Updated 2020-04-02 c. 13:00 PDT
These items are generally in reverse chronological order.
Zev conducted a daring surgical extraction operation to get Samara out of New York City on 2020-03-28 and 29. He drove from Madison to Ft. Lee, New Jersey, in one day, spent the night in his car in the parking lot of a Doubletree hotel, drove in to Manhattan the next morning, and drove back with her to Madison that day. I am extremely relieved that she's with Zev and Becky and no longer in virus-plagued NYC. See the photo on the Photos page.
Sam's play "Lucrece from the Dark" is in the September/October 2019 issue of The Kenyon Review Online. https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-septoct/selections/samara-weiss-373633/. Some background about the story of Lucrece (or Lucretia) is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia.
Sam's short play, "In Ireland They Speak Irish; In Cornwall They Speak Cornish", which was read at the 2018 Red Bull Short New Play Festival, has now been published in Red Bull Shorts, Volume IV, The Best of the Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival 2017/2018 (ISBN 9781946259721).
Zev is presenting a paper 2018-07-09 at the HotStorage workshop at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference. https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage18/presentation/weiss
Sam had a play accepted for production in the Red Bull Short New Play Festival, July 16, 2018 [no… not the drink].
http://www.redbulltheater.com/short-new-play-festival-2018
Zev successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation 2018-06-08 and can now be addressed as Dr. Weiss (though he doesn't particularly want you to).
Sam will be an artist in residence at CATWALK during October, 2018. http://catwalkartresidency.com
Zev is teaching his first class (Spring, 2017) at UW: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~cs537-2/.
You can see Zev playing bass with the UW Latin Jazz Ensemble at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELa2SH0GR-c. Audio files of some other UWLJE performances are available:
http://keepitcute.com/uw/UWJO/05Escucha.mp3
http://keepitcute.com/uw/UWJO/06Palmas.mp3
http://keepitcute.com/uw/UWJO/07LagrimasNegras.mp3
http://keepitcute.com/uw/UWJO/08Guarare.mp3
Not surprisingly, yesterday (2015-12-15) Zev passed the preliminary exam for his Ph.D. in computer science at UW Madison. He's now officially a dissertator, and unoffically ABD ("all but dissertation").
On 2015-11-21 Zev had a bass recital for the music minor for his Ph.D. at UW Madison. He (along with an ensemble of piano, drums, trombone, and sax) played five pieces by Charles Mingus. Get an MP3 here. It's definitely worth listening to, but you'll need to download it from Google Drive, since it won't play in a browser (at least not for me). Use the download icon in the center at the top of the page, and then use "download anyway" to accept it without a virus scan. (I'm not sure why Google can't scan a file of only 67M or so, but I guess you'll just have to trust me.) (Additional note as of 2017-12-03: it now seems to play for me in a browser.)
Zev's latest paper, presented at INFLOW in October, 2015, (https://sites.google.com/site/sospinflow2015/home) is here.
Sam wrote the screenplay for The Red Witch, another animated video by Aron Bothman. See it at https://vimeo.com/126629137 (and don't blame the writer for the amateurish voice performances).
A short play of Sam's was part of R + J, A Telephone Play, or Don't Drink the Milk, a collection of short works based on Romeo and Juliet, which was staged in St. Louis in April and May, 2015 by ERA Theatre (http://www.eratheatre.org). Read some reviews:
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/stl/stl400.html
http://snoopstheatrethoughts.com/2015/05/01/eras-r-j-is-a-worthwhile-experiment/
http://stlouistheatresnob.blogspot.com/2015/05/r-telephone-play-or-dont-drink-milk-era.html
Zev presented another paper, this one at the FAST (File and Storage Technologies) conference in February 2015. Read the paper here. The page on his session (including video of his presentation) is here.
Sam now has an IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6761553/. You can see Feast in a Fallen City (the movie created by her friend Aron Bothman, for which Sam wrote the English dialog) on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/90046679. Another of Aron's films that Sam worked on is here: http://vimeo.com/65087548. (You can see more of Aron's excellent art on his site: http://AronWithOneA.blogspot.com.)
Sam's piece in The Toast relating how my father's family came to the US appeared on March 12, 2014. You can read it here. She notes that the editors changed the title she originally gave it, The Family Business, or, How We Got Out of Romania and Into Computers, and also omitted one of the images she supplied, the first page of Zev's paper, which you can see using the link below. Sam writes, "Being published on the internet is the exact opposite of having a play put on, in that it seems alarmingly permanent."
Sam's latest play, Foreign Wars, was staged March 20 through April 6, 2014, in New York by The Random Access Theatre Company. She has a tumblr on the play here with background and commentary (the newest material is at the top, so you might want to start at the bottom of the last page and read backward to get the posts in chronological order). See Sam on YouTube talking about her play here. You can see all the interview videos from the tumblr with this link.
The paper Zev presented in November, 2013, at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles can be found here, and a video of his presentation is here.
Sam's site is Undeciphered Script, where you can read about her other plays and productions, and her Twitter feed is here.
Zev has web pages here and here and a Twitter feed here, but don't expect to see much on any of these. As you can see from Zev's Twitter page, he's no fan of Twitter, to the point that he's set up his own microblogging facility, but it's not easy for most people to use. If you'd like to try, you need to go to a *nix command line and type a command like this: "dig +short 0.ublg.bewilderbeest.net TXT". Replace the zero with successive numbers to see successive posts, or use "latest" to see the newest one: "dig +short latest.ublg.bewilderbeest.net TXT".
You also might want to check out Zev's stuff on github: https://github.com/zevweiss.