January 5, 2006
Seminar series looks at commercializing environmental monitoring equipment
The experiences of Insitu Corp. — the Bingen, Wash., firm that produces long-range, unmanned, autonomous aircraft for commercial and military applications such as highly localized weather monitoring and reconnaissance — are among the topics of this quarter’s seminar series on “Commercialization of Environmental Monitoring Technology.”
The UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory is sponsoring the series that features founders and CEOs of successful state companies, venture capitalists, attorneys specializing in intellectual property law and UW researchers each Thursday at 2:30 p.m., sixth floor of the Applied Physics Laboratory in Henderson Hall, with coffee and cookies served starting at 2:15.
The series starts today, Jan. 5, with Jim Severson, UW vice provost for technology transfer. In coming weeks, speakers range from Tad McGeer, the founder of Insitu Corp., to John Fluke, chairman of Fluke Capital Management, and Ed Belcher, founder of Sound Metrics Corp. and former engineer with the Applied Physics Laboratory.
The full scheduled is at http://www.apl.washington.edu/edu_opportunities/seminar_series/seminar_series.php.
