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 →
Associated Press on Kindle DX academic pilot project
The University of Washington is one of seven colleges and universities participating in a pilot project assessing the suitability of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX electronic reader as a textbook and reprint replacement. In this AP article, UW CSE graduate students Todd Schiller and Franzi Roesner are quoted. Read it here.… Read more →
“The Stimulus, UW, and Washington State”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska writes in Xconomy about the remarkable performance of the University of Washington in securing research funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
“Why R&D as part of the stimulus? Because it employs people (that’s what we do with federal research grant funding), but more importantly, because it lays the foundation for America’s world leadership.”
Read the full article here.… Read more →
“Top-ranked Authors in ‘Operating Systems'”
We don’t have a clue about the methodology … and we’re not gonna question it!
According to Microsoft Academic Search, four of the top ten authors in the Operating Systems field are from UW CSE: Tom Anderson, Hank Levy, Brian Bershad, and Ed Lazowska.
(Others in the top ten: John Ousterhout (Berkeley -> Sun -> Scriptics -> Electric Cloud -> Stanford), Satya (CMU), Frans Kaashoek (MIT), Dave Patterson (Berkeley), Anoop Gupta (Stanford -> Microsoft), and Peter… Read more →
“Household robots do not protect users’ security and privacy, researchers say”
People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But, according to a new UW CSE study, security and privacy risks of information-gathering objects that move around our homes have not been adequately addressed.
UW CSE’s professor Yoshi Kohno, grad students Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, and Karl Koscher, and affiliate faculty member Joshua Smith discovered security weaknesses in all three domestic robots they examined. They presented their findings at the International Conference on… Read more →
Open Data Kit Featured in IEEE Computer
Mobile phones are becoming pervasive in developing regions, creating an opportunity to address data collection needs. Existing paper-based approaches are often slow and incomplete when compared to mobile phone based data collection methods.
To address this problem, UW CSE’s grad students Yaw Anokwa, Carl Hartung, and Waylon Brunette, along with Professor Gaetano Borriello, have built Open Data Kit (ODK), a set of mobile phone-based tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data. The ODK project was… Read more →
“Nathan Myhrvold’s Cookbook”
TechFlash reports on a presentation in UW CSE’s Distinguished Lecturer Series by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young of Intellectual Ventures.
“What do you do if you’re a wealthy technologist and are interested in food? Take some classes at the Cordon Bleu, right? Well, if you’re Nathan Myhrvold — former CTO of Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures — you take it a step further. Myhrvold hired a team of 15 people, including a chef from a famous London restaurant, who… Read more →
“Rome in a Day” is Computing Research Highlight of the Week
The Computing Research Association and the Computing Community Consortium have selected UW CSE’s Rome in a Day project as the Computing Research Highlight of the Week.
“Several years ago, a collaboration between computer graphics and computer vision researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft yielded Photosynth, a revolution in organizing and navigating digital photographs.
“Now, that same collaboration has yielded Rome In A Day, which reconstructs entire cities from images harvested from the web, in less… Read more →