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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 →
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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 →
“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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“Continued investment is necessary to maintain our leadership and competitiveness. Achieving many of the ‘societal grand challenges’ of this century will depend critically on further fundamental advances in IT: the engineering of new tools that will transform scientific discovery; advancing personalized learning; shifting towards predictive, preventive, personalized, participatory medicine; enhancing national security; developing smart controls and smart electric grids needed to address energy and climate challenges. Many of the ‘grand challenges’ of IT itself will have broad implications for society: securing cyberspace; designing truly scalable systems; enhancing virtual reality; creating the future of networking; infusing ‘computational thinking’ into a wide variety of disciplines which are themselves becoming ‘information sciences’; driving advances in entirely new approaches to computing such as quantum computing. Research is the key to making progress on these grand challenges.”
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“A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing people to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this spring, and recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a 20-person field project that will begin next year in Seattle …” Read more →
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“Intel has made progress in a … technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers, a development that could allow a person to simply place a device on a desktop countertop to power it.”
The work was carried out at Intel Research Seattle by UW CSE Affiliate faculty member Josh Smith. Read more →