1990s, Alumni, CEO/CTO/Founder/President/VP, Entrepreneurs, Grad Students, Interns & Employment, Undergrad Students Scott Ruthfield: Build your own Gig Author Carlyn Chatfield Date November 19, 2019 Scott Ruthfield was burned out on math and computer science by the end of...
1990s, Alumni, Courses, Leadership, Undergrad Students, Women Engineers Stormy Peters: the Open Source Advocate Author Carlyn Chatfield Date November 4, 2019 Stormy Peters values smart people and resources too highly to solve the same problem...
2010s, Alumni, Courses, Interns & Employment, Undergrad Students, Women Engineers Daphne Wert Strasert: CS and Monsters Author Carlyn Chatfield Date October 31, 2019 After six years of solving user experience and interface issues, Daphne Wert Strasert tackled...
1980s, Alumni, Courses, Hacking, Interns & Employment, Undergrad Students Syd Polk Returns to Software Engineering Author Carlyn Chatfield Date October 21, 2019 Syd Polk is a senior software engineer with Indeed.com, but halfway through his career,...
2000s, Alumni, Courses, Grad Students, Research, Undergrad Students, Women Engineers Allison Heath: CS and Genomics Author Carlyn Chatfield Date October 13, 2019 Allison Heath arrived at Rice University as a Physics major. “Then I took COMP...
1990s, Alumni, Interns & Employment, Leadership, Product, Startups, Undergrad Students Joe Walowski: Going against the Grain Author Carlyn Chatfield Date October 7, 2019 Ten years after Amazon.com opened its online doors, Rice University Computer Science alumnus Joe...
1990s, Alumni, Courses, Diversity, Faculty, Research, Undergrad Students, Women Engineers Stephanie Weirich: a Passion for Programming Languages Author Carlyn Chatfield Date September 30, 2019 Stephanie Weirich expected to be an electrical engineer, like her father. Instead, the Rice...
1980s, Alumni, Interns & Employment, Undergrad Students Bob Swanson: CS and the Traveling Salesman Author Carlyn Chatfield Date September 26, 2019 “In 1978, I thought computers were already old-fashioned and I was rebelling against what...
1990s, Alumni, Courses, Interns & Employment, Leadership, Research, Undergrad Students Bishr Tabbaa: Software Engineering and Biotechnology as strands of DNA Double Helix Author Carlyn Chatfield Date September 24, 2019 “When I matriculated, my original focus was on the natural sciences,” said Gene by...
2000s, Alumni, Interns & Employment, Startups, Undergrad Students Fuching “Jack” Chi: Staging a Career Comeback Author Carlyn Chatfield Date September 16, 2019 Technical career detours occur for a variety of reasons. Yelp software engineer and Rice...