Off-Campus Tours and Talks

Upcoming

Thursday, March 28, 2013 | 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Lunch and Tour of Adobe Systems San Francisco
with JuLee Burdekin ('95), Senior Manager of Content
San Francisco, CA

2012–13

How to Crack the Coding Interview: Skills and Strategies for Software Engineers and PMs
Intel Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
October 17, 2012

CodeChix presents Gayle Laakmann McDowell for a heart-to-heart talk about technical interviews and what CS concepts, code and design are needed when interviewing for a tech job.

Cracking the Coding Interview is the #1 interview prep book for software engineers. The Google Resume is a broader book to teach people what they need to do to position themselves for a tech job, starting from early in college up through the offer and job performance itself.

Facebook Women Engineers Host Mills College's Department of Computer Science
Dinner, tour, and conversations with women engineers at Facebook Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
February 17, 2012

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Tour
415 20th St., Oakland
November 7, 2011

A tour of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab parallel systems/supercomputing center at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center for Mills students, including a talk given by Katie Antypas, head of NERSC’s User Services Group.  The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the US Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, located in Berkeley, California.  NERSC itself is located at the UC Oakland Scientific Facility in Oakland, California.  See pictures of the tour at NERSC website.