Oren Etzioni
Matt McIlwain
Celebrating VentureWire’s 10th anniversary, The Venture Capital Dispatch blog (part of the Wall Street Journal) recently asked a panel of venture capitalists to share their favorite memories of business in the past decade or so. Matt McIlwain, one of our friends at Madrona Venture Group, talks about CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Farecast.
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CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka, recently interviewed by KPLU radio’s Keith Seinfeld, talks about her research on prosthetic hands. The human hand has been one of the most difficult limbs for medicine to replace. War veterans are learning the hard way–as their best option continues to be a mechanical claw.
Listen to the complete interview here (5min MP3). Read about the hand on Keith’s KPLU blog here. Read more →
CSE's Jon Froehlich presents HydroSense
HydroSense — a team led by UW CSE graduate student Jon Froehlich and advised by UW CSE faculty members Shwetak Patel, James Fogarty, and James Landay, won the $10,000 grand prize in UW’s Environmental Innovation Challenge. Other members of the Hydrosense team included CSE graduate student Kate Everitt, MechE junior Tim Campbell, EE senior Alex Horton, EE graduate student Jianlei Shi, BioE graduate student Rahber Thariani, and Community, Environment and Planning senior Conor Haggerty.
HydroSense focused on the problem of water leakage in the United States, which accounts for 10 percent of average household water used. As part of their winning strategy, the team developed a device that screws onto a single water faucet and uses an analysis of acoustic vibrations and pressure differential signatures of water flow to determine usage.
UW Daily article here.
Xconomy article here.
TechFlash article here.
University Week article here.
Executive summary here (pdf).
Interview with the winning team here. Read more →