This Autumn quarter will be the only chance for students to apply for a Mary Gates scholarship.

Please share this message with undergraduate students who are involved in activities or projects through which they are developing their leadership ability AND also with students participating in research with the guidance of a faculty mentor.

We serve undergraduates from all majors and disciplines and encourage students to consider how a Mary Gates Leadership or Research Scholarship can support their ambitions as scholars and citizens.

INFORMATION SESSIONS THIS WEEK!

Mary Gates Leadership Scholarships

• Wednesday, October 14, 1:30-2:30, 258 Mary Gates Hall

• Thursday, October 15, 3:30-4:30, 211 Mary Gates Hall

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  Monday, November 2, 5pm

Mary Gates Research Scholarships

• Wednesday, October 14, 2:30-3:30, 258 Mary Gates Hall

• Thursday, October 15, 4:30-5:30, 211 Mary Gates Hall

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, November 6, 5pm

Learn more about eligibility & applying:  http://exp.washington.edu/mge

Questions & appointments:  mgates@uw.edu

Thank you!

Jodene Davis

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Jodene Davis
Mary Gates Endowment
Center for Experiential Learning (EXP)
Undergraduate Academic Affairs
University of Washington
120 MGH | 616-3925 | mgates@u.washington.edu | exp.washington.edu/mge

From: Ed Lazowska
To: cs-ugrads
Subject: First three CSE Distinguished Lectures

The first three CSE Distinguished Lectures of the year are a bit off-beat, so I want to take a minute to *strongly* urge your attendance. Topics include space flight, molecular gastronomy (cooking with science), and the invention of wireless telephony. Read on for more info, and mark you calendars!  (more…)

From Evan Herbst, grad seminar coordinator:

The National Science Foundation fellowship is generally considered the most desirable fellowship for grad students in CS and related fields. All current seniors who are US citizens and permanent residents (and applying to grad school) are eligible to apply. The point of major fellowships is to pay for you to work on whatever you want in grad school rather than what your advisor, who can otherwise take away funding at will, tells you to. In this case, you get about $30k a year, but the important thing is you don’t have to stick to working on the project plan you present in your application–you can switch topics after you get to grad school.

Obama has kept up his campaign rhetoric about increasing research funding, and the little birdies say there should be two to three times as many NSF fellowships awarded this year as are usual. UWCS students (undergrad + grad) usually get about two a year. The more people who apply in the CS category, the more awards in the CS category there will be.

The CS dept. is holding an info/Q&A session on the NSF fellowship Friday 10/2 at 5 pm in cs303. You’ll hear from past NSF recipients and Prof. Ed Lazowska, who’s been on the NSF awarding committee. We’ll provide copies of past winning essays. And non-NSF-specific fellowship questions are welcome.

The application deadline is early Nov. Later in October we’ll provide essay-writing help. For now, come next week and open an application at nsfgrfp.org.

Thanks!

The Clinical Informatics Research Group is listing one or more RA positions for the summer quarter.

The primary purpose of this position is to contribute technical expertise to research projects in the University of Washington Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health and Community Medicine, through development and implementation of web applications for the Clinical Informatics Research Group.

This position will be responsible for developing, installing, and maintaining various Web software components and integrating them into projects such as a clinical assessment application using in-house electronic survey software. These components are generally cross-platform and include software development frameworks, databases (design and implementation), Web applications, Web servers, end-user query and reporting services, and communications libraries. (more…)

Please check out the email below from one of our CSE PhD students on research in redefining programming. Credit is available! Contact Marius for more details.

“Wouldn’t it be rad if programming was simpler, more intuitive, closer to the programmer’s mind and habits, and less bogged down in meaningless details and excruciatingly verbose syntax?

Isn’t it unfortunate that computation — the concept that is defining our collective future — is hard and unintuitive to construct in a way that scales with our inevitable need for fast-paced technology growth?

I do research in programming. Within this broad topic, my interests span an array of fields: programming languages, software engineering, human-computer interaction. Currently, I’m working on projects that leverage existing code structure and programmer habits to make writing and testing simpler, quicker, automated, and intuitive.

If this sounds cool to you, you’re motivated and driven, and would like to work with me to redefine how we think about computation, send me a note. Yeah!

Marius
marius [at] cs”

Interested in what goes on in the world of Academic research? Have a particular interest in an area of CSE? Looking for something interesting and technical to do over the summer? Need to get started on that Honors thesis? Just have a feeling that research is a cool thing to do?

There are about about a million reasons to try out undergrad research. Whether you’re just curious or you’re already looking for a research project, you should check out RESEARCH NIGHT on TUESDAY APRIL 28th at 5PM. Magda Balazinska will give a brief talk about what it takes to get involved in undergrad research, we’ll have a Q&A panel on doing undergrad research, and finally we’ll have a poster session with CSE research groups looking to find undergrad researchers for Summer and Fall. Now’s your chance to find out everything you need to know!

See you on TUESDAY at 5PM.

