David Notkin, University of Washington professor of computer science and engineering, died April 22. He was 58.


David Notkin, University of Washington professor of computer science and engineering, died April 22. He was 58.

The University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have formed the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, a joint institute based at the UW that will foster collaborative computing research.

Editor’s note: Each year the summer academy hosts a premier of the students’ animated short films.

A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.

In a way, Richard Ladner inherited his volunteer interests.