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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 →
“To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one” (New Scientist)
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“Beating the ‘botnets’ – armies of infected computers used to attack websites – requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers.
“A team at the University of Washington want to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralise the bad ones. They say their plan would be cheap to implement and could cope with botnets of any size.”
Read UW CSE “Phalanx” paper here… Read more →
UW’s “Vocal Joystick” named one of “25 leading-edge IT research projects” by Network World
“University of Washington researchers have developed software designed to let those who can’t work a handheld mouse use their voice instead to navigate the Web.” (See #17)
Project webpage here. Article here.… Read more →
“UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes” (University Week)
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“The UW will lead a multi-institutional group pushing the limits of computers’ ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the behavior of complex systems. The project, involving seven U.S. universities, has received a $6.25 million, 5-year grant from the Department of Defense.
“‘A complex monitoring system has far too many pieces of information for any one person to look at,’ said principal investigator Pedro Domingos, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering. ‘This… Read more →
“Microsoft acquires Farecast – Seattle travel cost predictor’s price tag put at $115 million” (Seattle PI)
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“Microsoft is the mystery buyer of Farecast …
“Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain, the earliest venture investor in Farecast, said the company entertained multiple offers … he said the deal is notable because it touches nearly every part of the innovation economy in the Pacific Northwest.
“Farecast was started by University of Washington computer scientist Oren Etzioni, initially bankrolled by Madrona, built with people from local companies such as Alaska Airlines and AdRelevance and, ultimately,… Read more →
UW CSE’s “Web Tripwires” are the hit of NSDI
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UW CSE’s “Web Tripwires” paper was received enthusiastically (and covered extensively) when presented at this week’s NSDI conference. “Web Tripwires” measures the extent to which ISPs (or others) modify web pages “in flight,” e.g., to insert revenue-generating advertisements.
Run the experiment here
FAQ and research paper here
Slashdot here
ars technica article here
PC World article here
eCanadaNow article here… Read more →
“‘Black holes’ charted on the Internet” (MSNBC)
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“Ethan Katz-Bassett, a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington, and his advisor, Arvind Krishnamurthy, designed a program to continuously search for strange Internet gaps, when a request to visit a Web site or an outgoing e-mail gets lost along a pathway that was known to be working before.”
Hubble project web here
Parody from The Spoof! here.
LiveScience here
Fox News here
“Connected” interview (KJR FM) here
Computerworld here
Ars… Read more →