 <b>These programs create new technology</b>. In the 1970s, the Pascal compiler for Digital Equipment Corporation's then-new VAX computer was built by UW CSE; the existence of this compiler is given significant credit for the VAX's rapid penetration of the academic market. <a href="http://www.webcrawler.com">WebCrawler</a>, one of the first search engines for the World Wide Web, <a href="http://webcrawler.com/WebCrawler/Facts/WCStory.html"> was designed, implemented, and deployed by UW CSE graduate student Brian Pinkerton</a>; WebCrawler was sold to America Online. <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/salisbur/sundodger.html">Sundodger Scout, a football scouting program offering breakthroughs in flexibility and visualization</a>, was conceived and implemented in 1995 by two CSE graduate students working with the University of Washington football department; Sundodger Scout is credited by the Husky coaches with contributing considerably to the team's remarkable success (Pac-10 co-champion) coming off two years of probation. Collaborative research in computer graphics between the University of Washington and Microsoft has led to new products and to new technologies incorporated in existing products -- <a href=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/impact/shirt.html>at the 1996 SIGGRAPH conference</a>, 15 papers (1/3 of the total presented at this premier international conference) were from UW and/or Microsoft:  5 from UW, 7 from Microsoft, and 3 joint. UW CSE computer systems technology for x86 application performance tuning is currently being licensed to a number of major computer system vendors by UW's Office of Technology Transfer. OTT recently sold to Digital Equipment Corporation patented UW CSE computer systems technology for the design of high-performance processors incorporating simultaneous multithreading. The <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/segal/brute.html">BRUTE AI-based datamining technology</a> has been licensed to a number of companies by OTT.  <p>
