[Pedro]
Today's revolutionaries get degrees in computer
science.
That's where the revolution is at.
There's almost not an area of life or society
or the economy or science that is not being
impacted by, by computer science.
So if you want to, if you want to have a lot
of impact today, you know, my advice to you
is, you know, get a degree in computer science.
[Hank]
We are one of the best computer science departments
in the country.
We're certainly ranked in the top 10 and have
been for many years.
[Pedro]
We cover the whole spectrum of computer science
from, you know, operating systems and algorithms
to things like, you know, artificial intelligence,
machine learning, databases, graphics.
[Steph]
It's not really a thesis-based program.
It's more of a topic-based class program.
So, you have to take eight, four-credit classes,
and you can pick any classes that are offered.
[Alan]
And the classes are all self-contained, so
you take it and you'll get what you need to
be successful in that class.
[Steph]
I was able to work full time easily while
taking these classes.
They're one day a week for three hours, from
6:30 to 9:30 at night.
[Hank]
We want people who have worked and who have
seen what it's like to produce products in
the field, seen the kind of environments that
exist, seen the kind of problems that exist
in the working world.
[Pedro]
So in a way, you know, the classes are much
more interesting because people share their
experiences and they bring up, you know, what
they're interested in and what not.
So it makes it all quite rich.
[Hank]
Our faculty are all among the very top experts
in the world in their particular fields, whether
it's operating systems or machine learning
or human-computer interaction or biological
computing or whatever it is.
[Pedro]
We're in the fortunate position that because
we are one of the top departments we can be
very, very selective.
We have this rule that we only hire people
who are better than we are.
That way we keep getting better.
[Hank]
Seattle's an incredible place to be, and it's
the center of several different ecosystems.
[Pedro]
To start with, you have companies like Amazon
and Microsoft that are headquartered here,
but you know, many of the others also have
labs here.
Like Google has two labs here.
Facebook has a lab.
Alibaba recently opened a lab.
And then we have a very large ecosystem of
startups.
[Alan]
Oh, I think this is the place to be as an
engineer, especially as a software engineer.
Everybody's here.
Every kind of work that you could possibly
do in the field is done here.
[Steph]
Through the program, I've met a ton of, actually,
great friends that work at different companies
in the Seattle area.
I have friends from Google now, from Zillow,
from small startups that I wouldn't have even
heard of if I hadn't met them through this
program, and we actually still get together
quite frequently.
[Alan]
You can just do anything with this.
You want to go work on spaceships?
You can be a software engineer and go work
on spaceships.
You know, you want to go change the world
by putting a computer on every desktop and
in every home?
You can go be a software engineer and do that.
