Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal: Genocide and Justice

On Tuesday, January 29, 2009, a group of researchers at the University of Washington led by Professor Batya Friedman released "the initial component of a public system to provide authentication for an archive of video interviews with the prosecutors and other members of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwandan genocide." Read more in the original article in the New York Times...

Dub welcomes five new UW faculty members

Charlotte Lee (HCDE) earned a Ph.D. in information studies from UCLA and has underlying degrees in sociology; her focus is in cyber infrastructure and cooperative work. Charlotte comes to us from the University of California Irvine where she is currently employed as a Research Scientist. Charlotte will be joining us in Winter Quarter, 2009.		Julie Kientz (HCDE) has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She focuses on determining how novel computing applications can address important social issues and on evaluating them through long-term real world deployment studies using a balance of qualitative and quantitative methods.		Shwetak N. Patel (CSE, EE) has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of interest are HCI, Ubiquitous Computing, and User Interface Software and Technology. He develops easy-to-deploy sensing technologies and approaches for location and activity recognition applications.
Andrew J. Ko (iSchool, CSE adjunct) employs a mixture of social science methodology and technical prowess in the study and support of programmers as information workers in need of better tools, particularly for answering "why" questions. He received a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.		Sarah Kriz (HCDE) joins us from the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence where she was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate. Her research focuses on human-robot interaction, cognitive design principles, experimental methods, and the interplay between cognitive and social influences. She received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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