UW search expert ‘disappointed’ with Microsoft Bing’s progress In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology… Read More
Advice from startup vet Oren Etzioni: Take intellectual risks Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more… 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
Wavii exits stealth mode, touts a better way to consume news It’s been nearly two years since we first encountered Wavii. Operating in the equivalent of a bunker, the Seattle startup… Read More
Introducing the GeekWire Summit: Our new conference will go inside the future of tech As journalists and participants in the Pacific Northwest tech community, we’ve long believed that Seattle deserves a world-class tech conference that involves people… Read More
Geek of the Week: Oren Etzioni on Siri, Burning Man and the promise of algorithms Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for… Read More
‘Hello, computer!’ UW prof and students search outside the box Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing… Read More
