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In 1997....
- "Mentor
Graphics Establishes Co-Design Research Consortium To Develop
EDA Technology For Beyond The Year 2000" (November 1997)
Mentor Graphics has formed a research consortium with
Princeton University, Stanford University, the University
of Washington, and Germany's University of Tubingen.
- "Excite,
Inc., Announces Acquisition of Netbot, Inc." (October 1997)
Excite, Inc., has acquired
UW CSE spinoff
Netbot, Inc., for $35M.
Excite already owns UW's
WebCrawler
technology, the original Internet web indexing service.
- CSE Launches Entrepreneurship
Lecture Series (September 1997)
A year-long evening lecture series featuring CEOs from high-tech
startups, co-sponsored by CSE, Molecular Biotechnology,
the Program on Entrepreneurship of the Business School, WSDMA,
WBBA, and AEA.
- UW
CSE Alum Rik Littlefield wins Discover Magazine 1997 Award for
Technological Innovation (July 1997)
Littlefield, a UW CSE alumnus now working at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory in Richland, WA, received the top award
in the "Computer Hardware & Electronics" category for
the design and implementation of a portable ultrasound
system.
- Business
Week ranks UW CSE 5th among academic computer science research
organizations (June 1997)
In the June 23, 1997 issue, Business Week reports a
survey of information technology researchers that ranks UW
CSE 5th among academic computer science research organizations.
- UW
CSE Professional Masters Program advertisement (June 1997)
Appeared in the Seattle Times and Seattle PI.
- "Bagging a
bargain with a cyber helper" (June 1997)
MSNBC reports on Jango, from UW spinoff
Netbot, Inc.
- Dick
Karp receives Centennial Medal from Harvard Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences (June 1997)
On June 4, in a ceremony at Harvard University, UW CSE
Professor Dick Karp was one of
four recipients of the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences. The medal has been awarded annually
since 1989, "For contributions to society that have emerged from
their graduate education at Harvard."
Other recipients this year were chemist Stuart Alan Rice,
economist Henry Rosovsky, and romance languages scholar and
Smith College president Ruth Jean Simmons.
- "Roboshop" (June 1997)
The Economist praises Jango, the intelligent
Internet shopping agent from UW spinoff Netbot, Inc.
- "Surfing
for sales: Software robot uses
UW technology to ease online shopping" (June 1997)
UW press release concerning Jango, from UW spinoff
Netbot, Inc.
- UW system helps improve Java security
on Microsoft, Sun web browsers (May 1997)
A UW CSE team has developed an alternative security architecture
for Java. The work includes the implementation of a secure Java
verifier, and an automatic testing methodology that covers a large
number of security attacks. Application of the UW test suite against
commercial Java implementations has exposed a number of security holes,
weaknesses, and ambiguities in commercial Java verifiers.
The
Net announcement
University
Week article
- UW wins Alliance for Education "A+ Partnership Award" for
Outstanding Contributions to the Seattle Public Schools (May 1997)
On May 21, the
Alliance for
Education presented its 1997 "A+ Partnership
Award" for Outstanding Contributions to the Seattle Public
Schools to the University of Washington. Special
recognition went to
Ed Lazowska of the UW Department of Computer Science
& Engineering and Steve Corbato, Scott Mah, and Bill Mar
of the UW Office of Computing & Communications, for their
work in designing and implementing a metropolitan-area network
for the Seattle School District.
Video
shown at the awards ceremony (2:08,
Windows
Media Player format)
KOMO
TV public service announcement (0:33, in
Windows
Media Player format)
- Fish Shtick screened
at Seattle International Film Festival (May 1997)
Fish
Shtick, the animated short produced by teams of
undergraduates from Art and Computer Science & Engineering
in Associate Professor David Salesin's "Computer Animation"
course last spring, was accepted for screening at the
Seattle
International Film Festival.
- David Salesin receives 1997 University of Washington Distinguished
Teaching Award (May 1997)
CSE Associate Professor David Salesin has been selected as one
of four recipients of the 1997 University of Washington Distinguished
Teaching Award.
See articles from
Columns, the
University of Washington alumni magazine, and from
University Week
- "Undergraduate Digital System Design" and
"Undergraduate Computer Animation" videos receive
"Bronze Telly" awards (May 1997)
UWTV has received Bronze Telly awards (finalist status),
competing nationally with 9000+ other videos, for the videos
"Undergraduate
Digital System Design," featuring three
undergraduate projects from last spring's CSE Computer
Engineering capstone design course,
and
"Undergraduate
Computer Animation," describing last spring's CSE
Computer Animation course taught to teams of students from Art
and Computer Science & Engineering.
UWTV received a third Bronze Telly in this year's
competition, for Episode 4 of the Internet
Roadside Cafe, "History of the Internet."
- "Netbot
shops the Internet's myriad malls" (March 1997)
Puget Sound Business Journal article on UW startup Netbot and
the debut of their Jango online shopping robot.
- "New
twist on shopping: A computer that does the legwork" (March 1997)
Seattle Times "Personal Technology" columnist
Paul Andrews features UW startup Netbot's debut at
Esther Dyson's PC Forum in Tucson.
- UW
places second out of 1000+ in ACM International Collegiate
Programming Competition (March 1997)
A team of 3 UW CSE students
finished a close second to Harvey Mudd. Other
top-10 teams, in order: University of Queensland (Australia),
National Taiwan University, University of Waterloo (Canada),
Umea University (Sweden), Comenius University (Bratislava),
St. Petersberg State University, MIT, Korea Advanced Institute
of Science & Technology.
(UW Daily article.)
- Governor Gary Locke visits UW CSE (February 1997)
Seattle
PI front-page photograph of Governor Gary
Locke's February 27 visit to the University of Washington,
spent visiting with undergraduate and graduate students in
the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
UW
Daily article about the visit, including
photograph
of Computer Science senior
undergraduate Mel Eriksen showing Governor Locke
online materials for CSE 142.
University Week
photograph
of Computer Engineering senior
undergraduate Greg DeFouw showing Governor Locke
the 4-legged walking robot he built in CSE 477.
- "High-tech growth spurt is fueled by UW research" (February 1997)
Seattle PI article on the economic impact of UW
research, featuring UW CSE.
- "'Independent
Agents' Prove Useful as Internet Expands" (February 1997)
NY Times article including information on UW CSE AI "Shopbot"
research.
- "UW
Program to Teach Tech Professionals" (January 1997)
UW Daily article concerning UW CSE Professional Masters Program.
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