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Eidolon Asks Us to Imagine a World Without Us

When you boot up Eidolon, you are plopped directly into a vast polygonal forest, somewhere between Bellevue and Olympia, with zero explanation. There’s no stage-setting, no tutorial, nothing. It’s just you and the “post-human” wilderness expanding in all directions around you. Your only clear…

2014-08-28
Whatcom County colleges educating much-needed cybersecurity specialists

The urgent and massive need for computer security professionals has caught the government, industry and education sectors quite unprepared. Corporations such as Target are suddenly finding that large-scale compromise of their information systems is not just an embarrassment, but a significant…

2014-06-24
New website features interactive map of Galbraith trails

A website launch of GalbraithMountainMap.com, an interactive web map of the trails at Galbraith Mountain, will begin at 3 p.m. Friday, June 6, in Arntzen Hall 30 (AH30) at Western Washington University.

2014-06-03
Students compete at annual robot competition 2014-06-03
WWU student robotics festival is May 30

Western Washington University robotics students and Bellingham Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Society invites the public to its Northwest Robot Festival from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Friday, May 30, at WWU's Communications Facility.

2014-05-28
Where Do Googlers Go to College? A Look at Tech Companies' Top Feeder Schools.

The next issue of Wired, on newsstands May 27, has an interesting infographic by Lucia Masud and Brittany Everett that looks at the top feeder colleges for seven big tech companies. The magazine gave me permission to reprint it below.

2014-05-27
Robotics professor at WWU brings real passion to Chinese dance troupe

Jianna Zhang, an associate professor at Western Washington University, says she loves dance, although her professional skills are artificial intelligence and robotics.

She says she was offered professional jobs by other universities and companies, but says she felt…

2014-05-23
Whatcom County colleges educating much-needed cybersecurity specialists

Whatcom County is well served in the training of computer-security practitioners. The established, accredited two-year Cybersecurity program at Whatcom Community College has now been joined by a second two-year program at Western Washington University, together culminating in a bachelor's…

2014-04-30
WWU team wins (regional) CyberDefense Competition

A team from Western Washington University won the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regional at Highline Community College in March and was to attend the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio, Texas.

2014-04-28
WWU gets its first try at cyber-defense title

Western Washington University students are competing, for the first time, in a national competition that pits computer-science students against each other in a three-day exercise in cyber defense.

Winners of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition get a…

2014-04-28
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