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The research landscape in
Seattle and beyond
Alan Boyle
Aerospace / Science Editor, GeekWire
February 14, 2020
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The Jet City is now also Space City and Satellite City
• Aerojet RocketdyneRedmond’s rocket company
• Blue OriginJeff Bezos’ space venture in Kent (Gov. Jay Inslee with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith at right)
• BoeingAdvanced projects born in Seattle
• First ModeJust one of many space startups
• SpaceXBirthplace of Starlink satellites
• Spaceflight IndustriesBuilding the BlackSky constellation
Aerospace
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New frontiers in health
• Allen InstituteBrain science, cell science, immunology (at right)
• Fred HutchCancer treatment and HIV vaccines
• IDRIInfectious Disease Research Institute
• Institute for Systems BiologyFostering scientific wellness
• Pacific Northwest Research InstituteRedefining genetics for health’s sake
• Geneva FoundationMedicine focusing on the military
Biomedicine
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ABC’s of AI, Big Data and the Cloud
• AI2Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• AppleAcquisitions of Turi and XNOR.ai
• Amazon ScienceAlexa and do-it-yourself AI (at right)
• Facebook AI ResearchImage recognition, natural language
• Google Cloud AIMaking the Cloud smarter
• Microsoft ResearchAI, quantum computing and more
• NVIDIAAI Robotics Research Lab
Computer science
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Fighting the world’s age-old ills
• Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationVaccines and nutrition (at right)
• BGI USANext-gen DNA sequencing
• Global GoodBill Gates and Intellectual Ventures
• PATHSustainable solutions for the world’s health challenges
Global health
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From colleges to coral reefs
• Univ. of Washington250+ research centers and institutes
• Washington State Univ.Agricultural research and more
• GeoEngineersEarth science and geotechnical engineering
• Vulcan Technology and ScienceTech tools for environmental and conservation efforts, including the Allen Coral Reef Atlas (at right)
More science / tech
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For the extended version of this list, with hyperlinks to websites, check out:
bit.ly/aaas-seattleTo email me:
alan@cosmiclog.com
At right: GeekWire’s Kevin Lisota and Alan Boyle take the front seats in OceanGate’s Cyclops 1 submersible, as seen by a 360-degree camera mounted on the inside of the forward viewport.
Thanks!
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