Articles about Jeff Dean

How this longtime Google exec fits an insane amount of exercise into his weekly routine

In an exchange on X, former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean — who recently left the tech giant after 27 years to launch the AI startup Discovery Loop — laid out a training routine that looks less like a tech executive’s calendar and more like a triathlete’s. Read More

Podcast

Elon Musk’s Starlink swagger, SpaceX vs. the cloud giants, and Seattle’s tech universe revisited

SpaceX reports its first quarter as a public company, and Elon Musk says Starlink could deliver a majority of the world’s internet within a decade. Also on the GeekWire Podcast: two Washington tech universe posters, 17 years apart, and a timely question about Google’s first office. Read More

The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years

Jeff Dean, who earned his computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, is leaving Google after 27 years and taking three of the company’s top AI researchers with him. Their startup, Discovery Loop, aims to automate the scientific method itself, and Google is helping fund it. Read More

What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation

Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology. Read More

‘Mind-blowing’ gift to Univ. of Washington computer science honors Ed Lazowska’s ongoing legacy

Ed Lazowska has played an instrumental role in the growth of the Seattle region’s technology industry, as a driving force… Read More