Creating a Virtual 3-D World: Inside PhotoCity from UW and Cornell

[Updated 3:30 pm, 4/23/10. See below] Zoran Popovic, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, is constructing 3-D virtual recreations of real life. First step, the UW campus;... Read more »

UW Startup Nanocel Seeks Funding and Partners, Wants to Make Computers Cooler

Last May, the Seattle startup Nanocel won the University of Washington’s yearly business plan competition. Now the company—founded by UW mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Dustin Miller and recent UW MBA... Read more »

UW’s Tadayoshi Kohno on Computer Security and How to Think Like the Bad Guy

Tadayoshi Kohno spends his career looking at life through the eyes of a criminal, and he’s teaching University of Washington students to do the same. The UW computer science and engineering... Read more »

Lilipip, With Recent Focus on Animated Ads, Looks to Keep Growing Without Venture Capital

From architecture to kids’ videos to online animated ads, Ksenia Oustiougova’s path to founder of Seattle online ad company Lilipip has been unusual. To start, the company was funded not by... Read more »

Technologies for the Blind and Deaf Could Have Much Broader Impact, Says UW’s Richard Ladner

Think about the technological tools you use most often. For many of us, cell phones and computers rank high up on that list. But these devices are designed with the hearing... Read more »

With Cash from Siemens and ArcelorMittal, Powerit Looks to Expand, Tap the Smart Grid

In the world of cleantech, there’s a lot of focus on alternative energy sources and power generation. But for Seattle’s Powerit Solutions, the name of the game is energy efficiency.... Read more »

Zoodango Relaunches as GeoPage

Seattle-based Zoodango, a social site that combines map-based navigation and ratings of local businesses, relaunched nationwide today as GeoPage, according to a company announcement. The retooled site features new data... Read more »

Thoughts on Bing and Search Engines of the Future, From UW Computer Scientist Dan Weld

Dan Weld spends a lot of time thinking about the Web and how to get the best information out of it. Weld is a professor of computer science and engineering at... Read more »

Clarian Technologies Aims to Take Financial Sting Out of Wind Power with Jellyfish Turbine

[Updated with comments from Kelly Jo MacArthur on page 2]
In recent years, we have seen an explosion of alternative energy devices, yet most of these technologies remain out of... Read more »

Hydrovolts Hopes to Flip Open Door to Hydropower with Novel Underwater Turbine

Burt Hamner, founder and CEO of the tiny Seattle startup Hydrovolts, has an idea he hopes will revolutionize the hydropower industry.

His invention, the “flip wing” turbine, is still in... Read more »

Seattle and the Developing World: Bill Gates, UW Profs Speak at Global Tech Conference in Qatar

Seattle has become a major global health hub over the last decade, thanks in no small part to having the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world leaders in... Read more »

UW’s Connie Bourassa-Shaw on the Genetics of Entrepreneurs, and Why Seattle Is Startup Mecca

Connie Bourassa-Shaw has been the director of the University of Washington’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) in the Foster School of Business for just three years. But her ties to... Read more »

Optimum Energy Wants Buildings to Use More Software, Waste Less Power

If you work in a commercial building, you’re probably familiar with the vagaries of large-scale heating and cooling systems. Hear that whir click on and cold air suddenly gusting through the... Read more »

UW Computer Scientist Oren Etzioni on Startups, Venture Capital, and the Future of Web Search

Oren Etzioni, a computer science and engineering professor at the University of Washington, has certainly ventured out of the ivory tower since he first came to Seattle 18 years ago. The... Read more »

UW Startup, Soluxra, to Form Around Organic Solar Cell Technology

A new startup company is in the works at the University of Washington, based on inexpensive, portable solar cells that could go far beyond the standard rooftop model. Conventional solar cells... Read more »

UW Starts Program to Train Faculty in the Art of Startups

The University of Washington’s TechTransfer department has launched a new program over the last four months that brings local entrepreneurs into the university to help academic researchers in the early stages... Read more »

Verdiem, Cisco Pair Up to Save Power

Cisco Systems announced today the release of software developed in partnership with Seattle-based Verdiem to automatically save energy in idling computers, phones, networked devices, and eventually, whole buildings. The first version... Read more »

Micronics to Roll Out Pocket-Sized Malaria, E. coli Tests This Year

Micronics has been around since 1996, so it hardly qualifies as a startup anymore. But the Redmond, WA-based biotech company has been moving in new directions over the last few years,... Read more »

Theo Chocolate Teams Up with UW to Sniff Out the Perfect Bean

Theo Chocolate, Inc. wants to unlock the cocoa bean’s secrets. Together with chemists at the University of Washington, Theo’s chief operating officer and food scientist Andy McShea is using “electronic... Read more »

How to Stand Out in the Mobile Apps Market: The Zumobi Plan

In a market glutted with free cell phone applications, and as advertising budgets dive along with the rest of the economy, what’s a mobile-media company to do? Seattle’s Zumobi has a... Read more »