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Professor emeritus Richard Ladner honored by ACM SIGCSE


Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner holds the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education next to Paul Tymann, faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who received the SIGCSE Award for Distinguished Service to the Computer Science Education Community.
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education recognized Ladner with the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education for his work expanding access for students with disabilities.


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Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds


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In a paper appearing at ICLR, Allen School professor Natasha Jaques and colleagues explore how AI models used for writing and editing may be doing a lot more than a simple grammar check — even going so far as to override a human writer’s voice, style and meaning.


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Ph.D. student Er-Cheng Tang earns FOCS 2025 Machtey Award for Best Student Paper


Er-Cheng Tang and Mi-Ying (Miryam) Huang hold the plaque they received for the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper.
In the award-winning paper, Tang developed the first quantum state obfuscation scheme for unitary quantum programs, which are the backbone of quantum computing, in the classical oracle model. He presented the research at the 66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science last December.


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Allen School By The Numbers

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Requested STEM Major Among
UW First-Year Applicants

2,900

Undergraduate & Graduate
Majors Enrolled

$52M

Research Activity in
FY2025

#1

University for Best Paper Awards in
Computer Science

The Paul G. Allen School educates tomorrow’s innovators, conducts cutting-edge research in core and emerging areas of the field, and leads a variety of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing. Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the nation, we are widely recognized for the excellence and impact of our research and teaching across the region and around the globe. As a recognized leader in broadening participation in computing, we cultivate a welcoming community in which individuals with diverse backgrounds, identities and experiences can thrive.

 

We are located in the spectacular Paul G. Allen Center and Bill & Melinda Gates Center at the heart of the University of Washington campus in Seattle — a center of innovation in software, life sciences, global health, aerospace, and many other fields — where Allen School faculty, students and alumni are making an impact and changing the world.