Reuters reports:
“The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city’s emergence as what some would argue is the West Coast’s second most important hub of technology and entrepreneurship …
“Indeed, the troika of Microsoft, the mobile phone empire built by Craig McCaw, and the strong science and engineering programs at the University of Washington has created a foundation for technology entrepreneurship that is the envy of would-be Silicon Valleys around the world.”
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Kent Schliiter
Kent Schliiter, a 1998 UW CSE Computer Engineering graduate, has passed away suddenly at the young age of 43.
Kent was at UW in 1989 and 1990, left for a while, then returned and finished his degree. He worked at Microsoft after leaving UW, then left Microsoft and with his wife, an M.D., started an urgent care clinic in Issaquah.
He has two little girls 7 and 9.… Read more →
“DARPA Looks to Protect Drones From Hack Attacks”
Wired reports on DARPA research conducted by UW CSE’s Mike Ernst and Zoran Popovic:
“DARPA’s next big cybersecurity initiative, unveiled on Monday, is … a program to crowdsource the detection and removal of buggy or malicious lines of code. Possibly as a videogame.
“‘We want to ‘game-ify’ geeky formal verification,’ announced Drew Dean, another DARPA program manager. Dean’s brand-new effort, Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, would replace the expensive, slow model of a single expert or security company taking a fine… Read more →
Melody Kadenko’s 15 minutes of fame!
Seventeen years ago, long-time CSE staff member Melody Kadenko’s car was ransacked when she was on a camping trip.
This week, construction workers who were demolishing the Elwha River Dam as part of a salmon habitat restoration project found her purse – along with all of its contents!
Did she try the Dentyne? You’ll have to ask her yourself.
See a KING5 News report here.… Read more →
Melissa Winstanley wins Facebook Grace Hopper Scholarship
“After reviewing hundreds of applications from talented women engineers around the world, we now have the final list of [20] amazing women to receive full scholarships to this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Portland, Oregon.”
Congratulations Melissa, and thank you Facebook! Announcement here.… Read more →
CSE honors Susan Eggers
Saturday marked the retirement celebration for long-time UW CSE professor Susan Eggers.
Susan, a leading computer architect and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, was honored by CSE faculty and staff, former students, her Berkeley Ph.D. advisor Randy Katz (Susan was Randy’s second Ph.D. student; his first, Gaetano Borriello, is also on the UW CSE faculty), and former Berkeley graduate school colleagues including Jim Larus.
Thank you, Susan, for all you’ve done to make UW CSE a special … Read more →
Bing celebrates UW’s 150th anniversary
November 4 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the University of Washington (not to mention the 62nd birthday of UW President Michael Young). Our friends at Bing have chosen a photograph of the Graduate Reading Room of Suzzallo Library to commemorate the day. Thanks Bing! And congratulations UW!
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TechFlash “Startup of the Week” – Decide.com
“Should you buy that new camera now, or wait and see if the price drops a little more? That’s the decision Seattle startup Decide.com wants to help you answer…
“The startup was co-founded by Oren Etzioni, founder of Farecast and a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and two sets of [UW alumni] brothers, Brian and Ian Ma, and Hsu Han and Hsu Ken Ooi.”
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TechCrunch on UW CSE alum Christophe Bisciglia’s startup Odiago
“Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia is debuting his new startup today, called Odiago. Odiago develops a product called WibiData, which leverages Apache Hadoop to manage and analyze large amounts of data. And the company is launching with a number of major backers including Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and SV Angel.”
Christophe received his Bachelors degree from UW CSE in 2003 and joined Google. In 2007, he returned to UW on his Google 20% time to… Read more →