Crystal Eney
Academic Advisor – Lead
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle
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From: Oren Etzioni <etzioni@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Unique opportunity to chat informally with Steve MacBeth of Bing.
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Time: Tuesday, 5pm. (TOMORROW)
Location: CSE 503.
Topic: search industry, Microsoft in general, summer internships at Bing, careers in computer science, and more.
Bio: Steve Macbeth is responsible for the overall search quality of Bing, including indexing, ranking, spelling, query understanding, contextual search and the overall relevance platform.
Prior to this role Steve was the General Manager and co-founder of the Search Technology Center Asia, located in Beijing, China where he lived and worked for over two years. Steve joined Microsoft in Oct. 2002 and was initially a Group Program Manager in the Windows division working on support infrastructure and services. Before moving to Beijing Steve was Kai-Fu Lee’s Technical Assistant in the Natural Interactive Services Division in Redmond, WA.
Prior to coming to Microsoft Steve was the founder and CTO of Riptide Technologies and pcsupport.com, two technology startups in Vancouver, Canada.
In addition to his work at Microsoft, Steve is a senior associate with the Foresight Institute, a non-profit think tank and public interest institute on nanotechnology and the impact of advanced technology on society.
Please email me if you are coming, so I make sure we have a large enough room.
Thanks,
Oren Etzioni
Professor, UW CSE
Co-Founder, Decide.com