CSE Undergrad News

Congratulations to our new treasures Steve Geluso and Steven Rutherford!

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Halperin
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:53 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List
Cc: uw-systems – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Android apps for SCIENCE

Some friends of mine at CMU have developed an Android app that measures some aspects of WiFi use as it relates to location. For those of you who care about your privacy (hopefully, all of you!) the application

“automatically remembers the location where you had internet access through WiFi and maps [them] so that you can look them up later. The application is developed as part of a research project. We do not collect any information that identifies our users.”

(Dan’s note: unless you consider WiFi names, IP addresses+timestamps, etc. as identifying).

The QR-code to scan to get the app is here: http://wifimap.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu/

Please help out with the conducting of SCIENCE!

Thanks,

Dan

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From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Oren Etzioni
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 8:44 AM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Cc: faculty – Mailing List; ‘Linden Rhoads’; ‘Connie Bourassa-Shaw’; ‘Ron Howell’
Subject: DEMO opportunity with a short fuse. [if you are starting a company]

http://demo.venturebeat.com/2010/04/22/demo-seattle-pitch-madrona-venture-group/

Oren

(in my capacity as WRF Entrepreneurship Professor)

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:47 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW CSE “News” RSS and Twitter feeds

Just a reminder, yet again, to sign up for RSS or Twitter feeds of UW

CSE News posts.

There have been a half dozen pretty interesting posts in the past four days.

You can subscribe at the bottom of the left-hand column at

http://news.cs.washington.edu/.

fyi

From: GIAN BRUNO [mailto:gbruno@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:23 AM
To: Dowell Eugenio; Crystal Eney; Judith W. Clark
Subject: HCDE 418 this summer

Hello all,

I wanted to let you know that we are offering one of our HCI courses this summer, HCDE 418 (User Experience Designing). This is also offered in the autumn, but we will likely not be able to give any seats to non-HCDE students come fall, due to increase in enrollments. If your students are interested in the course, please encourage them to take HCDE 418 this summer.

Cheers,

Gian

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence runs from Summer 2010(A term) through Spring 2011. The Summer course Story Design for Computer Animation, is highly recommended but optional.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks productions.  Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there.

Light refreshments will be served.

What:

Animation Capstone Series Information Session

When:

Monday April 26th, 2:00-4:00 PM

Thursday May 6th, 2:00-4:00 PM *

Tuesday May 11th, 2:00-4:00 PM

Where:

Paul G. Allen Center for CS&E room 691 (Gates Commons)

* please note that the Thursday May 6th session will not be held in room 691 but in room 674 on the same floor (the “Irish Room”)

Questions?

Contact:

Barbara Mones, AP Program Director ( mones@cs.washington.edu)

Robert Forsberg ( dybbek@cs.washington.edu)

Congratulations to next years Membership Coordinator Mary Pimenova!

To vote for the Webmaster, please fill out this survey by 10:00 AM
on Friday 4/23:

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/acm/101410

Startup Weekend is Coming to UW | May 7th – 9th. Starts Friday at 6 PM
Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides the networking, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action. Startup Weekend has been in over 53 cities around the world in just two years, and is a great platform to bring together the local entrepreneurial community to share, learn, network, build, and start new ventures.

Mission: This will be a completely student run event in association with the Startup Weekend Brand. The ultimate goal is to encourage entrepreneurship on University campuses and in communities by using the Startup Weekend model as a great hands-on learning, networking, and application for starting a business…. of course the chance to launch a legitimate startup venture too.

For more info, uw.startupweekend.org or startupweekend@curtishowell.net

Thanks!

Sarah

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Sarah Massey, Assistant Director

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Michael G. Foster School of Business

University of Washington
P:  206.685.9868 | masses@uw.edu

UW CS Undergrads,

UW IEEE will be hosting a Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC) on May 6th at the UW’s Kane Hall.

Come join us for a catered dinner, a distinguished speaker, and a chance to mingle with local engineers and business leaders in a small group setting. While here, you will get a chance to receive insider knowledge about the job application process, the state of the industry and a chance to improve your personal networking and communication skills.

Representatives from the following organizations will be in attendance:

Intel
Boeing
T-Mobile
IEEE Seattle

Attendance will require RSVP at http://uwspac.eventbrite.com/ and will cost $5 for IEEE members and $7 for non-members at the door.

This will be a perfect opportunity to network after last weeks career fair!

UW IEEE