Lots of people make up rules for games as they go along. Some people turn it into a creative artform. Meet our latest Geek of the Week, Peter Newland, a resident of Lynnwood, Wash., and the creator of “Wizard Dodgeball” — a board game that features the all-stars of the “Interplanar Wizard Dodgeball League” throwing… Read More…
Some of us like to visit casinos, but Shannon Romano is immersed in the world of casino gaming — at least in a virtual sense. Romano is game development manager for Seattle-based DoubleDown Interactive. An experienced developer, she oversees a team that makes the company’s casino-style Facebook games, a casual-gaming experience that gives users… Read More…
Weilie Yi grew up loving maps, and became a computer scientist. So in many ways his role at Seattle startup Placed is his perfect job. The startup specializes in location analytics, helping companies figure out not only how but where people are using their apps and mobile services. Yi, a former Microsoft software design engineer… Read More…
Microsoft employee Kevin Wang is a rare person in the computer science industry. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, then studied education at Harvard and became a teacher in the Bay Area, building and teaching a computer science curriculum for grades 7 through 12. In 2009, that… Read More…
Seattle tech veteran Olly Downs, senior vice president of data sciences at Globys, has made a habit of turning data into useful applications — including a past role as principal scientist at INRIX, working on technologies to predict traffic jams. So it’s only fitting that he likes to spend some of his off-hours speeding around an… Read More…
Melissa Winstanley didn’t set out to be a computer scientist, but she has become a remarkable one — and she’s just getting started. The 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering program is the winner of the 2012 UW President’s Medal, an honor given each year to the student with… Read More…
Our latest Geek of the Week is looking to change the world, one water bottle at a time. Product designer Fernd van Engelen, industrial design leader at the Seattle-based firm Artefact, is raising funds on Kickstarter for a project called 999Bottles, aiming to manufacture thousands of stainless steel bottles with dials for tracking the number… Read More…
Archana Somasegar is an engaging and energetic teenager with a passion — helping girls in developing nations get the education they need to be successful in the world. She may be only 15, but for two years she’s been running the Seattle chapter of Circle of Women, a non-profit group that establishes schools for girls… Read More…
Craig Simmons, our latest Geek of the Week, didn’t originally plan to pursue a career in technology. Back in the 1990s, he was studying for his PhD, focusing on 18th Century and Early Modern British literature, when he realized that something needed to be done to make the rare books and manuscripts he was working… Read More…
Our new Geek of the Week, Ivan Braiker, first made his mark in the world of broadcasting, building radio networks including Olympia Broadcasting and New Northwest Broadcasters, and co-founding the Satellite Music Network — the first radio network to distribute live, 24-hour programming via satellite. Billboard Magazine once named him its “Trendsetter of the Year.”… Read More…
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