Month: September 2024

  • A tech revolution leads to about $2 million in savings for UW

    September 18, 2024

    Lit keyboard connected to the Ethernet

    By Ignacio Lobos| UW-IT Strategic Communications I came into the office the other day and there was no wired telephone handset on my desk. And just like that, I had become an actor in a quiet technological revolution going on at the University of Washington and other work and study places across the globe: We are just not connecting our devices to ethernet ports as much as we used to. Some of us have moved our UW phones to our…

  • What’s in a name? Everything!

    September 10, 2024

    close up of a microphone

    UW introduces new app to support proper name pronunciation  Text by Ignacio Lobos | UW-IT Strategic Communications  I was at a pizza joint recently and the cashier asked for my name so they could yell it out when my slices came out of the oven. I hesitated for an uncomfortable few seconds and I finally told her, “Just make it Tony.” She gave me a glance that I read as, “You don’t look like a Tony to me!” OK, so…