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 2009 “Power List”
Seattle Magazine‘s list of 2009’s influentials includes many UW CSE friends:
Person of the Year Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
Jim Jiambalvo, Dean of UW’s Foster School of Business.
Tricia McKay, Executive Director of the Medina Foundation.
John Cook and Todd Bishop from TechFlash.
Ken Myer, CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association.
Dan Rosen, Chair of the Alliance of Angels.
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska served on the selection panel.… Read more →
Seattle Business “Top 25 Innovators and Entrepreneurs”
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:
CSE friend Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com.
Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta, who cut his teeth with UW CSE startup Performant, which was sold to Mercury Interactive.
UW CSE affiliate professor Lee… Read more →
Open Data Kit is “Computing Research Highlight of the Week”
The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have featured UW CSE’s Open Data Kit initiative as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a… Read more →
“Top Tech Events of the Fall – An Xconomy Guide”
Xconomy previews the top tech events in the Puget Sound region for the remainder of the fall. UW CSE is the headliner:
October 28th’s TechFlash “Women in Tech” event, a panel that featured UW CSE professor Yoky Matsuoka.
October 29th’s UW CSE Industrial Affiliates meeting panel presentation on “The Changing Face of Venture Capital,” moderated by Ed Lazowska and featuring Mark Ashida (OVP Venture Partners), Greg Gottesman (Madrona Venture Group), Ron Howell (WRF Capital), Bill McAleer (Voyager Capital), and Cam… Read more →
“Cell phones become handheld tools for global development”
A UW news release concerning the Open Data Kit initiative, led by UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello.
“Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free… Read more →
“Five Things Nathan Myhrvold Taught Us About Cooking”
Xconomy reports on the CSE Distinguished Lecture given by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young.
Read the post here.
Watch the video of this terrific talk here.… Read more →
“Farecast founder schools wannabe entrepreneurs”
UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni spoke last night as part of Foster School of Business’s “From Invention to Startup” lecture series. Etzioni, founder of Farecast, “shepherded an auditorium full of fledgling entrepreneurs from research to a start-up.” He talked mostly of his experience starting Farecast, a web service that monitors airfares and then makes recommendations to consumers about when they should make their purchase. Microsoft now owns the service.
Read the full TechFlash blog (John Cook’s Venture blog) here.… Read more →
Ed Lazowska interviews Irwin Jacobs at FiReGlobal
Dr. Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm, was in Seattle to deliver a UW CSE Distinguished Lecture and the 2009 UW EE Dean Lytle Endowed Lecture. Later in the day, UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska interviewed Dr. Jacobs at the FiReGlobal: West Coast conference in downtown Seattle. An Xconomy summary of the high points of FireGlobal is here.
Watch the video of Dr. Jacob’s UW CSE Distinguished Lecture (also the UW EE Dean Lytle Endowed Lecture), delivered earlier in the day, here… Read more →
UW CSE’s Yoky Matsuoka headlines “Women in Tech” panel
The first “TechFlash Live: Women in Tech” event will be held at the W Hotel on the evening of October 28.
The four panelists at what promises to be an extremely engaging evening are Yoky Matsuoka (UW CSE), Lucinda Stewart (OVP Venture Partners), Lili Cheng (Microsoft), and Trish Millines Dziko (Technology Access Foundation).
Read the TechFlash post here.
The TechFlash “Women in Tech” list – a “who’s who” of women in the Seattle technology ecosystem – includes UW CSE… Read more →