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Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t)

The New York Times writes:

“What recent studies have made increasingly apparent is that the greatest number of high-paying STEM jobs are in the ‘T’ (specifically, computing). …

“‘There is a huge divide between the computing technology roles and the traditional sciences,’ said Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor’s chief economist.

“At LinkedIn, researchers identified the skills most in demand. The top 10 last year were all computer skills, including expertise in cloud computing, data mining and statistical analysis, and writing smartphone applications.”

The Allen School’s Ed Lazowska and Berkeley’s David Culler are among those quoted.

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The Paul G. Allen School hosts Nancy Pelosi and Suzan DelBene

Photo: Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch

Today the Paul G. Allen School was honored to host a roundtable on “Women in 21st Century Jobs” with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene from Washington’s 1st Congressional District.

Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff explored a wide variety of issues with Pelosi and DelBene including:

  • the barriers that women face in the tech industry
  • policies to encourage more women in STEM
  • public-private partnerships to help close the skills gap
  • sexual harassment in society at large
  • programs that can increase the success of economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students in STEM
  • communicating the value of fundamental research
  • approaches to mitigating the spread of misinformation/disinformation online
  • the importance of immigration reform

Our deep thanks to Leader Pelosi and Representative DelBene for spending the morning with us in a truly engaging conversation!

(See coverage in TechCrunch, GeekWire, KING TVKOMO TV, KIRO TV). Read more →

Where the jobs are: 2016-2026 edition

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released its employment projections for the decade 2016-2026. It’s a highly detailed forecast: more than 1,000 specific job categories are included.

Computing occupations once again dominate STEM, accounting for 66% of all job growth, and 60% of all job openings (whether due to growth or to replacement).

BLS projects a growth of 546,000 computing jobs over the decade, and 3,475,000 job openings.

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Luke Zettlemoyer, Allen Institute for AI in NY Times

Luke Zettlemoyer, a professor at the University of Washington … turned down a lucrative offer from Google, instead taking a post at the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence so he could continue teaching.”

Luke and Ali Farhadi are heavily engaged in AI2, which is led by long-time Allen School professor Oren Etzioni. It offers the best of both worlds.

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15 volunteers, 2 hours, >300 Allen School résumés reviewed

In the run-up to the Paul G. Allen School’s annual fall recruiting fair, 15 industry volunteers reviewed more than 300 student résumés on Tuesday afternoon in the atrium. Many thanks to Amazon’s Greg Geiger and Abigail Gualberto, Whitepages’ Rachel Flanagan, Redfin’s Marissa Carr, Krystin Morgan and Kritin Vij, Microsoft’s Kelsey Saboori, Indeed’s Jason Gabriel and Robert Noble, Qumulo’s Anthony Falsetto, Google’s Zach Spann, Carolyn Balousek and Lauren Woodward, RealSelf’s Finnian Durkan, and Karat’s Aram Greenman! Read more →

Paul G. Allen School out in force at Grace Hopper Celebration

Roughly 40 Allen School students attended this week’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing – a phenomenal event dating to 1994 that this year had 18,000 attendees! Read more →

2017 Paul G. Allen School “Women in Computing” reception

Lisa and Charles Simonyi flank Pascale Wallace Patterson, recipient of the inaugural Lisa Simonyi Prize

Each fall we host a reception to celebrate the women of the Paul G. Allen School and of our region’s technology sector, to provide an opportunity for them to interact with one another, and to give a rousing sendoff to the Allen School women who we and our industry partners will be sending to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (a group of 40 this year!).

In addition, 2017 marked the awarding of the inaugural Lisa Simonyi Prize, which annually will recognize a student who exemplifies our commitment to excellence, to leadership, and to inclusiveness. Congratulations to Pascale Wallace Patterson, the extraordinary recipient!

And thanks to Jennifer Mankoff for a terrific research overview!

Attendees hear from Prof. Jennifer Mankoff about her research in accessibility

Ed Lazowska’s poster from the first Hopper Conference

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First-Choice Majors of UW Confirmed Incoming Freshmen

The trend continues – at the University of Washington, and across the nation. The two charts shown here tell the story: they show the ten top first-choice majors of UW confirmed incoming freshmen from fall 2010 to fall 2017, and the first-choice College of Engineering majors of UW confirmed incoming freshmen over the same period. Read more →

Seattle PI’s “Famous (and infamous) UW Husky grads”

We have no idea how the Seattle PI chose these 58 UW graduates and near graduates …

The Paul G. Allen School can’t claim credit for Bruce Lee, Anna Faris, or Kenny G. Not Ted Bundy either, thank goodness.

But we’re delighted to claim:

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Allen School’s DawgBytes summer camps are in full swing!

DawgBytes is the Allen School’s K-12 outreach program. One component of DawgBytes is a series of girls and co-ed computer science summer day camps for middle school and high school students. Always wildly over-subscribed, they’re in full swing now. This was the second week of a two-week “High School Girls Leadership Camp,” during which the students were joined by (and mentored) students in the Middle School Girls Creative Coding Camp.

More photos here. Info on our summer camps here. Info on DawgBytes here. DawgBytes Facebook page here. Read more →

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