 </tr> </table>  the <a href="http://www.wsdma.org">nation's fastest growing software industry</a> even independent of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</a>, significant players in bioengineering and electronics, etc. There is major activity in high performance computing (<a href="http://www.tera.com">Tera Computer Company</a>; the Department of Energy <a href="http://www.pnl.gov:2080/">Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</a>), as well as a rapidly growing biotechnology industry (<a href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mbt/">Leroy Hood's NSF Science &amp; Technology Center</a>, plus a number of companies that either preceded or were attracted by or created by the STC).  There is a burgeoning digital content industry, too.<p>
