MSNBC.com’s Technology & Science section reports on UW CSE grad student Tamara Denning‘s recent presentation at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, following it up with a lengthy and informative interview.
“’Robots may look like toys or appliances but they’re not, says Tamara Denning, lead author of the study, A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons.”
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Adrian Sampson
Michael Bayne
Peter Hornyak
Franzi Roesner
TechFlash interviews UW CSE graduate students Franzi Roesner, Peter Hornyak, Michael Bayne, and Adrian Sampson regarding their experiences with the Amazon.com Kindle DX educational pilot project.
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Xconomy reports on Mundie’s themes. Hear his talk in Kane 120 on Thursday at 4:15. Read the post here. Read more →
The Seattle Times reports on Craig Mundie’s university speaking tour, which concludes with a talk sponsored by UW CSE on Thursday November 5th at 4:15 in Kane 120. Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, will speak on “Re-Thinking Computing.” Earlier in the day, he will meet with UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska, UW President Mark Emmert, a faculty panel, and a student panel.
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TechFlash article on Craig’s talk here. Read more →
OVP Venture Partner’s Mark Ashida writes in Xconomy about the UW CSE Industrial Affiliates Meeting, particularly the panel discussion on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital” which featured Mark, Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group), Ron Howell (WRF Capital), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), Cam Myhrvold (Ignition Partners), and was moderated by CSE’s Ed Lazowska.
“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 …”
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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.”
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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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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. 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: