Articles about Paul Allen – Page 6 of 16

Paul Allen’s shipwreck sleuths help Aussies document World War I submarine’s remains

Score another undersea revelation for the crew of the Petrel, a research vessel backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. This… Read More

TLDR: Steve Ballmer’s shareholder meeting for America, the world’s biggest plane, Jeff Bezos’ new social media persona

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aims to put the world’s biggest plane in the air this summer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space company says it’s on track to conduct the first test flight… Read More

Paul Allen’s hunt for historic shipwrecks scores another WWII find: the USS Helena

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s seagoing sleuths are reporting one more find in their quest to locate sunken military vessels from… Read More

Bezos, Musk and more: Space billionaires take the spotlight in books and on TV

Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something… Read More

Scientists report successful start to undersea drones’ Antarctic ice shelf study

A scientific team supported by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is reporting the successful deployment of a trio of undersea drones… Read More

Allen Institute adds artist-in-residence to interact with scientists and provoke mutual inspiration

It’s well documented that Paul Allen is an art fanatic by way of the museums (Museum of Pop Culture) and… Read More

With Paul Allen’s backing, explorers find wreckage of USS Juneau, famous for the Sullivan Brothers

The latest chapter of an Irish-American family tragedy played out on St. Patrick’s Day when an expedition team backed by… Read More

When technology was totally radical: Dream of the ’80s lives on inside working Seattle museum exhibit

The Living Computers: Museum + Labs is built around important pieces and time periods as they relate to the history… Read More

Stratolaunch revives its vision of launching space plane from world’s biggest airplane

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture is returning to an idea it’s long mulled over: launching payloads, and possibly… Read More

Paul Allen team locates another long lost warship as USS Lexington is found 76 years after sinking

A team led by Paul Allen has done it again at the bottom of the sea, locating the wreckage of… Read More

How Paul Allen’s plan to make AI more sensible aims to keep us humans safer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s… Read More

Paul Allen to invest $125M for new ‘common sense AI’ project, aims to achieve ‘major breakthroughs’

Paul Allen is pouring more money into artificial intelligence research. The Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday announced Project Alexandria, a new… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch picks up the pace in runway tests of world’s biggest airplane

Stratolaunch Systems, the space launch venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it put its super-duper-sized carrier plane through… Read More

TAE Technologies pushes plasma machine to a new high on the nuclear fusion frontier

TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has… Read More

In interview full of stunners, music legend Quincy Jones says Paul Allen sings, plays just like Hendrix

Legendary producer Quincy Jones has had a hand in creating some of the most iconic music of all time, including… Read More

Paul Allen’s Upstream Music Fest and Summit returning with The Flaming Lips as headliner

The Upstream Music Fest and Summit, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last year as a way to showcase diverse… Read More

Rarely seen bluntnose sixgill shark filmed by Paul Allen crew exploring wreckage of WWII ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omlJVOvtwMc Scientists working for Paul Allen are at it again, making a surprise finding deep beneath the surface of the… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture puts monster plane through first taxi test

That’s one more not-so-small step for Stratolaunch’s giant airplane: The space venture’s founder, software billionaire Paul Allen, is showing off… Read More

Paul Allen’s tech advisor talks C-3P0, R2-D2 and BB-8 and how close Star Wars droids are to reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOlJT3zl1s Beyond playing host to the opening of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” at his Seattle movie theater Cinerama on… Read More

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Tech fad or real trend? Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs places bets in newest exhibits

What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to… Read More

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How this museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers for the future

It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson… Read More

Bam! Pow! MoPOP! Seattle museum to feature huge new exhibition, ‘Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes’

The largest exhibition ever staged at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture will feature hundreds of original artifacts and much more as… Read More

72 years after fighting together in WWII, Navy pilots reunite at Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Museum

Surrounded by the vintage aircraft they remembered from their days in the U.S. Navy, two aviators who fought alongside each… Read More

Scientists get robots ready to study Antarctic ice shelves from below, with $2M boost from Paul Allen

Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University are getting ready for an unprecedented months-long campaign to study Antarctica’s… Read More

Watch: Huge great white shark bites underwater camera used in Paul Allen’s FinPrint project

A camera positioned underwater near the Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, with the goal of capturing footage of sharks… Read More

New incubator program at Paul Allen’s AI institute accepts English learning startup

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has accepted the first startup as part of its new incubator program. Seattle-based AI2 announced… Read More

Go fish! Google and Facebook sites in Seattle will rank among world’s most salmon-friendly buildings

One needn’t be a card-carrying environmentalist to know that it’s a bad thing for salmon to go belly up before… Read More

Univ. of Washington names new computer science building after Bill & Melinda Gates

Before they launched Microsoft and changed the personal computing world forever, Bill Gates and Paul Allen spent their teenage years… Read More

Billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture fires up its engines – all six of ’em

The world’s biggest airplane hit another milestone this week with the completion of the first phase of engine testing at… Read More