Articles about Education – Page 17 of 20

Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Evan Williams and others bankroll D.C. education upstart EverFi

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams are among the tech heavyweights bankrolling EverFi,… Read More

Gubernatorial candidates Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna talk tech (and education)

Taxes. Health Care. Jobs. Regulatory reforms. Those were some of the topics on the agenda Tuesday morning as Republican Rob… Read More

Northeastern University picks South Lake Union for new Seattle branch campus

Northeastern University today announced that it plans to establish its new campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, sharing space… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kevin Wang is putting computer scientists into high schools

Microsoft employee Kevin Wang is a rare person in the computer science industry. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a… Read More

New Center for Impact and Innovation inks lease at Pioneer Square’s historic Masins furniture building

For nearly 80 years, the Masin family sold couches, tables and other fine-furniture from its Pioneer Square location. But now… Read More

Coursera to distribute free online courses from the UW and 11 other universities

The University of Washington and 11 other universities will begin free distribution of some courses through Coursera, the online education platform… Read More

Forget MIT and Stanford: UW computer science department wins high praise in NYT piece

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain and asked him pointedly to name one missing ingredient… Read More

Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of ‘big data’ and ‘machine learning’

Computer science is very much a discipline that revolves around numbers. But it was something a little less mathematical that… Read More

Gates: Tablets in the classroom won’t work without keyboard

Will Microsoft’s Surface tablet computer be better for students than the iPad? Bill Gates didn’t say that explicitly, but he… Read More

Geek of the Week: Melissa Winstanley, UW computer science standout

Melissa Winstanley didn’t set out to be a computer scientist, but she has become a remarkable one — and she’s… Read More

Newly-formed W Fund to pump $20M into university spinouts

Washington’s startup community is getting yet another shot in the arm, thanks to the efforts of a newly-formed venture capital… Read More

Startup guru Janis Machala named dean of Bellevue College continuing education program

Janis Machala has worked as an advisor to startup companies in the Seattle area for as long as I’ve been… Read More

Entire Seton Hall freshman class getting Windows Phone

Here’s one way to get Microsoft’s Windows Phone into the hands of more users. The entire incoming freshman class at… Read More

President Obama recognizes math and science teachers, including 3 from the Pacific Northwest

There’s a critical need in the U.S. to make sure that public schools are churning out kids who are strong… Read More

Meet the future: These 21 UW computer science grads are ready to change the world

It’s a good time to have a degree in computer science. And it’s not just because Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft are… Read More

Faye G. Allen, mother of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, dies at 90

Faye G. Allen, the schoolteacher mother of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has died at the age of 90 due to… Read More

Startup advice from Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens: Move fast, because speed matters

For the past few years, Keith Vernon of Bristlecone Advisors has taken the stage at the University of Washington’s annual… Read More

Rooftop urban farm may sprout at Microsoft’s Redmond campus

Microsoft is one of the world’s biggest technology companies. But a new type of business may be sprouting on the… Read More

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam: Why Seattle works for his $1 billion company

F5 Networks has been operating in the Seattle area for more than 15 years, quietly building one of the biggest… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Saltbox looks to help sales forces stay on top

Saltbox co-founder and CEO John Delano admits that his company isn’t building the “most sexy mobile-social-big data app.” But even so,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Game Collage makes kids’ apps to entertain, inspire, educate

Kids love apps. But not everything found in the mobile app stores these days is suitable for young, impressionable minds.… Read More

Northeastern University to open graduate school this fall, names Seattle attorney as dean

Northeastern University is continuing to push forward with its graduate school in Seattle, announcing today that it plans to open… Read More

Guest column: Let’s celebrate the geeks who ‘GiveBig’

Today is Seattle Foundation’s 1-day GiveBIG challenge. Seattleites will compete for $500,000 in matching donations for their favorite local charities.… Read More

Hacking Edu: tech’s role in the future of higher education

Call it a noble experiment: only a month to re-imagine institutions with centuries of tradition and, some might say, baggage.… Read More

DreamBox re-positions itself for focus on K-12 market

Digital education company DreamBox Learning has solidified its shift to emphasize the K-12 school market over the consumer market by… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on why we need to invest in education right now

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh may be in the business of cracking people up. But the Seattle Internet entrepreneur also has some… Read More

Survey shows changes in tech use at state’s biggest university

Enthusiasm for technology runs wide and deep at the University of Washington, which recently took a snapshot of current tech… Read More

Y Combinator for high-school kids? It’s students only at this new startup incubator

StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now,… Read More

Seattle schools to offer digital animation, game courses

Budding digital animators and game programmers will soon have another option for learning those skills — through Seattle Public Schools’… Read More

Check out these 14 ‘entrepreneur’ grants for STEM education

Washington STEM, a nonprofit that supports science, technology, engineering, and math education across the state, has awarded 14 grants to educators in… Read More