University Week reports on the fabulous Puget Sound Tech Universe map recently published by a collaboration of Seattle University, the Washington Technology Industry Association, and Virginia Tech. The map shows the geneology of over 700 local technology companies, institutions, and organizations represented as astronomical bodies. Most orbit one of six “suns,” of which the University of Washington is one. (Interactive version of the map is available online here.)
Read the full article here.
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Oren Etzioni talks of startups, venture capital, and the future of web search
CSE’s Oren Etzioni recently sat down with Rachel Tompa for Xconomy to talk about his philosophies on technology, startups, and investing in the current economy. He also talked about his most recent projects, two new software technologies that search the web in innovative ways.
PanImages, an image search tool, mines Google Images and Flickr for pictures and is a step towards an Internet that is not limited by language barriers. With PanImages, you can find pictures on Web pages… Read more →
University Week: Information technology needs present challenge, interviews show (eScience Institute)
UW Director of News and Information Bob Roseth writes in University Week about a large-scale study of the computing needs of the UW research community. One hundred and twenty-five researchers were interviewed in what CSE professor and University of Washington eScience Institute director Ed Lazowska calls the most comprehensive study of its kind yet conducted. “No other university has conducted such a balanced study of top researchers’ information technology needs. What we have found is a rich texture of IT… Read more →
James Lee wins Sloan Research Fellowship
UW CSE faculty member James Lee has received a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards available to younger faculty in the sciences. James is UW CSE’s 16th Sloan Research Fellowship recipient.
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CSE’s Pavan Vaswani is UW Junior Medalist
At a February 23rd reception at the home of University of Washington President Mark Emmert, CSE’s Pavan Vaswani will be recognized as the University of Washington Junior Medalist — the top student in last year’s junior class (of 7,000+ students). Pavan knows the drill — last year he was UW’s Sophomore Medalist. Congratulations Pavan! (University Week article here.)… Read more →
Where’s that bus?!? Sweat no more
KOMO News reports on One Bus Away in this February 12 broadcast television story, Where’s that bus?!? Sweat no more. One Bus Away is a web site and a collection of bus-locating services created and run by UW CSE grad student Brian Ferris. It allows transit users in King County to track the buses they are interested in five different ways, most available from a cellphone (voice, text, or web). You can view the broadcast video segment on… Read more →
“Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field”
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska is organizing a public symposium on “Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field,” to be held on March 17th as part of a Regional Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering. A number of the talks — for example one on the Smart Grid — should be of interest to CSE students, faculty, and friends. Further information is available at http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/nae2009/.… Read more →
Trends in UW CSE Introductory Course Enrollment
Stimulated by a request from our friends at Google, I plotted enrollment in UW CSE’s introductory course (“CS-1” — called “CSE-142” at UW) over the past 4.5 years. We offer this course every quarter (that is, four times a year); I plotted a 4-quarter rolling sum of course enrollment to smooth the data. (In other words, each point on the graph shows total enrollment during the most recent four academic quarters.)
The results show a dramatic growth in total enrollment,… Read more →
TechFlash: Google reaches out, treads carefully with startup community
TechFlash reporter John Cook writes about the Seattle Startup Weekend held at Google‘s Fremont engineering office last weekend, and quotes UW CSE professor and graduate (PhD ’90) Brian Bershad, currently on leave to serve as site manager at the Fremont facility.
We are trying to be good neighbors. We don’t want to stomp on people. We don’t want to go raiding people of their employees. We want people to feel like they can come to us and talk… Read more →
Xconomy Talks with UW Tech Transfer Head Linden Rhoads
Six months after Linden Rhoads took the reins as Vice Provost at UW Tech Transfer, Xconomy Seattle reporter Luke Timmerman has done a two-part interview with her to find out what’s been accomplished so far and what lies on the road ahead.
UW CSE professor Ed Lazowska had this to say about the Rhoads era at Tech Transfer:
There’s been a dramatic change since Linden’s arrival. The tech transfer officers are crawling all over our building working with students… Read more →