POP QUIZ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY engineeringNews Timofey Titou, EECS junior “I think it’s in big trouble, but I’m not worried about getting a job. Computer science is in demand. And having a quality education gives a sense of security.” Eric Lin, EECS sophomore “It’s pretty bad. What’s going on right now will change the way we do investment business in the future.” Chardee Galan, CEE/architecture freshman “It’s interesting how it affects everything. I’ve noticed that people don’t want to renovate homes or build new ones as much now.” DJ Gaker, CEE grad student “Everything has its ups and downs. Maybe we’re worried for the next five years or so, but it’ll swing back around.” Window into MSFT hat would you ask Microsoft? On Thursday, October 9, Craig Mundie, the company’s chief research and strategy officer, will answer your most burn- ing questions and demo several advanced tech- nologies highlighting how computing can impact the world. The event is part of the College’s “View from the Top” lecture series and will begin at noon in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. Mundie, one of two senior executives who took over from Bill Gates in June, is responsible for directing the company’s long-term technical strategy and investments. He also oversees Microsoft Research. To get you thinking about your questions, Engineering News asked a few EECS Ph.D. students to submit theirs. Mundie replies. Here’s a sampling: CRAIG MUNDIE: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to interact with Microsoft’s leadership. What do you think of the economy? Continued on page 2 OCTOBER 2, 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 4F PHOTO COURTESY OF MICROSOFT RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO GO BOULDER: ME graduate student Kyle Lawrence searches for a handhold on a wall outside Davis Hall earlier in the summer. The rock, with its rough surface, has drawn recreational climbers like Lawrence who inch their way to the top without using any gear. The technique, called bouldering, is designed for short routes. “This is a way to get some of my energy out,” Lawrence says. HANDHELD EXERCISE Craig Mundie, Microsoft research chief, to speak on October 9 W
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
engineeringNews“Engineer It” is now on
exhibit at the LawrenceHall of Science, thepublic science center justup the hill from campus.In hands-on, stress-busting
activities, the exhibitintroduces visitors to the
engineering process. Build aboat and test its performance in a
water tank. Construct a six-foot-tall structure and seehow it does in the earthquake simulator. Put on foamplastic wings and experience lift and drag in the walk-inwind tunnel. No grading here! Grab a few friends andtake your inner child on a field trip.
Hours: Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free with your student ID
Get there: Park in the lots just off Centennial Drive(bring quarters/small bills for the fee machines). Ortake the campus shuttle Hill Line or AC TransitBus #65.
Online: www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year bythe Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, Collegeof Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadlineis 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication.
Rachel Shafermanaging editor and writer
Megan Mansell Williamsreporter
S. Shankar Sastrydean
Karen Rhodesexecutive director, marketing and communications
ndividuals with diabetes liveby the numbers. Glucose
levels. Insulin dosages. Carbo-hydrate consumption. Dates.Times. Amounts. By writingeach number in a logbook,they help their doctors man-age the disease so they can stayhealthy. The recordkeeping isonerous, yet, without completedata sets, doctors miss trendsand may recommend ineffec-tive treatments.
As a side project to his MEresearch last year, ChrisHannemann (M.S.’08 ME)began developing a systemto help automate the process.His proposal, “Integrated DiabetesManagement,” harnesses web-based applications and popularmobile devices to make living withthe disease easier.
“Diabetes treatment involves alot of guessing because you esti-mate nutrition information orforget to write some-thing down, oryou don’trememberthe exactdetails ofwhat hap-pened on aparticular day,”says Hannemann,who’s had Type I diabetes since theage of eight. “This takes some ofthe guesswork out of it.”
Here’s how his system works: Thepatient checks her blood sugar levelusing a glucometer, which auto-matically and securely transmitsthe reading to a smartphone and,simultaneously, to a web-basedpatient record database, where it’sstored. On her smartphone, a spe-cial application has popped upprompting her to record meal andexercise information. She does,aided by the application’s ability tosearch the web for nutrition infor-mation on her meal.
Based on all the input, the appli-cation instantly provides her with arecommended insulin dosage. Shereceives an automatic injection
from her insulin pump, and thedevice wirelessly transmits thatdatum to her smartphone and data-base. She no longer must rememberto write everything down.
