in YouthDrs. Beauchaine and Tapert explore risks and results of delinquency and substance abuse in youth. Dr. Beauchaine discusses the importance of understanding the brain mechanisms associated with impulsiv ... Brain Science as a Means of Understanding Delinquency and Substance Abuse in YouthDrs. Beauchaine and Tapert explore risks and results of delinquency and substance abuse in youth. Dr. Beauchaine discusses the importance of understanding the brain mechanisms associated with impulsiv ... Brain Tumor SurgeryThis University of Washington program profiles an innovative surgical technique for maintaining the speech and language skills of a brain tumor patient. The program introduces viewers to Deborah Kelle ... BrainWorksWith the help of five kids, host Eric Chudler takes viewers on a journey inside of the brain. The show begins in the studio with an introduction to the nervous system. The kids then visit laboratories ... Broadening Computer and Robotics Education and Participation for WomenWomen and other underrepresented groups represent a vast amount of untapped human resource potential needed to fuel both industry and academic research needs. Professor Andrew Williams describes a coh ... Brotman Professorship Dedication: Realizing International Human RightsHailed as a "shining star in the field of international human rights law," Fitzpatrick has worked on paving the way for legislative remedies for Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Haitian refugees, and resti ... Browsing Around a Digital LibraryWhat will it be like to work in the digital library of the future? We begin by browsing around an experimental digital library of the present, glancing at some collections and seeing how they are orga ... Bud Albers, CTO, Getty ImagesBud Albers is responsible for Getty Images’ worldwide technical operations and provides strategic technology counsel for the Getty Images executive team. His areas of responsibility include technolo ... Bud Albers, CTO, Getty ImagesBud Albers is responsible for Getty Images’ worldwide technical operations and provides strategic technology counsel for the Getty Images executive team. His areas of responsibility include technolo ... Build the Future: UW Computer Science & EngineeringAn overview of the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, featuring student projects and interviews with regional technology and education leaders. ... Building the Future at the University of WashingtonThe Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering is a unique laboratory-intensive research facility on the University of Washington campus. The center’s architectural design fosters facul ... Building Winning NFL TeamsHow do NFL executives use information to build successful teams? The NFL Scouting Combine is one of the best sources of information about prospective players. Coaching staffs, medical personnel and to ... By-Passing Dot VertigoIn this talk, Harvard Business School faculty member and UW alumnus Richard Nolan presents dynamic observations on the current trends in business transformation. Nolan also describes information techn ... Calculi for Access ControlAccess control is central to security in computer systems. Over the years, there have been many efforts to explain and to improve access control, sometimes with logical ideas and tools. Martin Abadi, ... Can the Mind Just Be A Machine?Discoveries in neurobiology affect our view of the mind. We understand the neural signaling systems that underlie our processing of vision and the organization of our motor outputs. We understand the ... Capturing Life Experiences: Automated Video CaptureFor the past ten years, computer science engineers and faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology have been motivated to achieve some fraction of the potential that Mark Weiser envisioned for ubiquito ... Cardiac Defect Closure as Treatment for StrokeSteven Cramer, M.D., Steven L. Goldberg and Tom Jones, M.D., physicians with the University of Washington Regional Heart Center, review the medical evaluation and surgical procedures for stroke treatm ... Cardiac TransplantationCardiology Specialist Daniel Fishbein gives a medical review of surgical techniques for transplanting tissue. ... Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Advances in TreatmentA presentation on hand injuries and related surgical management. Included is a review of the anatomy of the hand and a demonstration of surgical procedures that repair injury and restore function. ... Causation of Scoliosis and Natural Course HistorySpinal deformity has fascinated as well as frightened human kind since the advent of recorded history. The causation of spinal deformity remains multi-factorial and incompletely understood. In this sh ... Centrality of Jewish Values in Shaping the Jewish Future, TheCalvin Goldscheider presents this talk on Jewish values based on his interviews with European Jews who survived WWII. ... Challenges of Forest StewardshipThe need for active stewardship of public forests is already critical and will greatly intensify in the 21st century. Globalization of the wood products industry is creating new and serious challenges ... Charles Johnson, NovelistCharles Johnson is one of America's leading writers. The recipient the 1990 National Book Award for his novel "Middle Passage," he is also the author of "Ox-Herding Tale," "The Sorcerers Apprentice," ... Charles Johnson, NovelistCharles Johnson is one of America's leading writers. The recipient the 1990 National Book Award for his novel "Middle Passage," he is also the author of "Ox-Herding Tale," "The Sorcerers Apprentice," ... Charlie Fink, AmericanGreetings.comHost Laura Schildkraut talks with Charlie Fink, the current President of the AmericanGreetings.com Network, which includes BlueMountain.com and eGreetings.com among other popular sites. ... Child Protective Services: Does It Help or Harm Families?Four social work professionals discuss the status of their field, the problems they encounter, the solutions they seek and the actions they employ. Topics include Child Protective Services' referrals ... Children of the TideMicroscopic embryos and larvae of marine animals are abundant in our oceans, yet few people are aware of their existence. This video takes a close look at the early life stages of several common marin ... Chinasite.comChinaSite.com is an internet portal business, the web's gateway to China. ... Chinasite.comChinaSite.com is an internet portal business, the web's gateway to China. ... Chris Capossela, MicrosoftChris Capossela is Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Information Worker Product Management Group. He maintains responsibility for Office, SharePoint, Project, Visio, OneNote and FrontPage. ... Chris Corrado, AT&T WirelessChris began his career as a programmer for IBM in the early 1980s. He soon moved into the technical area of Morgan Stanley and stayed about 12 years, moving aggressively up the IT ladder. During this ... Chronic Illness & Palliative Care, Part 1There are misperceptions about living with a chronic illness such as diabetes. Hear about some of the recent and future advancements in diabetes care helping patients live full and meaningful lives. S ... Chronic Illness & Palliative Care, Part 2There are misperceptions about living with a chronic illness such as diabetes. Hear about some of the recent and future advancements in diabetes care helping patients live full and meaningful lives. S ... CIO Forum on Best Practices ... Cleveland Museum of ArtDistance Learning at The Cleveland Museum of Art allows classes to enrich their studies of history, language arts, science, math and the visual arts through the museum’s collection of art and artifa ... Climbing, Research and Teaching: Adventures, Accidents, Change, and JoyThe University of Washington College of Forest Resources is a leader in the international study of environmental stresses on tree physiology. Professor Thomas Hinckley's research focuses on the water ... Clustering Gene Expression DataThis program presents a brief introduction to microarray technology for those unfamiliar with it, and outline recent work by Larry Ruzzo, students and other collaborators on cluster analysis of microa ... Cochlear Implants for Hearing LossThe first thing Kenneth Rambow noticed after receiving his cochlear implant was birds chirping: “I haven’t heard that in 20 years,” said Rambow, a patient at the University of Washington Medical ... Collaborative SystemsAs a result of the ubiquity of computer networks, computer systems increasingly participate in complex, distributed communities of people and systems, rather than operating as solitary devices employe ... Colleen Aylward, Devon James Associates, Inc. Colleen Aylward is the founder and ongoing visionary of Devon James Associates, Inc. Devon James Associates created the 'On Site Recruiting War Room' model, as featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and T ... College of Forest Resources Centennial CelebrationThe College of Forest Resources has been "creating futures since 1907." It has been a leader in natural resource programs for generations and throughout the world. Our vision is to provide world class ... College: You Can DO IT!College students with disabilities, guidance professionals, and faculty share advice for success in college. This video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington. ... College: You Can DO IT!College students with disabilities, guidance professionals, and faculty share advice for success in college. This video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington. ... Come Together WashingtonOn October 15, 2004, the University of Washington hosted Come Together Washington, a celebration of the contributions the Seattle community and the university make to society. The event focused on how ... Common Running InjuriesPart of a healthy lifestyle often includes running, which can help to increase aerobic capacity and leg strength. However, the repetitive motions of running can lead to knee and ankle pain and injury. ... Communicating Prevention Research IPublic opinion poll on prevention research in Washington state and research perspectives from the Centers for Disease Control. ... Communicating Prevention Research IIThis program includes a media-scientist roundtable on the most effective ways to inform the media and the public about prevention research, as well as a panel discussion: How to Translate Research Res ... Communications for Mobile PeoplePeople are the outsiders in the current communications revolution. Computer hosts, pager terminals, and telephones are addressable entities throughout the Internet and telephony systems. Human beings, ... Community Systems: The World OnlineThe Web is about you and me. Until now, for the most part, it has denoted a corpus of information that we put online sometime in the past, and the most celebrated Web application is keyword search ove ... Compiler-Directed Synthesis of Hardware AcceleratorsAn ever larger variety of embedded ASICs is being designed and deployed to satisfy the explosively growing market for new electronic devices. Many of these devices handle demanding multi-media computa ... Complex Cervical ConditionsOur increasingly aging population is inherently afflicted with a rising incidence of systemic ailments, such as tumor disease, inflammatory diseases and osteoporosis. In this lecture, doctors review c ... Complications of Low Back Pain SurgeryDr. Jens Chapman and Dr. Sohail Mirza identify some of the major complications of spine surgery and address difficulties in diagnosis and management, as well as major difficulties and inaccuracies in ... Complications, Outcome Measures and LitigationPatients with advanced age or significant health problems undergoing spine surgery pose a unique set of problems and challenges to their treatment team. In her review of the current rate of risks, Dr. ... Computational Biology: Comparing Vertebrate GenomesThere are currently 17 vertebrate genomes, ranging from primates to fishes, for which we know nearly their entire DNA sequences, and this number will increase rapidly. Comparing these genome sequences ... Computational Biology: GenomicsOne of the current major challenges in computational biology is to extend our knowledge to very large sets of genes and proteins. Michal Linial presents a technique that automatically clusters protein ... Computational Discovery of Genetic Regulatory NetworksWith the draft sequences of many genomes in hand, the next frontier is understanding genetic regulatory networks that control cellular behavior and development. In our approach to discovering genetic ... Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous ComputingThe blossoming research field of e-textiles integrates computation with fabric. E-textile researchers weave, solder and sew electronics into cloth to build soft, flexible and washable computational de ... Computer Animation Capstone Design Animation Mira and the WindMira and the Wind is a collaborative 3D animated short film created by students in the University of Washington's Computer Animation Capstone Design course (CSE 490) lead by instructor Barbara Mones. ... Computer Animation Capstone Design Animation Mira and the WindMira and the Wind is a collaborative 3D animated short film created by students in the University of Washington's Computer Animation Capstone Design course (CSE 490) lead by instructor Barbara Mones. ... Computer ArchitectureUnderstanding program behavior is at the foundation of computer architecture and program optimization. Sherwood describes a new technique, Basic Block Distribution Analysis, as a means of summarizing, ... Computer Graphics: Communications MediaDavid Salesin discusses how the real market for computers lies in their vast potential as a communication medium. Drawing upon examples that range from computer-generated illustration and virtual cine ... Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series: Interactive Machine LearningMachine learning offers the promise of assisting users to create new tools simply by demonstrating the desired outcome. The tool "Image Processing with Crayons" was built for creating classifiers for ... Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series: The Web the Way You Want ItThe decentralized architecture of the web was designed from the outset to create an environment where content producers and consumers could come together without the need for everyone to use the same ... Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer: Declarative Networking: "What" is NextDeclarative languages allow programmers to say what they want, without worrying over the details of how to achieve it. These kinds of languages revolutionized data management decades ago but have had ... Computer Science EducationStuart Reges discusses four nifty assignments,' such as one on object-oriented programming, presented at the annual symposium for SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education(. ... Computer Science Programming LanguagesA core goal of computer science is to develop methods for building reliable and maintainable programs. Robert Harper reviews some exciting new developments in language research, such as the emergence ... Computer Science: Past, Present and FutureComputing research has made remarkable advances, but there's much more to be accomplished. The next ten years of advances should be even more significant, and even more interesting, than the past ten. ... Computer Science: Still Crazy After All These YearsComputer science is transforming all aspects of our lives, and driving our nation's economy. In the face of this, it is startling to recognize that the real computing and communications revolution sti ... Computers, Cultures and Constructions: Locating the Learner in the Con/Text of Digital Video CasesInnovative uses of video, audio, text, and graphics make it possible for the learner to engage in knowledge creation activities. In this presentation, Ricki Goldman-Segall will show examples and discu ... Computers, Cultures and Constructions: Locating the Learner in the Con/Text of Digital Video CasesInnovative uses of video, audio, text, and graphics make it possible for the learner to engage in knowledge creation activities. In this presentation, Ricki Goldman-Segall will show examples and discu ... Computing over the Reals: Where Turing Meets NewtonThe classical (Turing) theory of computation has been extraordinarily successful in providing the foundations and framework for theoretical computer science. But its dependence on 0's and 1's is funda ... Conceptions and Misconceptions of Women in the Middle EastPaula Holmes-Eber discusses how, in the wake of September 11, Western misconceptions of Middle Eastern women have come to represent what Americans fear about the Islamic faith. ... Concepts of PainPain is an adverse perception of physical, sensory and emotional dimensions. It has a major impact on the general and specific well being of an affected individual. Due to reasons that are not complet ... Congenital Heart Disease in AdultsUW cardiology specialists discuss surgical treatments and drug therapy for congenital heart disease in adults. The condition includes any type of congenital heart malformation existing since birth, an ... Connecting the Pacific NWNSF Networking Initiatives NSF networking research and infrastructure programs have been the stimulus for the availability of advanced Internet technology to and within the Pacific Northwest, with th ... Connecting the Pacific NWNSF Networking Initiatives NSF networking research and infrastructure programs have been the stimulus for the availability of advanced Internet technology to and within the Pacific Northwest, with th ... Consciousness, Creativity & the BrainAward-winning writer, director, and producer David Lynch discusses his films and his 30-year relationship with Transcendental Meditation, and its role in his creative process. He is joined by physicis ... Constrictive PericarditisPatient case studies focusing on Constrictive Pericarditis. ... Constructing Code: ExpandersExpanders, sparse yet highly connected graphs with additional pseudorandom properties, have been the main combinatorial tool in the explicit constructions of error-correcting codes with fast encoding ... Contemporary American Composers and the Symphony PublicGerard Schwarz, music director of the highly regarded Seattle Symphony, shares his expertise and music. Schwarz, who graduated from the Juilliard School of Music, is one of the most recorded conductor ... Contextual Teaching and Learning 101Health and computer literacy teachers from Pasco High School, Washington, and a professor of English from Central Washington University discuss their collaborations to develop contextual teaching and ... Controversies in CardiologyThe University of Washington Regional Heart Center presents patient case studies focusing on the controversies in cardiology. For more information, see the University of Washington Regional Heart Cent ... Corneal Transplant Surgery: The Gift of SightThe cornea is a window for the eye, protecting the interior and helping to focus light on the retina. Disease or trauma can damage the cornea, creating cloudy images, and in severe cases, corneal blin ... Cosmetic SurgeryClinical case presentations of various aesthetic issues. ... Cosmetic Surgery: A Multidisciplinary ApproachCosmetic techniques for coping with weight-loss issues, such as the loss of skin elasticity, hair loss, nose reconstruction, and the use of botulinum toxin, among other aesthetic solutions. ... Cosmetic Surgery: New AdvancesUniversity of Washington Medical Center doctors talk about a variety of cosmetic surgery topics: minimally invasive facial plastic surgery, external and internal approaches to eyelid surgery, dermatol ... Craig Eisler, Action Engine CorporationA career profile of Craig Eisler, the President and CEO of Action Engine Corporation. Craig Eisler is a lead character in the book 'Renegades of the Empire,' which explores how three Microsoft employe ... Creating New Billion Dollar IT-based Business in the 21st Century University of Washington president Mark Emmert welcomes multi-disciplined academics, PhD students and leading company innovators to the inaugural University of Washington Seattle Innovation Symposium ... Creating New Billion Dollar IT-based Business in the 21st CenturyUniversity of Washington president Mark Emmert welcomes multi-disciplined academics, PhD students and leading company innovators to the inaugural University of Washington Seattle Innovation Symposium ... Critical Infrastructure ProtectionIn this distinguished lecturer colloquia, Scott Charney details the history and current state of cybercrime. This special lecture includes a discussion of Microsoft's security initiatives and identifi ... Crosslinguistic Resources: Scalable Precision GrammarsPrecision grammars represent knowledge engineering for natural language parsing (assigning syntactic and semantic structure to sentences) and generation (assigning surface strings to semantic represen ... Cultural Disjunctions and Modern Jewish IdentityProfessor Mendes-Flohr seeks to compound and celebrate the ambiguities of post-traditional Jewish identities in the modern and post-modern periods while noting the discontinuities of such categories a ... Curt Doolittle, Ascentium Corp. Curt Doolittle is managing partner and chief strategy officer of Ascentium Corporation, an award-winning, integrated technology and marketing consultency. He has bought and sold over 150 companies, i ... Customer Relationship ManagementBill Price, former Vice President of Global Customer Service at Amazon.com, is featured in this episode. Price founded Driva Solutions, LLC in September 2001 to provide strategic consulting and adviso ... Cyclone: Programming-Language Technology for Reliable SoftwareBuilding large, reliable software systems is one of the great intellectual challenges of our age. UW CSE researcher, Dan Grossman, describes the ongoing efforts to use programming languages and their ... Cyclone: Safe ProgrammingMemory safety and type safety are invaluable features for constructing robust software, but most safe languages are at a high level of abstraction. This is one reason C remains the de facto standard f ... Dan Todd, 180solutionsDan Todd is chief operating officer for 180solutions, a leading provider of Internet search marketing solutions. Early on, his job at a food services company provided insight into running a business, ... Daniel's Story: Craniofacial and NeurosurgeryDaniel was born with part of his brain outside his skull. His face didn't look like other people's. At Seattle Children's Hospital, a team of craniofacial and neurosurgeons sealed the opening to Danie ... Data MiningUsama Fayyad presents a paradoxical technical and business dilemma: an over-abundance of data with limited ability to utilize or mine the vital information. Data mining—a technology few organization ... Data Structures & AlgorithmsTuring Award Winner, Robert Tarjan, reviews several problems that he has explored in the in the realm of data structures and algorithms. The emphasis is on problems still in need of a solution. ... Data-Driven Texture and MotionEfros presents work in two different domains, describing algorithms for visual texture synthesis (e.g. grass, pebbles) and human motion from video. The method can be used for both action recognition a ... Dataflow ArchitecturesSeveral recent architectural proposals, including TRIPS and WaveScalar, advocate dataflow-like architectures as a good match for the execution substrates projected in the next decade and beyond. In th ... Dave Aas, Nextel PartnersDave Aas, vice president and chief technology officer of Nextel Partners, has done remarkably well for someone without a plan. He joined the Navy because college was neither appealing nor financially ... David Luchtel, PEMCOIn the world of David Luchtel, Chief Technology Officer of the PEMCO Corporation, no experience is ever wasted. Through a variety of technical jobs, some less than glamorous - yet all challenging, he ... Deanne Handron, Vice President, Cap Gemini Ernst and YoungMs. Handron is a Vice President at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. She joined the consulting firm Arthur Young because the people she met there "felt like family." Twenty-three years later, she's still lo ... Death, Drugs, Driving, and DNA: A Forensic Potpourri, Part 1Examine methods used in forensic investigations, including pathology, toxicology, and criminalistics. Illustrative case studies will show how these forensic sciences are central to the investigation o ... Death, Drugs, Driving, and DNA: A Forensic Potpourri, Part 2Examine methods used in forensic investigations, including pathology, toxicology, and criminalistics. Illustrative case studies will show how these forensic sciences are central to the investigation o ... Debugging Concurrent Software by Context-Bounded AnalysisDesigning concurrent programs is difficult. The nondeterministic interaction between concurrently executing threads of a concurrent program results in programming errors that are notoriously difficult ... Deformity Reduction with Pedicle ScrewsRealignment of spinal deformities has been greatly enhanced by the use of pedicle screw based implant systems. University of Washington doctors present the safety and utility of screw fixation in the ... Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global AgeJames Banks gives the 29th annual faculty lecture entitled 'Democracy, Diversity and Social Justice: Education in a Global Age.' Banks has been a researcher and leader in efforts to increase education ... Design Methods: Distributed SystemsHeterogeneity and distribution are becoming key properties of both high-performance integrated circuits and real-time embedded systems. For instance, the embedded electronics of a modern car includes ... Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for the Rural Developing WorldTapan Parikh describes his experiences developing CAM - a toolkit for mobile phone data collection - in the rural developing world. Designing technologies for an unfamiliar context requires understand ... Designing for Fluent InteractionAs the world of computing moves away from individual interactive devices towards ubiquitous computer augmented environments, new issues of usability arise and others take on increased importance. In t ... Designing User InterfacesWe are now entering the era of pervasive computing, where people will access information and services anywhere, anytime, and from a wide variety of devices. James Landay (UC Berkeley) talks about desi ... Detecting Circulating Tumor CellsSuccessful cancer therapy is intended to eliminate all traces of cancer from the patient. If cancer cells survive the therapy, they may eventually grow back, resulting in relapse. Numerous studies, es ... Detecting Circulating Tumor CellsSuccessful cancer therapy is intended to eliminate all traces of cancer from the patient. If cancer cells survive the therapy, they may eventually grow back, resulting in relapse. Numerous studies, es ... Developing Machine Translation Prototypes for Languages with Limited ResourcesA research group at Carnegie Mellon University has been developing a general learning-based framework for constructing MT prototypes for languages that have limited resources. In this Turing Center Di ... Developing Six Traits of Effective WritingHealth and computer literacy teachers from Pasco High School, Washington, and a professor of English from Central Washington University discuss their collaborations to develop contextual teaching and ... Developing Vaccines for Emerging and Global Infectious DiseasesLawrence Corey, professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses how vaccines work to influence population-based effects on reducing and infection or disease. Dr. Corey describe ... Digital Photography: Bhutan ExpeditionHawley describes his cutting-edge use of digital camera equipment during three MIT-led photographically-intensive expeditions in the Himalayan paradise of Bhutan. He explores print processing and web ... Digital Simplicity through Activity-Based ComputingRecent advances in small, inexpensive sensors, low-power processing, machine learning and mobile-user interfaces have enabled applications that use on-body sensing to infer people's activities through ... Directions and Challenges in Integrated Circuit ScalingThe integrated circuit industry has enjoyed tremendous success over the past 30+ years due to the excellent scaling properties of MOS transistors. As MOSFETs have scaled, consistent improvements in de ... Discipline at the Core, Creativity at the EdgeBased on his years of experience with some of the most innovative companies in the world, Robert Herbold, President, Herbold Associates, and former Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation, disc ... Disclosing Harmful Medical Errors to Patients: What Is the Data Telling Us?Expectations are growing that physicians openly disclose harmful medical errors to patients, but at present such disclosure appears to be uncommon. In this University of Wasington program, hear about ... Discrete Global Minimization AlgorithmsSteven Gortler demonstrates how global optima can be found as the limit of a set of purely combinatorial problems. These combinatorial problems can be thought of higher dimensional analogues of the 's ... Discrete Mathematics: Expanders Graphs & EigenvaluesExpander graphs are among the most interesting objects of study in modern discrete mathematics. They are useful for a broad spectrum of applications in computer science, from the design of good routin ... Display System PerformanceOnce upon a time graphics system performance was expressed in terms of simple numbers: polygons per second, pixels per second, and frames per second. All of the numbers were low and many of us worked ... Distance Learning in Rural Third World CommunitiesGood primary education is one of the most crucial factors in combating extreme poverty. In this talk, Randy Wang of Princeton University explains how computer scientists and education experts are coll ... Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Christopher MurrayDr. Christopher Murray is the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and professor of Global Health at the UW School of Medicine and School of Public He ... Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Christopher MurrayDr. Christopher Murray is the director of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and professor of Global Health at the UW School of Medicine and School of Public He ... Distributed Router FabricsToday's IP routers make incredible performance demands of their switch fabric. The router fabric is responsible for moving packets between tens to hundreds of high-bandwidth ports without any disrupti ... DNA Self-assembly and Computer System FabricationThe migration of circuit fabrication technology from the microscale to the nanoscale has generated a great deal of interest in how the fundamental physical limitations of materials will change the way ... DNA Time Series Expression DataDNA microarray technologies enable researchers to measure the expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously. More recently microarrays have been exploited to measure genome-wide protein-DNA b ... Do Movies Have Rights?The subject is movie censorship, starting with "The Birth of a Nation" and ending with "The Miracle," dealing with both the history of the movies and the constitutional issues. Presenting is Harvard p ... Do No Harm: Teaching Safe Practices & Communicating Medical Error, Part 1Learn how patient safety is advanced through simulation education, surgical interventions and practicing for emergency situations. Consider the challenges involved in responding to patients when medic ... Do No Harm: Teaching Safe Practices & Communicating Medical Error, Part 2Learn how patient safety is advanced through simulation education, surgical interventions and practicing for emergency situations. Dr. Mika Sinanan examines the challenges involved in responding to pa ... Do They Really Hate Us?Resat Kasaba ponders the question of whether or not people in the Middle East truly hate us and our way of life. ... DO-IT ScholarsWith participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video features scholars talking about the program for high school students with disabilities. ... DO-IT ScholarsWith participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video features scholars talking about the program for high school students with disabilities. ... Don Manning, Nextel Partners Don Manning is vice president and general counsel for Nextel Partners. He was one of the founders of Nextel Partners. ... Donor Nephrectomy / Kidney TransplantDr. Christian Kuhr presents information on laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, a surgical procedure to remove the kidney from a person willing to donate it, to someone who has kidney failure. Discover how ... Dust in Time: A Solar System MysteryDr. Don Brownlee, principal investigator for the NASA Stardust mission, talks about his involvement in this unprecedented mission to collect and bring back material from outside the orbit of the moon ... Dynamic Invariant DetectionThis program begins with background on dynamic invariant detection, a technique for discovering invariants from execution traces, followed by a description of an application of program invariants to t ... Dynamic Workplaces on DemandDynamic workplaces are designed to help companies decrease costs, boost efficiencies and fundamentally alter the way their people work. IBM has been on a path to digitize most manual processes—HR, p ... E-Business Risk AssessmentA panel of experts provides a broad perspective on e-business risk assessment and management. Learn about the major risks facing e-businesses today, and how successful organizations are dealing with t ... e-Types: Innovation Strategy in a Design Firme-Types, a successful and growing design firm, experiences a disagreement between "creatives" and business-minded employees about how to approach a prestigeous job. The ensuing debate goes to the very ... Early Childhood Development: Early Learning, the Brain and SocietyHow does a child’s capacity to learn relate to the central debate about nature or nurture? As part of the Early Childhood Development lecture series, Dr. Patricia Kuhl talks about children’s abili ... Early Childhood Development: Early Learning, the Brain and SocietyHow does a child’s capacity to learn relate to the central debate about nature or nurture? As part of the Early Childhood Development lecture series, Dr. Patricia Kuhl talks about children’s abili ... Early Childhood Development: Early Learning, the Brain and SocietyHow does a child’s capacity to learn relate to the central debate about nature or nurture? As part of the Early Childhood Development lecture series, Dr. Patricia Kuhl talks about children’s abili ... Eastside Specialty Center: Coordination of CareFollow patient Neil Forney, of Sammamish, WA, as he and his University of Washington medical care team review the diagnosis, surgery and follow up care involved with his heart valve repair procedure. ... Effect of Collusion in Some Network GamesTraditional network design assumes that the network designer has the information and power to decide on the whole network. However, many networks operate and evolve through interactions of large numbe ... Effect of Global Climate Change on Northwest Forests, Part 1UW College Forestry experts discuss the global climate change affecting the Pacific Northwest, how it's getting warmer, lessons from the past, and promoting market mechanisms in a greenhouse world. ... Effect of Global Climate Change on Northwest Forests, Part 2UW College Forestry experts discuss the global climate change affecting the Pacific Northwest, how it's getting warmer, lessons from the past, and promoting market mechanisms in a greenhouse world. ... Electric Energy SystemsKai Strunz describes how real time digital simulators for energy systems are used for co-simulation that allows for an on-line exchange of information between real and virtual energy systems. ... Embedded Networked Sensing SystemsEmbedded Networked Sensing Systems, commonly referred to as sensor networks, will form a critical infrastructure resource for society—they will monitor and collect information on such diverse subjec ... Embedded SystemsEmbedded systems are ever present in our environment, and in future will be even more so. Resource management and optimization at all levels of abstraction in such embedded networks is of critical imp ... Embedded Systems Capstone Design with Professor Gaetano BorielloA summary of student's final projects in this course. Projects include an automated home audio system called Migrating Audio, an in-building navigation system that allows you to call up a map of an un ... Energy Efficient System Design and UtilizationEnergy consumption of electronic devices has become a serious concern in recent years. Energy efficiency is necessary to lengthen the battery lifetime in portable systems, as well as to reduce the ope ... Energy Minimization for Computer Vision via Graph CutsMany energy minimization problems involve assigning a label to every node in a graph, where adjacent nodes should have similar labels. These optimization problems arise in fields as diverse as classif ... Enhancing Creativity Through ToolkitsInterface toolkits in ordinary application areas let average programmers rapidly develop software resembling other standard applications. In contrast, toolkits for novel and perhaps unfamiliar applica ... Ephemeral Instrumentation for Lightweight Program ProfilingProgram profiling is a useful mechanism for performance evaluation and code optimization. Profiling techniques that provide detailed information with extremely low overhead are especially important fo ... Equal Access: Computer LabsThis video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington and describes making computing labs accessible to people with disabilities. ... Equal Access: Science and Students with Sensory ImpairmentsPeople with visual and hearing impairments are able to do real science, including lab and field work. This program produced by the University of Washington looks at ways to design labs and materials t ... Equal Access: Universal Design of Computer LabsComputer labs are essential on any college campus, and every student should be able to use those labs. In this program produced by the University of Washington, you'll learn that by planning ahead, us ... Equal Access: Universal Design of InstructionCollege and precollege students come from a variety of backgrounds and have many types of learning styles. Students may also have disabilities. In this program produced by the University of Washington ... Error-Tolerant Networking ProtocolsInternet protocols were designed to tolerate failures, yet not all faults are alike. In this colloquia, David Wetherall reviews several protocols that proved vulnerable to software failures and descri ... Evan Kaplan, CEO and Co-founder, AventailLaura Schildkraut interviews Evan Kaplan, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Aventail Corporation, a managed services company that securely connects people to applications over the Int ... Evan Kaplan, CEO and Co-founder, AventailLaura Schildkraut interviews Evan Kaplan, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Aventail Corporation, a managed services company that securely connects people to applications over the Int ... Evolution of Traditional EnterprisesManufacturing, shipping, and port management industries are embracing e-business as a core initiative to increase revenues and productivity, streamline business processes, reduce capital-construction ... Expedition to the Underwater Volcanoes of the Northeast Pacific: Global AccessJoin in the discovery of submarine volcanic systems, where brilliantly-colored organisms cluster around hot, volcanic vents in the earth’s crust, at depths where sunlight can’t penetrate. The VISI ... Expedition to the Underwater Volcanoes of the Northeast Pacific: Life at the ExtremeOne of the most profound oceanic discoveries in the past 20 years is the dense and diverse biological communities, thriving in the absence of sunlight, that are supported by gases released from submar ... Expedition to the Underwater Volcanoes of the Northeast Pacific: Ocean ResearchThis is the final of three programs featuring VISIONS ’05 expedition participants who gathered in the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson’s main lab to explain their role in Juan de Fuca Ridge Ende ... Extended Static CheckingDescribed is a system for detecting automatically at compile time certain errors that are normally not detected until run time, and sometimes not even then. For example, array bounds errors, NIL deref ... Factories of the FutureBacteria have the ability to carry out a broad array of chemical syntheses, more extensive than any existing chemical factory. In addition, bacteria use renewable resources and generate harmless bypro ... Fairness and Factions in HealthIn this panel discussion, University of Washington faculty examine how issues of access, culture, trade, finance and regulation affect health care to world citizens. Panel members share research resul ... Fairness and Factions in HealthIn this panel discussion, University of Washington faculty examine how issues of access, culture, trade, finance and regulation affect health care to world citizens. Panel members share research resul ... Federal Land Management Policy, Part 1This program features Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who addresses the issues and diversions in natural resources management toda ... Federal Land Management Policy, Part 2A continuation of "Federal Land Management Policy Issues, Part 1," this program features three additional UW forestry faculty members speaking on different aspects of federal land management policy is ... Female Urinary IncontinenceMillions of women are affected by urinary incontinence every year at a large cost to society in the form of medical treatments and incontinence pads. In this program, doctors present a novel and effec ... Field Notes from a Catastrophe - LIVE! with Elizabeth KolbertKnown for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming in this year's University of Washington "Common Book" ... Field Notes from a Catastrophe - LIVE! with Elizabeth KolbertKnown for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tackles the controversial subject of global warming in this year's University of Washington "Common Book" ... Financing Public Universities in the New MillenniumAn esteemed panel of university administrators and faculty address the subject of financing public universities in the new millennium. Presentations include budget specifics and comparisons, operating ... Financing Public Universities in the New MillenniumAn esteemed panel of university administrators and faculty address the subject of financing public universities in the new millennium. Presentations include budget specifics and comparisons, operating ... Finding Gold: Hiring the Best and the BrightestLearn how staff and employers in cooperative education, internship, and other work-based learning programs can fully include participants with disabilities. Featuring participants in the DO-IT program ... Finding Gold: Hiring the Best and the BrightestLearn how staff and employers in cooperative education, internship, and other work-based learning programs can fully include participants with disabilities. Featuring participants in the DO-IT program ... Finding Gold: Hiring the Best and the BrightestLearn how staff and employers in cooperative education, internship, and other work-based learning programs can fully include participants with disabilities. Featuring participants in the DO-IT program ... Fish ShtickA toy cat tries to jump into a fish tank to nab a fish. Created in five weeks (including story development) as part of an innovative multi-disciplinary course. It was taught to teams of undergraduat ... Five Forces in the Network EconomyInformation goods -- from movies and music to software code and stock quotes -- have supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets. Confronted by this New Economy, many instinctively ... Fluid Interaction for High Resolution Wall-Size DisplaysGuimbretiere explores how to bridge the gap between the power provided by current desktop computer interfaces and the fluid use of whiteboards and pin-boards. Observing fluid expert interactions in ev ... Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the WestWildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe, large, and frequent as a result of past forest management practices. Forests that historically benefited from natural wildfire are ... Forging Alliances for Integrated B2B ... Form and Textural Contrast in Garden Design and Plant SelectionDan Hinkley, horticulture expert, describes landscape design principles for creating more visually satisfying gardens. He outlines three important design concepts: the use of differing textural qualit ... Four Worlds and KabbalahAn exploration of the complex relationship of Renewal interpretations of Kabbalah to classical forms of Jewish mysticism through teaching of the Four Worlds. In classical Kabbalah, the Four Worlds des ... Franchises: Qpoint & LazerQuickFranchising is becoming increasingly popular as a way to get into business. And franchises have much higher success rate than other businesses. ... Fred Paulsell, Olympic Capital PartnersFred Paulsell is a developer/venture capitalist. He is a Principal at Olympic Capital Partners and was one of the founders of Costco and Seattle's Best Coffee. ... From Bench to Bedside: Biomedical Research and Patient CareThis video recognizes the vital role of humane animal use in biomedical research, higher education and product safety testing. The purpose of biomedical research is to understand the living body, and ... From GUIs to PUIsComputers will not always be used as glorified typewriters - the future of human-computer interaction is not in typing words and dragging icons. How are we to interact with technology as it becomes mo ... From Perception and Discriminative Learning to Interactive BehaviorA strong symbiosis lies between machine learning and machine perception. Just as we learn to reason and interact with the world through our senses, a smart sensing system could acquire data to drive h ... From the Playing Field to Organizational LeadershipHow does success on the playing field translate to success in the business world? Three Husky Hall of Fame athletes - Carver Gayton, Trish Bostrom and Rick Redman - share their personal experiences at ... Functional Image SynthesisPan is a declarative language and optimizing compiler for image synthesis, based on a simple but precise semantic model: pictures are functions from infinite, continuous space to colors with partial o ... Fusion: Indications and Utilization RateOver the past four decades the utilization rates of spinal fusions have risen considerably in the United states of America, while the techniques of performing a spinal fusion have changed considerably ... Future Trends in Spinal Deformity SurgeryStarting from very humble, largely manipulative non-operative beginnings, spinal deformity surgery has risen to making positively life-changing differences possible, even in the most severely affected ... G. Eric Engstrom, WildseedEric Engstrom approached high school and college differently from other students, and never really graduated from either. When he started his time at Microsoft, he began as an evangelist, rather than ... Garbage Collection AlgorithmsThe increasing reliance on garbage collected languages such as Java and C++ requires high performance from the memory management system. Kathryn McKinley presents two new garbage collection algorithms ... Gender and Jewish RenewalThe majority of participants in the Jewish Renewal Movement are women. Several factors are at work here to explain this, such as the theology of the movement, which articulates the importance of the S ... Gender, Lies and Video Games: Women and Computer SciencesPrinceton University professor, Maria Klawe, explores how girls and women differ from boys and men in their uses of, and attitudes towards, computers and computing. From playing computer games to purs ... Generalized Alias Analysis on a Basis for Programming ToolsTools for automatic program analysis promise to improve programmer productivity by searching and summarizing large bodies of code. However, the phenomenon of aliasing -- different names being used to ... Genetically Engineered Food: The Science Behind the ControversyFood plants modified by genetic engineering have been hailed by some as a technological marvel that will provide food security for the world's hungry, while being demonized by others as a serious thre ... Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology: Departmental SeminarWhy do some people get cancer and others not? Nobel Prize-winning work by Lee Hartwell has revealed a suite of genes that control cell growth and division to help understand why when two people have t ... Genome: Transcriptional Regulatory ModulesPress coverage of the release of the human genome sequence in 2001 focused on the surprisingly small number of genes in the human genome (approximately 30,000), possibly explained by the complexity of ... Genomic Health CareGenetic testing already plays in important role in health care, providing the means to identify many rare inherited health problems. With the Human Genome project, the scope of genetic testing is expa ... Genomic Views of Human HistoryNew tools of genomic analysis are being used to shed light on historical puzzles. Migrations of ancient peoples, the effects of geographic boundaries on human movements, origins of ethnic groups, and ... George Mueller, Kistler AerospaceDr. George Mueller is one of America's space pioneers and leading aerospace executives. From 1963 to 1969 he headed NASA's manned space program and led the Apollo moon landing and Skylab projects. Dr. ... George Russell, Frank Russell CompanyStarting from his grandfather's tiny Tacoma office, George Russell built the Frank Russell Company into the world's largest consultant to pension funds. The privately held company's revenues are estim ... Geriatric Cervical Spine TraumaDoctors, such as Jens Chapman from the University of Washington, discuss the increasing prevalence of elderly patients who sustain complex fractures to their upper cervical spine from falls, fractures ... Gil Wootton, AccentureWhen Gil Wootton joined Accenture right out of college, he could see himself staying awhile. In this interview, he tells of his ground level start, being promoted steadily, and becoming one of the you ... GlaucomaClinical case studies focusing on surgical techniques for the treatment of Glaucoma. Viewer Discretion is Advised -- videotape of a surgical eye procedure is included in the broadcast. ... Google Ad SystemsBillions of dollars (and euros and yen, too) flow through Google Ad Systems. In this talk, Narayanan Shivakumar, a Google distinguished entrepreneur and director of Google's Seattle-Kirkland R and D c ... Google Ad SystemsBillions of dollars (and euros and yen, too) flow through Google Ad Systems. In this talk, Narayanan Shivakumar, a Google distinguished entrepreneur and director of Google's Seattle-Kirkland R and D c ... Google: A Behind-the-Scenes LookSearch is one of the most important applications used on the Internet and poses interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of ... Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look Search is one of the most important applications used on the Internet and poses interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of ... Gordon Hirabayashi - On the Day of Remembrance: A Statement of ConscienceIn 1942 Gordon Hirabayashi deliberately disobeyed the curfew orders issued to Japanese Americans in Seattle and went on to inform the authorities that he could not participate in the forced uprooting ... Grand Rounds: The Senior Health Enhancement ProgramElizabeth A. Phelan reports on the results of a study with senior citizens in which the effects of health screenings, nutrition, and exercise were evaluated. ... Guidelines: Web Data Collection for Understanding and Interacting with Your UsersThe global growth of the World Wide Web challenges technical communicators to reconsider the methods we use to create designs that meet the goals and needs of our users. This presentation focuses on t ... Hancock: A Language for Computing with Large Data StreamsLike many companies, AT&T collects and analyzes data to help run its business. What makes our situation unusual is the scale (and variety) of data collected. For data analysts, who are highly-trained ... Hand and Microsurgery TeamThis University of Washington program features UW Medicine's Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine surgeons who specialize in treatments for a wide variety of hand, wrist and arm problems, with the goal of ... Hand and Wrist ArthritisUniversity of Washington Bone & Joint Center specialist, Dr. Thomas Trumble, explains surgical treatment and physical therapy management for arthritis of the hand. He reviews the anatomy of fingers an ... Hans Blix: From a Cold War to a Cold Peace. Time for a Revival of Disarmament?Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, who headed the United Nations commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, discusses disarmament. He shares his insight and expertise on instituting chang ... Harvey Jones, Cutter & BuckHarvey Jones co-founded of one of Seattle's hottest companies, Cutter & Buck. A designer, manufacturer and marketer of sportswear and golfwear for men, Cutter & Buck's 1997 sales doubled to $46 millio ... HDTV over Internet: Bag Lunch PanelThe UW and Internet HDTV Computing & Communications involvement in developing and integrating technology and techniques for the distribution of high-quality video over the Internet. ... Health Consequences of WarWar and regional conflicts create immense challenges to public health, including direct casualities, damage to health-related infrastructure (water/waste treatment/food and medical distribution system ... Healthcare: Finding, Managing and Using Quality Medical InformationLaura Schildkraut talks with Andrew Schorr, founder of Health Talk, host and founder of Patient Power and a leading patient information advocate. Information professionals can play a vital role in hel ... Hearing Loss: Molecular TherapyResearch at the UW Medical Center translates to improving care options for patients. This University of Washington program shows what is going on in Dr. Clifford Hume,s lab, where researchers are expl ... Helping Kinsey Compute: Statistics with SecrecyThe problem of statistical disclosure control - revealing accurate statistics about a population while preserving the privacy of individuals - has a venerable history. An extensive literature spans mu ... Hemochromatosis and Hepatitis CDr. Kris Kowdley presents "Hereditary Hemochromatosis: Ironing Out a Metallic Malady." Hemochromatosis is the most common form of iron overload disease. Dr. Anne Larson discusses Hepatitis C, a virus ... Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland: Europe, Ireland, and the United StatesHer Excellency Mary McAleese, president of Ireland, delivers a foreign policy address to a University of Washington audience. ... Herald: Global Event NotificationMike Jones of Microsoft Research discusses the design philosophy and initial design decisions of Herald, a highly scalable global event notification system that is being designed and built at Microsof ... High-Dimensional Computational GeometryComputing with massive and high-dimensional data is critical to a large and diverse set of applications, including multimedia and hyperlinked databases (the World Wide Web being the prime example), da ... High-Tech Entrepreneurship: An Idiosyncratic View of TechnologyEntrepreneur and technology investment professional W. Hunter Simpson offers his view of the future of technology in the Puget Sound area. The High-Tech Entrepreneurship Series is sponsored by the Uni ... High-Value Customer RelationshipsCustomer relationship management (CRM) software can be a home run, when the whole team is driven to be the league leader! In this session, the CEO and co-founder of Onyx, and the VP of Technology and ... Hispanic American EntrepreneursThis special addresses the obstacles encountered by Hispanic-owned and operated businesses in the Seattle/Puget Sound region, and features discussions about the development of these businesses. ... Hispanic American EntrepreneursThis special addresses the obstacles encountered by Hispanic-owned and operated businesses in the Seattle/Puget Sound region, and features discussions about the development of these businesses. ... History of Forestry in the United StatesSteven Anderson, president of the Forest History Society, addresses the history of forestry in the United States, the origins of the UW College of Forest Resources, and the contributions that forestry ... HIV: In your Global NeighborhoodFeatured speaker King Holmes, director of the Center for AIDS and STD at the University of Washington, is joined by William Gates Sr. to discuss the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in ... HIV: In your Global NeighborhoodFeatured speaker King Holmes, director of the Center for AIDS and STD at the University of Washington, is joined by William Gates Sr. to discuss the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in ... Honorary Degree Ceremony - Archbishop Desmond TutuSeattle University confers an honorary degree of doctor of humanities on Desmond Tutu. Desmond Tutu speaks on the topic of "Reconciliation and the Global Community at the Start of the New Millennium". ... How People Treat Interfaces Like People: Social Psychology and DesignA series of recent experimental studies that demonstrate the breadth and depth of social responses to computers and interfaces are discussed. Specifically, Cliff demonstrates that one can directly app ... How Physicians View the Issue: Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate a ChildThis program focuses on a variety of issues related to parental rights regarding childhood vaccinations, including the origins of immunization hesitancy, and the medical community's response to the pa ... How to Get the Most Out of a StartupGlenn Kelman, Redfin CEO and Plumtree Software founder, talks to computer science undergraduates about how to evaluate, interview at and negotiate with startups and also how to think about some day st ... How to Get the Most Out of a StartupGlenn Kelman, Redfin CEO and Plumtree Software founder, talks to computer science undergraduates about how to evaluate, interview at and negotiate with startups and also how to think about some day st ... Howard Schmidt, R & H Security Consulting Howard Schmidt is a world-renowned cyber security expert. He was appointed by President Bush as the vice chair of the president’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the special advisor ... HSV As A Successful Pathogen: The Quest for Developing A VaccineLearn more about herpes simplex virus (HSV) and research efforts to develop a vaccine. Dr. Lawrence Corey from the University of Washington presents recent data on HSV reactivation and shedding, along ... Hubble Space TelescopeGlimpsing the Birth of the Universe The University of Washington Astronomy Department and the Second Century Lecture Series of the American Astronomical Society present this lecture by associate direc ... Human Computation: Channeling Human BrainpowerTasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. Traditional methods to solving such problems focus on improving software. ... Identifying Regulatory Motifs in DNA Sequences#Error ... Identifying Regulatory Motifs in DNA SequencesAlthough many genome sequencing projects are completed or are nearing completion, important questions about the interpretation of those DNA sequences remain. This program surveys three very different ... Identity-Based Encryption: A Biometric Approach to PrivacyIdentity-Based Encryption (IBE) allows the use of an identity as a public key. For example, to encrypt a message one would only need to know the recipient's identity, the string 'bob@yahoo.com', witho ... Image Segmentation using Spectral RoundingThis lecture presents a new image segmentation algorithm, Spectral Rounding (SR), and a fast solver used for segmenting 2D images. The second issue addressed is fast algorithms for finding the associa ... Improving Information InteractionsWhether reading email, searching the web or mining data, we are constantly interacting with information. Melody Ivory highlights research efforts aimed at improving a subset of these information inter ... Improving Lab Utilization in Ambulatory Care: The Role of PhysicianIn this University of Washington program, Dr. Kim Riddell of Group Health Cooperative discusses how to guide physicians toward choosing appropriate tests, and it specifically details efforts to reduce ... Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating SystemsDespite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example, drivers account for ... In Search of the Joule of Computer ArchitectureThis program outlines some preliminary work in the search for a fundamental unit of measurement for computer architectures. ... In Support of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners, Part 1In concert with the recent evolution of environmental regulations, several state and federally funded programs have taken shape to support private landowners. Speakers representing these programs desc ... In Support of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners, Part 2In concert with the recent evolution of environmental regulations, several state and federally funded programs have taken shape to support private landowners. Speakers representing these programs desc ... In Support of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners, Part 3In concert with the recent evolution of environmental regulations, several state and federally funded programs have taken shape to support private landowners. Speakers representing these programs desc ... In the Culture of the Rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of HamelnMichael Stanislawski presents a theoretical discussion on the problem of using autobiographies as historical sources, given the findings of literary theory and neuroscientific research in the last dec ... Indications for Lumbar FusionsSuccessful patient outcomes in lumbar fusion surgery require the ability to identify conditions which have a realistic chance of improving symptoms through a technically well-performed procedure. The ... Individualized Medicine: Creating Tailor-Made Therapies, Part 1From genomics and disease predictions to molecular diagnosis and imaging, the ability to create individualized patient therapies is revolutionizing medicine and health care treatments. ... Individualized Medicine: Creating Tailor-Made Therapies, Part 2From genomics and disease predictions to molecular diagnosis and imaging, the ability to create individualized patient therapies is revolutionizing medicine and health care treatments. ... Inductive Learning and Representation for Text CategorizationAs the volume of electronic information increases, there is growing interest in developing tools to help people better find, filter, and manage these resources. Text categorization - the assignment of ... Infection Control in Healthcare Settings for Viral Respiratory PathogensInfection control in healthcare facilities is critical because of the potential role they can play in propagating and controlling emerging respiratory infections. This talk looks at infection control ... Infections: Fighting Back - Part 1Sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia and AIDS - and new diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) - are a continuing danger to everyone. Some are effectively controlled with th ... Infections: Fighting Back - Part 2Sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia and AIDS - and new diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) - are a continuing danger to everyone. Some are effectively controlled with th ... Information Fusion: Multidocument SummarizationThe number and variety of online news sources makes it difficult for people to track the news concerning even a single event. The focus of this talk by Regina Barzilay of Columbia University is inform ... Information Processing Sensor NetworksThe proliferation of networked embedded devices such as wireless sensors ushers in an entirely new class of computing platforms. We need new ways to organize and program them. Unlike existing platform ... Innovations and Discoveries in Medicine, Part 1From the gene connection to deep brain stimulation, robotics, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and simulation, hear about our current and anticipated medical and biotechnological achievements. ... Innovations and Discoveries in Medicine, Part 2From the gene connection to deep brain stimulation, robotics, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and simulation, hear about our current and anticipated medical and biotechnological achievements. ... Innovative Surgical StrategiesPatient case studies focusing on innovative surgical strategies. ... Insects and the Forests of the Pacific NorthwestUnderstanding the cause and effect interactions between insects and their host-trees is key to our developing awareness of the integral role that insects play in maintaining the biodiversity and resil ... Insights from PenguinsHaving spent 30 years studying penguins in the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica, Dee Boersma discusses how many species of penguins are rapidly declining as humans modify the environment, catch fish, ... Intelligent Tutoring SystemsIntelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer-based instructional tools that rely on artificial intelligence techniques to generate individualized interactions tailored to a student's learning needs ... Interaction Techniques for Ambiguity Resolution in Recognition-based InterfacesBecause of its promise of natural interaction, recognition is coming into its own as a mainstream technology for use with computers. Both commercial and research applications are beginning to use it e ... Interactive VideoconferencingJulia Shildmyer-Heighway, Director of Content Services Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (www.cilc.org) explores the use of interactive videoconferencing (IVC) as a powerful tool to su ... Interactive Visual MediaAnandan outlines ongoing research at MSR that is aimed at enabling interaction with visual media and people to people interactions via visual media. The technologies support image and video based 3D s ... Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Forum: Closing Address by Dr. Eric B. LarsonThe UW Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Forum is an event co-sponsored by the UW Center for Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research and the Institute on Aging. Dr. Eric Larson’s closing lecture foc ... International Wolf CenterSee real, live wolves in their natural habitat! The International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands an ... Internet Congestion Control, Bandwidth-Delay ProductKatabi explains that theory and experiments show that as the per-flow product of bandwidth and latency increases, TCP becomes inefficient and prone to instability, regardless of the queuing scheme. Th ... Internet Search EnginesComputer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer, Udi Manber, Amazon.com, talks about recent search engine innovations and the future of searches on the Internet. ... Internet Telephony: Will it Kill the Telephone Companies, the Internet, or Both?Internet telephony differs from other Internet applications in an important way: there is a pre-existing industry out there that thought it was already selling that service. There is no "e-mail" compa ... Introduction of the Mobile Robotics LabWe introduce the new denizens of the mobile robotics lab and give an overview of our software system for mobile robot control. Some of the key problems in mobile robotics arise from the inherent u ... Introduction to VLSI Design with Professor Chris DiorioA summary of student's final projects in this course. Students in this class focused on chip design. One of the projects described is the design of an elevator controller. ... Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest, Part 1In part one of a two-part series, experts in urban conservation biology, forest entomology and forest pathology discuss how invasive species are influencing native plant species unique to forests in t ... Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest, Part 2In part two of a two-part series, experts in wildlife biology, entomology, and environmental law and policy discuss the need for managing invasive species to preserve and restore habitats. The impact ... Invisible Disabilities and Post-Secondary EducationYoung people with hidden disabilities such as learning disabilities or brain injuries describe their personal experiences and highlight strategies for helping them achieve success in college in this p ... Is Evolution an Algorithmic Process?Daniel Dennett discusses his research into Darwin's evolutionary theory of natural selection and describes its suggestion of evolution as an algorithmic process. ... Is Hardware Innovation Over?Power constrained, handheld devices are likely to be the most important economic driver for the semiconductor industry in the coming decades. This new market requires rethinking about ways to deliver ... It's Not Just About Tuskegee: The History of African Americans and MedicineThe Tuskegee Syphilis Study is on of the most well known events in the history of African Americans and medicine. Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble provides an overview of how issues of race and racism c ... It's Not Just About Tuskegee: The History of African Americans and MedicineThe Tuskegee Syphilis Study is on of the most well known events in the history of African Americans and medicine. Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble provides an overview of how issues of race and racism c ... Jack Brown, PEMCOJack Brown's career began as a data processing operator working the night shift at Security Pacific Bank. After several positions with other companies and two failed attempts at retirement, he is now ... Jeremy Jaech, President and CEO of Visio CorporationJeremy Jaech co-founded Visio in 1990 after leaving Aldus Corporation where he led the development of the original PageMaker software that helped create the desktop publishing industry. Visio Corporat ... Jewish Cultural Memory: Its Multiple Configurations ... Jewish Learning, Jewish HopeIn his final lecture, Professor Mendes-Flohr revisits the profound question of constructing viable post-traditional Jewish identities. By returning to a debate between Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzwei ... Jewish Renewal in AmericaAmerican Judaism has developed new varieties of spiritual expression, including feminist ritual and liturgy, Jewish mysticism (kabbalah), retreat centers teaching Jewish meditation, and dialogues amon ... Jihad, Terror, War, and Justice: Four Words for the 21st CenturyEllis Goldberg reveals how al-Qa'ida came to power and why the attack on September 11, 2001, was an act of war. ... Jim Hernandez, Ex-Gang MemberJim Hernandez was a gang member for fifteen years. His brother died in his arms because of a gang-related fight. Now Hernandez works in violence prevention where he uses the philosophy of Kierkegaard ... Joan Scoll, Real NetworksThis program follows the career path of Joan Scoll, General Manager of Information Systems for Real Networks, who talks with Laura Schildkraut. Best known for grace under pressure, Scoll has successfu ... John Chapple, Nextel PartnersJohn Chapple is the President and CEO of Nextel Partners. Through a career of over 25 years, he’s never really written a resume. He just never had to. The combination of brains, talent, drive, and a ... John Connors, The Microsoft CorporationMr. Connors is the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and the Chief Financial Officer of the Microsoft Corporation. In this role he’s responsible for Finance, Operations, IT, Invest ... John Gottman, Psychology professorDr. John Gottman has spent 14 years studying 650 couples with the aid of videotape and sensors. After a half-hour interview with a couple he can predict with 90 percent accuracy whether they will stay ... John Rose, President & CEO, Seattle Northwest SecuritiesSeattle-Northwest Securities started out 30 years ago as a small local bond house. Now it's the number 1 underwriter of municipal bonds and number 1 financial advisory firm in the pacific Northwest. U ... John Tobin, Two Degrees ConsultingWhile in college, John Tobin, co-founder and managing director of Two Degrees Consulting, fell in love with business classes and discovered an aptitude for programming. This two-fold interest led him ... Jon Crossley, Cap Gemini Ernst & YoungJon Crossley, vice president of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, refers to himself as a late bloomer. When he graduated from high school in England, he had no idea what he wanted to do. But, after selling fr ... Jonathan Raban, AuthorThe author of Bad Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction. In 1909 countless homesteaders were lured to the unforgiving landscape of eastern Montana. Most failed. Raban' ... Julia Anderson, vice president, Cap Gemini Ernst & YoungJulia Anderson talks with Laura Schildkraut about the career path which brought her to Seattle and led her to become a vice president when Cap Gemini merged with Ernst & Young. ... Julia Anderson, vice president, Cap Gemini Ernst & YoungJulia Anderson talks with Laura Schildkraut about the career path which brought her to Seattle and led her to become a vice president when Cap Gemini merged with Ernst & Young. ... Karen Hamilton, Lante CorporationThis interview explores the career path of Karen Hamilton, the Business Development Director at Lante Corporation, a service which helps companies manage their extended enterprises. ... Keeping Our Northwest Forest Landscape Green, Part 1The University of Washington College of Forest Resources, through a generous grant from the Denman Endowment for Student Excellence in Forest Resources, presents a lecture series focusing on sustainab ... Keeping Our Northwest Forest Landscape Green, Part 2The University of Washington College of Forest Resources, through a generous grant from the Denman Endowment for Student Excellence in Forest Resources, presents a lecture series focusing on sustainab ... Kemper Freeman Jr., Bellevue SquareThe CEO/owner of the Bellevue Square Mall who founded, developed and manages Bellevue Place. ... Ken Whitaker, SolucientSoftware expert and author Ken Whitaker talks about his position at Solucient, which provides strategic information for the health care industry. ... Kendra Vandermeulen, Veteran of the Wireless Data IndustryLaura Schildkraut interviews Kendra Vandermeulen, a veteran of the wireless data industry and current Board member for several companies. As a woman in the industry, Vandermeulen accomplished many fir ... Kidney Living DonorJolene McGill was the beneficiary of Dawn Pendlebury’s decision to donate a kidney. In this post-surgery video from the day that the women meet for the first time, McGill describes how her kidney fu ... Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Controlled Natural LanguageIn this Turing Center Distinguished Lecture, Norbert Fuchs presents Attempto Controlled English (ACE). ACE is a controlled natural language, a precisely defined, tractable subset of full English that ... Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial and Fungal DiseasesDr. Brad Cookson from the University of Washington addresses how molecular biology has impacted clinical laboratory utilization, such as the speed, cost and efficiency of diagnosing infectious disease ... Laboratory Testing Needs in Developing CountriesLearn about the efforts by Seattle-based PATH(Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) to develop diagnostic tests targeted for use in third-world countries in settings with limited resources. Cl ... Larry Witherspoon, Seattle MarinersLarry Witherspoon is chief information officer of the Seattle Mariners. When sports fan Witherspoon graduated from high school, he did not feel ready for college. He instead joined the military where ... Laser Treatment of Varicose VeinsThe University of Washington Center for Endovascular Therapy fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, providing patients with vascular treatments based on the latest techniques. The UW Division of Vas ... Lead, Children and Drinking Water, Part 1Dr. Bruce Lanphear discusses new research on the toxic effects of lead exposure on the health of children. He details the damage that can result from even small doses of lead that can be found in the ... Learning About the Genome: Discriminative and Generative Modeling of Heterogenous DataThe quantity and variety of molecular biological data presents a challenge for the field of machine learning. Converting this raw data into a unified model of the molecular machinery of the cell requi ... Learning About the Genome: Discriminative and Generative Modeling of Heterogenous DataThe quantity and variety of molecular biological data presents a challenge for the field of machine learning. Converting this raw data into a unified model of the molecular machinery of the cell requi ... Learning Hierarchical, Nonparametric Models for Visual ScenesComputer vision systems use image features to detect and categorize objects in visual scenes. In this University of Washington program, learn about Erik Sudderth MIT/UC Berkeley research that explores ... Learning Nonlinear Data ManifoldsHow many numbers does it take to represent a complex object such as an image of a face? Obviously, one number per pixel is enough, but many fewer are actually needed. In fact, there is a thin "submani ... Learning to Transform Time Series with a Few ExamplesIn this talk, Ali Rahimi of Intel Research describes a semi-supervised regression algorithm that learns to transform one time series into another time series. Rahimi applies this algorithm to tracking ... Leveraging Mobile Content: Creating Value in a Wireless WorldJoin a panel of experts as they discuss the prospects, complexities, and expertise needed to leverage mobile content and create value in a wireless world. Increasing data transfer rates and the prolif ... Life-Sized LearningIn this distinguished lecturer colloquia, Leslie Pack-Kaelbling describes the combination of techniques, from machine learning to operations research, that have allowed major advances in learning and ... Linear Time Encodable/Decodable CodesVenkatesan Guruswami presents a simple, explicit construction of error-correcting codes that have a near-optimal rate vs. error-correction trade-off and are encodable and decodable in linear time. The ... List Decoding of Error-Correcting CodesError-correcting codes are combinatorial objects designed to achieve reliable transmission of information on a noisy channel. A fundamental algorithmic challenge in coding theory and practice is to ef ... Liver Cancer CareUniversity of Washington Medical Center Drs. Anne Larson and Adam Levy trace how patient Mark Scott’s Hepatitis C deteriorated into liver cirrhosis, and how Scott faced liver cancer, as well, before ... Liver Transplant / NA SteatohepatitisDr. Adam Levy presents information on liver transplantation, and Dr. Kris Kowdley discusses non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, which is caused by fat deposits in the liver. ... Liver Transplantation, Part 1Witness the team approach to transplantation at UW Medicine and hear about the long-term outcomes of transplant patients. Hear the history of liver transplantation and learn who is a good candidate an ... Liver Transplantation, Part 2Witness the team approach to transplantation at UW Medicine and hear about the long-term outcomes of transplant patients. Hear the history of liver transplantation and learn who is a good candidate an ... Living History: A Conversation About American Indian PolicyMark Trahant, the editorial page editor of the Seattle PI, welcomes five distinguished guests to examine the genesis of the groundbreaking Indian Health Care Improvement Act. This important legislatio ... Living Well With StrokeHarborview Medical Center’s Department of Neurological Surgery and the Stroke Prevention and Assessment Center present a forum focusing on stroke prevention, rehabilitation and treatment. Forum mode ... Living With Traumatic Brain InjuryPeople with traumatic brain injuries may experience physical, cognitive or personality changes that affect their work and relationships. In this program from the University of Washington, hear stories ... Location Enhanced Web ServicesResearchers from Intel, UW, UCSD, and elsewhere have recently created an initiative to encourage the broad adoption of location-enhanced web services. The consensus is that to be widely adopted, locat ... Location Estimation for Activity RecognitionDieter Fox illustrates how Bayesian filtering can be applied to estimate the location of a person using sensors such as GPS, infrared, or WiFi. The techniques track a person on graph structures that r ... Logic in Computer ScienceDuring the past thirty years there has been extensive interaction between logic and computer science. The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer science, similar to that played by ... Lumbar Interbody Fusion TechniquesReplacement of a structurally deficient lumbar disc has been recognized to bear great potential in terms of improving alignment and structural properties of the lumbar spine, and potentially pain. In ... Lung Transplant / LVRS and PVDDr. Michael Mulligan presents information on lung transplant, lung volume reduction surgery, a procedure to improve respiratory function in emphysema patients, and pulmonary vascular disease, which is ... Luther Carlson, EquariusLuther Carlson is the director of Strategic Relations for Equarius, a leading business and technology consultancy. Carlson is best known for his ability to foster healthy working relationships even in ... Mac OS X for UNIX UsersThe underlying operating system in Mac OS X (Jaguar) actually has a long history stretching back to BSD UNIX and CMU Mach. Bud Tribble will cover its interesting evolution and its place in the current ... Machines Reasoning About Machines#Error ... Machines with Emotional IntelligenceOver 70 studies on human-machine interaction in the last decade have pointed to an intriguing phenomenon: People interact with machines in a way that is basically social, even when the interaction was ... Making Faces: A Technique for Realistic Facial Animation CaptureRealistic facial animation could prove useful for a variety of applications, such as teleconferencing and customized user-interface agents. Unfortunately, easily produced, believable animation has pro ... Making Genetic Networks Operate Robustly: Unintelligent Non-design SufficesMathematical computer models of two ancient and famous genetic networks act early in embryos of many different species to determine the body plan. Models revealed these networks to be astonishingly ro ... Making Technology Work for BusinessIn today’s economy, things change fast, and successful businesses must be more adaptable than ever. A new generation of technologies has emerged, allowing IT to better adapt to rapid change. This pr ... Marcella Cervantes, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology ProgramMolecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) graduate student Marcella Cervantes, describes the importance of leaving one’s original community to gain exposure to other career options. She discovered unexpe ... Marian Winik, AuthorWinik is the author of "Love Comes First," a memoir of her marriage, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1996. Since 1991 Winik has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Th ... Mario Pineda, MD, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology ProgramMolecular and Cellular Biology graduate and MSTP student, Mario Pineda always intended to become a physician for underserved populations. While pursuing this goal as an undergrad, he became engaged in ... Mark Corley, MicrosoftMark Corley is general manager of Worldwide Field, Channel Services, and Customer & Partner Experience Strategy at Microsoft Corporation. He likes to do things differently. While most entrpreneurial t ... Market-Making: From Algorithms for Price-Setting to Emergent Market PropertiesWith the dramatic increase in electronic exchanges and automated trading in recent years, it has become important to develop new computational and algorithmic tools for analyzing market properties and ... Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social JusticeAn annual event during University of Pennsylvania's celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. King; each year, it highlights a scholar of African descent who is committed to the field of social justic ... Mary Reeder, Onyx Software CorporationMary Reeder is a senior vice president and chief technology officer of Onyx Software, a global supplier of customer relationship management tools. Initially, Reeder majored in computer science in coll ... Massive Parallelism in the TeraOPS ChipAmbric, a Portland semiconductor startup, believes the key to massive parallelism in a high performance programmable chip is to define the right programming model first, then develop silicon architect ... Mathematical Sculpture in Stone and BronzeInterdisciplinary Computing (MOSAIC 2000), sponsored by the University of Washington Animation Research Labs. Helaman Ferguson is both a mathematician and a sculptor: one of his algorithms was liste ... Mechanism Design: Private Value OptimizationThe design of protocols for resource allocation and electronic commerce among parties with diverse and selfish interests has spawned a great deal of recent research at the boundary between economics, ... MEDEX Northwest: Physician Assistants with a MissionThis documentary-style program focuses on MEDEX Northwest, the University of Washington School of Medicine's Physician Assistant Program, committed to educating experienced health personnel from diver ... Medical Errors and Patient Safety in the Clinical LabIn this University of Washington program, Dr. Kaveh Shojania of the University of Ottowa gives an overview of the international patient safety movement, with special emphasis on laboratory services. ... Medical Imaging: Innovation, Integration and ImprovementThe UW Department of Radiology welcomes Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, to inaugurate this important lecture honoring Dr. Albert A. Moss' contributions to radiology. ... Medical Management of Chronic DiseaseThe key to the successful management of many chronic diseases is avoiding acute episodes. Managing chronic illness such as heart failure accounts for roughly 75% of health care costs in the United Sta ... Medical Research: The Agony and The EcstasyLee Hartwell gives the 28th annual faculty lecture on basic scientific research. The 2001 Nobel Prize winner also discusses his work on "checkpoint" genes, the genes that notice when mistakes have bee ... Megaconference Jr. and International ApplicationsMegaconference Jr. (www.megaconferencejr.org) is designed to give students in elementary, secondary schools, and community colleges around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and con ... Mental Disorder Prevention ResearchMaking Connections presents thoughtful research in the clinical course of depression in adolescence and the myriad of medical and social issues that make young adults vulnerable. Elizabeth McCauley di ... Mental Messages: What are the workhorse signal systems that make the brain?One goal of neurobiology is to explain the brain in terms of laws of physics and chemistry. Indeed, our understanding of machine-like fast chemical and electrical signals at the level of molecules and ... Merging Computers and Biology - Conceptually and Physically / The Wellspring of DiscoveryNew initiatives at NSF focus on merging computer science and biology—a "Mathematical Biology Training Grant," a KDI initiative on biological/engineering problems and a recent research thrust on a co ... Merging Computers and Biology - Conceptually and Physically / The Wellspring of DiscoveryNew initiatives at NSF focus on merging computer science and biology—a "Mathematical Biology Training Grant," a KDI initiative on biological/engineering problems and a recent research thrust on a co ... Merrimac: Supercomputing with StreamsAdvances in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technology have made the raw ingredients for computation plentiful. Large amounts of fast functional units, memory, and bandwidth can be made efficient ... Meshes and Geometry ProcessingProgress in shape acquisition technology (laser scanners, etc.) has resulted in an abundance of large meshes representing highly detailed geometry. The acquired, densely sampled models are used in man ... Metric ClusteringOne measure of the quality of a k-clustering is the sum of all pair-wise distances inside the clusters, which must be minimized. Lecturer Claire Kenyon discusses techniques and algorithms, first for t ... Metric Geometry and Computer ScienceThe combinatorial landscape is fraught with complexity. Computing optimal solutions to natural problems is often intractable, and understanding discrete systems can be difficult without the presence o ... Microarrays for the Detection of Chromosomal AnomaliesUntil recently, the identification of chromosome abnormalities that are responsible for congenital disorders and cancer has relied on the use of banded chromosome preparations and fluorescence in situ ... Microsoft Research India: The First YearMicrosoft Research India Lab just turned one. In this talk, P. Anandan describes their exciting and exhilarating year. The group has grown from five to thirty full-time staff and has had over thirty-f ... Mike Benson, CIO, AT&T Wireless ServicesMike Benson graduated from Western Washington University before taking a job as a Senior Systems Manager at J.R. Simplot in California. He spent eight years with the company before moving to Advanced ... Mike Benson, CIO, AT&T Wireless ServicesMike Benson graduated from Western Washington University before taking a job as a Senior Systems Manager at J.R. Simplot in California. He spent eight years with the company before moving to Advanced ... Minimally Invasive Total Hip ReplacementSchoolteacher Janice Isner, a former marathon runner and recreational cyclist, was determined to “get back her life, pain-free” after learning that the cartilage in her right hip had deteriorated ... Minimally Invasive Treatment for Spinal StenosisOn the day that June Ogawa underwent minimally invasive spinal surgery, she went home and walked for an hour. Gone was the pain and numbness that had stemmed from spinal stenosis, or narrowing. “Now ... Minimally-Invasive Treatment of Spinal StenosisLumbar spinal stenosis can significantly impair a patient's ability to walk and function aerobically. Doctors from the University of Washington and Harborview discuss the role of nonoperative care and ... Mira and the WindUW Student teams created this animated short in a Computer Animation Capstone Design course taught by Barbara Mones. The short demonstrates how a young girl comes to terms with death of her grandfathe ... Mitral Valve RepairPatient case studies focusing on mitral valve repair. ... Mobility for Enhancing Coverage Resolution in Sensor NetworksAman Kansal, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses the problem of discovering desirable network configurations in a distributed manner for improving the sensing performance of a sensor netw ... Model Checking Software ArtifactsModel checking techniques have proven to be an effective means for finding subtle defects in hardware designs and communication protocols. In this talk, Matthew Dwyer describes Bandera, a toolset for ... Model Management: Databases ... Modern Asynchronous Circuit and System DesignAsynchronous circuits and systems do not use a global clock to coordinate their activities. Because they are not synchronized to a global clock they can offer significant advantages over traditional c ... Modulating Spine Deformity with Non-FusionVery young patients with spinal deformity pose major treatment challenges due to their potential to develop major spinal deformity with ongoing growth. Understanding the nature of a scoliosis and dete ... Motion-preserving Surgery of the SpineIn the reconstruction efforts of non-traumatic, non-malignant conditions of the cervical spine, increasing efforts are underway to avoid fusion surgery, in order to avoid potential propagation of disc ... Motion-Preserving Treatment of Spinal DeformityWhile fusion remains a key method for treatment of spinal deformity correction, ultimately some patients may be treated with motion-preserving surgery. University of Washington doctors discuss the pot ... Movement in Biology: Insect Flight and Reverse EngineeringAnimal movement emerges from a complex and dynamic interaction between neural control circuits, muscle force generation, and a remarkable array of actuators ranging from wings to fins to legs. Studies ... Mt. St. HelensWhen Mt. St. Helens woke from relative slumber last fall the whole world seemed to hold its breath, wondering if there would be an eruption to rival that of the 1980 blast. Today, many are left specul ... Multiprocessor Architectures for ProgrammabilityLuis Ceze believes the main problem confronting computer architects today is designing computer systems that help simplify parallel programming. Ceze presents two powerful computer architecture primit ... My, How it Has Grown!As more and more students connect to each other through worldwide networks, amazing opportunities for collaborating and sharing expand exponentially. The future is global, and students need to be prep ... Nan Hatch, DDS, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology ProgramMolecular and Cellular Biology graduate student, Nan Hatch, joined the Program after completing her advance degree in dentistry. She discovered the MCB Program while interviewing with the Orthodontics ... Nanotechnology: Engineering the Fabric for Our FutureProfessor Vogel provides an overview of recent developments in nanoscale technologies. Exploitation of the unique properties and phenomena at the nanoscale; a billionth of a meter; has already trigger ... Natural Language ProcessingNatural language processing offers a rich problem domain for machine learning approaches. Many NLP problems require the induction of a mapping that involves complex, discrete structures such as string ... Natural Resource Issues in the Pacific Northwest: The Next CenturyBruce Bare, dean and professor in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington, discusses the future sustainability of our natural resources and the challenges and opportunities inv ... Near-optimal Sensor PlacementsWhen monitoring spatial phenomena with wireless sensor networks, selecting the best sensor placements is a fundamental task. Not only should the sensors be informative, but they should also be able to ... Network Performance Routing StrategiesIn large networks, it can be difficult or even impossible to impose optimal routing strategies on network traffic. On the other hand, permitting network users to act according to their own competing i ... Networking at Home - Directions in Connected Computing for the ConsumerA variety of forces are converging that will significantly impact computing as seen by consumers. First, the advent of inexpensive PCs coupled with the natural development of a replacement market is i ... Neurally Inspired Algorithms for Machine Vision and LearningConsiderable progress has been made in the last three decades in designing efficient algorithms for specific applications in computer vision and machine learning. However, we still appear to be quite ... Neuromorphic VLSI for Learning and MemoryThe hippocampus is a brain region responsible for the storage and retrieval of patterns in space and time. It performs these functions rapidly despite variable and noisy environments. In this program, ... Neuromuscular Scoliosis and Neural Element LesionsDisruption of integrity of neural elements through a variety of congenital, developmental and neoplastic conditions can lead to a unique disruption of the natural balance of the spinal column. Correct ... New Approaches to Identification SensingJoshua Smith of Intel describes Electric Field Imaging, a non-contact means for tracking human body pose and motion that is now in broad commercial use for automobile passenger airbag suppression. Thi ... New Directions in Multiprocessor SynchronizationComputer architecture is about to undergo, if not another revolution, then a vigorous shaking-up. The major chip manufacturers have, for the time being, simply given up trying to make processors run f ... New Heart, New LifeUW Medicine Regional Heart Center’s transplant program is one of the most successful in the country. In this University of Washington program, follow a young man through his heart transplant and rec ... New Horizons in Venous InsufficiencyDrs. Torrance Andrews and Mark Meissner, who have a combined expertise in clinical assessment, non-invasive evaluation, and surgical management of patients with a variety of vascular problems, focus t ... New Lungs: A Gift of LifeLung disease can lead to transplantation in some patients. It takes an entire team of medical professionals to assist a patient from the initial diagnosis into day-to-day treatment and finally surgery ... Non-Invasive Assisted BreathingJesse Watson has had Duchenne muscular dystrophy since early childhood. He credits his productive life in part to the non-invasive assisted breathing devices that he has used for years. Dr. Josh Bendi ... Non-pharmacologic Therapy for Atrial FibrillationMore than two million Americans have atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the the heart's upper atria chambers beat irreqularly when blood is not efficiently pumped out of the heart. Learn more a ... Noninvasive Techniques of Pain ManagementDrs. Chapman and Chesnut introduce the goals of the Symposium on Low Back Pain and, by using case discussions, identify demographics and prevalence of low back pain in the general population as well a ... North African Jewry and the Trauma of World War IIThis lecture addresses the neglected story of the Jews of present-day Algeria, Morocco, and Libya during the Holocaust. The complex webs of relations created by the diversity of ethnic and religious c ... Novel Ways to Construct and Use Nanoscale Devices for Biochemical AnalysisRecent advances in the electronics industry have enabled access to a number of sophisticated technologies at low costs. Learn a few aspects of the use of these technologies in detecting biomolecules o ... Novel Ways to Construct and Use Nanoscale Devices for Biochemical AnalysisRecent advances in the electronics industry have enabled access to a number of sophisticated technologies at low costs. Learn a few aspects of the use of these technologies in detecting biomolecules o ... Nucleic Acid Logic Circuits for Programming BiologyLearn about the design and experimental implementation of DNA-based logic gates and circuits in vitro. For their operation, the gates rely exclusively on sequence recognition and strand displacement r ... Object Recognition Using Pictorial StructuresThis program considers the problem of recognizing objects from image data, using part-based models. ... Object Recognition with Deformable ModelsThe problem of detecting and localizing objects in images has important applications in a variety of areas, including robotics, image retrieval and medical image analysis. Deformable models represent ... Object Recognition with Material and ShapeOne of the fundamental problems in computer vision is recognition. The two major sources of information for object recognition are material and shape. Material, commonly referred to as texture, is abo ... Oculoplastic SurgeryThis session focuses on unique surgical access for orbital tumors, orbital decompression for thyroid eye disease using intra-operative CT, and the treatment of unilateral ptosis (droopy eyelid) consid ... On Being the First: Rural Girls in Science / The Wellspring of DiscoveryThe encouragement of rural girls to pursue science is composed of equal parts of academic, socio-cultural and personal attention. The Rural Girls in Science Project focuses on developing a science maj ... On Being the First: Rural Girls in Science / The Wellspring of DiscoveryThe encouragement of rural girls to pursue science is composed of equal parts of academic, socio-cultural and personal attention. The Rural Girls in Science Project focuses on developing a science maj ... On Our WatchRudy Crew shares his views with a group of K-12 teachers on what he considers the national dilemma in public education to be and where he believes educational trends should be heading. (Episode 1 of 3 ... On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science ReduxIn this Distinguished Lecture Series, Owen Astrachan of Duke discusses the need to leverage new modes of access and communication in developing and building computer science curriculum to attract stud ... On the Power of Choosing the Shortest of TwoVariations of a novel, recently proposed load balancing scheme based on small amounts of choice are investigated. Recently it has been shown that breaking ties in a fixed, asymmetric fashion, actually ... On-Line Merchandising & InventoryThe art of merchandising getting customers to buy what you want them to buy is quickly evolving from an art to a science. Merchants from Kroger's to Wal-Mart have increased sales by aggressively under ... Online Geospatial Data SourcesWith the explosive growth of the Web combined with improved technologies for remote sensing, there are now a huge number of geospatial data sources available online. This includes maps and satellite i ... Online Science: The World-Wide TelescopeJim Gray explains that computational science has historically meant simulation and why there is an increasing role for analysis and mining of online scientific data. As a case in point, half of the wo ... Open Constraint ProgrammingA framework for reactive programming over a shared store is presented. A key requirement is that the store can be modeled as a highly-structured entity such as a database or logical theory. The main e ... Opening Doors: Mentoring on the InternetStudents develop supportive relationships with adult mentors on the Internet. This video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington. ... Opening Doors: Mentoring on the InternetStudents develop supportive relationships with adult mentors on the Internet. This video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington. ... Opening Doors: Mentoring on the InternetStudents develop supportive relationships with adult mentors on the Internet. This video features participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington. ... Operation-Centric Hardware Description and SynthesisHigh-level functional descriptions of hardware are often operation-centric in nature. An operation-centric description specifies the behavior of a system on an operation-by-operation basis. An ope ... OptoelectronicsLarry Dalton, inventor of the "opto-chip," discusses his research into the use of the next level electro-optic materials. These materials can be used for many different functions, including next gener ... Oral Cancer: Treatment and ReconstructionFor months Carolyn Coogan pursued dental solutions for the pain in her jaw. Then an MRI revealed cancer. Coogan and Dr. Neal Futran, director of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Univers ... Organizational Dilemma of Stewards and CreatorsStewards and Creators is based on research of Harvard professor Rob Austin and University of Washington professor Dick Nolan on missed opportunities of capturing the commercial value of Internet1 inno ... Osteoporosis of the SpineThe loss of healthy bone structure is an expected effect of aging, but it also affects many other segments of the population due to a variety of factors such as nutrition and diseases. Osteoporosis an ... Our Infrastructures - Online And Vulnerable? Part 1 of 3From electricity usage to municipal water consumption, from traffic lights to dams, our world is monitored by computer systems. But the control systems that warn of impending problems may themselves b ... Our Infrastructures - Online and Vulnerable? Part 2 of 3This program includes a presentation by Mark Hadley, a research scientist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory focusing on cybersecurity and the protection of critical infrastructure systems. He ... Our Infrastructures - Online and Vulnerable? Part 3 of 3Part Three is a presentation by Dan Ryan, J.D., professor of systems management at National Defense University and an expert on information assurance and cyberlaw. He spoke about the highly varied leg ... Our Job is EasyLivingThe goal of our EasyLiving project at Microsoft Research in Redmond is to give users casual access to computing. Envisioned are rooms outfitted with cameras, microphones, displays, speakers, computers ... Outcomes of Fusions for Low Back Pain: General ResultsIn this segment, Drs. Marré and Chesnut review the world literature on techniques and results of fusion surgery performed primarily for low back pain. Dr. Marré’s presentation focuses on the influ ... Overcoming Adversity: Paul Shipman/Rourke ObrienPaul Shipman and Rourke O'Brien discuss their strategies to overcoming major roadblocks and maintaining prosperous companies. ... Paleontology Unit, Dinosaur Dig, and Materials Science and Technology ProgramA second-grade teacher at Franklin Elementary and a high-school materials science and technology teacher in Washington discuss programs they have developed to engage their students in contextual teach ... Paleontology Unit, Dinosaur Dig, and Materials Science and Technology ProgramA second-grade teacher at Franklin Elementary and a high-school materials science and technology teacher in Washington discuss programs they have developed to engage their students in contextual teach ... Palestine, Iraq, and U.S. PolicyEdward Said, acclaimed for his literary and cultural criticism, is a sought-after commentator on Middle Eastern politics and America's foremost spokesman for the Palestinian cause. His influential boo ... Pancreas TransplantationPancreas transplantation is performed in individuals with type I diabetes to achieve long-term glucose control without exogenous insulin administration. The pancreas transplant replaces the function o ... Pandemic Influenza Preparedness & Response Information Sharing Through a Virtual SymposiumThe Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Emerging Infections Network (EINet) virtual symposium on pandemic influenza preparedness was held on January 19, 2006. Faced by concerns that the current a ... Pandemic Preparedness for Health Care FacilitiesA discussion of some of the health care planning issues and local planning issues that arise around the topic of pandemic influenza. This program also looks at the HHS plan and how Seattle and King Co ... Panel Discussion: Local Pandemic Flu PlanningA panel of experts from hospitals, universities, and the Public Health Department in the Seattle and King County area discuss local planning and preparedness for the potential event of a pandemic flu. ... Parallelizing Programs using Approximate CodeZilles presents two hardware/software techniques to exploit thread-parallel resources to improve sequential program performance. The first technique uses "helper threads" to avoid stalls (due to cache ... Part 01 - Navigating Conflicts When Parents and Providers Disagree about Medical CareDr. Norm Fost addresses the controversies of "Parental Requests for Futile Treatment." Dr. Benjamin speaks on the controversies of funding extraordinary medical treatments for pediatric patients. This ... Part 01: Basic Concepts of Multilevel DataThis program addresses the features that distinguish multilevel data from other data. Also discussed are design features such as between cluster, within cluster, and between and within cluster. ... Part 01: Course Overview and Introduction to Commingling AnalysisKaren L. Edwards introduces commingling analysis and describes genetic epidemiology software resources available on the Web. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical ... Part 01: Diseases and PopulationsProfessor Thomas Koepsell discusses the concepts of disease and population as they apply to epidemiologic research. