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“Google ‘Christophe Bisciglia.’ You’ll learn how the 27-year-old Google wunderkind, who grew up in Gig Harbor, made the cover of Business Week magazine last month for a breakthrough technological innovation.
“Bisciglia devised a way to re-create for the academic community a computational platform similar to the one used by Google engineers to manage a world’s worth of data and provide eye-blink-fast Internet searches. Bisciglia’s approach started with a bank of interconnected, data-packed computers installed at the University of Washington.
“Your Google search also will pull up a newspaper story describing how Bisciglia hacked into the computer network of a Port Orchard Internet service provider in 1999, sent disparaging e-mails about the company to all its customers, and uploaded a pornographic photo – a close-up of a man’s bare rear end – to the company’s Web site …” Read more →
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UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus John Bennett, Director of the University of Colorado’s Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute, sells naming rights to a bathroom in the ATLAS building for $25K. Why didn’t we think of that???
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“The human hand is capable of more delicate movement than comparable organs of any other animal. It can wield a tool or weapon as easily as it can make a subtle gesture. So when a human loses her hand, she’s lost a remarkable implement. Yoky Matsuoka wants to ensure a loss like that isn’t permanent. She runs the Neurobiotics Lab at the University of Washington. That’s where she and her staff build robots that function like hands and other human body parts. Jeannie Yandel takes a tour of the lab.” Read more →
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“Feeling burnt out after four years building search algorithms for Google software projects, Bisciglia, 27, floated an idea to CEO Eric Schmidt about starting a college course on large-scale computing … Bisciglia launched a course at Washington, his alma mater … Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Tsinghua University in Beijing have picked up on the idea, offering similar classes to their students, and Bisciglia has since worked out comparable deals with Berkeley and Stanford …” Read more →
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“Virtualization software company SWsoft announced on Wednesday that a former Microsoft architect and pioneer software developer Mark Zbikowski has joined the company as a senior technical advisor … With the addition of this legend and 25 year Microsoft veteran to the team, SWsoft is truly providing themselves with a huge feather in their cap. Zbikowski previously led Microsoft’s efforts in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo and Windows NT. Zbikowski designed the DOS executable file format, and he was one of the main architects and developers of the Windows file system, NTFS. Since his retirement from Microsoft in 2006, Zbikowski has been a lecturer [in Computer Science & Engineering] at the University of Washington.” Read more →
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“It’s no surprise that former Gig Harbor resident [and UW CSE alumnus] Christophe Bisciglia is leading one of the newest and biggest projects at Internet giant Google … he’s always been the enterprising sort.” Read more →
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January 15th marked the official opening of Google Seattle. The office, located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood (“The Center of the Universe”) adjacent to the University of Washington, is led by UW CSE’s Brian Bershad.
“Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, provided some of the reasons why Google wanted to expand in Seattle, which now represents the third largest U.S. office for Google behind Mountain View and New York.
“‘Seattle is an excellent example of the kind of place that makes sense for us to build. It has fantastic technologists. It has a world class research university here. It has got incredibly talented engineers. It has a great entrepreneurial culture and spirit. It’s got a thriving venture community. It’s got a history of great innovations. It has a very supportive government and organization here that actually cares about bringing business in and making businesses successful. And for all of those reasons we are extremely happy to be here.’
“Later, he even mentioned Seattle’s cost of living and its ‘family-friendly’ environment.
“‘This is a very attractive place to live and for people to bring families. … We try to give (people) the option of where they want to live and many of them actually choose the Seattle area. It is smaller. It is a friendly area. It is very family-friendly. The cost of living here is less than it is in Mountain View, and other things.'”
“Inside look at Google Seattle: Puppies, lava lamps, etc.” (Seattle PI)
“Google open house to draw crowds” (Seattle PI)
“The dogs of Google Seattle” (Seattle PI)
“Perks make Google office hardly feel like work” (Seattle PI)
“Google touts Fremont Engineering office, links to UW” (Seattle Times)
“Google rave in Fremont draws a crowd of techies” (Seattle Times)
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UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Saroiu, a faculty member in computer science at the University of Toronto, is one of three young faculty members featured on the University of Toronto home page.
“We all know now that the 20th century’s most influential innovation – electronic communications by way of your computer – has given rise to a whole new breed of criminals. They are the computer hackers who find nefarious ways to use information technology to rob you. Thankfully,computer scientists like Stefan Saroiu are preparing to do battle with these IT pickpockets.”
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UW CSE alumnus Christophe Bisciglia is profiled in a Business Week cover story.
“What recruits needed, Bisciglia eventually decided, was advanced training. So one autumn day a year ago, when he ran into Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt between meetings, he floated an idea. He would use his 20% time, the allotment Googlers have for independent projects, to launch a course. It would introduce students at his alma mater, the University of Washington, to programming at the scale of a cloud. Call it Google 101. Schmidt liked the plan. Over the following months, Bisciglia’s Google 101 would evolve and grow. It would eventually lead to an ambitious partnership with IBM, announced in October, to plug universities around the world into Google-like computing clouds …
“How was Bisciglia going to give students access to this machine? The easiest option would have been to plug his class directly into the Google computer. But the company wasn’t about to let students loose in a machine loaded with proprietary software, brimming with personal data, and running a $10.6 billion business. So Bisciglia shopped for an affordable cluster of 40 computers. He placed the order, then set about figuring out how to pay for the servers. While the vendor was wiring the computers together, Bisciglia alerted a couple of Google managers that a bill was coming. Then he ‘kind of sent the expense report up the chain, and no one said no.’ … (“If you’re interested in someone who strictly follows the rules, Christophe’s not your guy,’ says Lazowska.”
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“With New Year’s Eve a week away, our thoughts turn to bubbles and the year that was … We asked a panel of technology party guests to review a list of 25 events, trends and products that made the scene in 2007 and rate them on a scale of ‘forget about it’ (1) to ‘game-changer’ (5) …”
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