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