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“Feeling burnt out after four years building search algorithms for Google software projects, Bisciglia, 27, floated an idea to CEO Eric Schmidt about starting a college course on large-scale computing … Bisciglia launched a course at Washington, his alma mater … Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Tsinghua University in Beijing have picked up on the idea, offering similar classes to their students, and Bisciglia has since worked out comparable deals with Berkeley and Stanford …”… Read more →
“SWsoft Snags Microsoft Legend for Senior Technical Advisor Role” (InfoWorld)
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“Virtualization software company SWsoft announced on Wednesday that a former Microsoft architect and pioneer software developer Mark Zbikowski has joined the company as a senior technical advisor … With the addition of this legend and 25 year Microsoft veteran to the team, SWsoft is truly providing themselves with a huge feather in their cap. Zbikowski previously led Microsoft’s efforts in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo and Windows NT. Zbikowski designed the DOS executable file format, and he… Read more →
“Google upstart a hit” (The Peninsula Gateway)
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“It’s no surprise that former Gig Harbor resident [and UW CSE alumnus] Christophe Bisciglia is leading one of the newest and biggest projects at Internet giant Google … he’s always been the enterprising sort.”… Read more →
Google Seattle grand opening
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January 15th marked the official opening of Google Seattle. The office, located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood (“The Center of the Universe”) adjacent to the University of Washington, is led by UW CSE’s Brian Bershad.
“Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research, provided some of the reasons why Google wanted to expand in Seattle, which now represents the third largest U.S. office for Google behind Mountain View and New York.
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“Stefan Saroiu, Phisher King”
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UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Stefan Saroiu, a faculty member in computer science at the University of Toronto, is one of three young faculty members featured on the University of Toronto home page.
“We all know now that the 20th century’s most influential innovation – electronic communications by way of your computer – has given rise to a whole new breed of criminals. They are the computer hackers who find nefarious ways to use information technology… Read more →
“Google and the Wisdom of Clouds” (Business Week)
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UW CSE alumnus Christophe Bisciglia is profiled in a Business Week cover story.
“What recruits needed, Bisciglia eventually decided, was advanced training. So one autumn day a year ago, when he ran into Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt between meetings, he floated an idea. He would use his 20% time, the allotment Googlers have for independent projects, to launch a course. It would introduce students at his alma mater, the University of Washington, to programming… Read more →
“Recap of what was cool, not so cool in tech world in 2007” (Seattle Times)
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“With New Year’s Eve a week away, our thoughts turn to bubbles and the year that was … We asked a panel of technology party guests to review a list of 25 events, trends and products that made the scene in 2007 and rate them on a scale of ‘forget about it’ (1) to ‘game-changer’ (5) …”
UW CSE’s Ed Lazowska is quoted throughout.… Read more →
“Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies” (Stanford News Service)
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Samuel Karlin, a Stanford professor emeritus of mathematics and father of UW CSE professor Anna Karlin, died December 18 at Stanford Hospital. He was 83.
According to UW CSE professor Martin Tompa: “Karlin was one of the pioneers who applied mathematics and statistical models to problems in biological sequence analysis. He worked in this field for the last 20 years or so. He wrote many important papers, but probably the most influential was a series… Read more →