As part of its $40 million in support of the Global Innovation Exchange, it was up to Microsoft to pick a name for the new building. There was no question the building would be named after the honorable Steve Ballmer, his great contributions and impact around the globe continue to leave an imprint in the tech ( … )

A five-year effort launched by a top Microsoft executive to unite some of the Pacific Rim’s top educational institutions and businesses came to fruition Thursday with the grand opening of The Tsinghua Suite at the Global Innovation Exchange, the first physical presence for a Chinese research university. Such collaboration will enable students to work together and ( … )

Global Innovation Exchange will welcome the first class to its Bellevue, Wash.-based tech innovation graduate school this September. The collaboration will thrive on the exchange of ideas and open doors for strategies that work best in each respective country. [Read the full article]

Sparc Apartments is the first project to be completed as part of an ambitious plan to turn a former warehouse district just east of downtown Bellevue into the 36-acre, $2.3 billion mixed-use urban centers that will be the Spring District.[Read the full article]

Global Innovation Exchange Announces GIX Innovation Competition 2017. This year competition will be focused on “connected device” this includes areas such as IoT, wearable devices, intelligent hardware, virtual and augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, intelligent sensors and natural interactions. [Read the full article]

Patel is among the 53 computer scientists from all over the country to be honored for his impact on the computer science community. [Read the full article]

The joint efforts of the University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University have established new guidelines for intellectual property models which enable students to create new startups and protect their ideas. [Read the full article]    

An unusual center for learning is taking shape in Bellevue. It’s a partnership between the University of Washington, Microsoft and Tsinghua University in China to build a school for innovation. [Read the full article]

A global innovation partnership between the University of Washington and Tsinghua University has taken its first step toward becoming a reality. [Read the full article]

Washington’s most prominent public university and China’s version of MIT on Friday broke ground on the Global Innovation Exchange, a first-of-its-kind technology graduate program that could become as important to the development of Seattle as Stanford was for Silicon Valley. [Read the full article]

Leaders from the University of Washington, Tsinghua University, Microsoft and other local organizations came together Friday, September 23, 2016, to celebrate to kick off construction of the Global Innovation Exchange building in Bellevue’s Spring District. [Read the full article]

Ana Maria Cause President of the University of Washington expresses high enthusiasm for GIX’s one of a kind technology graduate program. The partnership with UW and Tsinghua University will be a mix of culture and innovative ideas. [Read the full article]

University of Washington and Tsinghua University come together to create a  different type of institution,  the first dual tech degree offered through  Global Innovation Exchange will break the mold from ordinary programs. The students will get a sense of some of the issues facing the world and partner up to find solutions through technology and innovation. [Read the full ( … )

The Global Innovation Exchange is a collaboration to inspire and facilitate scientific and technological education in order to help develop the leaders of tomorrow. [Read the full article]