More than 1700 UW residence hall students are watching TV news, sports, and more from their laptops anywhere on campus in a trial run that started in April and runs through spring quarter. The Tivli online TV service provides 32 channels and will likely expand to 72 if implemented in the fall, reports The Daily. Access to HBO and HBO GO was just added this month. Authorized students can point their laptop Web browser to uw.tivli.com. Access to non-local cable channels is only available to HuskyTV subscribers, including UW students living in residence halls.

HuskyTV, the UW cable television service, has converted to digital, bringing better picture and sound quality and more channels. HuskyTV now offers 130 news, education, sports, and entertainment channels, 16 in HD, as well as non-English programming. Learn more at HuskyTV Information and Listings. A trial streaming video service this spring will let subscribers watch live TV on their laptop or tablet, include a cloud-based digital video recorder (DVR) service, and bring services such as HBO Go to their favorite devices, including mobile.

In the new documentary “iOn the Future”, the UW’s Information School highlights how using technology to make information accessible to everyone can improve our world and help change people’s lives. The program focuses on recent projects like cybersecurity training, disaster response, and documenting the Rwanda war crimes tribunal. Tune in to UWTV on Tuesday, September 18 at 8:00 p.m., or watch online anytime.

The Paley Center for Media iCollection provides streaming video for over 15,000 television and radio programs, including advertisements, for research and education. Use this resource provided by UW Libraries to find programs by title, airdate, or subject, and create a personalized collection. Check out the Center’s Special Collections such as the 9/11 one with over 1,000 hours of programming from fifty countries.

The popular UW Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia series is back with all-new shows exclusively on UWTV channel 27 and UWTV.org. Tune in on-air or online to hear talks by leading computer scientists and engineers that include Crowd-Powered Systems, Challenges of Data Efficiency, and Crowd Computations.

Mathematician Persi Diaconis discusses this year's UW Common Book, The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman, in this latest addition to UWTV’s video library series. Access his guest lecture, The Search for Randomness, by podcast or video for a lively discussion on the connections between his work and Feynman’s physics.

Boeing's engineering innovations are shrinking its domestic carbon footprint by 25 percent, and the company is leading worldwide industry efforts to enable zero carbon growth for air travel. This story will be featured in the 2011 Engineering Lecture Series—Re-Engineering Aerospace: Flying Cleaner, Greener, Smarter—airing on UWTV. Watch “Shrinking the Aerospace Carbon Footprint” with UW alumna and Boeing Vice President for Environment, Health and Safety Mary Armstrong on December 21 at 6:00 p.m., or online any time. The full three-part series will be available online in January.

Tune in to UWTV on November 15 at 8:00 p.m. to see Bill Gates in a rare discussion about technology and the application of computer science to solve challenges in areas from education to energy to water quality. The program, “The Opportunity Ahead: A Conversation with Bill Gates,” was filmed last month as part of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Distinguished Lecture Series. You also can watch this program on demand.

A novel approach for improving civic discussions, embodied in an interactive citizen-generated guide to local ballot issues, is the topic of the CSE Colloquia that aired on UWTV November 6. On the program, “The Living Voters Guide: Supporting Reflective Public Thought”, Computer Science and Engineering’s Alan Borning and Travis  Kriplean discuss this approach and how it could be used for decision making on other issues. Catch the show online.

Students in the UW’s DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) program are featured in a series of 12 UWTV videos. They speak about the adapted environments and technologies that help them have equal access to learning and employment opportunities. Some of these individuals are in the DO-IT Scholars program, where high school students attend Summer Study sessions at the UW to prepare for college and careers.

The newly redesigned UWTV Web site makes it easy to see the upcoming TV schedule, search for and watch video from UWTV’s extensive video library, and catch up on Husky sports. You’ll also find two new additions to the Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia series – Heads in the Cloud: New Approaches for Access Technology and Smart Grids and Beyond. 

The UW CSE Distinguished Lecture series presents David Culler, UC Berkeley computer science chair, on designing a more scalable, flexible, and resilient electric power infrastructure. He calls for applying Internet design principles to the electric grid. The program airs February 26 at 8:00 p.m. on UWTV and is available for download.

Monica Harrington, Web entrepreneur and leader of two successful local startups, will address “How do we innovate?” on UWTV’s Media Space, December 29 at 9:00 p.m. Harrington will discuss what drives successful startups and why they are important to tech-savvy communities like Seattle.

Watch UW 360 at 10:00 p.m. on November 3 to learn about Foldit, a game conceived by UW scientists to engage people in helping to advance knowledge in biochemistry. Players of all ages fold long chains of amino acids into compact three-dimensional shapes, and can excel over computers when a folding problem requires an intuitive leap or strategy shift.

A new 30-minute magazine-style show, UW 360, showcasing UW faculty work, premieres October 6 at 10:00 p.m. Produced by UWTV in conjunction with UW Marketing, the show features short segments that look at a wide range of UW-related topics, including solar energy and undersea footage launched from the UW research vessel Thomas G. Thompson via a network set up by UW Information Technology engineers.

Media Space, hosted by UW Professor Hanson Hosein, will engage thought leaders on the hottest issues of the digital media age – technology, entrepreneurship, community, and entertainment. Starting September 29 at 9:00 p.m. on UWTV, the series will feature industry trendsetters like Ben Huh of the Cheezburger Network, Elan Lee of Fourth Wall Studios, Kate James of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Web entrepreneur Monica Harrington.

Ever wonder about the large satellite dish perched atop Kane Hall? UWTV recently installed a de-icing device to keep the satellite signal strong when snow falls, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the university’s communication infrastructure on campus and beyond. The Aerospace Engineering Research Building dish kept UWTV up and running during installation.

Look for exciting programming changes on UWTV this month. UWTV’s new schedule lets you explore a different side of the UW from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. every day. Tune in Wednesday nights for science and technology programs, including computer science topics with UW researchers.

With new iPhone and iPod touch software updates, you can download iTunes U videos directly to your phone. The 3.0 software updates make iTunes U directly accessible over both cellular and Wi-Fi networks through the iTunes Store.

UWTV's new YouTube channel provides access to UWTV's best programming in YouTube's familiar format, and makes it easier to watch on your mobile device. For iPhone users: Bring up http://m.youtube.com/UWTV on Safari, tap the plus sign, and tap Add to Home Screen to add UWTV's YouTube site as an app. For other smart phones, bring up and bookmark the same Web page.