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A conversation between Vint Cerf and CSE’s Ed Lazowska highlights the Technology Alliance annual luncheon.
IT World here… Read more →
Puget Sound Business Journal interviews UW CSE professor Oren Etzioni
“Etzioni’s spinout companies include airfare prediction website Farecast, just bought by Microsoft for a reported $115M.”
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Yoky Matsuoka at New Yorker “Stories from the Near Future” conference
“The bold visionaries of today share the bright ideas of tomorrow at the second annual New Yorker Conference — newly expanded to two days of forward thinking and eye-opening innovation.”
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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… Read more →
“‘CSI’ sleuths out Microsoft’s latest technology”
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Photosynth, a collaboration between UW CSE’s computer graphics group and Microsoft, has been featured in an episode of CBS’s hit crime drama CSI: NY.
This is a significant move uptown from the graphics group’s other recent television exposure: visualization of “drafting” as part of NASCAR coverage.
Seattle Times article here
Seattle PI article here
Washington Times here
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UW CSE’s Julie Letchner, Kate Everitt win Google Anita Borg Scholarships
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UW CSE students Julie Letchner and Kate Everitt are among 23 nationwide winners of 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarships. Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships “to honor the work of Dr. Anita Borg, a computer scientist who dedicated her professional career to increasing the participation of women and other under-represented minorities in the field of technology.”… Read more →
“UW helped nurture computing ideas, Gates says” (Seattle Times)
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“As teenagers, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wandered the University of Washington campus, trying to pilfer free computer time. They let their minds wander to a future when computing power would essentially be free.
“Gates, in the final stop of his last university-speaking circuit as a full-time Microsoft employee, told students and faculty at the UW on Friday about what they imagined then and how much of what they dreamed of is becoming reality …… 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… 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 →
“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 →