Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer
Science & Engineering Director,
University of Washington eScience
Institute Chair,
Computing Community Consortium
Remembering friends
John
Gannon - undergraduate, graduate, and professional friend
and colleague - June 12 1999
Bob
Wallace - friend since high school, employee #9 at
Microsoft, inventor of shareware - September 20 2002
Jill
Bennett - friend since 1985, helped build UW CSE through ties
with DEC - July 14 2004
Ken
Sevcik - graduate advisor, mentor, friend, and wonderful
human being - October 4 2005
Jerre
Noe - first Chair, and cultural direction-setter, of UW Computer Science &
Engineering - November 12 2005
Denice
Denton - UW Dean of Engineering, 1996-2005; a strong voice
for social justice, diversity, and excellence - June 24 2006
Richard
Newton - visionary Dean of Engineering at
Berkeley and fellow member of the Microsoft Research TAB - January 2 2007
Jim
Gray - using computer science to make
scientists more productive - missing
January 28 2007
Ken
Kennedy - leading figure in high-performance computing,
and good friend for more than 25 years - February 7 2007
Randy
Pausch - fellow Brown alumnus and member of DARPA
ISAT; HCI visionary - July 25 2008
David
Waltz - AI pioneer and long-time colleague on the
Computing Research Association and the Computing Community
Consortium - March 22 2012
James Jay
Horning - University of Toronto (my thesis
committee), Xerox PARC, DEC SRC (my first sabbatical),
InterTrust, McAfee Research - January 18 2013
Charles M. Strauss - my
first computer science instructor at Brown, the
person for whom I first TA'd, and a really funny guy - February 10 2013
David Notkin - my colleague and friend for nearly 30
years at the University of Washington - April 22 2013
