Message from Leadership

Corporate partnership is a cornerstone of CityU and the School of Technology & Computing. Two years ago Kathy Cox, Director of External Affairs, and Professor Sam Chung collaborated with WTIA’s Amazon Apprenti Program (AAP) to create and offer a Full Stack Developer apprenticeship for transitioning military. Next week the second AAP cohort will be featured. This week STC’s Byte features the Amazon/CityU partnership article feature in the Seattle Times.

Amazon teams with City University of Seattle to train military employees for new role

Mike Cooper, a Coast Guard veteran and new Amazon employee, at a ceremony in 2018 for graduates of an apprenticeship program that trains military veterans for technology jobs at Amazon. Seated are Jennifer Carlson, of the Washington Technology Industry Association, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Ardine Williams, an Amazon vice president. Amazon’s newest program with City University of Seattle to train its military employees and their families for higher-paying jobs in the company is an outgrowth of the partnership that produced the apprenticeship program. (Jordan Stead / Amazon) READ MORE

Recognition

Kudos to our TAs Kim Nguyen and Spencer Liu for being accepted to conferences to speak on their topics of interest. Kim was accepted to speak at VetSecCon and ShellCon to present her talk “Voice-Based Software Exploitation”. Spencer was accepted to speak at VeSecCon on his talk “Android Vulnerability Exploitation”. 

Kim Nguyen

Jonathan Helmus 

Spencer Liu

This week in tech history Aug 23-30

August 25, 1991
Linux is born

The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds releases a statement on an internet message board that he is working on a new operating system. The massate is titled: “What would you like to see most in minix?” This OS became Linux.

August 24, 1995
Windows 95 introduced

Microsoft launches its promised “largest project in technology history”, Windows 95. In the first four days of its release, over one million copies were sold. Happy 25th Anniversary Microsoft!

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