Using either her smartphone orlaptop, she then accesses her pass-word-protected patient record data-base, and a customized applicationcrunches her numbers and presentsher with glucose level trends. When
she visits the doctor, they log ontothe database, review her recordtogether and adjust her treatmentaccordingly.
Judges saw the project’s poten-tial when they awarded Hanne-mann and his teammate Sarah BethEisinger (B.S.’07 EECS) second placeand $7,000 in the CITRIS-sponsoredIT for Society White Paper Competi-tion, part of the Bears BreakingBoundaries Contest in May.
With the award money,Hannemann, who now works atEsolar.com, is taking his systemfrom idea to prototype, using theaward money to buy hardware,develop software applications (withEisinger’s help) and test hisconcept further.
Is a startup in the future? Maybe,he says; but for now he’s simplyinterested in ensuring the project isdone right so that others with dia-betes benefit.
Diabetes management,simplified
University of CaliforniaEngineering News312 McLaughlin HallBerkeley, California 94720-1704Phone: 510 642.5857Fax: 510 643.8882
INTEGRATED HEALTH: Chris Hannemann with glu-cometer (at left), mobile phone and insulin pump.
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Read Hannemann’s full proposal athttp://bigideas2.berkeley.edu
Study break!
“Thistakes some of the guessworkout of managing
diabetes.”
I
Timofey Titou,EECS junior
“I think it’s in big trouble,but I’m not worried aboutgetting a job. Computer
science is in demand. Andhaving a quality educationgives a sense of security.”
Eric Lin, EECS sophomore
“It’s pretty bad. What’sgoing on right now willchange the way we doinvestment business in
the future.”
Chardee Galan,CEE/architecture
freshman“It’s interesting how itaffects everything. I’ve
noticed that people don’twant to renovate homes
or build new ones asmuch now.”
DJ Gaker, CEE grad student
“Everything has its upsand downs. Maybe we’reworried for the next fiveyears or so, but it’ll swing
back around.”
Window into MSFT
hat would you askMicrosoft?
On Thursday, October9, Craig Mundie, thecompany’s chief researchand strategy officer, willanswer your most burn-ing questions and demoseveral advanced tech-nologies highlightinghow computing canimpact the world. Theevent is part of theCollege’s “View from theTop” lecture series andwill begin at noon in
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center.Mundie, one of two senior executives who
took over from Bill Gates in June, is responsiblefor directing the company’s long-term technicalstrategy and investments. He also overseesMicrosoft Research.
To get you thinking about your questions,Engineering News asked a few EECS Ph.D. studentsto submit theirs. Mundie replies. Here’s asampling:
CRAIG MUNDIE: Don’t missthis rare opportunity tointeract with Microsoft’sleadership.
Whatdo you
think of the
economy?
Continued on page 2
OCTOBER 2, 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 4F
PHOTOCOURTESY
OFM
ICROSOFT
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
GO BOULDER: ME graduate student Kyle Lawrence
searches for a handhold on a wall outside Davis Hall
earlier in the summer. The rock, with its rough surface,
has drawn recreational climbers like Lawrence who
inch their way to the top without using any gear. The
technique, called bouldering, is designed for short
routes. “This is a way to get some of my energy out,”
Lawrence says.
HANDHELD EXERCISE
Craig Mundie, Microsoft research chief, tospeak on October 9
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Get the complete College calendar atwww.coe.berkeley.edu/events.
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<announcements>Russell Sears: What are the big researchopportunities?
Mundie: My personal view is that there’snever been a more exciting time to be in thecomputer science field. We are on the cuspof major advances — such as the shift tomanycore chips and parallel programmingand the coming together of local computersand the Internet cloud — that will spark arevolution in what we can do with technolo-gy. Computing will take on more humanisticqualities, predicting our needs and providingproactive assistance. Our interactions withcomputers will become far more natural andpersonalized and encompass our entire envi-ronment rather than being limited to desk-tops and devices. And computers will starttransforming the lives of the five billion peo-ple on Earth who don’t yet have access toinformation, particularly in the fields ofhealth, education and agriculture. In everyone of these areas there is a vast amount ofexciting research to be done — and a lot ofthat research is taking place at Microsoft.
