April 5, 2023

Tech Policy Lab Releases Resilience Grammar: A Value Sensitive Design Method for Resilience Thinking

UW Tech Policy Lab

SEATTLE – Supply chain and agricultural issues have been central to policy discussions and media interest in the past year, and experts are coming together to explore problems and generate solutions. As researchers, designers and policymakers work to understand these systems’ capacity for resiliency, the need for a structured analysis and design approach is increasingly […]

March 21, 2023

Bloomberg Law Spotlights Tech Policy Lab for Innovation and Experiential Learning

Bloomberg Law

Bloomberg Law is spotlighting the excellence of the Tech Policy Lab as part of its 2022 Law School Innovation Program. Named alongside schools like Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law and UC San Francisco’s College of the Law, the UW collaboration was noted for its “innovative program that is advancing legal education.” The Tech Policy Lab […]

March 13, 2023

New faculty associate Aylin Caliskan

The Tech Policy Lab has welcomed a new faculty associate, Aylin Caliskan.  Aylin is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and, by courtesy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Aylin also is a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, housed in the Center […]

January 19, 2023

UW Tech Policy Lab Recognized by Bloomberg as a Top Legal Education Innovation Program

Bloomberg Law

For Immediate Release Contact: Kim Eckart UW News (206) 616-5847 keckart@uw.edu UW Tech Policy Lab Recognized by Bloomberg as a Top Legal Education Innovation Program Seattle, Wash Jan 18, 2023 – The Bloomberg Law 2022 Law School Innovation Program celebrates pioneering schools making an impact on the legal field. It has named the UW Tech […]

September 19, 2022

Tech Policy Lab Hosts WeRobot 2022

Seattle Times

From September 14 to 16, the Tech Policy Lab hosted the annual WeRobot conference, attracting more than 170 participants from around the world. The conference began with a 1-day workshop at the Pacific Science Center, followed by 2 days of presentations and other events hosted at the University of Washington’s School of Law. A Seattle […]

April 28, 2022

Tech Policy Lab Releases Whitepaper on Agricultural Technology Policy

Ways to Grow: New Directions for Agricultural Technology Policy New Tech Policy Lab whitepaper highlights need for balance between expanding agricultural technology and investment supporting regional production SEATTLE, Wash., April 27, 2022 – The pandemic opened our eyes to a longstanding reality: the American food system cannot handle disruption. And there is another crisis on […]

March 10, 2022

Co-Director named ACM Fellow

ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery has recently named its 71 fellows for this research that continues to shape technologies we use daily and accomplishments in the computing space. Batya Friedman, Co-Director of the Tech Policy Lab was recently highlighted in this list for contributions to human values in the technical design process.

February 9, 2022

New faculty associate Joe Lott

The Tech Policy Lab has welcomed a new faculty associate, Joe Lott.  Joe is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Joe is the co-founder and Faculty Director of the Brotherhood Initiative, which focuses on empowering undergraduate men of color in areas of leadership, wellness, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. […]

January 11, 2022

Tech Policy Lab Releases Biennial Report

The Tech Policy Lab is please to share our 2020-2021 Biennial Report. Highlights include the Lab’s work on privacy and COVID, mitigating bias in AI systems, using storytelling to explain tech policy, and technology’s relationship to food security. http://techpolicylab.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Tech-Policy-Biennial-Report-2021-Final.pdf

September 9, 2019

In London? See our work on Adversarial Machine Learning at the Science Museum

Research exploring adversarial machine learning, or the ability to fool machine learning systems, is on display at the Science Museum in London as part of “Driverless: Who is in Control?” This free exhibit includes a modified stop sign developed by a team of researchers to fool driverless cars into misidentifying it and asks “can self-driving cars see the world as well as you can?”