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.
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.
Top Stories of 2020
To say that 2020 unfolded in unexpected ways would be an epic understatement. The changes caused by the pandemic promise to impact tech, business and everything else for years to come. And that's just the start. The influence of Seattle's tech and scientific communities rippled throughout the world. The region's life sciences institutions played a key role in uncovering and battling COVID-19, and Bill Gates emerged as a leading voice for science and equity in the pandemic. Enterprise tech companies provided the bedrock for a massive global acceleration of digital technologies. A national reckoning over race, sparked by the killing…
How this Seattle tech CEO landed in the pro bowling Hall of Fame
Rob Glaser is best known as the founder and CEO of RealNetworks, the Seattle-based company that specializes in digital media, games and computer vision technology. But for about two decades, he was also part of the ownership group for the Professional Bowlers Association, along with his former Microsoft colleagues Chris Peters and Mike Slade. That's how Glaser landed in the PBA Hall of Fame earlier this year, despite never having been a pro bowler himself. It also makes Glaser the answer to what turned out to be a real stumper of a trivia question on the latest episode of the…
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
