Relationships and Partnerships: Politics, Law, and Technology - Bandwidth Management for the Fearless Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 4587 Date: February 12, 2009 The combination of peer-to-peer networking, 10/100 Ethernet ports as the standard mode of Internet access on campus, and vigilant RIAA monitoring ...

Rick Devenuti, CIO, Microsoft Corporation Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3546 Date: February 12, 2009 Rick Devenuti graduated from the University of Washington with a Degree in Accounting. He then accepted a position in an auditing department of Del...

Programming Language Infrastructures Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3508 Date: February 12, 2009 Norman Ramsey explains that to be truly reusable, a language infrastructure needs not only a compile-time interface but also a run-time interface....

Scott Griffin, CIO, The Boeing Company Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3537 Date: February 12, 2009 Scott Griffin graduated from California State University at Fresno working his way through school as a fire fighter. He then traveled through the U...

Robert Sutton - Author Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1755 Date: February 12, 2009 Robert Sutton, professor of organizational behavior in Stanford University’s School of Engineering and co-director of the Center on Work, Technolo...

Photo Tourism and Photosynth: UW CSE, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft Live Labs Create a Winner Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 0 Date: February 12, 2009 Photosynth is an amazing new technology, created through a unique collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington. The applicatio...

Sally McKenzie, vice president, Eddie Bauer Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3248 Date: February 12, 2009 Sally McKenzie graduated from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland with a BA in Theater. She then relocated to Florida and attained a sales...

Query Processing in Sensor Networks Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3221 Date: February 12, 2009 Many of the emerging applications for sensor networks are focused on data collection and monitoring in remote environments. Samuel Madden, UC-Berk...

Programmable Self Assembly Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3253 Date: February 12, 2009 Modern embedded and robotic systems are increasingly required to be completely decentralized. To build distributed sensor networks, automated f...

Schools Don’t Want Technology, Schools Want Education Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3193 Date: February 12, 2009 AAAS and the National Research Council have recently called for a radical shift from didactic science instruction to a more inquiry-based model.&am...

REVEAL Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1710 Date: February 12, 2009 REVEAL: Reconstruction, Enhancement, Visualization, and Ergonomic Assessment for Laparoscopy. The goal of this work is to develop and test new tec...

Pre-Execution: Staying on the Performance Curve Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3473 Date: February 12, 2009 Emerging applications continue to demand geometric increases in performance. Constraints like power, manufacturing cost, and the limits of physics...

Quantizing Time Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 2890 Date: February 12, 2009 Many systems must treat time as continuous rather than quantized. If time is continuous, what does "first come first served" really mean. Like hor...

Perspectives on the Information Industry Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3489 Date: February 12, 2009 In this special colloquia, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google in Redwood City, California discusses the information industry and ...

Scaling Routers Using Optics Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3438 Date: February 12, 2009 Routers built around a single-stage crossbar and a centralized scheduler do not scale, and don’t provide the throughput guarantees that network op...

Punit Renjen, Principal, Deloitte Consulting Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3427 Date: February 12, 2009 Born and raised in India, Punit Renjen describes to Laura Schildkraut the intense drive and focus which has helped him achieve the position of pri...

Probabilistically Checkable Proofs Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 2947 Date: February 12, 2009 Khot gives a survey of PCPs, known hardness results, and techniques used to build PCPs. Computing approximate solutions is a way to cope with NP-...

Scaling Down the Future: Nanoscale Technology Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 1590 Date: February 12, 2009 Nanoscale science and engineering now impact every aspect of technological innovation. Dr. Todd Hastings, assistant professor of electrical and co...

Regional Optical Networking - The Next Steps Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 4500 Date: February 12, 2009 Over the past year, The Quilt has run a series of workshops focused on the issues associated with using optical networking infrastructure as a b...

PUMA 2: Bridging the Processor/Memory Gap Channel: ResearchChannel Length: 3580 Date: February 12, 2009 Increasing processor clock speeds, along with microarchitectural innovation, have led to a tremendous gap between processor and memory performance...