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This endowment was established in 2001 in honor of Jerre D. Noe, first chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. The fund provides scholarship support for undergraduate students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Jerre was born in McCloud, California in 1923. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. After conducting radar R&D in Europe during World War II, Jerre received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Jerre then spent a number of years at Stanford Research Institute, where — among many other accomplishments — as Assistant Director of Engineering he led the technical team for the ERMA project, which first computerized banking in the 1950s for Bank of America. In awarding Jerre and his ERMA team the 2001 Weldon B. Gibson Achievement Award, SRI International stated, "By the time ERMA had run its course, it had revolutionized the world banking system and made the automation of checking accounts practical and reliable. In addition, it was a remarkable engineering achievement."
In 1968, Jerre was recruited to the University of Washington as the first chair of the Computer Science Group and its graduate program. Jerre guided the Computer Science Group to Sieg Hall, departmental status, and the introduction of a bachelor's program in 1975. Along with his first wife, Mary, who died in 1982, he was instrumental in establishing the culture that guides UW CSE to this day.
Jerre concluded his term as chair in 1976. Subsequently, as a senior faculty member, he directed the Eden Project, the first award in the National Science Foundation's Coordinated Experimental Research program. The Eden Project, under Jerre's leadership, was key to establishing UW CSE as one of the strongest computer systems research groups, and one of the top computer science programs in the world.
Jerre retired from the University of Washington in 1989, but remained active in the life of the department- at least to the extent possible given the demands of skiing, sailing, traveling with his second wife and long-time family friend Margarete, and enjoying his children Russ, Sherill, and Jeff, and their spouses and children.
Jerre Noe passed away in 2005.
The award is based on academic merit.
Jerre Noe Scholarship Awardees
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About the award donor: Jim Gray (James Nicholas Gray), was born January 12, 1944, and was lost at sea off the northern California coast while sailing on January 28, 2007. Jim was one of world’s most distinguished computer scientists. His numerous contributions to the field of database systems were recognized with membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the European Academy of Science. He was also a fellow of both the ACM and IEEE. In 1999 Jim was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Award for his seminal contributions to our understanding of the concept of transactions and their implementation.
Jim’s pioneering research on transactions at IBM in the 1970s provides the foundation for today’s world of electronic commerce. Every time someone uses an ATM, reserves a seat on an airplane, or purchases an item on the web, they are relying on the mechanisms that Jim first developed. These techniques insure that the “right” thing always happens – even in the presence of software and hardware failures. While they seem second nature to us today, when Jim conceived of them they required very deep insight into the complexities of concurrently executing queries against a shared database system.
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