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research ... Part 01: Economic Assessment in MedicineThis program explores Cost-Effective Analysis (CEA). Viewers learn what a CEA is, when a CEA is needed, standard methods for a CEA and how outcomes should be expressed. ... Part 01: Introduction to Clinical TrialsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 01: Introduction to Costs and Outcomes ResearchThis program provides an introduction to the principles and methods of economic evaluation in health care, such as definitions, economic evaluation methods, standards and accepted practices. ... Part 01: Overview of General BiostatisticsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 01: Postwar Syndromes and 1991 Gulf ExperienceIntroduces Gulf War veteran syndromes and provides an overview of popular theories regarding them. ... Part 01: Regression SettingIn this session 1, Scott Emerson discusses the scientific setting for regression as it relates to an example concerning the effects of smoking on lung function in children. ... Part 01: Trial DesignProfessor Ross Prentice describes the basic set of assumptions needed and related tradeoffs involved in designing a large-scale prevention trial. ... Part 02 - Navigating Conflicts When Parents and Providers Disagree about Medical CareDr. Laine Friedman Ross speaks about the controversial issues that arise when parents resist medical care their children's physicians recommend. This University of Washington program was taped at the ... Part 02: Commingling Analysis: Applications, Challenges and SoftwareKaren L. Edwards describes commingling analysis applications and challenges and demonstrates NOCOM commingling analysis software. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Cli ... Part 02: Designs for Clinical TrialsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 02: Economic Assessment in MedicineThis segment builds on part 1 of this program with examples of cost effective analysis by using robotic-assisted stroke rehabilitation in VA as an example. ... Part 02: Gulf War Veterans: Symptom StudiesIntroduces Gulf War veteran symptom studies: design, strength, and problem issues. ... Part 02: Measures of Disease Frequency IProfessor Thomas Koepsell discusses concepts of incidence and prevalence as they apply to epidemiologic research. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research M ... Part 02: Probability, Probability DistributionsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 02: Research Methods and DesignsCovering decision rules and practical approaches, this program highlights the methods of economic evaluation in health care. ... Part 02: Response Correlation and Its ImpactCorrelations within data and its impact on estimation are explored. ... Part 02: Scientific SettingIn session 2, Scott Emerson discusses the general scientific setting for regression, identifying the types of scientific questions that can be answered by regression. ... Part 02: Trial Implementation IProfessor Andrea LaCroix describes issues of recruitment, retention, and adherence that arise in a large-scale clinical trial. ... Part 03: Choosing Study Subjects, Interventions and EndpointsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 03: Cost EstimationThis program introduces concepts in cost estimation, including cost methods and estimating labor costs. The VA Health Economics Resource Center average cost datasets for medical and surgical hospitali ... Part 03: Descriptive AnalysisDescriptive analysis of multilevel data is explained. ... Part 03: Gulf War Veterans: Healthcare UtilizationIntroduces Gulf War veterans’ healthcare utilization studies and data. ... Part 03: Measurement and Valuation of Treatment EffectivenessMeasuring patient outcomes is the focus of this program, covering health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its uses, outcomes appropriate for cost-effectiveness analysis, instruments used and utilit ... Part 03: Measures of Disease Frequency IIProfessor Thomas Koepsell discusses concepts of incidence and prevalence as they apply to epidemiologic research. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research M ... Part 03: Sampling Distributions, EstimationThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 03: Simple Linear RegressionIn session 3, Scott Emerson discusses simple linear regression concepts, describing descriptive statistics useful with regression. ... Part 03: Trial Implementation IIDr. Garnet Anderson discusses randomization and blinding issues that arise in a large-scale clinical trial. ... Part 03: Twin Studies and Familial CorrelationsKaren L. Edwards discusses study designs that utilize twin data and familial correlations and outlines their limitations. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Re ... Part 04: Correlation and RegressionIn session 4, Scott Emerson discusses simple linear regression concepts, describing the relationship between correlation and regression, and demonstrating how to interpret Stata output. ... Part 04: Estimating Labor CostsInstructors make recommendations for estimating labor costs, such as using job categories found in VA data and adjusting for the variation in VA salaries. ... Part 04: General Anslysis ApproachesThis program demonstrates the different approaches to multilevel data analysis. ... Part 04: Gulf War Veterans: Mortality and ReproductionIntroduces Gulf War veteran mortality and reproduction studies, and their respective data. ... Part 04: Hypothesis TestingThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 04: Measuring and Valuation of Treatment CostThis program covers utilization, unit costs and discounting, as well as other forms of cost analysis. Specific topics include estimating costs, practical tips for costing and the numerator of the cost ... Part 04: Segregation AnalysisKaren L. Edwards describes segregation analysis concepts, value, limitations and data interpretation. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summe ... Part 04: Sources of Data on Disease FrequencyProfessor Thomas Koepsell explains how to identify the best sources of available public data on health, disease and death to use when answering epidemiologic research questions. This lecture was taped ... Part 04: Statistical Inference, Sample Size, PowerThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 04: Trial MonitoringDr. Garnet Anderson discusses statistical challenges and issues in clinical trial outcomes assessment. ... Part 05: Comparing Means of Two GroupsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 05: Data Analysis IDr. Garnet Anderson discusses data analysis concepts for large-scale clinical trials. ... Part 05: Framing Economic Evaluation & Decision Analysis IThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical, and research areas. Topics include cost analysis and the measurem ... Part 05: Inference for Marginal ModelsThis program introduces inference for marginal models. ... Part 05: Issues in Data AnalysisThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 05: Linear Regression and t TestsIn session 5, Scott Emerson describes the relationship between linear regression and t tests. ... Part 05: Linkage Analysis and Pedigree CheckingKaren L. Edwards describes linkage analysis and relevant statistical approaches and discusses pedigree structure and checking. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinic ... Part 05: Person, Place, TimeProfessor Thomas Koepsell explains the importance of study characteristics such as person, place and time in descriptive epidemiology. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics an ... Part 05: VA Decision Support System (DSS)This unit offers participants a description of the VA Decision Support System (DSS) and DSS national data extracts. DSS is compared to national data extracts for the VA, utilization databases and othe ... Part 05: Why Study Natural Disasters and Terrorism?Defines disasters, introduces the population-based epidemiological approach and outlines consequences of natural disasters and terrorism. ... Part 06: Adjustment for Covariates IIn Session 6, Professor Scott Emerson discusses indicators for transforming predictor variables. Professor Emerson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. This course was offe ... Part 06: Comparing ProportionsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 06: Data Analysis IIProfessor Andrea LaCroix discusses data analysis concepts for large-scale clinical trials using findings from the Women’s Health Initiative. ... Part 06: Decision Analysis IIThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical, and research areas. Topics include cost analysis and the measurem ... Part 06: Generalized Estimating EquationsIntroduction to the concept of Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE). ... Part 06: Natural Disasters and Terrorism Consequences: Theories and Study SamplingProvides theories explaining consequences of natural disasters and terrorism and introduces study sampling design and issues. ... Part 06: Non-Parametric Linkage AnalysisKaren L. Edwards emphasizes the big picture behind genetic epidemiology and linkage analysis and compares parametric and non-parametric Linkage Analysis. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiolog ... Part 06: Overview of Study DesignsThomas Koepsell provides an overview of common epidemiologic study designs. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summer Session co-sponsored by ... Part 06: Pharmacy DataMark Smith uses VA pharmacy data as an example to demonstrate the VA Decision Support System (DSS). ... Part 06: Planning Measurements & Monitoring the StudyThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 07: Adjustments for Covariates IIIn Session 7, Professor Scott Emerson discusses the importance of covariate adjustment for confounding, precision and effect modification. Professor Emerson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Univ ... Part 07: Causal InferenceNoel Weiss discusses the principles underlying causal inference, including the difference between association and causation, the criteria for formulating a plausible causal hypothesis based on the res ... Part 07: Comparing More Than Two GroupsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 07: Data Analysis IIIProfessor Andrea LaCroix discusses the principles of clinical-trial subgroup analysis. ... Part 07: Decision Analysis: Markov ModelsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical, and research areas. Topics include cost analysis and the measurem ... Part 07: Financial & Clinical Data - Fee Basis FilesThis program explores the Financial and Clinical Data Mart (FCDM), explaining how the reports are arranged by data source and what selected reports are available as of April 2005. ... Part 07: Genetic Association Studies: Pitfalls and ChallengesKaren L. Edwards discusses genetic association studies and compares them to family based tests of association. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Meth ... Part 07: Natural Disasters and Terrorism: Telephone Surveys and Study Examples and IssuesIntroduces effective telephone survey method designs for studying natural disasters and terrorism and evaluates relevant example studies. ... Part 07: Publishing the TrialThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 07: Random Effects ModelsThis program continues with a further exploration of constructing models using multilevel data. ... Part 08: Adjustments for Covariates IIIIn Session 8, Professor Scott Emerson demonstrates the importance of covariate adjustment for confounding, precision and effect modification through one specific example. Professor Emerson is a Profes ... Part 08: CommunicationsProfessor Andrea LaCroix discusses strategies for communicating clinical trial results to participants, providers, and the media. ... Part 08: Factors to Consider in Natural Disasters and Terrorism StudiesIntroduces "A Gene x Environment Epidemiology Study" of natural disasters and factors that influence natural disasters and terrorism studies. ... Part 08: Genetic Association Study Types and Family-Based Tests of AssociationKaren L. Edwards discusses genetic association study types and family based tests of association. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summer Se ... Part 08: Markov Models, Monte Carlo & SW DemoThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical, and research areas. Topics include cost analysis and the measurem ... Part 08: Measures of Excess RiskNoel Weiss describes how to interpret relative risk and attributable risk data in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Su ... Part 08: National Prosthetic Data - Program Cost Reports & DatasetsThis program examines the VA Cost Distribution Report, KLF Menu, Decision Support System (DSS), FEE Basis Files and the HERC Average Cost Data Sets. ... Part 08: Protocol & CONSORT StatementThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods ... Part 08: Sample Size CalculationsIn this program, Brian Leroux explains sample size calculations for multilevel data. ... Part 08: Sample Size, PowerThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 09: A Hospital's Immediate Response to Mass Casualties Due to a Terrorist AttackNarrates a hospital’s immediate response to mass casualties due to a terrorist attack in Tokyo, Japan. ... Part 09: Critical Assessment of Economic Evaluations and Cost Effectiveness ModelsThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical, and research areas. Topics include cost analysis and the measurem ... Part 09: Linkage DisequilibriumKaren L. Edwards discusses linkage disequilibrium and examines its value and measures. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summer Session by th ... Part 09: Managing the AftermathDr. Garnet Anderson and Professor LaCroix discuss the potential impact of large-scale clinical trials. ... Part 09: Measures of Excess Risk ContinuedNoel Weiss describes how to interpret relative risk and attributable risk data in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Su ... Part 09: Model MisspecificationsLearn about model misspecification. ... Part 09: Other Regression ModelsIn Session 9, Professor Scott Emerson describes similarities between a generalized regression model and logistic and proportional hazards regression. Professor Emerson is a Professor of Biostatistics ... Part 09: Simple Linear RegressionThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 09: UtilitiesUtilities and economic analysis for management are explored in this unit. Cost utility analysis is summarized. The purpose of seven common utility measures are explained and guidelines for selection m ... Part 1 - God, Humanity and the Universe in the Dead Sea ScrollsEducation about the Qumran sect's beliefs about the nature of God, the creation of humanity, good and evil, and the place of humanity in the universe at large. ... Part 1 - How Tevye Learned To FiddleSholem Aleichem's beloved "Tevye the Dairyman" has been adapted for stage and screen in various languages and countries. The most famous of these is "Fiddler on the Roof," but in addition to this Engl ... Part 1 - Privacy: Reconciling RealityHear a discussion about new federal and state laws meant to protect our privacy. What are the laws designed to achieve? How do they impact the general public, researchers, system managers and private ... Part 10: Analysis of Incomplete DataLearn about the analysis of incomplete or missing data. ... Part 10: Case DiagnosticsIn Session 10, Professor Scott Emerson discusses outliers, influence and applications with interactions. Professor Emerson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. This course ... Part 10: Economic Analysis for ManagementExplores economic analysis for management. ... Part 10: Evaluating Cost Effectiveness ModelsNo Description Available ... Part 10: Measurement ErrorThomas Koepsell discusses measurement error in epidemiologic studies, explaining how to identify several features of reliability and validity. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostati ... Part 10: Role of Clinical TrialsProfessor Ross Prentice discusses the role of large-scale clinical trials in chronic disease population research. ... Part 10: SNP Selection and Haplotype AnalysisKaren L. Edwards discusses approaches to single nucleotide oolymorphisms (SNPs) selection approaches and haplotype map (HapMap) project. This lecture was taped at the 2006 Epidemiology, Biostatistics ... Part 10: Summary & ReviewThis program provides state-of-the-art information on epidemiology and research methods for those working in administrative, clinical and research areas. Topics include testing, regression analysis, c ... Part 11: ScreeningThomas Koepsell discusses the interpretation of sensitivity and specificity predictive value positive as applied to screening data in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemio ... Part 12: ConfoundingNoel Weiss defines confounding and identifies strategies to control for the presence of confounding in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinica ... Part 13: Confounding ContinuedNoel Weiss defines confounding and identifies strategies to control for the presence of confounding in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinica ... Part 14: Ecological Studies, Randomized TrialsThomas Koepsell defines ecological studies and discusses levels of measurement in such studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summer Sess ... Part 15: Randomized Trials, Cohort StudiesThomas Koepsell and Noel Weiss identify the strengths and weaknesses of cohort studies and randomized trials. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Metho ... Part 16: Cohort StudiesNoel Weiss discusses comparison subjects, follow-up and outcome definition and assessment for cohort studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Metho ... Part 17: Case-Control StudiesNoel Weiss identifies when it is appropriate to use a case-control study design, a cohort study design or a clinical trial to answer a research question. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiolog ... Part 18: Case-Control Studies ContinuedNoel Weiss identifies when it is appropriate to use a case-control study design, a cohort study design or a clinical trial to answer a research question. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiolog ... Part 19: Improving the Sensitivity of StudiesNoel Weiss identifies two strategies that can be applied to improve accuracy when measuring associations between exposure and disease in epidemiologic studies. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epide ... Part 1: Overview: Epidemiology GrantsIn this session 1 of the grant writing series, Dr. Michael Gaziano describes the basic organization of scientific research proposals for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Veterans Affairs (V ... Part 1: The Chronic Care ModelEdward H. Wagner introduces the six elements of the Chronic Care Model he and his colleagues have developed. The Chronic Care Model is a new paradigm for the better care of the chronically ill with ap ... Part 1: What Will Science Be Like in the Future?UW faculty converse about the future of where science is going, and what role the UW will play. This program, part one of two, centers around new fields and disciplines, new frontiers of discovery and ... Part 1:Antebellum Slavery and Freedom, 1528-1865, Race and LibertyThe American West has always symbolized both freedom and opportunity, a place where one's past could be forgotten and where race, gender, ethnicity, or class were removed as barriers to individual suc ... Part 2 - At Odds: Victims Rights vs. Free SpeechExamine the muddy crossroads where online anonymous free speech can morph into harmful, targeted crimes of hate in this program by The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the Univers ... Part 2 - Remembering the Past in YiddishTranslators face high stakes in translating Yiddish after the Holocaust. Addressing a new audience, English translations tend to be more reverential about the European past, less willing to explore al ... Part 2 - Scripture, Law and the Life of the Dead Sea SectInvestigation of the attitudes toward divine revelation, the authority of Scripture, and Jewish law and its role in the life of the sect and in the wider Jewish Community. ... Part 2: Improving Care for People with DiabetesDavid McCulloch identifies strategies providers can use to improve care for people with diabetes. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research Methods Summer Se ... Part 2: Research HypothesisIn session 2 of this grant writing series, Professor Alan Kristal helps students work through the writing of the specific aims section of a scientific research proposal. ... Part 2: To the Frontier, 1866-1900, Homesteaders, Cowboys and Buffalo SoldiersThe Civil War freed the slaves. It also opened vast tracts of land to settlement through the Homestead Act. Consequently tens of thousands of African Americans sought the High Plains and regions beyon ... Part 2: What Will the University of Washington Contribute to the Future?UW faculty converse about the future of where science is going, and what role the UW will play. This program, which is the second half of a two-part series, focuses on human health, quality of life, l ... Part 3 - Apocalyptics, Messiahs and the End of DaysDiscussion of the Dead Sea sect's preparation for the messianic era, considering its apocalyptic messianism, the nature of the messianic figures expected, resurrection, and the great war expected to u ... Part 3 - Becoming American: Yiddish in the Golden LandYankev Glatshteyn’s famous 1939 poem, “A gute nakht velt”, “Good Night, World” was translated into English many times throughout the 20th century. In the choices translators made in this and ... Part 3: Background and SignificanceIn session 3 of this grant writing series, Dr. Michael Gaziano discusses the components needed to develop the background, significance, and preliminary studies sections of a scientific research propos ... Part 3: Patient-centered CareEdward Wagner identifies three elements of patient self-management support that providers can use to improve chronic illness care. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Cl ... Part 3: The Urban Frontier, 1875-1940, African Americans in CitiesIn 1885, as black cowboys trailed cattle, or Buffalo soldiers stood guard on lonely outposts, far more African American women and men moved to Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle in search ... Part 4: Methods by Study TypeIn session 4 of this grant writing series, Dr. Michael Gaziano begins a discussion of the methods section of a scientific research proposal by outlining specific features unique to different study des ... Part 4: World War II Era, 1941-1950, Migration and TransformationWorld War II was a period of profound transformation, with 1.3 million African Americans living in the West before the war looked suspiciously across a huge cultural divide at a half million newcomers ... Part 5: Into the 21st Century, 1951-2000, The Black West in the Modern EraBy 1963 the direct action protests of the civil rights campaigns in the South had, as one Seattle minister proclaimed, finally 'leaped the Cascade Mountains.' By that he meant that even the far West w ... Part 5: Methods ContinuedIn session 5 of this grant writing series, Dr. Michael Gaziano continues to discuss the methods section of a scientific research proposal, covering issues of recruitment, data management, and quality ... Part 5: Team Care and Case ManagementConnie Davis identifies five strategies providers can use to better meet patients’ needs using a team care and case management approach. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistic ... Part 6: Planned CareEdward H. Wagner identifies three strategies providers can use to better meet patients’ needs using a planned care approach. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinic ... Part 6: Statistical AnalysisIn Session 6 of this grant writing series, Professor Alan Kristal discusses the components needed for the statistical analysis section of a scientific research proposal. ... Part 7: Making Change Happen at the Practice LevelConnie Davis identifies four strategies for change in their setting at the practice and population level that can be used when implementing the Chronic Care Model. This lecture was taped at the 2004 E ... Part 7: Statistical PowerIn session 7 of this grant writing series, Professor Alan Kristal discusses the components of power calculations used in developing a scientific research proposal. ... Part 8: Abstract, Budget and Peer ReviewIn Session 8 of this grant writing series, Professor Alan Kristal discusses the components needed for the Abstract and Budget sections of a scientific research proposal and fundamentals of the peer re ... Part 8: Improving the Care of the Chronically IllEdward Wagner summarizes how the Chronic Care Model developed by him and his colleagues can be used to improve the care of the chronically ill. This lecture was taped at the 2004 Epidemiology, Biostat ... Pathophysiology of COPD and LVRS.Doctors Benditt and Wood discuss pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulomonary disease (COPD), a condition of obstructed airflow and the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Their d ... Perspectives on the Information IndustryIn this special colloquia, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google in Redwood City, California discusses the information industry and Google's approach to innovation. Dr. Schmidt has a 25- ... Pharmacogenomic Testing and Breast Cancer: The Example of Cyp2D6 and TamoxifenGenomic heterogeneity is emerging as an important factor in determining tamoxifen benefit in breast cancer. Dr. Hannah Linden, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, and a br ... Piano Power: McCabe Times TwoPianists and sisters Robin McCabe, director of the School of Music, and Rachelle McCabe, professor of piano at Oregon State University, share the honors on Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos and orches ... Planetary Explorations: Perspectives on EarthJames Head's research centers on the study of the processes that form and modify the surfaces, crusts, and lithospheres of planets, how these processes vary with time, and how such processes interact ... PlanetLab: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design in Global Network InfrastructurePlanetLab is a global platform for evaluating and deploying network services. It currently includes nearly 700 nodes, spanning over 335 sites and 35 countries, and hosts over 500 experimental services ... Plastic Surgery: Reconstructive Success StoriesHear about life-altering innovations and techniques. Focus will be on all aspects of plastic surgery with an emphasis on reconstructive plastic surgery. ... Politics, Social Justice and Global HealthThis program stems from the Third Annual Western Regional Health Conference with Congressman Jim McDermott opening the show with comments on politics and global health issues. Dr. Mirta Roses Periago ... Politics, Social Justice and Global HealthThis program stems from the Third Annual Western Regional Health Conference with Congressman Jim McDermott opening the show with comments on politics and global health issues. Dr. Mirta Roses Periago ... Post-Stroke Patient CareMedical experts discuss ways to deal with problems that arise for stroke victims, such as providing psychosocial and behavioral intervention in dealing with things like depression. For more informatio ... Postanalytic Error: Cases, Concepts and InterventionsDr. Michael Astion of the University of Washington gives an overview of interventions to reduce laboratory errors and specifically discusses how to reduce postanaltyic errors, which are errors that oc ... Power Aware Page AllocationOne of the major challenges of post-PC computing is the need to reduce energy consumption, thereby extending the battery lifetime for mobile devices. Memory is an unexplored, and particularly importan ... Powerset and Natural Language SearchCentral to the concept of natural language search is that users express queries in