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Fuel of the future: Seaweed?

Will you one day be driving a seaweed-powered SUV? If researchers at Bio Architecture Lab have their way, it may actually… Read More

A FarmVille for wetlands? Students create Facebook game with proceeds going to wetland restoration

The University of Washington Bothell is located on the edge of a marshy wetland, created by a vibrant ecosystem around… Read More

Amazon’s Bezos spends hours in computer science labs, checking in on the future

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos spent several hours at the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering department before the holiday… Read More

Smartphone meets tablet: Are you ready to hold this giant phone up to your ear?

OK, so in reality, Hanson Hosein doesn’t use his Samsung Galaxy Note as pictured here. The director of the UW’s… Read More

Newly-formed W Fund includes heavy hitters from Seattle venture capital

University of Washington vice provost of commercialization Linden Rhoads wants the state’s largest research institutions to spin-out more innovative technologies,… Read More

Washington state pumps $5 million into new W Fund to bankroll university spin-outs

Just last week, we picked up on a new report which showed that The University of Utah, MIT, Purdue, Johns Hopkins… Read More

How Utah tops Washington: A university that spins out more startups with fewer dollars

Here’s the bad news: The University of Washington is not among the top schools for spinning out startup companies. Now,… Read More

Bionic eye? Researchers see progress on contact lenses

University of Washington electrical engineering researchers say they have successfully tested a single-pixel, wirelessly powered display on a contact lens… Read More

Video: Watch Bill Gates explain how technology is reshaping our world, again

This is Bill Gates, coming full circle. During a rare appearance last month on the University of Washington campus —… Read More

Hey, we’re no Silicon Valley, but Seattle is rising as a tech hub

I am always interested in how national publications perceive Seattle’s technology community. After all, as long time journalists covering the… Read More

UW undergrads win world title in ‘synthetic biology’

The University of Washington may be losing on the gridiron. But get the UW’s tops geeks in the lab, and… Read More

Boston’s Northeastern targets Seattle for new campus, says market underserved for IT

Northeastern University of Boston may soon find a home in the Northwest. The private 113-year-old University is planning to establish… Read More

Mitch Kapor: It’s a great time to start a company, but still really tough to reach ‘high altitudes’

It may be easier than ever to build a new startup company. But it is still exceptionally hard to reach… Read More

Vinod Khosla invests in Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund

At a talk this evening on the University of Washington campus, it didn’t take long for Michael Arrington to break… Read More

UW, WSU score $80M to turn wood products into biofuels

Seattle’s biofuels industry took a big hit a few years ago when Imperium Renewables canceled its IPO, laid off staff… Read More

Intel to cook up the ‘smart kitchen’ and other inventions at new UW research center

Dieter Fox, a University of Washington associate professor of computer science and engineering, has been chosen to co-lead the new… Read More

Tech Moves: Klustner joins Powerit; Trulia names a chief economist; DocuSign; etc.

Rob Friedman has been named the new director of University of Washington Tacoma’s Institute of Technology. The New Yorker — who arrives at… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Educating the next generation of geeks

In honor of back-to-school season, this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast comes with an educational theme — featuring excerpts… Read More

UW football’s secret weapon: Helmet-mounted QB cams

College football season is just around the corner, with The University of Washington set to kick off their home opener this… Read More

Digitizing the night sky … inside the UW’s planetarium

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building,… Read More

UW researcher Shwetak Patel chosen as Microsoft Research Faculty fellow

Since 2005, Microsoft has picked leading university researchers to participate in its Microsoft Research Faculty program — drawing on the… Read More

UW researchers develop trick to help devices use less energy

University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to reduce energy consumption in computers and mobile devices by… Read More

Clean water startup PotaVida takes top prize at UW business plan competition

From healthy French fries to to online travel planning services to urban grocery stores in converted shipping containers, this year’s… Read More

Nerd Notes: The sport of bearding, the art of pitching a startup and the cult of Apple

Germany takes one home in the name of bearding.  The world’s grossest best beard goes to this guy. “When my… Read More

Geek of the Week: Arianna O’Dell — entrepreneur, marketer, startup sparkplug

Arianna O’Dell, GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, has an infectious entrepreneurial spirit, a mind for marketing, and a million startup… Read More

Computer science grads entertain juicy offers as tech hiring heats up (Video)

King 5 takes a look at the tech hiring boom in Seattle, focusing on Google’s growth plans and talking to… Read More

Nerd Notes: A ball catching bot, an internet kiss and the Finger-Nose

The intelligence behind tracking Osama is revealed via Twitter. Introducing the floppy disk necklace. Hey, if Mickey Rourke, Mortal Kombat and the… Read More

An e-mail exodus: How a frazzled UW grad student made the jump to Gmail

Guest Commentary: On a rainy afternoon earlier this month, my stuffed-to-the-gills University of Washington e-mail storage finally burst. I had… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

How cell phones are reshaping the developing world

The mobile phone is transforming the developing world, reshaping how people conduct business and communicate. But that’s not always a… Read More

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