CSE Undergrad News

The UW Student Engineering Council (SEC) is having its End-of Year Event this Tuesday, May 25th at 5pm in the electrical engineering building room EEB 403 on the 4th floor (room 403 is in the northwest corner of the building).  The event is free and is open to all engineering students, faculty and staff.  Come to this event if you have any thoughts about becoming a student officer next year for any organization or you are interested in learning more about SEC and would like to participate from time to time without necessarily being a student officer.

We will be nominating board members, introducing SEC representatives who represent their respective student engineering organizations, introducing our new adviser, and announcing the new SEC website with a complete student engineering organization directory and inclusive Google calendar created by volunteers for the benefit of all student engineering organizations here at UW. And to top the evening off, we will have Susannah Malarkey the Executive Director of the Washington State Technology Alliance be our guest speaker following our end-of-year meeting.

Events Agenda:
5:00pm – 5:15pm Sign-in, Introductions, and food and refreshments
5:15pm – 6pm SEC meeting – unveiling of new website, SEC board member nominations
6pm – 6:40pm Technology Alliance Guest Speaker
6:40pm – 6:50pm Q & A
6:50pm – 7:00pm Reception/refreshments

I hope to see you there,
Jason

Jason B. Salazar
2009-2010 Industry Relations Lead,
Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program
Founder, UW-Student Engineering Council
jason.salazar2010@gmail.com

The Student Engineering Council (SEC) was founded this year in association with the UW Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program. We are an interdisciplinary student run council that consists of representatives from student engineering organizations across the College of Engineering. SEC’s mission is to:
1)      Build upon a widely supported effort to improve interdisciplinary communication within the College of Engineering.
2)      Facilitate student opportunities in industry, academia and the greater engineering community.
3)      Provide a volunteer support network between our student organizations.
4)      Enhance the quality and quantity of opportunities students and advisers facilitate in support of our professional and technical development.
5)      Increase participation in our student engineering organizations by providing a resource to pre-engineering students and undergraduates.
6)      Build upon our community as engineering students and future alumni of the UW College of Engineering.

—–Original Message—–
From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Amit Aryeh Levy
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:33 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] We need YOU!

Hi,

Please help us out by participating in our experiment at:

clusterquiz.appspot.com

We need a few minutes of your time. Yoav and I are looking for

participants in a experiment evaluating some ideas we have regarding

social networks. For this evaluation we created a short sequence of

questions using Facebook. It will be short and painless – 10

questions. And, most important, we promise not to make any use of your

private information. We only will collect statistics over your

responses to our questions. The experiment uses a Facebook application

and will require you to approve a simple Facebook application. The

application will create a snapshot of your social network and ask you

to answer a series of categorization questions, but none of your

social information will be stored long term – only your answers to the

questions.

To participate please go to: clusterquiz.appspot.com

Thank you in advance!

Yoav and Amit

Yoav — yoav@cs.washignton.edu

Amit — levya@cs.washington.edu

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On Behalf Of Bruce Hemingway
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:18 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: UW CSE ACM Spring Picnic

Photos from the picnic:

http://hemingway.cs.washington.edu/Photos%20from%20CSE/#/content/48-ACM-BBQ-2010/ACM-BBQ-2010-_BRH0471.jpg

(You folks are SO photogenic! And the light was good for once!)

-Bruce Hemingway

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:14 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; Matt O’Donnell; Ana Mari Cauce; Phyllis Wise; Mark Emmert; Karin Strauss; Elizabeth Rowson; Lyndsay Downs; Adam Lazowska; Jeremy Lazowska
Subject:  UW CSE Spring Picnic

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/05/21/uw-cse-acm-spring-picnic/

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We have decided to manage overloads a bit differently this year. In the past we’ve kept overload request lists, and the process of maintaining and managing those lists is difficult for many reasons, so we’re going to try a new system.