natural language with the system responses respecting the linguistic information in the query. Architecture centered ... Practical Analysis Tools for Large-Scale SoftwareUC Berkeley's Manu Sridharan presents two techniques -- refinement-based pointer analysis and thin slicing -- that enable powerful new tools for debugging and understanding large-scale software. His g ... Practical Byzantine Fault ToleranceThe growing reliance of our society on computers demands that we provide systems with improved reliability, availability, and security. This talk describes BFT -- a new software Byzantine fault tolera ... Pre-Execution: Staying on the Performance CurveEmerging applications continue to demand geometric increases in performance. Constraints like power, manufacturing cost, and the limits of physics itself mean that this performance will have to be obt ... Precision Atomic Physics at University of Washington / The Wellspring of DiscoveryAtomic physics has been an important part of the research at the University of Washington since World War II, and it has been supported by the NSF since the 1950s. The NSF currently funds work on a pr ... Predicting the 3-D Structures of Proteins from their Linear SequencesProteins are the molecules in every living cell that are responsible for most of the physical and chemical activities necessary for life. Proteins are linear polymers whose covalent structure can be d ... Preserving Limbs and Surviving Limb Loss: Resuming an Active and Productive Life, Part 1Whether the focus is advancing function for the amputee or preserving a limb at risk, learn about the remarkable enhancements in prevention, prosthetics, rehabilitation and patient care. ... Preserving Limbs and Surviving Limb Loss: Resuming an Active and Productive Life, Part 2Whether the focus is advancing function for the amputee or preserving a limb at risk, learn about the remarkable enhancements in prevention, prosthetics, rehabilitation and patient care. ... Preventing HIV & Other STIsHIV continues to infect 14,000 people a day worldwide despite a variety of prevention efforts. In the United States, the rate of infections has hovered at 40,000 a year since 1992, falling far short o ... Princeton ZebraNet ProjectThe field of wireless sensor networks offers many interesting applications. In this talk, Margaret Martonosi discusses the design tradeoffs that arise when applying wireless peer-to-peer networking te ... Prioritizing Vaccines for Disease-Endemic CountriesDr. Daniel Wikler from Harvard, a former World Health Organization ethicist, reviews the distinctive needs of developed and developing countries in the areas of basic health care. He weighs the relati ... Privacy & Security in an On-Demand WorldSecurity and privacy are interdependent concepts, but they present distinct business and social issues. Security provides, in part, the means to achieve privacy. Security technologies and best practic ... Proactive ComputingFor over 35 years, Information Technology has been dominated by J.C.R. Licklider's powerful vision of Interactive Computing / Man-Machine Symbiosis. Although this "Human Centered" line of research has ... Probabilistic Methods for Mobile Robot NavigationProbabilistic methods are well suited for dealing with the uncertainties involved in sensing and acting in the real world. Dieter focuses on the application of probabilistic methods to fundamental pro ... Probabilistic Models for Complex DomainsMany domains in the real world are richly structured, containing a diverse set of objects related to each other in a variety of ways. In this distinguished lecturer program, Daphne Koller of Stanford ... Probabilistically Checkable ProofsKhot gives a survey of PCPs, known hardness results, and techniques used to build PCPs. Computing approximate solutions is a way to cope with NP-complete problems. A tool called Probabilistically Chec ... Processes without PartitionsMatthew Flatt demonstrates how a unique software solution can give programmers flexibility in using process-like constructs for managing tasks within a program. The PLT Scheme virtual machine design e ... Program Analysis Techniques for Pointers and Accessed Memory RegionsVirtually all program transformations and safety checks require information about the memory locations accessed by the statements and procedures in the program. But many constructs in modern programmi ... Program Analysis: Binary Decision DiagramsBinary decision diagrams (BDDs) are a data structure that can efficiently represent large relations and provide efficient set operations. BDDs have traditionally been used for model checking, formal v ... Programmable Self AssemblyModern embedded and robotic systems are increasingly required to be completely decentralized. To build distributed sensor networks, automated factories, or autonomous robot teams requires tools for an ... Programming Language InfrastructuresNorman Ramsey explains that to be truly reusable, a language infrastructure needs not only a compile-time interface but also a run-time interface. He illustrates several examples and focuses on the me ... Programming: Secure ExecutionThe greatest threat to our modern information infrastructure is the remote exploitation of program vulnerabilities—31 out of 34 CERT advisories year-to-date are due to such exploitations. Saman Amar ... Project Connect: A Middle School - University CollaborationA professor of education at Western Washington University and an instructor at Fairhaven Middle School in Washington discuss their collaborations on a program for 8th graders that gives them the oppor ... Propaganda Adapts to Changing TimesAlex Edelstein, author of "Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture," talks about the way old propaganda (authoritarian) has evolved to new propaganda (populist). ... Prostate Cancer: Advanced DiseaseExperts from the University of Washington and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance discuss advances in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer. This program presents innovative research into the geneti ... Public Forum: Northwest Regional Biocontainment LaboratoryResearchers at the University of Washington are among the world's leaders in studying infectious diseases. In 2004, the UW received over $56 million from NIAID to study various aspects of infectious d ... Punit Renjen, Principal, Deloitte ConsultingBorn and raised in India, Punit Renjen describes to Laura Schildkraut the intense drive and focus which has helped him achieve the position of principal at Deloitte Consulting. Born and raised in I ... Punit Renjen, Principal, Deloitte ConsultingBorn and raised in India, Punit Renjen describes to Laura Schildkraut the intense drive and focus which has helped him achieve the position of principal at Deloitte Consulting ... Putting Computer Power to Work in an Online Learning EnvironmentThis program is about the developing of a system to push the limits exploiting computation in online learning in three principal areas: student construction, structured communication, and assessment w ... Quantizing TimeMany systems must treat time as continuous rather than quantized. If time is continuous, what does "first come first served" really mean. Like horse races that require a "photo finish" some choices of ... Quantum Information Science: A Quantum Computer RevolutionQuantum computing represents the synthesis of fundamental quantum physics with concepts from computer science. In this talk, Dave Bacon introduces quantum computing and discuss two of the biggest ques ... Query Processing in Sensor NetworksMany of the emerging applications for sensor networks are focused on data collection and monitoring in remote environments. Samuel Madden, UC-Berkeley, discusses how the difficulties of coding power-m ... Race MattersCornel West—a self-described intellectual freedom fighter influenced by the Baptist church, American transcendentalism, the Black Panthers and European philosophy—seeks to revive the best of liber ... Radio Frequency IdentificationRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is revolutionizing the supply chain, and will have broad implications for businesses and consumers alike. This technology panel will provide different ... Rajan Krishnamurty, The Cobalt GroupMr. Krishnamurty is the Chief Technology Officer for The Cobalt Group, a leading provider of e-business products and services for the automotive industry. His career began at IBM in Texas where he sys ... Re-interpreting the Fisheries CrisisPopular literature and the pages of Science and Nature have reported on the collapse of the world's fisheries. While there are many problems, most of these fisheries are producing at near maximum pote ... Real e-Science, Real Discovery: NEPTUNELearn how Internet2 and NEPTUNE (www.neptune.washington.edu) are opening an unprecedented window into the northeast Pacific Ocean and scientific exploration of the seafloor. John Delaney, NEPTUNE prog ... Real-time Specification for JavaThe Real-time Specification for Java (RTSJ) standardizes a set of extensions to SUN's Java programming language for real-time computing. The appeal of the RTSJ comes from its expressiveness and its in ... Reasoning with Cause and EffectThis talk summarizes concepts, principles, and inference tools that are useful in modeling aspects of causal reasoning. The principles are based on structural-model semantics, in which modifiable func ... Recurrent Spinal Deformity Above Spinal FusionSpinal deformity commonly is associated with a forward bending (kyphotic) malposition of the spine. Current surgical techniques allow for virtually complete deformity correction. Sadly, there are a nu ... Refractive Eye SurgeryLaser eye surgery allows many people to enjoy life without glasses. At UW Medical Center's Refractive Surgery Center, Dr. Tueng T. Shen and her University of Washington team offer the latest form of t ... Refractive Surgery: Patient InformationFind out what every patient needs to know about refractive surgery. Dr. Tueng T. Shen, Medical Director of UW Medical Center’s Refractive Surgery Center, explains what modern eye surgery can do for ... Reframing the Affirmative Action DebateUniversity of Washington Presidents Advisory Committee on Diversity in cooperation with the Presidents Advisory Committee on Women and the University of Washington's Womens Center hosts an address by ... Regional Disaster Planning Efforts & The Biology of Pandemic InfluenzaThis three-part talk addresses how Harborview Medical Center is working together with the hospitals in Seattle, King County, and King County Public Health to create an emergency health care coalition ... Regulatory Elements in Microbial GenesThis program showcases an innovative University of Washington student-faculty academic project. The goal of the project was to write software that starts from a single microbial gene of interest, find ... Relational Artifacts: From Virtual Pets to Digital DollsSherry Turkle explores identity effects of the computer presence associated with new technology: Computational toys and digital "pets" affect how children understand what is and is not alive, and what ... Relieving Pain and Suffering: Real Problems, Real Solutions - Part 1Learn about understanding pain and its management. This program covers the effectiveness of pre-amputation medications, how the human mind controls pain and how the body heals through hypnosis, virtua ... Relieving Pain and Suffering: Real Problems, Real Solutions - Part 2Learn about understanding pain and its management. This program addresses the effectiveness of pre-amputation medications, how the human mind controls pain and how the body heals through hypnosis, vir ... Rendering by Manifold HoppingPresented is a novel image-based rendering technique called manifold hopping. The technique provides users with perceptually continuous navigation by using only a small number of strategically sampled ... Rendering Translucent MaterialsAccurately simulating the scattering of light by materials is fundamental for realistic image synthesis. Henrik Wann Jensen of Stanford University presents two practical techniques for simulating subs ... Representations of Visual Appearance for Computer GraphicsMany problems in computer graphics require compact and accurate representations of the appearance of objects, and the mathematical algorithms to manipulate them. In many of these problems, we must ope ... Research Challenges in Software RadioA software radio is a wireless communications device that performs all of its signal processing in portable, application level software. By simply running a different program, a software radio can bec ... Research in Educational Technology: Expanding Educational PossibilitiesThe goal of the Educational Technology Group is to enhance education through novel deployments of computing technology. This includes improving the classroom experience by creating tools that allow gr ... Responding to Hate: Voices of Hope and ToleranceAfter witnessing firsthand the painful consequences of prejudice and racial injustice, Morris Dees co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 1971 — a nonprofit organization specializing i ... Response to Terrorism: Military Force and International LawFrederick M. Lorenz proposes a legal course of action for Americans in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001. ... RestenosisPatient case studies focusing on restenosis. For more information, see the University of Washington Regional Heart Center Web site. ... Results of Disc Replacement SurgeryOne of the more controversial recent additions to the field of spine surgery has been the introduction of mechanical artificial lumbar disc replacements. Dr. Bellabarba provides a comprehensive review ... Results of the Oxford Back Pain StudyIn this presentation Mr. Jeremy Fairbank, from the Nuffield Centre in Oxford, United Kingdom, presents the findings of the to-date largest comparison multi-center prospective study on surgical versus ... Rethinking Internet Traffic Management Using Optimization TheoryDr. Jennifer Rexford, computer science professor at Princeton University, shares fresh ideas on how to better manage Internet traffic. Recent innovations in optimization theory now make it possible to ... Retinal SurgeryThis session focuses on the treatment of diseases of the retina and vitreous including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal degenerations. ... Reverse (Delta) Shoulder ReplacementSheila Cape was “pretty miserable” after a third shoulder operation in as many years provided only temporary pain relief. She sought help from Dr. Rick Matsen, orthopaedic surgeon at the Universit ... RFID: The Next Big Little ThingRadio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised to replace bar-codes as the primary means of tracking and inventorying pallets and cases in the commerical supply chain. The uses of this technology, ho ... Rhodes: the Island of MemoryThis lecture charts the fate of the Jews of Rhodes before and during the Holocaust. Rhodes had for centuries served as the crossroads of trade and cultural routes and had been ruled by countless conqu ... Rick Devenuti, CIO, Microsoft CorporationRick Devenuti graduated from the University of Washington with a Degree in Accounting. He then accepted a position in an auditing department of Deloitte Haskins and Sells. Within two years he was focu ... Rick Devenuti, CIO, Microsoft CorporationRick Devenuti graduated from the University of Washington with a Degree in Accounting. He then accepted a position in an auditing department of Deloitte Haskins and Sells. Within two years he was focu ... Risk Analysis & Flying with AnimalsRobert G. Bea discusses risk analysis and its importance to prevent unintended consequences that make technology less useful than it should be. Factors include operators, organizational structures, an ... Robotic ReasoningRobots in the real world cannot plan in isolation. They need to worry about external agents that can change their environment while they are not looking. Unfortunately, reasoning exactly about externa ... Robust Design of Arithmetic Units for Error Tolerant ApplicationsJosephine Ammer discusses designing robust arithmetic units for new semiconductors and wireless communications. As semiconductor technology is scaled, process variation becomes an ever-increasing prob ... Routers: The Click SystemKohler describes the Click system, the support and optimization tools, routing applications, and the design principles that make Click a success. The system attacks monolithic, in-kernel implementatio ... Rural Communities and the University of WashingtonAn overview of how University of Washington researchers from various disciplines have engaged diverse, rural communities. ... Russ Daggatt, TeledesicTeledesic Corporation is ready to make a big impact. In fact it will revolutionize the world's communications. Founded by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates and supported by Boeing, Teledesic plans to deliver ... Russ Daggatt, TeledesicTeledesic Corporation is ready to make a big impact. In fact it will revolutionize the world's communications. Founded by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates and supported by Boeing, Teledesic plans to deliver ... Russell Banks, Novelist"Cloud Splitter," Russell Banks' new novel, is the story of John Brown as seen through the eyes of his son. Was Brown a madman or a visionary? Russell Banks's past books include "The Sweet Hereafter," ... Rwanda: H.E. Paul KagameMarking the tenth anniversary of the genocide in the African nation of Rwanda, the current president of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame, explains the struggle to bring peace and reconciliation to the nation. ... SAGE: Software for Algebra and Geometry ExperimentationSAGE is a University of Washington project whose goal is to create an optimal, free, open source software environment for research and experimentation in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography ... Sally McKenzie, vice president, Eddie BauerSally McKenzie graduated from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland with a BA in Theater. She then relocated to Florida and attained a sales job with a local department store. This led to a posi ... Sally McKenzie, vice president, Eddie BauerSally McKenzie graduated from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland with a BA in Theater. She then relocated to Florida and attained a sales job with a local department store. This led to a posi ... Sanjay Parthasarathy, MicrosoftSanjay Parthasarathy has been with Microsoft since 1990 and has served in a number of roles, including director of public network marketing and product manager for multimedia technologies. He is corpo ... Scalable Automatic Methods for Software ReliabilityTesting with manually generated test cases is the primary technique used in industry to improve reliability of software. In this program, Koushik Sen presents Concolic Testing, an efficient approach t ... Scalar Operand Networks for Parallel MicroprocessorsWhich computer architecture makes best use of a square centimeter of silicon? This is the question that drives microprocessor economics. In this talk, Michael Taylor examines one approach to transform ... Scaling Routers Using OpticsRouters built around a single-stage crossbar and a centralized scheduler do not scale, and don't provide the throughput guarantees that network operators need to make efficient use of their expensive ... SchizophreniaSchizophrenia has been an often-misunderstood neurobiological brain disorder. Dr. Janet Finlay shares information from cutting-edge research that points to the cause of schizophrenia and newly develop ... Schools Don't Want Technology, Schools Want EducationAAAS and the National Research Council have recently called for a radical shift from didactic science instruction to a more inquiry-based model. But, if we are going to ask kids to engage in serious s ... Schools Don't Want Technology, Schools Want EducationAAAS and the National Research Council have recently called for a radical shift from didactic science instruction to a more inquiry-based model. But, if we are going to ask kids to engage in serious s ... Schoolwide Enrichment ModelThe Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is a research-supported model designed for general education, but is based on instructional methods and curricular practices that have origins in special programs ... Science & Technology in Global HealthThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Initiative is focused on bringing science and engineering to global health issues: developing new tools for resource-poor settings; accelerating the e ... Science and Politics: The Discordant Couple in the Fight Against AIDSIn this joint presentation, Drs. Auerbach and Simoni discuss the relationship between our advancing knowledge in preventing transmission and acquisition of HIV infection through biomedical, behavioral ... Scoliosis Assessment and ClassificationSystematically assessment of patients with spinal deformity and predicting the physiologic impact on cardiopulmonary function in both pediatric and adult patients can influence the quality of life for ... Scoliosis SurgerySurgical management of scoliosis has undergone dramatic changes over a 50year period. Starting with relatively simple posterior systems such as the Harrington and Luque rods, it evolved to concepts of ... Scott Davis, BluWater ConsultingScott Davis is founder and managing partner of BluWater Consulting. His involvement with telemarketing, telecommunications, databases, project management, people management, and consulting has provide ... Scott Griffin, CIO, The Boeing CompanyScott Griffin graduated from California State University at Fresno working his way through school as a fire fighter. He then traveled through the United States for a year before settling in the Seattl ... Scott Griffin, CIO, The Boeing CompanyScott Griffin graduated from California State University at Fresno working his way through school as a fire fighter. He then traveled through the United States for a year before settling in the Seattl ... Sea of MicrobesThe biology of our oceans is dominated by microbes too small to be seen with the naked eye. One such group, phytoplankton, help remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, turning it ... SeaTrek at the Mote Marine LaboratoryConnecting your classroom to sharks, manatees, sea turtles and more! The Mote Marine Laboratory Center for Distance Learning in Sarasota, Florida, is using emerging technologies to reach audiences acr ... Secularism, Religion, Ethnicity and AssimilationCalvin Goldscheider presents several different arguments about the assimilation of Jews into American society. ... Security Protocols for Broadcast CommunicationsMr.Perrig describes how he designed and built a suite of new efficient security protocol families to enable broadcast authentication (TESLA & BiBa), broadcast signature (HTSS & MESS), and key distribu ... Seeing Through the ClutterThe problem of analysing visual motion, especially against dense background clutter, is challenging. Uncertainty in the positions of visually sensed features and ambiguity arising from the clutter, ca ... Seeking Sustainability of Natural Resources, Part 1"An Overview of the Concepts, Challenges and Benefits" brings together public and private land managers, academicians and private landowners to discuss the subject of sustainability. Each speaker inte ... Seeking Sustainability of Natural Resources, Part 2In "Federal and State Land Management Approaches," public land managers address sustainability of natural resources through two perspectives: public values and scientific realities. The degree to whic ... Seeking Sustainability of Natural Resources, Part 3Sustaining urban landscapes requires an entirely different set of priorities. A representative from Everett, Wash., provides a view of sustainability from a city that is feeling the pinch of increasin ... Seeking Sustainability of Natural Resources, Part 4A seven-member panel of professional land managers and academics discusses the key questions and concerns relating to sustainable management of natural resources in Washington State and beyond. Brian ... Selection of the Living Renal DonorDr. Connie Davis presents information on the evaluation and selection of the living renal (kidney) donor. ... Self-Defending Software: Collaborative Learning for SecurityThis University of Washington talk addresses software monoculture, many computers running the same application, which offers benefits for system administrators and users. But, every copy of the applic ... Self-Examination: How Accessible is Your Campus?Students with disabilities and University of Washington leaders talk about how to make the campus and classroom more accessible. ... Sense & Respond TechnologyA lot has been written about "Real Time Enterprise" over the past couple of years. Some companies even claim to have implemented the concept. So what is a "Real Time Enterprise?" Why is it a good idea ... Sensor-Based Statistical Models of Human InterruptibilityWhile people can typically make a rapid assessment of another person's interruptibility, current systems generally have no way to consider whether an interruption is appropriate. Current systems there ... Sharing and Abstraction in Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningNo Description Available ... Shoulder Replacement For Active PeopleDr. Matsen, UW Medical Center orthopaedic surgeon, discusses a new and innovative shoulder replacement surgery designed for adults living an active life. With the help of one of his patients, Jim Schi ... Simple, Scalable Network AlgorithmsThe main idea of randomized algorithms is simple to state: rather than contend with a large state space, the trick is to make decisions based upon a few randomly chosen samples. Therefore, they lead t ... Skull Base TumorsUniversity of Washington neurosurgeons and neuro-otologists talk about working together to perform surgeries in a complex area of the cranium. Acoustic neuromas are tumors that grow in the temporal bo ... Smart Cell Phones: Making Sense on Small ScreensToday's 'smart' cell phones are designed to allow users to perform a set of comparably simple tasks, such as reproducing driving directions or recalling bookmarked websites. More demanding variants of ... SmartBridge: A Scalable Bridge ArchitectureAs the number of hosts attached to a network increases beyond what can be connected by a single local area network (LAN), forwarding packets between hosts on different LANs becomes an issue. Two commo ... Social Networks: Mathematical ModelsA social network, the graph of relationships and interactions within a group of individuals, plays a fundamental role as a medium for the spread of information, ideas, and influence among its members. ... Software and Systems ResearchAlfred Spector describes major components of IBM's research agenda and discusses aspects of IBM’s work in autonomic computing, such as the breakthroughs in unstructured information management with t ... Software Synthesis for Embedded SystemsThe plummeting cost of hardware has enabled embedded systems to enter consumer products such as cellular phones and digital cameras. The cost of an error in such a high-volume device is skyrocketing, ... Software Transactions: A Programming-Languages PerspectiveWith multicore processors bringing parallel computing to the masses, there is an urgent need to make concurrent programming easier. Software transactions hold