GeekWire writes:
“Satya Nadella set off a firestorm last week after advising women to not explicitly ask for a raise, but rather rely on “good karma” …
“We caught up with some University of Washington computer science students who were representing their school at the conference (read how the UW is trying to increase women representation in computing here). Read on to hear what they had to say about Nadella’s comments and women in technology as a whole.”
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Ed Lazowska in Crosscut: “Learning from Satya Nadella’s comments”
An article in Crosscut by CSE’s Ed Lazowska:
“Let’s use Satya Nadella’s remarks at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing as a learning experience – for all of us.
“When Larry Summers made the comments about women in academia that led to the termination of his presidency at Harvard, the issue was not “inarticulateness” – it was that his comments betrayed a lack of familiarity with a rich scholarly literature regarding discrimination against women in academia: literature that… Read more →
Top 10 Ruby States
We’re #1!
An article in CIO Magazine, citing data from PayScale, reports that Washington leads the nation when it comes to average salaries for Ruby on Rails developers.
Check it out here.… Read more →
The bigger they are …
To demonstrate that we display no gender bias in our photo-inversion (see previous post here), we note today’s news concerning former UW Provost (and current University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor) Phyllis Wise, who, if reports are to be believed, on more than one occasion has published the same results multiple times, deleting co-authors.
From Retraction Watch:
“Phyllis Wise, the chancellor of the University of Illinois and an obstetrics researcher, has called for a massive correction of a 2006… Read more →
2002 UW CSE alum Jason Jenks on “How Facebook Made Your Mobile Messages Move at Super Speed”
Wired writes:
“If you’ve noticed your Facebook mobile messages zipping around a little more quickly over the past few months, you can thank a little-known open-source project called Apache Thrift.
“Facebook designed Thrift and has long used the tool to send data between computer servers inside the sprawling data centers that underpin its online empire. But in the summer, the company also began using it to connect user smartphones running the Facebook Messenger app to machines inside these data… Read more →
Josh Smith in 2014 UW Engineering Lecture Series “Engineering the Heart”
This year’s UW Engineering Lecture Series – “Engineering the Heart” – takes place on the evenings of October 15, November 4, and November 18.
The final talk – November 18 – will be by CSE and EE professor Josh Smith, explaining his team’s work on “Cutting the Cord: Wireless Power for Implantable Devices.”… Read more →
Satya Nadella: “Suck it up, women – trust the system”
Update: Here is Satya Nadella’s email to employees following the Hopper Conference interview:
“Toward the end of the interview, Maria asked me what advice I would offer women who are not comfortable asking for pay raises. I answered that question completely wrong. Without a doubt I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work. And… Read more →
Shout-out to UW CSE’s Open Data Kit in the Washington Post
In the article “Engineering improvements for the world,” the Washington Post notes:
“It may be true that engineers are producing sometimes-myopic inventions. But something else is happening that is getting little attention.
“In labs around the world, a new generation of engineers is emerging. They are men and women concerned by the gulf between rich and poor and by environmental changes and resource depletion. They are what we call ‘development engineers’ – engineers (and often economics, business and social science… Read more →
UW CSE “Women in Computing” reception
This evening, UW CSE hosted a “sendoff reception” for several dozen undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing later in the week. The reception was attended by these students, CSE’s ever-growing cadre of woman faculty members, and several dozen woman alums from the region. Many thanks to Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler for providing inspiring remarks as part of the program!
Want to learn about CSE’s efforts to increase the representation… Read more →
UW CSE’s Arrakis is OSDI ’14 Best Paper
Congratulations to Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Irene Zhang, Dan R.K. Ports, Doug Woos, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas Anderson, and Timothy Roscoe – authors of Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane, just named one of three Best Papers of this week’s 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).
“In Arrakis, we ask the question whether we can remove the OS kernel entirely from normal application execution. The kernel only sets up the execution environment and… Read more →