Ben Rubinstein: In its heyday, Bell Labs wasan industrial research lab that contributedsignificantly to basic research. Now MSR andYahoo! Research seem to be taking Bell’splace. Has the game changed? What mustMSR do differently to ensure its survival inthe long run? And do you see a place forbasic research in the industrial research lab?
Mundie: Bell Labs has proved to be one ofthe greatest innovation engines of all time,and in many ways the mission of today’sleading research labs — to consistentlyadvance the state of scientific art — remainsunchanged. At MSR, we attribute much ofour success to our approach of bringingtogether many of the world’s top minds in ahighly open and collaborative environment.MSR researchers aren’t bound by the con-fines of product cycles, freeing them up totake a longer-term view — and enablingthem to focus on everything from basicresearch to technology transfer across theentire company.
Equally important are the partnerships wehave with academic institutions worldwide,which enable researchers to make the great-est impact.
Window into MSFTContinued from page 1
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Read the full Q&A online atwww.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/publications/engineering-news.
Random beauty
FOLIAGE FOR FALL: ME junior Michelle Pang created this leaf by writing
a program in MATLAB, the numerical computations and graphics pro-
gram, and executing on the code for 2,000 iterations. She and other stu-
dents created leaves for an E 77 assignment that asked students to devel-
op a program to select points at random and plot them based on their
ability to satisfy a set of algorithms and characteristics. Have you created
an image or graphic for class that we can feature in Engineering News?
E 190 placement testTake this test on MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., inSibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. EECS, ME, IEORand ChemE majors must pass Engineering 190 in order to gradu-ate. If you plan to enroll in E 190, you’re required to take the place-ment test, offered three times a year. No sign up is necessary, butyou will need to check in with your student I.D. [email protected] for more information.
Engineering major infosessionsOn MONDAYS, there will be a faculty talk at 4 p.m., followed by astudent panel and presentation at 5 p.m., in Sibley Auditorium,Bechtel Engineering Center. http://engle.berkeley.eduOctober 6 Chemical EngineeringOctober 13 Nuclear EngineeringOctober 20 Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesOctober 27 Mechanical EngineeringNovember 3 Civil EngineeringNovember 10 BioengineeringNovember 17 Environmental Engineering
What do you like about your job? I’m always eager to try new things, so beingin a role where I get to work with peoplefrom all over the world, take on an array ofresponsibilities and overcome new challengeskeeps me enthused about my job.
How did you go about finding yourinterest/passion? By testing new waters. You don’t know whatyou’re capable of until you do it.
What’s the secret to landing a job?You should know the different jobs available
Mentoring entrepreneurs lectureOn TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, Ram Shriram, founder of SherpaloVentures LLC, will speak in Sibley Auditorium, BechtelEngineering Center, at 5 p.m. as part of CET’s A. RichardNewton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series.
Girls ruleCalling all female engineers! On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15,train to mentor young girls in engineering and science from 5:15to 7:15 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. You will bematched with one Berkeley Engineering alumna to become aBerkeley Engineering Mentoring Team. To register or for moredetails, please call Dawn Kramer at 510.643.7828 or [email protected].
Youth outreachBerkeley Engineers and Mentors (BEAM) is recruiting volunteersto mentor and teach engineering and science in low-incomeschools and after school programs. Visit http://beam.berkeley.eduor e-mail [email protected].
WITH CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ALUMNA ELIM YEOH
After graduating from Cal, Elim Yeoh (B.S.’03 ChemE) worked as a technology marketing
engineer for Chevron, marketing its licensed technologies to global competitors and man-
aging several international accounts. In 2006, she took a job as a process engineer at a
Chevron refinery in Oahu, Hawaii. “It was not a difficult decision to move to paradise,” she
says. “Since the refinery is relatively small, engineers take on different roles, which include
managing capital projects to rebuild the facility and attending to daily operations to ensure
that the refinery runs efficiently and reliably.”
for engineers in your discipline. Attend allcareer fairs and prepare ahead of time.Always polish your resume. Be cautious whatyou put in the resume’s “objective” line; forexample, don’t hand Chevron a resume thatsays, “I’m looking for a challenging position inbiotech.” If you’re inexperienced with inter-views, find a friend or professor to practicewith. Interviewers often seek organizedanswers demonstrating a specific task, youractions and end results. Be confident in your-self and in your abilities because companiesare looking for dependable engineers whocan represent the company well.
