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Winfo's online hackathon draws record number of projects

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Women in Informatics (Winfo), a student-run organization in the Information School, recently welcomed more than 200 students from across the University of Washington to its 10th annual hackathon. This year鈥檚 theme of 鈥淓mbracing the New鈥 inspired a record number of 59 project submissions.  鈥淲e were hopeful that we would be able to host the hackathon in person this year, since last quarter was in person,鈥 said Melina Perraut, Winfo鈥檚 director of outreach. 鈥淏ut with the rise of Omicron cases and UW鈥檚 decision to go online for the start of winter quarter, we made the diffic

3 iSchool researchers honored for groundbreaking work

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Information School Professors Anind K. Dey, Batya Friedman and Jacob O. Wobbrock have been named as ACM Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery.  ACM is the world鈥檚 largest educational and scientific computing society. 鈥嬧婭ts Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. ACM Fellows are nominated by their peers, with nominations reviewed by a distinguished selection committee. 鈥淐omputing professionals have brought ab

iSchool leads effort to improve stewardship of Indigenous data

Monday, January 10, 2022

After a long history of misuse and mistrust, Indigenous data require special care from librarians and others who manage them. Yet libraries and data repositories don鈥檛 have a clear roadmap for how to care for them properly. A research team led by the University of Washington Information School is setting out to give them one, embarking on a two-year project to develop a framework for libraries and data repositories to ensure ethical care and stewardship of Indigenous research data. The project has been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Indigenous Data Sover