UW CSE’s Vanish project on self-destructing data is featured in an NPR piece on privacy in the digital age.
“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. Read more →
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. Read more →
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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. Read more →
Seattle Magazine‘s list of 2009’s influentials includes many UW CSE friends:
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska served on the selection panel. Read more →
Seattle Business magazine has named its “Top 25 Innovators and Entrepreneurs” for 2009. Friends of UW CSE are well represented, which we are assured has nothing to do with the fact that UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska was on the selection panel. See the full list here, which includes:
- 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.
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The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have featured UW CSE’s Open Data Kit initiative as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“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. Read more →
Xconomy previews the top tech events in the Puget Sound region for the remainder of the fall. UW CSE is the headliner:
- 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 …) Read more →
A UW news release concerning the Open Data Kit initiative, led by UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello.
“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. Read more →
Xconomy reports on the CSE Distinguished Lecture given by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young.
Read the post here.
Watch the video of this terrific talk here. Read more →
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni spoke last night as part of Foster School of Business’s “From Invention to Startup” lecture series. Etzioni, founder of Farecast, “shepherded an auditorium full of fledgling entrepreneurs from research to a start-up.” He talked mostly of his experience starting Farecast, a web service that monitors airfares and then makes recommendations to consumers about when they should make their purchase. Microsoft now owns the service.
Read the full TechFlash blog (John Cook’s Venture blog) here. Read more →