What helped you make the transitionfrom student to employee?My internships provided an excellent stepping
stone because I was able to learn differentcompany cultures and values and build abigger network.
What are some things to think aboutwhen considering a potential job? Think about professional developmentopportunities, company locations, whether ithas a 401(k) matching program, the flexibilityto take on different assignments, and mostimportantly, the company culture. The cul-ture speaks for the people the company hiresand the values the company is grounded on.
Get the complete College calendar atwww.coe.berkeley.edu/events.
2 engineeringNews
<announcements>Russell Sears: What are the big researchopportunities?
Mundie: My personal view is that there’snever been a more exciting time to be in thecomputer science field. We are on the cuspof major advances — such as the shift tomanycore chips and parallel programmingand the coming together of local computersand the Internet cloud — that will spark arevolution in what we can do with technolo-gy. Computing will take on more humanisticqualities, predicting our needs and providingproactive assistance. Our interactions withcomputers will become far more natural andpersonalized and encompass our entire envi-ronment rather than being limited to desk-tops and devices. And computers will starttransforming the lives of the five billion peo-ple on Earth who don’t yet have access toinformation, particularly in the fields ofhealth, education and agriculture. In everyone of these areas there is a vast amount ofexciting research to be done — and a lot ofthat research is taking place at Microsoft.
Ben Rubinstein: In its heyday, Bell Labs wasan industrial research lab that contributedsignificantly to basic research. Now MSR andYahoo! Research seem to be taking Bell’splace. Has the game changed? What mustMSR do differently to ensure its survival inthe long run? And do you see a place forbasic research in the industrial research lab?
Mundie: Bell Labs has proved to be one ofthe greatest innovation engines of all time,and in many ways the mission of today’sleading research labs — to consistentlyadvance the state of scientific art — remainsunchanged. At MSR, we attribute much ofour success to our approach of bringingtogether many of the world’s top minds in ahighly open and collaborative environment.MSR researchers aren’t bound by the con-fines of product cycles, freeing them up totake a longer-term view — and enablingthem to focus on everything from basicresearch to technology transfer across theentire company.
Equally important are the partnerships wehave with academic institutions worldwide,which enable researchers to make the great-est impact.
Window into MSFTContinued from page 1
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Read the full Q&A online atwww.coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/publications/engineering-news.
Random beauty
FOLIAGE FOR FALL: ME junior Michelle Pang created this leaf by writing
a program in MATLAB, the numerical computations and graphics pro-
gram, and executing on the code for 2,000 iterations. She and other stu-
dents created leaves for an E 77 assignment that asked students to devel-
op a program to select points at random and plot them based on their
ability to satisfy a set of algorithms and characteristics. Have you created
an image or graphic for class that we can feature in Engineering News?
E 190 placement testTake this test on MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., inSibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. EECS, ME, IEORand ChemE majors must pass Engineering 190 in order to gradu-ate. If you plan to enroll in E 190, you’re required to take the place-ment test, offered three times a year. No sign up is necessary, butyou will need to check in with your student I.D. [email protected] for more information.
Engineering major infosessionsOn MONDAYS, there will be a faculty talk at 4 p.m., followed by astudent panel and presentation at 5 p.m., in Sibley Auditorium,Bechtel Engineering Center. http://engle.berkeley.eduOctober 6 Chemical EngineeringOctober 13 Nuclear EngineeringOctober 20 Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesOctober 27 Mechanical EngineeringNovember 3 Civil EngineeringNovember 10 BioengineeringNovember 17 Environmental Engineering
What do you like about your job? I’m always eager to try new things, so beingin a role where I get to work with peoplefrom all over the world, take on an array ofresponsibilities and overcome new challengeskeeps me enthused about my job.
How did you go about finding yourinterest/passion? By testing new waters. You don’t know whatyou’re capable of until you do it.
