Space is limited for this event, so be sure to sign up via Eventbrite!

Date: Wednesday, August 18th
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Marymoor Park, 6046 W Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond, WA
Guest Speaker: TBD.

Parking details will be sent the day of the event.

Liz, Stevi, and Vanessa

Failure and uncertainty play a key role when engineering a general purpose online storage system to be durable, available, scalable, and cost effective. I’ll share some of the uncertainty we’ve encountered and the impact of that uncertainty on the design of the system. I’ll also cover some of the hardware and network failures we’ve encountered, others that we anticipate occurring, and how we’ve engineered Amazon S3 to be resilient to them.

Parking information:

There are two types of paid parking: short-term for up to 2 hours and longer-term for up to 10hours. Some of the 2-hour parking will also be signed for Residential Parking.

In the Cascade neighborhood where there are many older buildings, some streets will be signed for RPZ parking. Residents with RPZ permits may park for free on the designated streets and are not subject to the two-hour time limit.

Event Location

Van Vorst Conference Center (building has a yellow V in front, and is in the center of the courtyard).

PLEASE ENTER THROUGH THE RIGHT SIDE of the conference center.

Address: 426 Terry Avenue North, Seattle 98109

And don’t forget, our generous hosts, Amazon.com, will be giving away a Kindle, so please bring your business cards!

Amazon has graciously offered to sponsor the next Seattle Girl Geek Dinner. More information will be coming soon about the speaker and topic.

Hope to see you all there!

Liz, Stevi, and Vanessa

Date:  Thursday, June 24^th

Time:  6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Location:   Amazon Headquarters – 426 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109 (Van Vorst)

Speaker:  Alyssa Henry – Director, SW Development, S3

Title of Presentation/talk:  Coming soon!

Be sure to sign up on the Eventbrite page to reserve your spot! We usually fill up quickly!

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Yoky Matsuoka

Bio: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoky/bios/

Topic: Understanding human movements

Neurobotics is a new field that lies at the intersection of Robotics and Neuroscience.  In Neurobotics, robotic models and environments are used to understand the neuromuscular control and biomechanics of human limbs.

In parallel, robotic systems are developed to augment, replace and rehabilitate damaged sensorimotor functions.  In this talk, a girl geek will talk about using a robotic tool to understand human level dexterity.

Magda Balazinska

Bio: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/magda/

Topic: handling humongous amounts of sensor-originating scientific data.

Our dinner will be held in located in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.  Directions to campus (and the building) may be found here:  http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html

Date: December 3rd, 2009

Time: 6pm-8pm

Location: University of Washington, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The dinner will be in the atrium.

Sign up at our EventBrite event page!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Liz and Stevi

Microsoft’s Corporate Research Development will be hosting us on September 17, 2009 at the Microsoft WestCommons in Redmond.

Find all the details and sign up on our Eventbrite page. This event will fill up fast!

Can’t wait to see you on September 17!

For those who do have a spot via EventBrite, if you discover you can’t make it, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer that space to someone on our waiting list. Send Stevi the email you used to register.

Thanks to everybody for helping us make sure as many people who want to come can, thanks to Google for sponsoring us, and we look forward to seeing you!

If you have registered but won’t be able to attend, please email Stevi to let us know, so we can give your space to someone on the wait list!

We’re really excited at the high level of interest in this Girl Geek Dinner!

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.

Google has graciously offered to sponsor the 4th Seattle Girl Geek Dinner! Hope to see you there.

Liz and Stevi

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 28th

Agenda:

6:30 – 7:00PM: Registration, Food, and Networking

7:00 – 8:00PM: Welcome and Technical Presentation by Dorothy Nelson

8:00 – 9:00PM: Networking

Location:

Google Seattle office: 651 N 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103.
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Topic of the evening:

User Experience Design: the way of the Geek Artist
The best of both worlds. How minimalist design aesthetic and “form becomes function” make apps fast and elegant as well as usable, and how having geek skillz lifts a designer out of the “make it pretty” ghetto in product teams.

About the Speaker:
Dorothy Nelson is a User Experience Design Manager at Google. She has been programming and designing user-focused front end interfaces since the mid 1980s, from Bell Communication Research and Oracle to uber-dot-bomb Webvan, then to eBay (designing the selling experience) and Google. In her spare time, Dorothy enjoys traditional “dirty-hands” arts involving charcoal and ink and the non-traditional art of Silly Putty sculpture, as well as horsing around with her non-artistic but lovable husband and Yellow Labradors.
Please find street parking as Google cannot provide parking. There should be plenty of parking options with the lots, street and garages.

We’d like to give a big thank you to the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division for their sponsorship. An especially big thanks to Dina and Megan, who made sure everything ran smoothly and put on a great evening for all who attended. Congratulations to the winner of the raffle prize, an Xbox!

Also thanks to Margaret Cobb. We really enjoyed your presentation on how your team took on marketing the Xbox to women. The demo of Lips at the end really got everybody excited.

We will be announcing the details for our January Dinner very shortly, so be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed in your favorite RSS Reader, or via Email!