http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu News for UW CSE undergraduate students, from the CSE advising team. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A grad student in another department contacted us with a request for Matlab tutoring. If you have significant Matlab experience and are interested, please contact her directly. "Looking for a junior or senior ugrad that has matlab programming experience. I am grad student working on a project that involves some matlab ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=911 If you've been particularly impressed with one of your teachers over the last year, you can nominate them for a UW awards. See below for details. Subject: Nominations for Distinguished Teaching Awards Dear Student, Undergraduate Academic Affairs invites you to take part in recognizing the many wonderful faculty and graduate students here ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=907 Hey Seniors, If you are applying to grad school you {are|should|wish you were} writing your "Statement of Purpose" for your application. A bunch of us are getting together on the 24th at 1:30 in the Irish Room (674) to review each other's essays - print out a copy, grab a red pen, and come join ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=904 Exposing the Entity Web Unstructured natural language text found in blogs, news and other web content is rich with semantic relations linking entities (people, places and things). At Evri, we are building a system which automatically reads web content similar to the way humans do. The system can be thought of as an army of ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=897 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: GIAN BRUNO [mailto:gbruno@u.washington.edu] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:20 PM To: Raven Avery; Crystal Eney Subject: Winter Quarter Research Group Credits--HCDE 496/596 Hello Crystal and Raven, Would one of you be able to forward this research opportunity to CSE/CS undergrads? Thank you! Gian Bruno Director of Student Services Phone: 206.543.1798 423C Sieg Hall http://www.hcde.washington.edu HCDE Blog: http://depts.washington.edu/tc/wordpress/ ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=894 Who: Apple When: Tonight at 5:30 Where: Atrium http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=891 Come tell us what you've thought of the events so far and any ideas you have for future events.  We'll also be discussing what we've got planned for the upcoming months. Pizza will be provided. - Your ACM Officers http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=888 -----Original Message----- From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Reges Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 1:51 AM To: faculty - Mailing List; cs-staff - Mailing List; cs-ugrads - Mailing List; cs-grads - Mailing List; vgrads - Mailing List Subject: ACM Programming Contest I wanted to share results for the Pacific Northwest Programming Contest that was held ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=885 Hey Everyone, Undergrad Research Night will be held NOVEMBER 24th at 5:30PM in the atrium. Come learn about what it takes to do undergrad research from faculty speaker Shwetak Patel, get some advice from current undergrad researchers, and even find yourself a project at a poster session with CSE grad students discussing current areas of ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=883 I need four tour guides tomorrow for a group of about 70 high school students who will also be going to the Craig Mundie Distinguished lecture. We'll split the group into about four groups of 15 or so. Tour guides will walk them around the Allen Center for about ... http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=881