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.

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