Just a reminder, OS capstone, CSE 481 is open for registration (must have CSE 451 completed by start of spring)

7 – 10 pm at the Gates Commons

FREE for members, $6 for non-members

or you can purchase membership for $8

Feel free to bring your own board games!!

Ed wants everyone to know that Yahoo! is still looking for interns – specifically a QA Engineer for Yahoo! Mail. Please contact Tak Yin Wang directly. Contact info and job details are below. (more…)

Hi everyone,

ACM will be hosting Winterfest on this Friday, 2/27 in the Gates Commons on the 6th Floor of the Allen Center.

Doors will open at 7 pm, and we will begin cleaning up around 10 pm.

This event is FREE for ACM members, and $6 at the door for non-members.

You can also choose to join ACM on the spot for $8 and attend ACM events for free.

If you have a game you want to play, bring it with you . . . and ACM will have some on hand ready to go, too.

Come get your free pizza and drinks!!

Your Friendly ACM Officers

p.s. …and yes, there will be free beer as well =)

We would like to invite you to sign up for the *Native Client Security
Contest
*. This is a 10 week long competition, sponsored by Google. To participate,
all you need to do is to discover and report security vulnerabilities on Native
Client
*,* a new open source technology, aiming to allow the safe execution of
native x86 code in the browser.

All contest entries, will be reviewed by a panel of experts, chaired by
Edward Felten of Princeton University. The panel will select the five
eligible participants with the most high-impact bugs, and these winners will
not only earn bragging rights but will also receive *cash
prizes
* up to $213 ($8,192). For more details, please review the contest’s *Terms
and Conditions
*.

We would appreciate it if you could pass this opportunity to your friends
and colleagues.

Stay up-to-date on what’s happening in and around Google:
http://www.googleforstudents.blogspot.com/

Change is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the University
of Washington who are exploring the role of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved
populations, especially in the developing world. We will be hosting a poster
session with light refreshments on Thursday, February 26 from 5:00-7:00 PM in
the atrium of the Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. In
addition to helping network those interested in this field, the event will also
kick off a speaker series on ICTs in Development that will start March 5
with a presentation by the Technology for Emerging Markets group from Microsoft
Research India.

When: Thursday February 26, 5:00-7:00 PM
Where: Atrium, Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?CSE

Join the UW chapter of Engineers Without Borders tonight for a Dessert & Wine fundraiser!

Monday, January 23, 6-9 pm
Walker Ames room of Kane Hall (Kane 225). (more…)

There will be a unique and interesting talk this Saturday in the CSE building.  Douglas Crockford of Yahoo! is visiting in conjunction with Yahoo!’s Hack-U event currently in progress.  Crockford is perhaps the world’s foremost living authority on the JavaScript programming language.  He also created the popular data interchange format known as JSON.  Before joining Yahoo!, he previously worked on games, music, and multimedia at companies such as Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount.

He will be giving a presentation titled, “JavaScript: The Good Parts.”
In this talk Douglas will show several interesting features of the JavaScript language and why it is both beautiful and misunderstood.
He will also discuss the evolution of the language and some new features due to be added in its next version.

This talk will be held Sat, Feb 21 2009, 3:30pm, in the CSE Atrium.
(The Saturday time is because this coincides with the end of the Hack-U event.)  This event is open to CSE majors and non-majors, so anyone is welcome to attend.

For more information, check out the links below, including the last link to a video of another of his talks:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/reges/crockford.pdf
http://www.crockford.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507

Hope to see you there!

Marty Stepp

After hearing our disappointment in no Stat 391 this year, and discussing the impact this change could have on 390 enrollment in the spring, the Statistics department decided to bring back 391! They just let us know that it is now listed on the time schedule and will be offered M-Th from 2:30-3:20pm.
http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SPR2009/stat.html

The following BioE course is open to undergrads, and may be interesting to  CSE majors.

Bioengineering 555: Cellular and Molecular Biomechanics and Cell Function

This course elucidates the basic mechanisms underlying cell function with emphasis on motion. This unique course has been appreciated for its mildly heretical and provocative approach: students claim to have learned as much about the process of doing science as about the basis of cell function. The principles elucidated in the course are fundamental, and have far-reaching consequences for many areas of science and engineering. (more…)