Ed Lazowska
Ed Lazowska is a Professor at the University of Washington and holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. He is recognized for expertise in high performance computing, communication systems, data-intensive discovery, and public policy related to STEM education and research innovation.
Impinj CEO Chris Diorio rings Nasdaq bell as RFID chipmaker marks 10th IPO anniversary after growing to $4.2B market cap
Impinj, maker of tiny battery-free RFID chips embedded in over 160 billion items, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its IPO as CEO Chris Diorio rang the Nasdaq bell; the Seattle company commands about two-thirds of its market, grew from a $250 million IPO valuation to a $4.2 billion market cap, but has reported only one profitable year and carries a $400 million accumulated deficit.
Madrona celebrates Impinj’s 10th IPO anniversary, remembering founders Carver Mead and Chris Diorio and their low-power transistor breakthrough
Impinj marked the 10th anniversary of its IPO, and Madrona celebrates its long partnership with the company dating back to its founding in 2000 by Carver Mead and Chris Diorio. The piece highlights Mead's influential contributions to semiconductor industry and neuromorphic computing and explains that Impinj originated from their work on low-power, low-cost field-tunable transistors.
Zuckerberg's yacht, Meta's layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses
This week on the show: Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs, robot pizza startup Picnic flames out and sells to a mystery buyer, and corporate America confronts the rising cost of AI, including the leaderboard-gaming practice known as "tokenmaxxing." And we return to the theme of billionaire yachts for our trivia challenge. With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Organizations
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University of Washington eScience Institute Founding Director 2008–2017 · past
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Computing Community Consortium Founding Chair 2007–2013 · past
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University of Washington Professor 1977–2025, Former Department Chair 2025, Professor Emeritus 2025, Computer Science Professor 2025 · past
Education
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University of Toronto Ph.D., Computer Science · 1972–1977
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Brown University A.B., Independent Concentration (Computer Science) · 1968–1972
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Woodrow Wilson High School 1965–1968
