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“Sitting at the final table of the prestigious Borgata Poker Open last week, $1.4 million on the line and a clear advantage in chips, University of Washington graduate Vivek Rajkumar had a plan …
“This isn’t the situation either he or his parents envisioned a few short years ago when Rajkumar was compiling his whiz-kid academic resume: He enrolled in the U-Dub’s Early Entrance Program at 15 and graduated before turning 19 with degrees in applied mathematics and computer engineering …” Read more →
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“As a hearing child of deaf parents, Richard Ladner saw firsthand the impact of communications technology on his parents’ lives. ‘Back in the early 1970s, they got their first teletypewriter,’ he said. ‘It was a very big box, the size of a computer, but it opened a new world for them.'”
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“One of the scenes from The Empire Strikes Back gives you an idea of what Yoky Matsuoka is pursuing. It’s the part where Luke Skywalker tests out a prosthetic hand that he can control with all the dexterity of a natural one, well enough to wield one mean light saber.
“Matsuoka, a MacArthur “genius” award winner (and an Xconomist), and one of the up-and-comers on the faculty at the University of Washington, described her work in what she calls “neurobotics” this morning at the Technology Alliance’s Science & Technology Discovery Series in Seattle.” Read more →
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“I first reached Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (and an Xconomist). In typical Lazowska fashion, he questioned the very premise of wanting more outside VCs here, and proceeded to bring up some interesting funding issues …” Read more →
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“Skytap, the UW spinoff that offers a virtual testing lab in the cloud, is announcing a new API and VPN capabilities today. The company now has 20 paying customers, including several large enterprises, according to Chief Executive Scott Roza. ‘We see more enterprises that are willing to put their toe in the water and put strategic projects in the cloud,’ he said.” Read more →
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“One of the scenes from The Empire Strikes Back gives you an idea of what Yoky Matsuoka is pursuing. It’s the part where Luke Skywalker tests out a prosthetic hand that he can control with all the dexterity of a natural one, well enough to wield one mean light saber.
“Matsuoka, a MacArthur “genius” award winner (and an Xconomist), and one of the up-and-comers on the faculty at the University of Washington, described her work in what she calls “neurobotics” this morning at the Technology Alliance’s Science & Technology Discovery Series in Seattle.” Read more →
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“The convenience and relatively low cost of cell phones in the U.S. has made them an indispensable part of life. Unless, of course, you are one of the 37 million or so hearing-impaired adults living in this country. But University of Washington in Seattle researchers are hoping to change that by developing software that lets callers communicate on their mobile phones using sign language via real-time video instead of being limited to text messaging.” Read more →
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Growth in peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading has led some ISPs to limit, or “throttle,” connection speeds to preserve bandwidth for everyone else. But the University of Washington in Seattle has hit on a promising alternative.” Read more →
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“Skytap, the UW spinoff that offers a virtual testing lab in the cloud, is announcing a new API and VPN capabilities today. The company now has 20 paying customers, including several large enterprises, according to Chief Executive Scott Roza. ‘We see more enterprises that are willing to put their toe in the water and put strategic projects in the cloud,’ he said.” Read more →
“Researchers have created custom-generated software interfaces for the individual that can make it possible to close the performance gap between able-bodied and disabled users.”
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“Sitting at the final table of the prestigious Borgata Poker Open last week, $1.4 million on the line and a clear advantage in chips, University of Washington graduate Vivek Rajkumar had a plan …