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Alan J. Steremberg | 2013 Alumni Merit Award Winner: CSE

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Channel: Michigan Engineering · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Alan J. Steremberg (BSE CompE '94)
2013 Alumni Merit Award Recipient - Computer Science and Engineering

Mr. Steremberg, who previously received the Alumni Recent Graduate Award and is a member of the College's Engineering Advisory Council, is a co-founder and current President of Weather Underground, an innovative online weather service. The service is now part of The Weather Channel Companies. 

Weather Underground was established at Michigan Engineering in the early 1990s. Building on an application developed by Jeff Masters under the direction of Professor Perry Samson, Mr. Steremberg and others were recruited to develop a way to bring Internet weather into K-12 classrooms. The result was "Blue Skies," which won numerous awards for its interactive imagery and information presentation. The program was later named Weather Underground.

Professor Samson said, "Alan joined our project as a sophomore and brought both tremendous programming savvy and enough politeness to not tell me that my plan of attack was flawed. Instead, he created a new plan and, within a remarkably short time, produced a gopher client that I believe was one of the first models of interactive graphics on what was 
to become the internet."

 In 1995, Weather Underground, Inc. evolved as a separate commercial entity from the university. Later that year, an official web site, wunderground.com, was released, with real-time daily forecasts and hourly conditions for 550 US cities. 

Weather Underground now has the world's largest network of personal weather stations, providing users with the most localized and reliable weather information available.

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