What’s the secret to landing a job?You should know the different jobs available
Mentoring entrepreneurs lectureOn TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, Ram Shriram, founder of SherpaloVentures LLC, will speak in Sibley Auditorium, BechtelEngineering Center, at 5 p.m. as part of CET’s A. RichardNewton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series.
Girls ruleCalling all female engineers! On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15,train to mentor young girls in engineering and science from 5:15to 7:15 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. You will bematched with one Berkeley Engineering alumna to become aBerkeley Engineering Mentoring Team. To register or for moredetails, please call Dawn Kramer at 510.643.7828 or [email protected].
Youth outreachBerkeley Engineers and Mentors (BEAM) is recruiting volunteersto mentor and teach engineering and science in low-incomeschools and after school programs. Visit http://beam.berkeley.eduor e-mail [email protected].
WITH CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ALUMNA ELIM YEOH
After graduating from Cal, Elim Yeoh (B.S.’03 ChemE) worked as a technology marketing
engineer for Chevron, marketing its licensed technologies to global competitors and man-
aging several international accounts. In 2006, she took a job as a process engineer at a
Chevron refinery in Oahu, Hawaii. “It was not a difficult decision to move to paradise,” she
says. “Since the refinery is relatively small, engineers take on different roles, which include
managing capital projects to rebuild the facility and attending to daily operations to ensure
that the refinery runs efficiently and reliably.”
for engineers in your discipline. Attend allcareer fairs and prepare ahead of time.Always polish your resume. Be cautious whatyou put in the resume’s “objective” line; forexample, don’t hand Chevron a resume thatsays, “I’m looking for a challenging position inbiotech.” If you’re inexperienced with inter-views, find a friend or professor to practicewith. Interviewers often seek organizedanswers demonstrating a specific task, youractions and end results. Be confident in your-self and in your abilities because companiesare looking for dependable engineers whocan represent the company well.
What helped you make the transitionfrom student to employee?My internships provided an excellent stepping
stone because I was able to learn differentcompany cultures and values and build abigger network.
What are some things to think aboutwhen considering a potential job? Think about professional developmentopportunities, company locations, whether ithas a 401(k) matching program, the flexibilityto take on different assignments, and mostimportantly, the company culture. The cul-ture speaks for the people the company hiresand the values the company is grounded on.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
engineeringNews“Engineer It” is now on
exhibit at the LawrenceHall of Science, thepublic science center justup the hill from campus.In hands-on, stress-busting
activities, the exhibitintroduces visitors to the
engineering process. Build aboat and test its performance in a
water tank. Construct a six-foot-tall structure and seehow it does in the earthquake simulator. Put on foamplastic wings and experience lift and drag in the walk-inwind tunnel. No grading here! Grab a few friends andtake your inner child on a field trip.
Hours: Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost: Free with your student ID
Get there: Park in the lots just off Centennial Drive(bring quarters/small bills for the fee machines). Ortake the campus shuttle Hill Line or AC TransitBus #65.
Online: www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Published biweekly on Thursdays during the academic year bythe Engineering Marketing and Communications Office, Collegeof Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Copy deadlineis 4:00 p.m. on the Monday preceding publication.
Rachel Shafermanaging editor and writer
Megan Mansell Williamsreporter
S. Shankar Sastrydean
Karen Rhodesexecutive director, marketing and communications
ndividuals with diabetes liveby the numbers. Glucose
levels. Insulin dosages. Carbo-hydrate consumption. Dates.Times. Amounts. By writingeach number in a logbook,they help their doctors man-age the disease so they can stayhealthy. The recordkeeping isonerous, yet, without completedata sets, doctors miss trendsand may recommend ineffec-tive treatments.
As a side project to his MEresearch last year, ChrisHannemann (M.S.’08 ME)began developing a systemto help automate the process.His proposal, “Integrated DiabetesManagement,” harnesses web-based applications and popularmobile devices to make living withthe disease easier.
“Diabetes treatment involves alot of guessing because you esti-mate nutrition information orforget to write some-thing down, oryou don’trememberthe exactdetails ofwhat hap-pened on aparticular day,”says Hannemann,who’s had Type I diabetes since theage of eight. “This takes some ofthe guesswork out of it.”
