“Looking for a junior or senior ugrad that has matlab programming experience. I am grad student working on a project that involves some matlab programming, any assistance in coding would be greatly appreciated. Will pay hourly for tutoring? Please contact me at, mkalif@u.washington.edu.”

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 at the University. Nominate someone for one of the following: Distinguished Teaching Award, Excellence in Teaching Award or S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award.

To learn more about the different awards and to submit your online nomination form, visit our website at: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/teachingacademy/awards.html. For any questions, please contact us at dta@u.washington.edu. The deadline for all nominations is Friday, December 4, 2009.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

The 2010 Teaching Awards Selection Committee

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 us!

ACM-W Spambot

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 7th grade grammar students armed with a really large dictionary.
The dictionary, or knowledge base, consists of relatively static
information mined from structured and semi-structured publicly available
information repositories like Crunchbase, Wikipedia, and Amazon.

This large knowledge base is in turn used by a highly distributed search
and indexing infrastructure to perform a deep linguistic analysis of many
millions of documents ultimately culminating in a large set of semantic
relationships expressing grammatical SVO style clause level relationships.
This highly expressive, exacting, and scalable index makes possible a new
generation of information navigation and content recommendation
applications.

Biography:

Deep Dhillon is the CTO of Seattle based startup Evri. He is an
accomplished engineer and systems architect with extensive experience
conceptualizing, architecting and deploying multiple high performance
advanced networking applications. Mr. Dhillon received a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Evri Background:

Evri is a Seattle based web start-up company funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan
Ventures and led by Will Hunsinger, former CEO at Adeze and VP at Gap
Online. Evri has multiple products including web based topic pages, a suite
of content publisher widgets, a browser toolbar application, and an
extensive API. Evri recently launched its application on Hearst
Corporation’s LMK.com site, on Yahoo! Sports pages, and on the Washington
Post.

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/

Winter Quarter Research Group Credits–HCDE 496/596

HCDE 496/596: Internet-Based Research—Using Online Methods to Assess User Experiences

I wanted to announce a Directed Research Group for winter Quarter, managed by Professor Jan Spyridakis and HCDE Doctoral student Elisabeth Cuddihy.

In Winter 2010, we will be improving the software design of WebLabUX, a toolkit we have been developing that helps researchers and web site stakeholders measure user behavior and performance on an instrumented web site as well as test various designs. Past groups have successfully delivered Internet-based studies and analyzed the data to find the effects of information design features on web site visitors’ comprehension, behavior, and perceptions. Among other tasks this winter, we will be making WebLabUX Open Source and investigating its application in small screen devices. Students in the research group will participate in some (or all) of the following activities: identifying and reading relevant literature, programming the tools that run the studies (requires HTML/XML/PHP/MySQL/RubyOnRails knowledge), and refining and testing documentation for WebLabUX. Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-4 credits (graded cr/no cr) in TC 596 (for graduate students) or TC 496 (for undergraduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting activities that they might like to undertake to contribute to the group goals. The group is particularly looking for students with programming backgrounds and web development experiences.

You can read more about the research group at http://www.hcde.washington.edu/navresearch/research/jansp.

Please let me know if you are interested in joining the team and what skills you could bring to the group.

Thank you,

Jan

Jan Spyridakis

jansp@uw.edu
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

University of Washington
http://www.hcde.washington.edu/navpeople/faculty/jansp

Elisabeth Cuddihy

HCDE PhD Student

ecuddihy@uw.edu

When: Tonight at 5:30

Where: Atrium

Pizza will be provided.

- Your ACM Officers

I wanted to share results for the Pacific Northwest Programming
Contest that was held today. We compete in a region that stretches
from southern California up to Canada and over to Hawaii. The contest
is held at five different sites simultaneously. Marty Stepp and I
traveled with our three teams to the University of Oregon in Eugene to
compete.

As usual, our particular site had the most teams and we dominated our
site. We placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd among the 22 teams from Washington
and Oregon competing at the University of Oregon. And we had our best
showing ever in the region. UW teams placed 5th and 6th in the region
out of 77 teams total. Those two teams placed above all the teams
from Berkeley and Simon Fraser who are normally very tough
competitors. They were beaten only by teams from UBC, Stanford, and
the University of Victoria.

Our teams were:

Team Captcha (1st at site, 5th in region):
Jeff Booth, Michael Sloan, Will Johnson

Firefighter Endorsed (2nd at site, 6th in region):
Joshua Snyder, Kevin Wallace, Alyssa Harding

Three Bytes Deficient (3rd at site, 23rd in region):
Steven Howard, Conrad Meyer, Tyler Smith

Please join me in congratulating them for their outstanding performance.

Complete results can be found at this url:

http://www.acmicpc-pacnw.org/Standings/2009.htm

–Stuart

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 research.

The poster session will include projects in:
- Activity recognition
- Robotics
- Computer vision
- HCI
- Networks
- Security
- Technology for Low-Income Regions
- Graphics
and tons more.

Everyone is welcome – you absolutely do not have to be a senior or a
4.0 student to be successful in research!

(Also, keep in mind that there is no undergrad research night Winter
quarter – this is your shot to at least find out what you need to get
started.)

See you all on the 24th!
ACM/-W Spambot

We’ll split the group into about four groups of 15 or so. Tour guides will walk them around the Allen Center for about 30 minutes or so, then take them up to Kane Hall for the talk. Whether or not you stay for the talk is up to you. Please email me at ceney@cs if you are available.

Thank you!