CSE Undergrad News

From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:09 PM
To: talks – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; Leung Tsang
Subject: Energy Future lecture series

CSE and EE folks:  Please be aware of this lecture series!

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ENERGY FUTURE
Energy Production, Consumption, Policy, and the Environment
Public Lecture Series: http://courses.washington.edu/efuture
Seminar Course:  http://courses.washington.edu/efuture/academic.html

The coming decades will see dramatic changes in the production, consumption, and overall availability of energy.  This free UW public lecture series will bring world-leading experts address many of the core technical, social, economic, and political issues and opportunities which will accompany the forthcoming transition to renewable energy.

April Lectures (Kane 130 at the UW, starting at 6:30 pm):
April 1: Plastic Solar Cells?  Challenges and Opportunities for Photovoltaics
David Ginger (UW Chemistry Department)

April 20: Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay (Cambridge University and Chief Science Advisor to the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change)

For the full schedule of speakers and descriptions of the their lectures, see http://courses.washington.edu/efuture

Questions? Contact efuture@uw.edu.

Energy Future is sponsored by the University of Washington, the Office of the Provost, the Applied Physics Lab, the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment, the Evans School of Public Affairs, the Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research, the NSF Center for Enabling New Technologies Through Catalysis, and the UW Department of Physics.  They all care about energy.  You should, too.

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:27 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] ARIA (back online)

The Terminal Server ‘aria.cs.washington.edu’ is now back online.

However, it is currently running a small set of software, I just wanted to quickly get it back online for the CSE444 users that were trying to access it. The rest of the software is coming…

The machine was a victim of “the tragedy of the commons”. Please take special care not to install special software or store vast amounts of data on this machine. It is a “community” resource, and what you do can cause problems for the rest of the community.

Thanks!

Tony Anderson

CSE computer fixer guy.

There were some errors in the dates and times of the previous email, so here is the correct version  (sorry for the spam!):

It’s that time of year again! ACM/ACM-W elections are coming up soon. Who would you like to see in office next year? Nominate your friends! Nominate yourself! Nominate early and often! Just fill out this easy Catalyst survey:

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/toddk4/99280

The survey will close next Friday, April 9th at 11:45PM, and nominees will be notified. We’ll have a general meeting on Tuesday the 13th at 1:30 to meet with the nominees, and formal elections will commence on Monday the 19th.

If you have any questions, email acm-officers@cs.washington.edu.  Now go! Make some nominations!

– your friendly ACM and ACM-W officers

It’s that time of year again! ACM/ACM-W elections are coming up soon. Who would you like to see in office next year? Nominate your friends! Nominate yourself! Nominate early and often! Just fill out this easy Catalyst survey:

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/toddk4/99280

The survey will close next Tuesday at 5PM, and nominees will be notified. We’ll have a general meeting on the 17th to meet with the nominees, and formal elections will commence the 20th.

If you have any questions, email acm-officers@cs.washington.edu.  Now go! Make some nominations!

– your friendly ACM and ACM-W officers

Reminder to be checking cs-ugrads-jobs blog for continued postings for full time and internship positions. Here is another example:

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:42 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; Magda Balazinska; Steve Gribble
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Cloudera wants interns

Cloudera is a Hadoop-related startup.  We have several alums working there, under excellent adult supervision.  They are looking for interns in databases, workflow management, and Hadoop.  I get a beer for every person they hire and I’m really parched.  Please respond to Aaron Kimball, a superb co-founder who’s on leave from our Ph.D. program.

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From: Aaron Kimball <aaron@cloudera.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Subject: begging for interns
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

Hi Ed,

I hope you’re doing well up there — has the weather started to turn the corner for the spring yet?

We still need some interns at Cloudera for this summer. We’ve got openings for someone to help build database import/export tools, workflow management tools, and work on Hadoop at large. If you or anyone else on the faculty know of any bright young systems- or database-inclined folks who’ve yet to sign an offer for the summer, I’d really appreciate it if you could give me some names to reach out to (or if you could nudge them to just send me a resume). I’ll buy you a beer for each referral that works out 🙂

Cheers,

– Aaron

If you have been in the department for at least two quarters and have time on Wed from 4-530 to serve as a mentor for a new CSE ugrad, please sign up on the catalyst survey. Food is included!

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/61361

We have a tight turn-around, so please sign up by midnight Tuesday night. If you sign up, plan on attending, but we’ll try to send a follow up by noon on Wed. with a few more details.

Thank you,

CSE Advising

If you want info on all the talks, join the list:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Connie Ivey-Pasche
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:27 PM
To: talks – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW CSE Colloq / 3-30-10 / Vaikuntanathan / MIT/IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Side Channels and Clouds: New Challenges in Cryptography

Next week at UW CSE – Spring quarter kicks off!

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Computer Science and Engineering

COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER:    Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT/IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

TITLE:            Side Channels and Clouds: New Challenges in Cryptography

DATE:       Tuesday, March 30, 2010

TIME:       3:30pm

PLACE:            EEB-105

HOST:       James Lee

ABSTRACT:

Emerging trends in computation such as cloud computing, virtualization, and trusted computing require that computation be carried out in remote and hostile environments, where attackers have unprecedented access to the devices, the data and the programs. This poses new problems and challenges for cryptography. In this talk, I will present two such challenges, and my recent work towards solving them.

