What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation

Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a UW alum, addresses Allen School graduates Friday at Alaska Airlines Arena. (UW Photo / Matt Hagen) Jeff Dean was a University of Washington graduate student in the 1990s, optimizing software compilers for object-oriented programming languages in a trailer wedged next to the old computer science building. On Friday evening, Dean returned to the UW’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as Google’s chief scientist and a co-leader of its Gemini AI