If you are interested in a course this fall that is full, keep monitoring it for space to open.  If you are still unable to get into the course by the time the quarter starts, attend the first week. Instructors will give out add codes by Friday of the first week if there is room in the course to overload. The only course that we think will be too oversubscribed is CSE 378. For those of you still needing that course, remember that there will be one final offering of 378 in winter 2011.

If you have trouble registering due to prerequisites, you should contact an advisor for assistance.

Capstone requests will go out the first week of June, which includes CSE 454 offered this fall.

CSE 390 is now posted:

Restr  20209 A  1       T      130-220    EEB  125                                 Open      0/  55  CR/NC         %     
                        SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE TOOLS                                                                                                                           

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:43 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: [IP] Quote of the day

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Subject: [IP] Quote of the day
To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Jonathan S. Shapiro” <shap@eros-os.org>
Date: May 19, 2010 3:34:12 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Quote of the day

[For IP]

From the New York Times, front page of today’s Business Day section (5/19/2010):

“Information technology and manure have a symbiotic relationship.”

– Chandrakant D. Patel,

HP Sustainable Information technology Laboratory

The NYT article was about using cow manure to help power data centers, but the I think quote holds up pretty well on its own. 🙂

Jonathan S. Shapiro

The UW CSE distributed systems group is working on an ambitious
research project called Harmony. We are looking for undergraduate
students to join our project to start either this Summer or next Fall.

Harmony is a distributed storage system that is designed to scale to
millions of machines and to provide high availability without
sacrificing consistency. Working on this project will prepare students
for graduate school, and provide software development and
systems-building experience valued for positions at companies such as
Google and Amazon.

Applying students should be highly motivated, able to quickly grasp
new concepts and to work independently. Prior experience with the
Python programming language, networking, topics in concurrency, and
systems building are a plus. However, none of these are requirements
for the research position. We welcome students with no prior research
experience.

This project is coordinated by two graduate students — Ivan
Beschastnikh and Lisa Glendenning. Please contact us if you would like
more information about this opportunity.

Thanks!
Ivan (ivan@cs) and Lisa (lglenden@cs).

Hi fellow CSE students,

Are you interested in learning the best ways to invest in the stock market? If so, join us at SEBA’s next spotlight event! From analyzing risk, to diversification, to common investor mistakes, you will learn about a wide array of tools to help you make the right choices for your financial plan. Both beginners and experts are welcome.

RVSP: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/seba/101976
(Dinner will be provided)

Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, May 18th (Tomorrow)
Time: 5:30 – 6:30pm
Location: EEB 403

Regards,
Josh Scotland

Google Voice is a (mostly) cost-free service from Google that gives subscribers a host of handy features, including:

• a single phone number in an area code that you choose that can be used for incoming calls that ring any or all of your phones, plus for outgoing calls from any or all of your phones
• free voicemail that transcribes your messages to text and delivers them as MP3 to selectable destinations
• cost-free calling to US numbers, plus Canada
• super-cheap calling to international numbers
• cost-free text messages

To subscribe, you need an invitation, and invitations have been scarce. But in this post on the Official Google Blog-  Google Voice invites for students– Google announces that they are delivering invitations to students upon request- you just need a .edu email address.

As a Google Voice user (who ran out of invites a long time ago), I recommend it.

Juniors, seniors, recent alums, graduate and professional students at UW are encouraged to apply for the Luce Scholars Program (http://www.hluce.org/lsprogram.aspx). UW is able to nominate 3 students per year to compete for the opportunity to spend 12 months in Asia. The program provides stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia for fifteen to eighteen young Americans each year.

Applicants must be American citizens who, by September 1 of the year they enter the program, will have received at least a bachelor’s degree and will not have reached their 30th birthday. Applicants should have a record of high achievement, outstanding leadership ability, and a clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for professional accomplishment.
Those who already have significant experience in Asia or Asian studies are not eligible for the Luce Scholars Program. Additional details are provided in the Program Summary below.

An information session covering the program basics and application process will be held Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 4:30pm, MGH 258.

Please RSVP to attend at
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/scholarq/81457.

Campus application deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010.
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