Your Friendly ACM Officers

Interested in what goes on in the world of Academic research? Have a particular interest in an area of CSE? Looking for something interesting and technical to do over the summer? Need to get started on that Honors thesis? Just have a feeling that research is a cool thing to do?

There are about about a million reasons to try out undergrad research. Whether you’re just curious or you’re already looking for a research project, you should check out RESEARCH NIGHT on TUESDAY APRIL 28th at 5PM. Magda Balazinska will give a brief talk about what it takes to get involved in undergrad research, we’ll have a Q&A panel on doing undergrad research, and finally we’ll have a poster session with CSE research groups looking to find undergrad researchers for Summer and Fall. Now’s your chance to find out everything you need to know!

See you on TUESDAY at 5PM.

Your Friendly ACM Officers

The Ames Robotics Academy (RoboAcad) is a paid summer internship program
at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, for undergraduate and
graduate students interested in robotics. I participated last year, and
had a great time working on many practical projects including a LINUX
based robot controller for a lunar rover prototype. This is definitely a
educational internship with real projects, not a go get coffee for the
boss sort of thing. While the relativity simple application should be
submitted as soon as possible the final deadline is May 1, 2009. If you
are interested please visit the website:

http://robotics.nasa.gov/RoboAcad/

Thanks for your time,

Andrew Pilloud

Just a reminder to sign up for CSE 590k: Research in CS by today if you’re interested. (Undergrads, please email before registering.) We know it came a little late so you might already have a full schedule and don’t need the credits but it would help us to know how many people are coming. If you absolutely don’t want to register but do want to attend, just drop us a line!

SLN: 12192
Time: Th, 2:30-3:20
Location: CSE 503
Credit: 1 Unit Credit / No-credit
Instructor: Your fellow grad students
E-mail: eadar@cs.washington.edu or kayur@cs.washington.edu

Thanks! Eytan (more…)

Hello!

I’m looking for a motivated student (or two) who is interested in
working on programming language VM environment that will be deployed
on millions of computers ( https://seattle.cs.washington.edu ). This
environment is currently being used in networking and distributed systems
classes at universities around the world (including at UW!).   We currently
have a base of well over one thousand computers and expect the number
of computers using this environment to more than double in the next six
months.   This is an excellent opportunity to work on a very visible project.

There are a huge number of interesting subprojects that a student
could work on.   Here are a few example projects (but we are open to
suggestions):

Advanced networking support — Better support for clients behind
Network Address Translators (NAT), IPv6 support, and improved DHCP
support.

Enhancements for mobile devices — Increased portability to mobile
devices, and location services for mobile devices.

Website development especially involving web mashups, XMLRPC,
and web design.

Educational support — Creating example course materials, improving the
user interface of tools, and answering student questions.

Tor project support — TCP over UDP and donation as a hidden service.

Quality assurance — Reading administrator logs on remote systems,
release testing, and automatic control of test farms.

Improved library support — Implementing / porting libraries to our framework.

Benchmarking — Predicting how long it will take a program to run on a
piece of hardware.

Resource allocation — Providing dynamic assurances about the
resources consumed on a specific piece of hardware.

As I mentioned before, these are only a few of the potential
subprojects that we’re interested in students working on.   If you
have your own project ideas we’d be keen to hear about them!

The benefits of doing research in our group:
* Work experience for your resume  —   Applicants with a background
in building real software are highly sought after in industry.
Working on a “production” research project gives you that experience
without needing to commute to work.

* Team environment    —   Almost all of the work in our lab is done in
teams of 2-4 undergrads.   This helps to provide a supportive working
environment and allows students to accomplish more impressive things
in a shorter period of time.

* Research experience   —   One goal of the work is to spread
awareness by publishing in top conferences.   If you are interested in
graduate school, this will help tremendously.

* Course credit or pay   —   Students will receive course credit
or pay in most circumstances.

* Letter of recommendation   —   Letters of recommendation about
research experience (Joe built an application used on millions of
computers) are often more reflective of skills than a letter based on
classroom interaction (Joe got a 3.8 in my class).

An applicant must have:

* Strong programming skills
* Self-motivation

I have had the privilege to work with many talented students,
including three who won awards and/or fellowships for research.   All
of the undergraduates that I have worked with for more than one year
were hired by their first choice in industry.   Our lab currently is
working with more than 10 talented undergraduates, including two who
are working towards an honor’s thesis.

We’re most interested in applicants who have a CS GPA >= 3.5 and
either have taken 3 CS courses or have prior work experience.
Applicants also should have at least 1 year until graduation.
If you are interested in learning more about our project, please send
an email to justinc@cs.washington.edu with the following information
(you need not list more an a few sentences for any item):

* Name
* Previous / Expected Degrees w/ CS and Math GPA
* Scholarships / Awards
* Expected graduation date
* Known programming languages / libraries and level of expertise
* Operating System familiarity (i.e. RedHat Linux administrator for 3
years, Windows user for 10 years)
* Work experience
* Any other skills I should know about
* The coolest project you’ve worked on
* Would you like pay / credit / volunteer?
* Email address you’d like to be contacted at

Thanks,
Justin