great promise for simplifying shared-memo ... Some Hotter Topics in Information and Physical SecurityThe entire technology world – not just IT – is constantly changing. Recent changes force a reexamination of assumptions about information security made only a brief time ago. Emerging technologies ... Specific Indications for Spine SurgeryThere are several accepted causes of back pain that can benefit from surgical intervention with appropriately selected surgery. Dr. Bransford discusses the limited role of surgical intervention in Spo ... Spectral Analysis for Data MiningExperimental evidence suggests that spectral techniques are valuable for a wide range of applications. A partial list of such applications include (i) semantic analysis of documents used to cluster do ... Spectral Clustering as OptimizationMarina Meila analyzes why spectral clustering works, demonstrating that spectral algorithms work in a wider and more interesting range of cases than generally believed. In joint work with Jianbo Shi, ... Spinal Column Failure Below FusionOne of the goals of deformity surgery in the spine is to minimize the length of a fusion to preserve best possible motion of non-affected spine segments. A number of factors can contribute to prematur ... Spinal Reconstruction of KyphoscoliosisSurgery to rebalance a significant spinal deformity is complex and poses a major undertaking and usually requires lifestyle accommodations. Mr. John Webb, Guest of Honor lecturer from the Queen’s Me ... Spinal Stenosis: When to FusePerforming a fusion in the thoraco-lumbar spine may be a necessity under certain circumstances, however, includes a greater surgical invasiveness and alters the biomechanics of the spinal column. In t ... Spine Trauma: High-risk PatientsThe identification of cervical spine injuries can pose prohibitive problems to the treating physician due to the complexity of injuries, patient comorbidities and patient volumes. Improved diagnostic ... Sports Injuries: Spine and Head, Part 1Doctors talk to doctors about diagnosis and treatment of sports-related injuries to the spine and head. Surgeons present cases and answer questions. ... Sports Injuries: Spine and Head, Part 2Doctors talk to doctors about diagnosis and treatment of sports-related injuries to the spine and head. Surgeons present cases and answer questions. ... Sports: Building Winning TeamsWe look at how people in sports use information to build winning teams. Lorenzo Romar, head coach of the University of Washington men's basketball program, talks about building a successful team. Mike ... Stability During Turbulent Economic Change The Japan Studies Program at the University of Washington presents the third Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Lecture. Mr. Toyoo Gyohten, president, Institute of International Monetary Affairs and s ... Stability During Turbulent Economic ChangeThe Japan Studies Program at the University of Washington presents the third Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Lecture. Mr. Toyoo Gyohten, president, Institute of International Monetary Affairs and se ... Static Analysis of Dynamic Data StructuresDynamic allocation and destructive heap updates are fundamental language constructs that allow programmers to implement complex, efficient linked data structures. However, their flexibility makes it d ... Statistical Failure Diagnosis in Software and SystemsAlice Zheng presents a case study illustrating how statistical machine learning algorithms, along with appropriate system instrumentation, can aid in failure diagnosis. She proposes a statistical soft ... Statistical Knowledge ZeroZero-knowledge proofs, introduced by Goldwasser, Micali, and Rackoff, are fascinating constructs in which one party (the "prover") convinces another party (the "verifier") that some assertion is true, ... Statistical Learning AlgorithmsMichael Jordan discusses two broad classes of statistical learning algorithms. One is probabilistic graphical models, a formalism that exploits the conjoined talents of graph theory and probability th ... Statistical Modeling: Genome DataDatasets, spanning many organisms and data types, are rapidly being produced, creating new opportunities for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying human disease, and for studying complex b ... Steve Elfman, TerabeamSteve Elfman is executive vice president of operations for Terabeam, a provider of high-capacity broadband wireless solutions. When he joined Terabeam it was a start-up company, and after years with e ... Steve Jarvis, Alaska AirlinesAs the Staff Vice President of E-Commerce for Alaska Airlines, Steve Jarvis approaches his career with the same sense of vision that has made his projects successful. He discusses his career path as a ... Steve McConnell, ConstruxSteve McConnell is CEO and chief software engineer of, Construx Software Builders, as well as the author of four books and numerous articles. Through his company and many other endeavors, he seeks to ... Stirring up Trouble: Trade, Travel and New InfectionsProfessor Ann Marie Kimball discusses how population growth and increased trade help to spread infections and how that can effect human health. ... Stirring up Trouble: Trade, Travel and New InfectionsProfessor Ann Marie Kimball discusses how population growth and increased trade help to spread infections and how that can effect human health. ... Stochastic Optimal Control in Biology and EngineeringControl under uncertainty is a fundamental problem relevant to biology as well as engineering. Optimality models have explained numerous details of biological movements. Indeed optimal control and opt ... Strategies for Network Security ... Stream Programming: Luring Programmers into the Multicore EraAs the computer industry has moved to multicore processors, the historic trend of exponential performance improvements will now depend on ordinary programmers and their ability to parallelize their co ... SUDS: Thread Level Speculation with Minimal Hardware SupportIn this presentation, Matthew Frank of MIT argues that compiler technology makes it possible for processors to parallelize a broader class of applications than is commonly believed. ... Surface Computing and Computer Vision-Based Human Computer InteractionThe vision of ubiquitous computing suggests that interactivity will be embedded throughout our physical environment in a wide variety of form factors and modes of use. Andy Wilson, a Microsoft researc ... Surgeon Views on Lumbar Disc Replacement SurgeryUsing audience participation the presenters attempt to identify preferences of the spine surgeons participating in the Low Back Forum as to specific indications for lumbar disc replacement surgery. Ba ... Surgery for the Aging SpineOrthopaedists and neurologists meet to discuss treatment options and injuries of the spine. With a focus on scoliosis, doctors tackle the challenges of spine surgery in older adults for this degenerat ... Surgical Treatment for Ankle ArthritisDr Bruce Sangeorzan, University of Washington professor and chief of Harboview Orthopedic Service and Traumatology, and Dr. Sigvard Hansen, University of Washington professor and director of Sig T. Ha ... Surgical Treatments for StrokeA panel of University of Washington Medicine neurology and rehabilitative care specialists at Harborview discusses current surgical and preventative care techniques for stroke. Patient care and long-t ... Susan Mersereau, WeyerhaeuserA career profile of Susan Mersereau, vice-president for Quality Aviation and Region Services at Weyerhaeuser. She lives in Seattle with her family and loves writing and outdoor sports, including backp ... Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Human DimensionsForestry experts discuss several topics, including the human dimensions of urban ecology, the impacts of alternative urban development, patterns on ecosystem dynamics, and botanic gardens in modern so ... Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: ManagementForestry experts discuss the sustainable management of Seattle's Parks and urban forest systems in the Puget Sound area, including restoring these forests through the Green Seattle Partnership. ... Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Physical and Biological Environments, Part 1Researchers from the University of Washington College of Forest Resources and other scientific experts discuss the Northwest's urban ecosystem with emphasis on hydrology, Seattle's streams and soil, a ... Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Physical and Biological Environments, Part 2Researchers from the University of Washington College of Forest Resources and other scientific experts discuss the Northwest's urban ecosystem with emphasis on Seattle's changing vegetation and wildli ... System Errors and User Corrections in Spoken Dialogue SystemsUnderstanding how people speak when they interact with spoken dialogue systems is critical to improving the performance of those systems. This talk describes several experiments on data collected from ... Systematic Experimentation: When Abstraction FailsIn this talk, Andreas Zeller illustrates how systematic experimentation automatically reveals the causes of program failures _ in the input, in the program state, or in the program code. Reasoning abo ... Tabletop GroupwareCurrent computing systems are primarily designed for a single person working alone at a PC, with support for enabling remote collaboration over a network. However, traditional work practices involve n ... Taking Charge 2: Two Stories of Success and Self-DeterminationIn this program produced by the University of Washington, hear testimonials from two successful high school students with disabilities regarding living self-determined lives ... Taking Charge 2: Two Stories of Success and Self-DeterminationIn this program produced by the University of Washington, hear testimonials from two successful high school students with disabilities regarding living self-determined lives. ... Taking Charge: Stories of Success and Self-DeterminationIn this video featuring participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, hear testimonials from youth and adults with disabilities regarding living successful, self-determined lives. ... Talking and BooksLooking at picture books is a good way for children to practice talking. Learning that pictures depict real things is a step in learning that words stand for something and that printed words tell a st ... Talking and BooksLooking at picture books is a good way for children to practice talking. Learning that pictures depict real things is a step in learning that words stand for something and that printed words tell a st ... Talking and PlayPlaytime is learning time. While children are playing theyre learning how the world works. You can help a child while youre playing together by engaging them in conversation about what theyre doing. W ... Talking and PlayPlaytime is learning time. While children are playing theyre learning how the world works. You can help a child while youre playing together by engaging them in conversation about what theyre doing. W ... Tamra Chandler, Hitachi ConsultingTamra Chandler didn't think she'd end up in business. But engineering, in which she got her undergrad degree, was never her passion. So, after several jobs with different companies and a UW MBA, she f ... Teacher-Student ReciprocityThis program demonstrates the give and take between students learning from their teachers and teachers learning from their students. Relationships between students and teachers tell us of the deeper m ... Teachers and Study PartnersStudying Talmud is not a quiet endeavor. Students and teachers learn from discussion and debate, the give and take between students learning from their teachers and teachers learning from their studen ... Team Process LeadershipThe skills critical to success in business today go far beyond those of an MBA. In this program, UW Professor Seferis discusses an educational methodology he's developed. It's along the lines of how a ... Technology for Developing RegionsMoore's Law and the wave of technologies it enabled have led to tremendous productivity improvements and enriched the quality of life in the First World. Yet, technology has had almost no effect on th ... Teen Workers: Real Jobs, Real RisksTeens often enter the workplace with little knowledge of their rights as employees. They tend to trust adult employers and may hesitate to ask questions or voice concerns, for fear of appearing incomp ... Teen Workers: Real Jobs, Real RisksTeens often enter the workplace with little knowledge of their rights as employees. They tend to trust adult employers and may hesitate to ask questions or voice concerns, for fear of appearing incomp ... Testing Gravity in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory: Is a Revolution Under Way?How well do we really understand gravity, the most familiar of Nature's forces? Perhaps not as well as we'd thought! Speculation about higher dimensions and surprising recent cosmological observations ... Text Editing: Outlier FindingThis talk describes how multiple selections can be used to automate repetitive text editing. A multiple selection is inferred from positive and negative examples given by the user. The selection is th ... Text Mining with Information ExtractionInformation extraction (IE) locates specific pieces of data in natural language documents. Current research focuses on a form of text mining that first extracts a database from a document corpus using ... The 2000 Biomedical & Health Informatics Symposium: A Vision for InformaticsThe symposium and panel discussion raise the fundamental theorum of medical informatics. The keynote speaker and panelists discuss how information is used, organized and retrieved with emerging techno ... The 2000 Biomedical & Health Informatics Symposium: A Vision for InformaticsThe symposium and panel discussion raise the fundamental theorum of medical informatics. The keynote speaker and panelists discuss how information is used, organized and retrieved with emerging techno ... The AltaVista Indexing and Search Engine#Error ... The Antiphospholipid SyndromeThis episode of Lab Medicine Grand Rounds reviews the clinical, laboratory, and diagnostic features of antiphospholipid syndrome, how the pathological antibodies might cause these problems, and the va ... The Art of SurvivalA chameleon learns a lesson about life. The undergraduate capstone design course on Computer Animation was taught to teams of students from Computer Science & Engineering, Art, and Music by Cassidy ... The Art of SurvivalA chameleon learns a lesson about life. The undergraduate capstone design course on Computer Animation was taught to teams of students from Computer Science & Engineering, Art, and Music by Cassid ... The Baltic in the 21st CenturyThree Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are poised to enter the European Union and the NATO Alliance in 2004. In this program, a panel of four leading scholars in Baltic studies was inv ... The Business Case for SustainabilityThe practice of sustainability is becoming an increasing consideration for businesses, which are impacted by trends in climate, strategic resources, globalization and other driving forces. L. Hunter L ... The Case of Vaccine Refusal: Parent Conviction, Child Best-Interests and Community GoodDouglas Diekema, professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the limits on parental authority in making decisions for children and offers a principle to determine when stat ... The Changing ArcticOver the last 10 to 20 years, distinctive climate changes have occurred, including a shift in Arctic Ocean circulation, decreased sea ice extent and thickness, regional increases in surface air temper ... The Changing Human Genome: Implications for Disease and EvolutionDr. Evan Eichler, UW genome sciences professor and investigator with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, examines what current human genome research reveals about disease. ... The Changing Human Genome: Implications for Disease and EvolutionDr. Evan Eichler, UW genome sciences professor and investigator with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, examines what current human genome research reveals about disease. ... The Computational CameraIn this distinguished lecturer colloquia, Shree Nayar introduces the concept of a computational camera, a device that embodies the convergence of the camera and the computer, using new optics to selec ... The Cosmic Web / The Wellspring of DiscoveryCraig Hogan of the Departments of Astronomy and of Physics presents "The Cosmic Web." Some of humanity's oldest questions about the universe are being answered using new tools of the digital revolutio ... The Design and Analysis of Simple AlgorithmsAllan Borodin, University of Toronto, addresses the question, "Is it time to make algorithm design more of a computer science?" A basic course in Computer Science undergraduate and graduate programs i ... The Digital Universe: A Cosmic Genome ProjectAstronomers are about to embark on the grandest map of the universe ever made: the first large digital survey of the sky. A database of more than 100 million galaxies and quasars will revolutionize as ... The Emergent Structure of Software Development TasksIntegrated development environments have been designed and engineered to display structural information about the source code of large systems. When a development task lines up with the structure of t ... The Ends of the World: Astrobiology and ArmageddonProfessor Don Brownlee investigates interplanetary dust, comets, meteorites and the origin of the solar system through research conducted at the University of Washington, the Lunar Science Institute a ... The Evolving U.S.-Japan RelationshipDaniel Inouye, a senior member of the U.S. Senate (D-Hawaii), examines the evolving relationship between the United States and Japan in “Changing Dynamics of U.S.-Japan Relations.” Learn about the ... The Exploration of Northwest Coast Indian ArtThe 27th Annual Faculty Lecture coincides with the series, "Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art," sponsored by the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. Using over 100 p ... The Exploration of Northwest Coast Indian ArtThe 27th Annual Faculty Lecture coincides with the series, "Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art," sponsored by the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. Using over 100 p ... The Faces of Medical School - Part 1Exactly what does it take to get into medical school? Dr. Terry Mengert takes you through the history of teaching medicine, from Hippocrates to modern day. Aside from highlighting the training today's ... The Faces of Medical School - Part 2Welcome to UW Mini-Medical School! Exactly what does it take to get into medical school? Sit in on an interview and then learn the survival skills needed to succeed. Focus on teaching patient communic ... The Future of Contemporary Jewish Communities: Israel, America and EuropeCalvin Goldscheider dispels the myth that the Jewish culture is on the decline. ... The Golden Age of Global Health: An Ethnology in ProgressLearn how conflict situations, refugees, health and the environment are connected in this program, which is part of the Fifth Western Regional International Health Conference. Hear about the latest de ... The Google Linux ClusterGoogle's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with n ... The Hidden Dimension of Shadows: A Rethinking of the Role of Shadows in VisualizationShadows have played a major role in visual arts but mainly as adjunct features that set a particular mood on a stage, help establish spatial order in a picture, or underscore the three dimensional asp ... The Holocaust and the End of Judeo-Spanish Culture in the BalkansThis lecture gives a foundation for understanding the complex forces that shaped the Sephardic experience. Sephardic Jewries defined themselves by and organized themselves around their transplantation ... The I.T. Outsourcing TrendForrester Research estimates that by the year 2015, 3.3 million white-collar jobs will be outsourced internationally, about half of which are technical or professional positions. Proponents of outsour ... The Importance of Body and Organ Donation, Part 1See firsthand the importance of being a donor. Whole body donations are critical for teaching medical school students the intricacies of human anatomy. Organ and tissue donations are essential for tra ... The Importance of Body and Organ Donation, Part 2See firsthand the importance of being a donor. Whole body donations are critical for teaching medical school students the intricacies of human anatomy. Organ and tissue donations are essential for tra ... The Institute for Systems Biology and Frontiers in Computational BiologyBiology is now being viewed as an informational science. The Institute for Systems Biology emerged from the conviction that systems biology will be the major focus in biology and medicine in the 21st ... The Intentional Domain WorkbenchThe complexity of software code is the result of the intermingling of domain knowledge with implementation information. Generative Programming and Domain Specific Languages are known techniques for fa ... The Interdisciplinary Challenge of Building Virtual WorldsCreating an interactive experience requires talent from computer science, engineering, art, drama, design, architecture and a host of other disciplines. Randy Pausch presents his experience working wi ... The Kaleidoscope and the Destroyer: What Good is Poetry?Seamus Heaney gives an account of his own belief in the good of poetry, concentrating on a few poets and poems in a general sense, to explain how poetry was thought about, valued, and defended in the ... The Limits of Quantum ComputersIn the popular imagination, quantum computers would be almost magical devices, able to "solve impossible problems in an instant" by trying exponentially many solutions in parallel. In this program, he ... The Opportunities and Limitations of Corporate eLearningTo what extent is the Internet a valuable training tool? What are the costs and benefits? Five years ago, corporate e-learning companies flourished in the race to catch the wave of the Internet boom. ... The Painful Adult Flat FootA significant number of people have what is described as flat feet, but a small portion of them have a type of flat foot condition that limits functional abilities and manifests into clinical problems ... The Power to Change the WorldComputer science is a field of enormous opportunity, creativity, and diversity. The University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering is educating next-generation software engineers and progra ... The Promise of Health for All: Are U.S. Policies Making it Harder to Achieve?Each year, inadequate health care and conditions result in millions of deaths from preventable diseases. In Africa less than ten percent of the people dying from AIDS have adequate treatment, due to a ... The Promise of Health for All: Are U.S. Policies Making it Harder to Achieve?Each year, inadequate health care and conditions result in millions of deaths from preventable diseases. In Africa less than ten percent of the people dying from AIDS have adequate treatment, due to a ... The Promise of Plasma Proteomics in the Clinical Laboratory: Fact and FictionThe striking shortfall in new protein diagnostics emerging from proteomics research reflects a lack of critical biomarker verification capacity, in combination with other factors underlying the conser ... The Racial Politics of AdoptionProfessor Randall L. Kennedy speaks about the Racial Politics of Adoption. He describes past, current, and future states and trends of matching children with families. Introduction by Dean Roland Hjor ... The Regional Heart CenterFollow three doctors and their patients through a day at the University of Washington Medical Center. One patient has major heart surgery. Another has a pacemaker implanted. The third patient, a lifel ... The Rotazyme Story: When Are Double Standards Justified?Throughout the world, rotavirus is the single most important cause of severe diarrhea in young children. Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross from the University of Chicago provides historic relevance for the vac ... The Science of Global WarmingFor the past 8,000 years or so, climate changes have been relatively small. Currently, changes are causing Earth’s temperature to increase and may lead to mean temperatures that are warmer than at a ... The Stimson Bullitt Professorship in Environmental Law: Dedication of the ProfessorshipThe dedication of the Stimson Bullitt Professorship celebrates a new professorship at the University of Washington School of Law with a speech by Stimson Bullitt, Esq., and a multi-media presentation ... The Stimson Bullitt Professorship in Environmental Law: Dedication of the ProfessorshipThe dedication of the Stimson Bullitt Professorship celebrates a new professorship at the University of Washington School of Law with a speech by Stimson Bullitt, Esq., and a multi-media presentation ... The Structure of Information NetworksThe information we deal with is taking on an increasingly networked character. In part, this is because we now have the resources to represent and analyze enormous link-structured datasets. But networ ... The Taliban and Global Terror Inc.Born in Afghanistan, Nazif Shahrani gives a unique perspective on the complex nature of terrorsim in the Middle East as he discusses the questions Americans and Afghanis alike have regarding the Talib ... The Teacher as ArtistRudy Crew shares his views with a group of K-12 teachers about "the teacher as an artist" and where he believes educational trends should be heading. (Episode 2 of 3) ... The Theory of Secure ComputationConventional cryptography provides strongboxes for our secrets. However, information often must be combined with other information to be useful, and to do that we have to take it out of hiding. Or do ... The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: How Can We Stop the Spread?Upwards of 500 million people travel internationally every year as global trade and tourism flourish. The resulting health risks and vulnerabilities force acceptance of the fact that we are only as he ... The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: How Can We Stop the Spread?Upwards of 500 million people travel internationally every year as global trade and tourism flourish. The resulting health risks and vulnerabilities force acceptance of the fact that we are only as he ... The Tinman and the Scarecrow: A Biomaterials Analysis, The / The Wellspring of DiscoveryWriters of fiction have long envisioned a seamless interplay between synthetic materials and living tissue. But the interface of pen and paper is a very different from that of titanium and bone. How m ... The Total Shoulder Replacement: Partnering with the PatientOrthopaedics and Sports Medicine Professor Chair, Dr. Frederick A. Matsen III, addresses conditions requiring shoulder reconstructive surgery and demonstrates the surgical techniques involved. Dr. Mat ... The UrbanSim Project: Urban Simulation to Inform Public Decision-makingThe process of planning and constructing a new light rail system, expanding a freeway, or modifying zoning and land use plans is often politically charged. The goal in the UrbanSim project is to provi ... The Winning EquationIn this video produced by the University of Washington, learn strategies for fully including students with disabilities in science and math activities. ... The World of E-Business for TravelersAir travel has become a way of life for many business executives, who need better solutions for using their travel time more productively. Using laptops or personal digital assistants (PDAs), air trav ... The World We Used To Live InA Lakota Sioux, Vine Deloria, Jr. is one of the most outspoken figures in Native American affairs. His works promote Native American cultural nationalism and a greater understanding of Native American ... Thinking Historically about Thinking Historically: Identity Politics to Ethical ActionJohn Toews, professor of History and director of Coomparative History of Ideas, gives UW's 31st Annual Faculty Lecture on “Thinking Historically about Thinking Historically: Identity Politics to Eth ... Thinking Historically about Thinking Historically: Identity Politics to Ethical ActionJohn Toews, professor of History and director of Coomparative History of Ideas, gives UW's 31st Annual Faculty Lecture on “Thinking Historically about Thinking Historically: Identity Politics to Eth ... This is Our Work - Serving Those in Need, Part 1The high cost of medical care and insurance prohibits many families and individuals from seeking health care. How do the increasing numbers of uninsured and underinsured impact our patients, physician ... This is Our Work - Serving Those in Need, Part 2The high cost of medical care and insurance prohibits many families and individuals from seeking health care. How do the increasing numbers of uninsured and underinsured impact our patients, physician ... Tissue Engineering & Life-On-A-ChipBuddy D. Ratner describes research on tissue engineering the heart muscle, which cannot replicate. An interdisciplinary approach looks at all issues from stimulating growth, modeling it, using gene tr ... Todd Nystul, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology ProgramMolecular and Cellular Biology graduate student, Todd Nystul, describes his research in the suspended animation of complicated biological life forms. The techniques and procedures he is helping resear ... Tom Martin, UW MedicineTom Martin's career originally took a fairly traditional path. His first job with Burroughs Corporation reinforced his love of technology. His next move to Andersen Consulting further cemented his tal ... Total Elbow ReplacementPatient Lisa Panchison discusses the diagnosis, surgery and post-operative care for her total elbow replacement surgery with her physician, UW Medical Center orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Matsen. It is a jo ... Total Laboratory AutomationIn this University of Washington program, Dr. Michael Bissell of Ohio State University discusses James Reason's concept of "system opaqueness" to highly automated clinical lab operations. Dr. Bissell ... Towards a Simpler InternetWhile the Internet has proven to be an astounding triumph of engineering, it continues to face huge technical problems. This talk will argue that many of these problems stem from the complexity of the ... Towards Integrating the Sciences and Technologies of Learning for EducationDr. Pea's work involves trying to help create a seamless network between advances in technology, knowledge and learning. One of his aims it to create a national knowledge network for catalyzing best p ... Training and Reality: Adventures of a Spaceflight ParticipantSpace flight is still a very rare and exotic experience which has only recently been opened to "tourists", officially known as spaceflight participants. Charles Simonyi was the fifth of these as the 4 ... Transparent Interfaces: Letting the User in on the SecretA transparent interface reveals some of the inner workings of a system. Transparency is important in computer systems that must engender trust, that teach, or that must rely on users to correct their ... Trends in Adaptive ComputingThe idea of changing the architecture of a processor at run-time to suit an application has been around for a long time. However, bringing adaptive (aka configurable) computing into the mainstream has ... Trends in Autoantibody TestingDr. Mark Wener from the University of Washington discusses recent trends in autoantibody testing, which includes testing for such conditions as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune diseas ... Trends in Data CompressionThis program will describe some of the Data Compression Groups recent projects: (i) Group testing for image compression is a new flexible technique for achieving high quality lossy image compression a ... Trends in Multiparameter Flow Cytometry in HematologyFlow cytometry is increasingly utilized as primary tool for the diagnosis of hematopoietic neoplasia in a clinical laboratory setting. The use of increased numbers of simultaneous fluorochromes offers ... Trends in Newborn ScreeningIn this University of Washington program, Michael Glass, of the Washington State Department of Health, presents the latest in newborn screening trends in Washington state and across the nation. He des ... Trends in the Clinical Laboratory IndustryThe United States Clinical Lab Industry represents $50 billion of the $1.7 trillion dollars spent on health care in 2006. The Lab Industry represents less than 3% of the health care budget yet provide ... Tribal Forestry: Part 1 - National Overview of Tribal ForestryThe theme for this round of the Denman Forestry Issues Series is Trust and Transition: Perspectives on Native American Forestry. Three speakers focus on issues dealing with the stewardship of the natu ... Tribal Forestry: Part 2 - Opportunities and Challenges for Tribal ForestryThe theme for this round of the Denman Forestry Issues Series is Trust and Transition: Perspectives on Native American Forestry. Three speakers focus on issues dealing with the stewardship of the natu ... Tribal Forestry: Part 3 - Forest Health and BioenergyThe theme for this round of the Denman Forestry Issues Series is Trust and Transition: Perspectives on Native American Forestry. Three speakers focus on issues dealing with the stewardship of the natu ... Trish Dziko, Technology Access FoundationTrish Millines Dziko is the co-founder and executive director of the Technology Access Foundation, a not-for-profit agency that helps communities of color build futures through technology. Dziko put h ... Tsunamis in WashingtonInterested in learning more about the threat of tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest? This program includes speakers from the UW Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies (GeoMapNW), the UW D ... Tumors and Related ConditionsUniversity of Washington Bone & Joint Center specialist, Dr. Ernest Conrad discusses the treatments for cancerous tumors. ... Turing’s Dream and the Knowledge ChallengeIn this Turing Center distinguished lecture, Lenhart Schubert explains that there is a set of clear-cut challenges for artificial intelligence, all centering around knowledge. The solution to those ch ... Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip MandelstamMichael Stanislawski analyzes two of the most famous and controversial autobiographies penned by Russian Jews: the late nineteenth-century Hebrew writer and critic M.L. Lilienblum and the great Russia ... Ubiquitous Computing Research of the University of WashingtonThis program discusses several ubiquitous computing applications that are being developed both at the University of Washington and Intel Seattle Research and use them to highlight the new research pro ... Ubiquitous Computing: System PrivacyHong discusses Context Fabric, a middleware architecture aimed at making it easier for developers to create privacy-sensitive context-aware applications. Context Fabric is based on Approximate Informa ... Undergraduate Research SymposiumMore than 150 University of Washington undergraduate students participating in research with faculty in 70 disciplines present their work at the University's second celebration of undergraduates in re ... Undergraduate Research SymposiumMore than 150 University of Washington undergraduate students participating in research with faculty in 70 disciplines present their work at the University's second celebration of undergraduates in re ... Understanding a Chronic Killer: Kidney Disease, Part 1Twenty million Americans have chronic kidney disease. That's one in nine adults. Another 20 million are at risk. Are you one of those at high risk? Find out what causes kidney disease and how we can p ... Understanding a Chronic Killer: Kidney Disease, Part 2Twenty million Americans have chronic kidney disease. That's one in nine adults. Another 20 million are at risk. Are you one of those at high risk? Find out what causes kidney disease and how we can p ... Understanding and Treating Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderPsychological disorders following exposure to trauma include personal suffering, decreased productivity, occupational and social dysfunction, medical disorders and demands on health services. In this ... Understanding and Treating Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderPsychological disorders following exposure to trauma include personal suffering, decreased productivity, occupational and social dysfunction, medical disorders and demands on health services. In this ... Understanding Conservation Easements and Land Trusts: Part 1Setting the Stage and Preserving Productive Forests in the Pacific Northwest Landowners are looking to the future with a measure of uncertainty about how their land will be managed. Many landowners an ... Understanding Conservation Easements and Land Trusts: Part 2Conserving Forest Landscapes in Washington and Investment Oriented Forestland Owners and their Approach to Conservation Easements Landowners are looking to the future with a measure of uncertainty abo ... Understanding Conservation Easements and Land Trusts: Part 3Landowners are looking to the future with a measure of uncertainty about how their land will be managed. Many landowners and land management agencies are concerned about sustainable management plans t ... Understanding Venture CapitalSecuring financing is a critical step for most startup companies in the progression from an initial idea to a fully staffed company shipping real products. For an entrepreneur starting a company, havi ... Unifying Logical and Statistical AIIntelligent agents must be able to handle the complexity and uncertainty of the real world. Logical AI has focused mainly on the former and statistical AI on the latter. Markov logic combines the two ... University of Washington Husky Promos: Suzzallo LibraryOne in a series of University of Washington promotional spots featuring the beloved Husky mascot. This spot has the husky morphing from a stone relief on Gerberding Hall and venture into the Reading ... Unsupervised LearningThere is precisely one complete language processing system to date: the human brain. Though there is debate on how much built-in bias human learners might have, we definitely acquire language in a pri ... Update on Antiviral Drugs & Strategies for Their UseA look at the antiviral influenza medications that are currently available, some strategies for their use, the HHS Pandemic plan for antiviral drugs right now, and areas that need to be addressed rega ... Update on Markers for Cardiovascular Disease RiskCardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in Americans. In this University of Washington program, learn how to identify the risk for deadly medical problems leading to this disease. ... Update on Spinal Cord InjuriesCurrent strategies to counter spinal cord injury revolve around prevention through education, streamlined diagnostic process, and early decompression and stabilization of the traumatized spinal cord a ... Urban Water: Sustainability in the BalanceExperts predict that by the end of the 21st century, over 80 percent of the world's population will be concentrated in urban areas. An increasing number of urban poor will rely on urban waterways for ... User Interface Support for TodayToday's information workers are characterized by their ability to easily handle interruptions, multitask, and make sense of enormous amounts of information in high pressure situations. Therefore, how ... Using Evolution to Explore the Human GenomeIn this distinguished lecture, David Haussler talks about finding regions of the human genome that are not only under negative selection, but also are specifically evolving like protein-coding regions ... UW Neural Systems LaboratoryHow does the brain parse sensory inputs to generate decisions and actions? Can signals measured from the brain be directly used to control prosthetics and other external devices? These are some of the ... UW Sports Medicine For Every AthleteUW Sports Medicine Clinic physicians discuss the team approach they take in treating their most physically active patients - from Olympic medalists to Husky athletes, professional dancers to weekend w ... UW Women's CenterThe University of Washington Women's Center educates women for life and leadership through educational programs, skills training, research, and community outreach. ... Vaccines Targeting Breast and Ovarian CancerResearch over the last decade has demonstrated that human tumors are immunogenic and that cancer patients can have immune responses specific for their tumors. At the same time, many mechanisms have be ... Value-Sensitive Design: Informed Consent and Network Browser SecurityMany of us when we design and implement computer technologies focus on making the technology work -- reliably, efficiently, and correctly. Rarely do we focus on human values. Discussed are a colle ... Valve Replacement: Aortic Valve DiseaseThe UW Medicine Regional Heart Center presents patient case studies focusing on valve replacement. ... Valve Surgery in the Young AdultDr. Ed Verrier presents a patient case study outlining surgical procedures to repair the heart valve. Pre- and post-operative echocardiograms illustrate a procedure using surgical aortic root enlargem ... Vertigo Management in Meniere's DiseaseCoping with hearing loss and vestibular function loss can severely alter a person's day to day life. In this program, Dr. Duckert, who works with patients to treat a variety of conditions that affect ... Video Traces: Media Rich Annotations for Learning and TeachingInnovative uses of video, audio, text, and graphics make it possible for the learner to engage in knowledge creation activities and provide opportunities of participating in communities of practice. I ... Video Traces: Media Rich Annotations for Learning and TeachingInnovative uses of video, audio, text, and graphics make it possible for the learner to engage in knowledge creation activities and provide opportunities of participating in communities of practice. I ... Virtual Private Machines: A Resource Abstraction for Multicore Computer SystemsThe computer industry is undergoing a momentous transformation. General-purpose computing is moving from desktops to diverse devices such as smart phones, digital entertainment centers and data center ... VISIONS 05: Part 1 - Broadcast from Tuesday 9-27-05Take part in an underwater journey of scientific discovery - without leaving your living room. This program takes you to the bottom of the seafloor along the Juan de Fuca Ridge as part of the ongoing ... Visual Interfaces for DatabasesAlthough visual interfaces and databases are two of the success stories of the computer revolution, their synergy to date has been modest, probably because visual interfaces have focused on human capa ... Visualmotor Tasks and Human LearningSubmarine navigation and flight control tasks are difficult for humans to learn because they require the coordination of a task strategy (evasive maneuver) and the skills to implement that strategy (a ... Volcanoes, Oceans and Life in our Solar System: A Fiber-Optic Telescope to Inner SpaceImages relayed from the Galileo spacecraft have provided the most compelling evidence yet that there are likely to be two oceans in our solar system: one on Earth and one on Europa, a moon circling Ju ... Voluntary SimplicityVicki Robin, author of the bestseller "Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence," talks about the voluntary simplicity movement. ... Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Collaborative Information VisualizationInteractive visualizations leverage human visual processing and cognition to increase the scale of information with which we can effectively work. However, most visualization research to date focuses ... Vulnerability AnalysisAttack graphs represent the ways in which an adversary can exploit vulnerabilities to break into a system. In this talk, Jeanette Wing presents a technique, based on model checking, for generating att ... Wally Smith, REIRecreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) focuses on growth in a niche retail market of outdoor goods. REI is a cooperative, owned by 1.4 million members and founded 60 years ago to provide technical goods f ... Wally Smith, REIRecreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) focuses on growth in a niche retail market of outdoor goods. REI is a cooperative, owned by 1.4 million members and founded 60 years ago to provide technical goods f ... Water Supply and Storm Water Issues in the Pacific Northwest - Part 1This program provides an overview of water issues in the Pacific Northwest and discusses the impact of climate change on precipitation and water supply. Speakers also address stormwater issues and str ... Water Supply and Storm Water Issues in the Pacific Northwest - Part 2This program addresses water rights issues and how to balance water uses, such as urban domestic, agriculture, and in-stream needs for fish. Speakers also discuss the role of soil and forest restorati ... Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh Views From the Water's EdgeDr. Gerald Pollack, UW professor of bioengineering, has developed a theory of water that has been called revolutionary. The researcher has spent the past decade convincing worldwide audiences that wat ... WaveScalar: Making Architecture Fun AgainSilicon technology continues to provide an exponential increase in the availability of raw transistors. Effectively translating this resource into application performance, however, is proving increasi ... Wayne Wang, FilmmakerWayne Wang, the maker of "Smoke," "Chan is Missing" and "The Joy Luck Club," discusses his newest movie, "Chinese Box," starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li and Ruben Blades; independent film making; and hi ... Web Servers: The SYNC ProjectResearch by Carnegie Mellon University’s Mor Harchol-Balter suggests the possibility of reducing the expected response time of every request at a Web server, simply by changing the order in which re ... Welcome and OverviewThe National Internet2 K20 Initiative brings together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, and museums. Internet2 memb ... What Are The Key Dimensions and Issues of Team Level Innovation?Professor Eric Clemons, Wharton Business School, leads a panel exploring “team level” innovation -a component of the innovation framework developed by the research group participating in the Unive ... What I Learned About Auctions Last FallLast fall AT&T Labs participated in a project to help AT&T decide how to bid in the then-upcoming FCC spectrum auction, on which, in the end, AT&T spent approximately $2.9 billion. I will present some ... What Makes the Big Bang Big?The universe is flying apart, possibly because gravity was repulsive in the very early universe. But will it expand forever? A look into the past history of the expansion using exploding stars as dist ... What's Good for Women's Bodies is Good for the Body PoliticKavita Ramdas speaks about women taking control of their bodies and the body politic to effect change in their countries. Ramdas is the president and CEO of Global Fund for Women , a non-profit grantm ... When Cancer Spreads to BonesCancer can spread into bones - developing into metastatic bone disease which can lead to pain, weakened bones, and fractures in some patients. Learn how orthopaedic surgeons improve the quality of lif ... When Science and Religion MeetThe talk emphasizes the idolatry of religious belief (God is Explanation and I have him/her under my control) and of science (scientism, science is the only way to true and certain knowledge). Present ... Who Shapes the Visual Landscape, and Does It Matter?Forested landscapes are valued throughout the Northwest. However, land-use plans and programs result in the creation of landscape patterns that may not always be pleasing to the viewing public. Do pla ... Whose Hat is ThatHarvey quickly prepares the window display in time for a visit by Mr. Big. The undergraduate course on Computer Animation was taught to teams of students from Computer Science & Engineering, Archite ... Whose Hat is That?Harvey quickly prepares the window display in time for a visit by Mr. Big. The undergraduate course on Computer Animation was taught to teams of students from Computer Science & Engineering, Archi ... Why Are Men and Women So Different?A conversation with David Barash and his wife, Judith Lipton, about their book "Making Sense of Sex: How Genes and Gender Influence our Relationships." ... Why Me, Doc? What Scientists Know - and Don't Know - About CancerThis question is on the mind of nearly every cancer patient, and their families. What exactly is cancer and why does it occur in some people, but not others? Is it just the luck of the draw, or are th ... Why Multiculturalism Matters in AmericaDr. Ronald Takaki, professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, brings his distinctive viewpoint to this discussion on multiculturalism. Takaki mission is to demonstrate that multiculturalism is not on ... Why Some Wars Become Genocidal and Others Don'tDaniel Chirot talks about the nature of genocidal warfare, and how it pertains to the current conflict in which America is now engaged. ... Why You Need M-BusinessM-Business is shifting from the realm of vision to execution. As a result, questions have shifted from "should I do mobile business?" to "how can mobility create business value?" In this presentation, ... Wildfires: Desired Future ConditionsTopics for this special seminar include the market and non-market values of fuel reduction, reducing landscape flammability in public lands, and restoring fire-friendly forests. Also profiled is a suc ... Wildfires: Issues and ResearchTopics in this seminar include western forest fire challenges, fire science tools, and the human dimensions of wildland fires. ... WindowBox: A Simple Security Model for the Connected Desktop ColloquiumBreaches in computer security do not just exploit bugs in applications; they are often also the result of mismanaged protection mechanisms. The tools available to protect sensitive resources and netwo ... WINForum: Eat to Impact PerformanceThe Washington Interscholastic Nutrition Forum is an organization dedicated to promoting better nutrition education for young athletes. Learn more about WINForum's goal to reinforce the connection bet ... Winter Gospel ConcertPhyllis Byrdwell directs the one hundred voices of the UW Gospel Choir in a concert of songs they performed at the end of winter quarter. This program stems from the UW School of Music lecture series, ... Wireless Future of E-BusinessMany believe that the future of e-business lies in widespread wireless adoption, but the wireless world is changing so rapidly that one needs real-time wireless access just to keep up. In this climate ... Women Entrepreneurs: Helen Rockey/Marjie PetersonHelen Rockey and Marjie Peterson detail how they built their companies and how women and men differ as business owners. Both Rockey and Peterson have led companies that have shown impressive growth. R ... Women Entrepreneurs: Helen Rockey/Marjie PetersonHelen Rockey and Marjie Peterson detail how they built their companies and how women and men differ as business owners. Both Rockey and Peterson have led companies that have shown impressive growth. R ... Working for Peace in Northern IrelandFormer U.S. Senator George Mitchell focuses on his efforts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland. This presentation is sponsored by the Bernie and Pearl Brotman Lectureship in Alternative Dispute Res ... Working Together: Faculty and Students with DisabilitiesParticipants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, college students with disabilities and faculty, share their experiences. ... Working Together: Faculty and Students with DisabilitiesParticipants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, college students with disabilities and faculty, share their experiences. ... Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer TechnologyFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video demonstrates adaptive technology and computer applications for people with disabilities. ... Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer TechnologyFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video demonstrates adaptive technology and computer applications for people with disabilities. ... Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer TechnologyFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video demonstrates adaptive technology and computer applications for people with disabilities. ... Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with DisabilitiesWith participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video features successful students suggesting ways to make science activities accessible to those with disabilities. ... Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with DisabilitiesWith participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video features successful students suggesting ways to make science activities accessible to those with disabilities. ... Working Together: Science Teachers and Students with DisabilitiesWith participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video features successful students suggesting ways to make science activities accessible to those with disabilities. ... World Wide AccessFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video shows how to make WWW pages and other electronic resources available to people with disabilities. ... World Wide AccessFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video shows how to make WWW pages and other electronic resources available to people with disabilities. ... World Wide AccessFeaturing participants in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington, this video shows how to make WWW pages and other electronic resources available to people with disabilities. ... You Are the SolutionEd Lazowska, Bill and Melinda Gates Chair with the University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering (www.cs.washington.edu) discusses the dynamic changes shaping the future of e ... Your Medical School Journey: Training in Medical Professionalism, Part 1Health-care delivery systems threaten the very nature of medical professionalism. What we’re doing to teach ethical, professional behavior, dedication to competence and service, and most importantly ... Your Medical School Journey: Training in Medical Professionalism, Part 2 Health-care delivery systems threaten the very nature of medical professionalism. What we’re doing to teach ethical, professional behavior, dedication to competence and service, and most importantly ... |
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