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“Today’s event will also include the announcement of the Jim Gray Chair, which drew contributions from up and down the West Coast.
“Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Microsoft rival Salesforce.com, each donated $250,000 within a few hours of being asked, according to Ed Lazowska, a University of Washington computer science professor who helped with the fundraising. A fourth donor, Mike Stonebraker, also donated $250,000. He is… Read more →
CSE’s Yoshi Kohno, Yoky Matsuoka, Tapan Parikh featured in UW College of Engineering lecture
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“Join us for a fascinating afternoon of lectures by five of the College of Engineering’s rising stars. In an unprecedented year, the MacArthur Foundation and MIT Technology Review honored three faculty members, an alumnus, and a student for their exceptional contributions to society. Learn more about their inspiring work.” (The College of Engineering seems to have ignored CSE Ph.D. alumna Karen Liu and CSE Affiliate faculty member Desney Tan, both of whom also were recognized… Read more →
“UW software for blind Web users wins Microsoft prize”
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The Imagine Cup is an annual year-long student software competition with awards in 9 major categories. UW CSE’s WebAnywhere project has been named the worldwide winner of the “Interface Design Accessible Technology” division. WebAnywhere is the project of UW CSE Ph.D. student Jeff Bigham. WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web… Read more →
Oren Etzioni praised in Washington CEO
“We can take turns guessing the source of that next great thing. One guy to watch is Oren Etzioni, a University of Washington computer scientist who has a knack for inventing ideas that become highly valued businesses.”
Story here.… Read more →
CSE’s Prasad Raghavendra wins “Best Paper” at STOC
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UW CSE Ph.D. student Prasad Raghavendra has been named co-winner of the Best Paper Award (and winner of the Best Student Paper Award) at the 2008 ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing.… Read more →
A conversation between Ed Lazowska and Vint Cerf at the Technology Alliance annual luncheon (TVW)
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A web archive of the TVW live broadcast of the interview.… Read more →
“Vint Cerf: Internet pioneer, coffee drinker” (Seattle PI)
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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.”
Story here.… Read more →
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 →