Leave it to a high-tech city above ground to build a high-tech roadway underground. Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel project has a number of noteworthy engineering and construction milestones in the… Read More
The number of international students enrolling in American universities is declining for the first time in years, amid volatile shifts in U.S. immigration policy. That’s according to the latest data… Read More
University of Washington officials used a scaled-up scissors this week for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that celebrated scaled-down science: the opening of the Institute for Nano-Engineered Systems, or NanoES. The institute,… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The title of the panel was “Women in Hardware,” but the focus turned out to be more about the organizational software to support women at startups. Five women… Read More
The University of Washington has received a $15.6 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation to fund its Molecular Engineering Materials Center and take on “moonshots” that could lead… Read More
Teams from the University of Washington and more than 20 other universities and colleges around the world are converging on SpaceX’s Southern California headquarters this weekend for the company’s second… Read More
Portland-based Simplexity Product Development is opening an office in Seattle and hiring top personnel from Stratos Product Development, a Seattle company that closed abruptly in May. Simplexity says the Seattle office was… Read More
Jennifer Chao has an unconventional strategy for relieving stress from her demanding job as Redfin’s vice president of engineering. Taking a page from a mentor’s playbook, she takes a day… Read More
From the dark depths beneath Seattle, Bertha the SR 99 tunnel machine headed out of the muck and into daylight on Tuesday, completing a final push in a years-long effort to create space for a… Read More
Charles and Lisa Simonyi are the latest high-profile donors to make big contributions for a second computer science building at the University of Washington in Seattle. The couple’s $5 million donation — on… Read More
Ruben Ortega, a Seattle tech veteran who has led engineering teams at Amazon, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Google and Nordstrom, has been tapped to lead the Seattle engineering office… Read More
A number of big-name tech companies have landed in Seattle in recent years, attracted by top-notch engineering talent and a well-regarded computer science program at the University of Washington. But… Read More
Airbnb is establishing a downtown Seattle engineering operation, GeekWire has learned, making the alternative accommodations giant the latest Bay Area company to set up shop in Seattle in a quest for software development talent. Leading… Read More
Thuan Pham promised himself that it was time to take a vacation. He spent more than eight years helping build VMWare’s engineering team, seeing the company go from 300 to… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his charm offensive in China this week, meeting with the country’s propaganda tsar and going on a controversial jog in the smog as part a long-term… Read More
The head of security operations at Facebook, Regina Wallace-Jones, is in charge of protecting 1.6 billion people. She’s an engineer who does math and science every day, but she doesn’t think those skills are… Read More
Jeff Meyerson, the host of the podcast Software Engineering Daily, sparked a big debate on GeekWire last week with his piece on coding bootcamps vs. traditional computer science education. But that’s… Read More
Facebook’s Seattle engineering office is the social networking giant’s largest outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters, with more than 500 engineers — and it’s about to get even bigger. The company is… Read More
Updated below with full video of session. While San Francisco might get all the attention for its engineering talent, Seattle is still a major engineering hub for companies based across… Read More
With more than 5,000 hours of engineering experience under his belt, college student Rahul Bhardwaj is already giving back to a program that helped give him his start. The Bellevue, Wash., native… Read More
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is opening a new technology development center in Seattle, joining a legion of technology companies attracted to the region’s engineering talent. The new 32,000 square… Read More
Facebook’s Seattle office has reached a whopping 400 employees — and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Just this week, Facebook expanded onto a fourth floor inside its Seattle building, and the… Read More
Software engineers who are coming back to development after spending some time away from coding now have a new opportunity to get themselves up to speed. Zillow just added a… Read More
[Update: Here’s the official announcement from Dropbox.] Dropbox, the San Francisco-based cloud storage and file sharing company, is planning to open a Seattle engineering office — becoming the latest in a… Read More
Two years after opening a Seattle office, Groupon is gearing up for another growth spurt. The Chicago-based daily deals company currently employs 195 people here, and has plans to add another 75 positions to bring the… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–Engineers today should build systems that are designed to weather a changing technological landscape, tech industry legend Vinod Khosla told an audience at today’s GigaOM Structure conference in San… Read More
The chart above tells quite a story. That blue line — the one that looks like a hockey stick — shows how interest in computer science from freshmen at the University of Washington in Seattle… Read More
Maybe Washington governor Jay Inslee should drop by the University of Washington this weekend for some ideas on how to keep the Skagit Valley bridge sturdy again. Just one week… Read More
A recent survey showed that an estimated 30,000 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs in Washington will go unfilled in the next five years due to a lack of qualified candidates.… Read More
The University of Washington continues to undergo a radical transformation under the direction of president Michael Young. And today the university took a big step in one of its critical… Read More