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UW CSE Ph.D. student Prasad Raghavendra has been named co-winner of the Best Paper Award (and winner of the Best Student Paper Award) at the 2008 ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Read more →
UW CSE startup Farecast purchased by Martians (Seattle PI)
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“Farecast‘s sale to an unknown buyer is the latest score for superstar University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni, who has watched several of his Internet companies gobbled up at attractive valuations over the past 15 years.
“Those include comparison shopping service NetBot, which was acquired by Excite in 1997, and MetaCrawler, a search engine that is now part of InfoSpace.”
Farecast, like many other UW CSE startups, included Madrona Venture Group and the WRF Capital as early investors. Read more →
“Microsoft acquires Farecast – Seattle travel cost predictor’s price tag put at $115 million” (Seattle PI)
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“Microsoft is the mystery buyer of Farecast …
“Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain, the earliest venture investor in Farecast, said the company entertained multiple offers … he said the deal is notable because it touches nearly every part of the innovation economy in the Pacific Northwest.
“Farecast was started by University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni, initially bankrolled by Madrona, built with people from local companies such as Alaska Airlines and AdRelevance and, ultimately, acquired by Microsoft.”
PI Microsoft Blog here
PI Venture Blog here
Seattle Times here
Puget Sound Business Journal here Read more →
“UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes” (University Week)
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“The UW will lead a multi-institutional group pushing the limits of computers’ ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the behavior of complex systems. The project, involving seven U.S. universities, has received a $6.25 million, 5-year grant from the Department of Defense.
“‘A complex monitoring system has far too many pieces of information for any one person to look at,’ said principal investigator Pedro Domingos, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering. ‘This award lets us do the research to develop a system for the military to look at all the available information that might be valuable and use it to predict behavior.'” Read more →
UW’s “Vocal Joystick” named one of “25 leading-edge IT research projects” by Network World
“University of Washington researchers have developed software designed to let those who can’t work a handheld mouse use their voice instead to navigate the Web.” (See #17)
Project webpage here. Article here. Read more →
“To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one” (New Scientist)
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“Beating the ‘botnets’ – armies of infected computers used to attack websites – requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers.
“A team at the University of Washington want to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralise the bad ones. They say their plan would be cheap to implement and could cope with botnets of any size.”
Read UW CSE “Phalanx” paper here Read more →
“MobileASL” project on KUOW/NPR (MP3; starts at 43:40)
The Mobile ASL project is described on KUOW/NPR.
See MobileASL project information here. Read more →
“Bill Gates Unplugged: On Software, Innovation, and Giving Back”
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“University of Washington President Mark Emmert and UW Computer Science & Engineering host Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the final stop of his six-university tour, as Gates transitions from Microsoft to the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.”
A UWTV web archive of Gates’s UW speech and Q&A session. Read more →
Bill Gates at UW (Seattle PI)
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Bill Gates visits UW CSE and speaks to a packed house of students in the final stop on his 2008 tour of six universities.
“With his father and two sisters watching from the front row, Gates recounted for the overflow crowd the well-known story of roaming the University of Washington campus as a boy with Paul Allen, who would become the Microsoft co-founder, looking for research computers that they could use in off-hours. They were ‘stealing computer time, and now I’m giving it back,’ Gates said, to laughter.”
Seattle PI article (vs. blog) here Read more →
CSE’s Alan Ritter, Tom Lin win National Defense Science & Enginering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships
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CSE graduate students Alan Ritter and Tom Lin, both working with Professor Oren Etzioni in the Turing Center, have received 2008 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Read more →