Photograph of Ed Lazowska

  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