Here’s how his system works: Thepatient checks her blood sugar levelusing a glucometer, which auto-matically and securely transmitsthe reading to a smartphone and,simultaneously, to a web-basedpatient record database, where it’sstored. On her smartphone, a spe-cial application has popped upprompting her to record meal andexercise information. She does,aided by the application’s ability tosearch the web for nutrition infor-mation on her meal.
Based on all the input, the appli-cation instantly provides her with arecommended insulin dosage. Shereceives an automatic injection
from her insulin pump, and thedevice wirelessly transmits thatdatum to her smartphone and data-base. She no longer must rememberto write everything down.
Using either her smartphone orlaptop, she then accesses her pass-word-protected patient record data-base, and a customized applicationcrunches her numbers and presentsher with glucose level trends. When
she visits the doctor, they log ontothe database, review her recordtogether and adjust her treatmentaccordingly.
Judges saw the project’s poten-tial when they awarded Hanne-mann and his teammate Sarah BethEisinger (B.S.’07 EECS) second placeand $7,000 in the CITRIS-sponsoredIT for Society White Paper Competi-tion, part of the Bears BreakingBoundaries Contest in May.
With the award money,Hannemann, who now works atEsolar.com, is taking his systemfrom idea to prototype, using theaward money to buy hardware,develop software applications (withEisinger’s help) and test hisconcept further.
Is a startup in the future? Maybe,he says; but for now he’s simplyinterested in ensuring the project isdone right so that others with dia-betes benefit.
Diabetes management,simplified
University of CaliforniaEngineering News312 McLaughlin HallBerkeley, California 94720-1704Phone: 510 642.5857Fax: 510 643.8882
INTEGRATED HEALTH: Chris Hannemann with glu-cometer (at left), mobile phone and insulin pump.
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
OCTOBER 2, 2008
Read Hannemann’s full proposal athttp://bigideas2.berkeley.edu
Study break!
“Thistakes some of the guessworkout of managing
diabetes.”
I
Timofey Titou,EECS junior
“I think it’s in big trouble,but I’m not worried aboutgetting a job. Computer
science is in demand. Andhaving a quality educationgives a sense of security.”
Eric Lin, EECS sophomore
“It’s pretty bad. What’sgoing on right now willchange the way we doinvestment business in
the future.”
Chardee Galan,CEE/architecture
freshman“It’s interesting how itaffects everything. I’ve
noticed that people don’twant to renovate homes
or build new ones asmuch now.”
DJ Gaker, CEE grad student
“Everything has its upsand downs. Maybe we’reworried for the next fiveyears or so, but it’ll swing
back around.”
Window into MSFT
hat would you askMicrosoft?
On Thursday, October9, Craig Mundie, thecompany’s chief researchand strategy officer, willanswer your most burn-ing questions and demoseveral advanced tech-nologies highlightinghow computing canimpact the world. Theevent is part of theCollege’s “View from theTop” lecture series andwill begin at noon in
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center.Mundie, one of two senior executives who
took over from Bill Gates in June, is responsiblefor directing the company’s long-term technicalstrategy and investments. He also overseesMicrosoft Research.
To get you thinking about your questions,Engineering News asked a few EECS Ph.D. studentsto submit theirs. Mundie replies. Here’s asampling:
CRAIG MUNDIE: Don’t missthis rare opportunity tointeract with Microsoft’sleadership.
Whatdo you
think of the
economy?
Continued on page 2
OCTOBER 2, 2008 VOL. 79, NO. 4F
PHOTOCOURTESY
OFM
ICROSOFT
RACHELSHAFER
PHOTO
GO BOULDER: ME graduate student Kyle Lawrence
searches for a handhold on a wall outside Davis Hall
earlier in the summer. The rock, with its rough surface,
has drawn recreational climbers like Lawrence who
inch their way to the top without using any gear. The
technique, called bouldering, is designed for short
routes. “This is a way to get some of my energy out,”
Lawrence says.
HANDHELD EXERCISE
Craig Mundie, Microsoft research chief, tospeak on October 9