1. Protecting against Side-channel Attacks: Computing devices leak information to the outside world not just through input-output interaction, but through physical characteristics of computation such as power consumption, timing, and electro-magnetic radiation. Such leakage betrays information about the secrets stored within the devices, and has been successfully utilized to break many cryptographic algorithms in common use. These attacks, commonly called side-channel attacks, are particularly easy to carry out when the device is in the physical proximity of the attacker, as is often the case for modern devices such as smart-cards, TPM chips, mobile phones and laptops.

In the first part of the talk, I will describe my recent work that lays the foundation of leakage-resilient cryptography — the design of cryptographic schemes that protect against large classes of side-channel attacks.

2. Computing on Encrypted Data: Security in the setting of cloud computing involves a delicate balance of privacy and functionality: while the client must encrypt its data to keep it private from the server, it should also allow for the server to compute on the encrypted data.  Can we simultaneously achieve these opposing goals?

In the second part of the talk, I will describe an elementary construction of a cryptographic mechanism (called a “fully homomorphic encryption scheme”) that allows arbitrary computation to be performed on encrypted data.

Both these works leverage new mathematical techniques based on geometric objects called lattices.

Bio:

Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a postdoctoral fellow in the cryptography group at IBM T.J. Watson. He received a Ph.D. from MIT in 2009 under the guidance of Shafi Goldwasser. He is a recipient of the MIT Akamai Graduate Fellowship, the IBM Josef Raviv Postdoctoral Fellowship, and more recently, the MIT George M. Sprowls award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science. The focus of his research involves the dual goals of devising new mathematical tools for cryptography, as well as applying theoretical cryptography to counter practical attacks.

Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See

http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu

Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/

(206) 543-1695

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accomodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-3885/FAX, or access@u.washington.edu.

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Eggers
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:56 AM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Cc: Francis Iannacci
Subject: [cs-ugrads] for those taking 471

Hi all —

The classes for CSE471 will meet in room 403 in the Allen Center instead
of EEB 042. See you Tuesday!

Susan

Yaw Anokwa

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:52 AM
To: Change Group
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

a few of us at uw have long standing projects with openmrs and

partners in health. one of the core openmrs/pih folks has moved to

seattle and this sounds like a good opportunity to add to those

collaborations! as a bonus, you can even work on features that connect

openmrs to uw’s own open data kit.

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Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

Would you like to spend your summer …

– contributing to an exciting Open Source project

– helping a local non-profit that’s been doing medical work in

developing countries for 30 years.

– writing code that might be rolled out in hospitals in Haiti, Rwanda,

Peru, and 20+ other countries

– getting some J2EE web application development experience on your resume

Well, then come join us for a summer of code! The prestigious Google

Summer of Code (code.google.com/soc) pays students to spend the summer

working on open source projects. You will spend 11 weeks writing code

for a real project, on top of a real application that real people use.

OpenMRS (openmrs.org) is an open source electronic medical record

system, primarily aimed at developing countries. And it’s a GSoC

mentoring organization.

Partners In Health (pih.org) is a Boston-based non-profit with 30

years of experience bringing medical care to developing countries, and

8 years of experience implementing electronic medical records

technology in challenging settings.

PIH is a co-founder/contributor to the OpenMRS project and we have

several developers who will be acting as mentors for GSoC projects

this summer. We have a preference for Seattle-area students that we

can work with in person. So, if you are a Seattle-based student

(undergrad, grad, or just-graduating) who wants to do some real-world

software development, then we want to hear from you.

The GSoC application period is from March 29 to April 9. So check out

OpenMRS’s summer of code page

(http://openmrs.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010) and look for a project

you like. If you’re in the Seattle area and want to talk to us

directly, email Darius at djazayeri@pih.org.

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of David Rispoli

Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:36 AM
To: cs-staff – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] 2010 Engineering Open House (Discovery Days)

CSE Faculty, Staff and Students,

After a one-year hiatus, the Engineering Open House will make its 2010 return on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24.  The official title for this year’s event is Engineering Discovery Days 2010.

CSE faculty and student participation is a vital element to the success of this event.  Specifically we are in need of faculty and graduate student volunteers for research demonstrations, and undergraduates for tours and presentations.  If you can help out in any way please reply to this email as soon as possible.

This year’s events are limited to approximately 5000 attendees over both days.  As in the past, there will be campus-wide exhibits and activities over the course of the two days.  We plan to confine our CSE activities to the atrium.

We are in need of volunteers for the following Engineering Discovery Days events within the CSE building:

Friday, April 23: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (for grades 4-8).  Friday’s greatest need is research demos that can be repeated over the course of the three hours.

Saturday, April 24: 10 am to 2 pm (for high school and older, potential CSE recruits).  Saturday’s greatest need is undergraduate tour leaders and volunteers for a student panel.

Additional details will be forthcoming as we get closer to the event.  We will look forward to your input and participation.

Dave Rispoli

rispoli@cs.washington.edu

CSE Academic Counselor