Madrona Venture Group Startup Speaker Series
Please join two of Seattle’s top startups to learn more about the technology powering their businesses.
WildTangent is the largest privately held and fastest growing online game network in the world.
AdReady is an advertising technology company focused on making online display advertising accessible and effective for advertisers of all sizes.
Tuesday, January 12th 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Atrium in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
Food will be provided
Sponsored by:
Madrona Venture Group
January 11, 2010
Exposing the Entity Web
Unstructured natural language text found in blogs, news and other web
content is rich with semantic relations linking entities (people, places
and things). At Evri, we are building a system which automatically reads
web content similar to the way humans do. The system can be thought of as
an army of 7th grade grammar students armed with a really large dictionary.
The dictionary, or knowledge base, consists of relatively static
information mined from structured and semi-structured publicly available
information repositories like Crunchbase, Wikipedia, and Amazon.
This large knowledge base is in turn used by a highly distributed search
and indexing infrastructure to perform a deep linguistic analysis of many
millions of documents ultimately culminating in a large set of semantic
relationships expressing grammatical SVO style clause level relationships.
This highly expressive, exacting, and scalable index makes possible a new
generation of information navigation and content recommendation
applications.
Biography:
Deep Dhillon is the CTO of Seattle based startup Evri. He is an
accomplished engineer and systems architect with extensive experience
conceptualizing, architecting and deploying multiple high performance
advanced networking applications. Mr. Dhillon received a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Evri Background:
Evri is a Seattle based web start-up company funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan
Ventures and led by Will Hunsinger, former CEO at Adeze and VP at Gap
Online. Evri has multiple products including web based topic pages, a suite
of content publisher widgets, a browser toolbar application, and an
extensive API. Evri recently launched its application on Hearst
Corporation’s LMK.com site, on Yahoo! Sports pages, and on the Washington
Post.
November 16, 2009
5:30-7 in the Atrium. See you there!
-ACM Officers
October 21, 2009
Adobe tech talk
When: 10/20 at 5:30
Where: the Atrium
Hope to see you there!
– ACM Officers
October 20, 2009
Amazon Info Session – Wednesday, Oct. 14 2009 – 5:30-7:30 EEB 125
Amazon – How Technology Provides the World’s Biggest Selection
By Steve Brain and Margaux Eng
Steve is a Director in Retail Systems. Margaux is a Software Development Manager in Retail Systems and a UW Alum.
We’re giving away free food and great swag.
October 14, 2009
Love technology? Passionate about making an impact with your career? Think about your dream vacation constantly? Come get your geek on at Expedia’s Info Session on Thursday, October 8th at 5:30 pm in the Paul G. Allen Center Atrium. This is a great chance to take a break from the books, enjoy some free food, and learn how Expedia has used technology to become the world’s largest online travel company.
What’s in it for you?
* Interesting Topics: Learn about Best Fare Search, innovation at Expedia, and the technology problems we’re looking to you to solve.
* Free (and tasty) food: Expedia is a food centric company. Come enjoy dinner on us–there will be plenty of Jimmy John’s sandwiches to go around.
* Sweet giveaways: We like giving away free stuff. Enough said.
* Job opportunities: Come learn about the roles we’ll be actively recruiting for at the SEBA and CSE Career Fairs. Bring your resume if you like!
Questions? Email campus@expedia.com.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Expedia Campus Recruiting
October 8, 2009
The Information Revolution and the Study of Information in a Networked World
Martha Pollack, Professor and Dean of the School of Information,
University of Michigan
Monday, October 19, 1:30-2:30 PM
Loew 355
Refreshments will be served
Talk abstract:
The information revolution has changed everything: the ways we
socialize and communicate; the ways we entertain ourselves; and the
way businesses, schools and governments work. From Facebook to the
White House web site, from Netflix movie recommendations to Ebay,
information systems affect our daily lives in countless ways. At the
heart of these changes is a transformation in how we generate,
collect, analyze, store, preserve, visualize, link, and disseminate
information. The study of these transformations forms the basis for
the exciting new field of information, which combines the perspectives
and methods of technical fields such as computer science with social
scientific ones like psychology and economics. This talk will
illustrate instances of information research, organized around topics
such as social media, pervasive computing, network science, and
collaboration technology–and will then place this research in the
broader context of the “iSchool movement.” Finally, it will describe
paths for doctoral education focusing on the design, development, use
and evaluation of information technology and systems.
October 5, 2009
On Tuesday October 6, 3:30 in the Atrium, Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young will speak about … “molecular gastronomy.” Nathan did a startup that was acquired by Microsoft in the late 1980’s. He became Microsoft’s first CTO, and created Microsoft Research. About 5 years ago he left to form Intellectual Ventures. Nathan has eclectic interests and skills — paleontology, photography, cooking. (He is a spectacular cook; did an “internship” at Rover’s.) For the past year or two he has been working with Chris Young on a “molecular gastronomy” cookbook — cooking with liquid nitrogen, various weird chemicals, $250K centrifuges, etc. Last spring I had a dinner that they prepared, and it was off the charts (and plenty weird), so asked them to give a talk. I should note that they are bringing a crew of cooks over to do some demos during the talk and to contribute to the post-talk refreshments.
On Thursday October 15, Irwin Jacobs, the founder of Qualcomm, will speak in the Atrium at 10:30 a.m. in a joint EE/CSE talk. (Note the non-standard time.) Irwin was a faculty member at MIT and UCSD before founding Qualcomm (and, before that, Linkabit) with Andy Viterbi. He and Qualcomm hold all the patents on CDMA-based wireless telephony — it’s their invention. “Principles of Communication Engineering” by Wozencraft and Jacobs has been a staple of EE graduate education for 20 years. Irwin is a legend.
“Be there!”
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/newdlshome.html
October 5, 2009
From: Ed Lazowska
To: cs-ugrads
Subject: First three CSE Distinguished Lectures
The first three CSE Distinguished Lectures of the year are a bit off-beat, so I want to take a minute to *strongly* urge your attendance. Topics include space flight, molecular gastronomy (cooking with science), and the invention of wireless telephony. Read on for more info, and mark you calendars! (more…)
September 28, 2009
