Archive for September 2008
Where are the famous female programmers?
Posted by: Nancy on: September 30, 2008
http://grok-code.com/37/famous-programmers-from-adleman-to-zimmermann/
Soyoung’s Summer
Posted by: Soyoung on: September 25, 2008
For most of this summer, I interned at Expedia (dot cooooom!)
I was interning as a tester on the corporate travel team. My main task was to automate tests for the website. In other words, I had to write code that acted like a human user that would perform searches on the site, book flights, make [...]
Nancy’s Summer
Posted by: Nancy on: September 23, 2008
The bulk of my summer, I was working as a Program Manager intern at RealNetworks (the RealPlayer company). There were two main projects I was working on this summer.
Project #1: Write a functional specification for the Rhapsody client (the application that manages their music subscription service). Though Rhapsody already existed, there was almost no documentation [...]
Marty’s Summer
Posted by: Marty Stepp on: September 21, 2008
I had an awesome summer! I spent the first few months co-teaching CSE 142 with Hélène Martin. She did an awesome job and made the course a lot of fun. More importantly, she did all the work, so i didn’t have to do anything.
After 142 was over in August, I went on a bunch of [...]
Janet’s summer
Posted by: janety on: September 19, 2008
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I haven’t written one of these since the 6th grade, so I’m a little out of practice, but here’s my “What I Did Last Summer” essay.
I took some classes during summer quarter, including a CSE 326. Since summer quarter is pretty laid back, it seemed like a good time to branch out by exploring [...]
Series: What have the officers been up to this summer?
Posted by: Nancy on: September 19, 2008
Hello everyone! The officers of UW ACMW have been very busy this summer with travel, school, internships, research opportunities, work, and other activities.
We’d like to share some of our summer experiences with you. Expect some posts from us in next two weeks!
Seattle Girl Geek Dinner #2
Posted by: Nancy on: September 12, 2008
- In: Events| Girly
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Girl geek dinners are fun events for geeky girls to get together, network, and hear a technical presentation. I went to the second girl geek dinner at Amazon with some of my coworkers last night.
Last night’s presentation was an overview of Amazon Web Services. Frankly, I did not even know that Amazon even had something [...]
OMG SCIENCE IS SO COOL!!!
Posted by: Soyoung on: September 10, 2008
- In: Technology
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, or hanging out with your creationist relatives, you’ve surely heard about the Large Hadron Collider shooting it’s first beam making atoms go SMASH boom crackle tonight. I am so so so so stoked. Physics is soooooo cool.
Unfortunately, there’s alot of people tuned in to the live webcast. So [...]
Baby’s First Internet
Posted by: Soyoung on: September 7, 2008
While trolling forums, I stumbled upon these cute pictures of baby animals…err…intarnet baby animals. I looked into the illustrator a bit more, and found out that this guy made a collection of rhymes for babies.
Not sure how to explain the internet to your young ones? Presenting a series of nursery rhymes to teach children how [...]
Google Chrome
Posted by: Nancy on: September 2, 2008
Everyone is talking about “The Chrome” now.
Naturally, if you don’t know what the Chrome is, you might feel a little left out. But no worries, we are here to fill you in. The chrome is Google’s new web browser that just came out today. See more info here: http://www.google.com/chrome/
Read the comic too! (FYI, it’s good, [...]
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