Seattle IEEE Computer Society Chapter News

I invest some of my free time in helping out at the Seattle chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. We have been focusing on organizing high-quality talks mostly with an emphasis on software engineering or computer science. A number of other activities are in discussion for the coming months as well.

I am happy to report two things this morning:

1. Our website was recently revamped. It may seem like a small step, but the move to wordpress did get us away from a very static and increasingly hard to maintain design. This was a very useful (and overdue) update. A number of additional features are in the works to build this up as a more effective resource for organizational activities, as time allows.
2. Mark it in your calendar: Steve McConnell will be presenting Secrets of world-class software organizations at 6:30pm on Thursday, November 19. This will be at Bellevue College, Building N – Room 201. If you are involved with software development, you are probably familiar with Steve McConnell’s work and maybe even have some of his excellent books in the office somewhere. This should be a very interesting talk.

I’m looking forward to the presentation and hopefully many more such events in the future. Any feedback with respect to other speakers/topics of interest is always appreciated, too.