The Canary in the Mine: a frightening insight into the US Economic future. Based in part on Washington Post article, “U.S. pushes for more scientists, but the jobs aren’t there“ Here in Washington state, Ed Lazowska , the Bill and Melinda Gates Professor of Comp Sci at UW, is a very fo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faculty’
June 28th, 2012 - 8:29 am § in UW
UW Recruits Top Faculty in Artificial Intelligence
The new recruits include Carlos Guestrin, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Emily Fox and Ben Taskar, both professors at the University of Pennsylvania; and Jeff Heer, a professor at Stanford University. These are all outstanding computer scientists who will continue the thrust Ed Lazowska [...]
June 27th, 2012 - 12:52 am § in The Ave Scene
Leading UW Regent Donates $$ to McKenna
Jeff Brotman, Democratic power donor, donates $5,000 to Rob McKenna, Seattle Times Jeff Brotman is well known as a UW regent, founder of Costco, and avid financial supporter of the UW. He has hosted Mr. Obama but now is also donating to Rob McKenna, the Republican candidate for governor. This is ver[...]
Allen Brain Institute Becomes Impressive
Paul Allen’s support for the Allen Institute has always seemed more a personal and, perhaps, amateurish effort to do something impressive than the sort of hard-edged .. almost industrial commitment … his buddy Gates has made in malaria research or the fundamental science that has driven [...]
The Dangerous “Research Works Act”
Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu from TECHCRUNCH Congress is currently considering a bill called “The Research Works Act”, whose purpose is to restrict public access to publicly-funded research. The bill is sponsored by large academic publishers who are keen to keep all research, i[...]
February 15th, 2012 - 6:01 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
Richard Zerbe: Doing Things Is Worthwhile!
Decades-old riddle in economics — solved? By Peter Kelley UW News and Information You could say that the economic field of benefit-cost analysis has been stuck in a loop on a specific matter for 70 years — a kind of logical figure-eight that leads not forward, but back upon itself. And you could[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Political Diversity Sprouts in Libya.
Despite concerns of the UW’s own Ali Terhouni, Reuters reports hopeful signs in Libya that democracy has taken root. Terhouni, a former UW economist, returned to Libya as a member of the provisional government, but resigned in protest to organize a new political party. His party is now o[...]
January 17th, 2012 - 9:01 am § in The Ave Scene, UW
LIBYA: Right of Return
Aljazeera has an inspiring video about the return of Libyan emigres who fought and sacrificed with their countryman. Read also about a UW faculty member who is a prominent part of that fight. [...]
Can You Define “Independent?”
A look at Washington state party identity Darryl Holman. UW Antropology About four years ago, I examined how party identity had changed in both the U.S. and Washington state over a two year period following the mid-term elections. Writing about Washington state in 2007, I pointed out: We have a so[...]
Printing has been replaced by posting. Owning and profiting from “News”
In a country where people pause what they’re doing and turn up the news on the hour without thinking about it, the need for quality online journalism is obvious. ….. Jerusalem Post. About 4000 years ago the ancient Hebrews, my ancestors invented the first phonetic alphabet. The result wa[...]