Read the article here.

TechFlash article on Craig’s talk here.

“The University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Affiliates day is one of the most fun and rewarding days of the year for me as venture investor and geek. It involves a showcase of projects and research areas by professors and students and is a festival of creativity, new ideas, and engaged smart people. It is a day my colleagues and I look forward to every year …”

See the full post here.

“Roxana Geambasu is a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she’s been working on self-destructing data. The simplest application is a form of e-mail that comes with a finite life span.

“‘After the time out, you will never be able to read the message again,’ she says.

“The system is called Vanish, and it works by encrypting your data — e-mails, photos, Facebook posts — then placing the decryption ‘keys’ in several places around the Internet. The keys are readily available to anyone for a few hours. But as the keys disappear, the message rots away. All copies become unreadable; even the copies made along the way — at the Internet service provider, at the National Security Agency, wherever.”

Read and hear the story here.  Vanish project information here.

Oren Etzioni, WRF Entrepreneurship Professor

Dan Weld, WRF Thomas J. Cable Professor

At the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Ron Howell, CEO of the Washington Research Foundation, congratulates Dan Weld on his reappointment to the WRF Thomas J. Cable Endowed Professorship, and Oren Etzioni on his appointment as the inaugural holder of the WRF Entrepreneurship Professorship.

The WRF Thomas J. Cable Professorship was established in 1999 by the Washington Research Foundation.  The WRF Entrepreneurship Professorship was established in 2009 by the Washington Research Foundation with additional generous contributions from Madrona Venture Group, UW TechTransfer, Perkins Coie, Hugh Creen, and Mike Fridgen.

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"The Changing Face of Venture Capital"

Greg Gottesman presents the Madrona Prize

The UW CSE 2009 Industrial Affiliates Meeting, October 29-30, was a huge success.

On October 29, more than 150 representatives of member companies participated in research presentations, poster sessions, feedback sessions, and an evening panel on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital.”

On October 30, more than 30 companies recruited UW CSE students in the Microsoft Atrium of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.

Seattle Magazine

• Person of the Year Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
• Jim Jiambalvo, Dean of UW’s Foster School of Business.
• Tricia McKay, Executive Director of the Medina Foundation.
• John Cook and Todd Bishop from TechFlash.
• Ken Myer, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association.
• Dan Rosen, Chair of the Alliance of Angels.

UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska served on the selection panel.

Seattle Business

• CSE friend Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com.
• Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta, who cut his teeth with UW CSE startup Performant, which was sold to Mercury Interactive.
• UW CSE affiliate professor Lee Hood, from the Institute for Systems Biology.
• Scott Roza, CEO of UW CSE startup Skytap.
• UW CSE Bachelors student Sunil Garg, for his capstone course project that attacks the shortage of computers in developing countries by allowing students to share computers.
• UW CSE friend Ben Slivka, founder of K-12 math education startup DreamBox Learning.
• UW CSE alumnus Jeremy Jaech, a serial entrepreneur with Aldus, Visio, Trumba, and Verdiem.

“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free way to do it.”

See the full post here.  ODK information here.

Xconomy

• October 28th’s TechFlash “Women in Tech” event, a panel that featured UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka.
• October 29th’s UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting panel presentation on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital,” moderated by Ed Lazowska and featuring Mark Ashida (OVP Venture Partners), Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group), Ron Howell (WRF Capital), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), and Cam Myhrvold (Ignition Partners).
• November 5th’s presentation by Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, in the UW CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series: “Re-Thinking Computing.”
• November 30th’s Xconomy-sponsored panel on “The Future of Search,” moderated by Ed Lazowska and featuring UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni and ex-UW CSE professor Brian Bershad (now Site Director of Google Seattle).

Read the full post here.  (Four other events were mentioned in passing …)

“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free way to do it.”

Read the full article here.  Learn more about Open Data Kit here.  Learn about the overall UW “Change” developing world research effort here.