In the United States, current HIV diagnostic algorithms based solely on serologic criteria for infection are inadequate for the timely diagnosis of acute or early HIV infection. Dr. Robert Coombs, professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine at the University of Washington, advises that future ...
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Dr. Edward Lipkin, associate professor of Medicine, Nutrition, Metabolism and Endocrinology at the University of Washington, offers both a historical and current perspective of the laboratory evaluation of nutritional status. Look at examples of mass measurement of blood constituents that correl...
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Get ahead of the technology curve with Gaetano Borriello, Computer Science and Engineering professor at the University of Washington. Borriello reveals the latest data collection tool, Open Data Kit, a customizable mobile device that its creators hope will bring current research directly into th...
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How much information can you fit on a single microchip? Senior manager Michael Hind of the Programming Technologies Department at IBM Research reveals the most up-to-date changes in computer chip memory capacity, clock frequency and software optimization in this video from the University of Wash...
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More than one billion cellular devices are now shipped each year to more than four billion subscribers worldwide. More than half will soon support wide-area broadband access to the Internet with devices that are increasingly more powerful, more compact and less expensive than their predecessors....
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Spaceflight participant and former Microsoft software developer Charles Simonyi compares his first and second spaceflights as part of the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series. He’s observed encouraging maturity in manned space technologies, as w...
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Desktop software, in the form of Web browsers, browser features and operating system distributions, are a growing area of engineering activity at Google. Brad Chen of Google, Inc. offers a look at Native Client as an example project in the space. Native Client is an open-source research technolo...
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“Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education and Action” was the theme of The 18th Annual Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) Conference and the 7th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference hosted by the University of Washington Department of Global Health. Among the highl...
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During the last decade, haute cuisine has undergone a scientific revolution. Leading chefs have taken an interest in the science of cooking and in scientific tools found more commonly in research laboratories. Centrifuges, freeze dryers, digitally-controlled water baths and liquid-nitrogen fille...
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This is the keynote address for the Millennial Open Symposium on the Arts and Interdisciplinary Computing, sponsored by the University of Washington Animation Research Labs. Helaman Ferguson is both a mathematician and a sculptor: one of his algorithms was listed in the top ten algorith...
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Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak isn’t afraid to show the darker side of childhood. Find out what inspired his book “Where the Wild Things Are” and what made the story so groundbreaking. In this 1991 interview host Marcia Alvar also asks Sendak about other projects, including how the origin...
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At 8:30pm Pacific time on January 17, 2005, Professor Larry Smarr of the University of California, San Diego began his keynote address from Seattle, Washington to hundreds of dignitaries attending the JGNII symposium held in Osaka, Japan where the local time was 1:30pm on January 18, 2005. &...
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