UW CSE systems lab members (and friends) celebrate their award paper at NSDI with a visit to Ridge, “The Official Winery of UW CSE” – a tradition we inherited from Andrew Birrell and Mike Schroeder during their Xerox PARC CSL and DEC SRC days.
(Ridge was in fact established by engineers who worked at SRI for UW CSE’s founding chair, Jerre Noe. Jerre’s younger son Russ worked at Ridge in high school, which made it impossible for him to drink plonk with his friends in college …)