CSE Undergrad News

HackU is starting now in the Gates Commons.  Developers from Yahoo! are here to help you build a hack and compete for prizes like netbooks!

In connection with next Thursday’s talk, some special staging and lighting will be placed in the Atrium on Wednesday.  Apologies for the disruption.

We know that a lot of courses are full. At this point there isn’t much that can be done. We’ll see how things fall out over the next week or two, and we’ll send notice when we open the overload request form. We’ll likely open it late next week. Until then, please be patient, we’ll do everything we can to find more room. If you’re holding onto classes you’ll likely drop, please do your classmates a favor and drop them as soon as possible. Thank you

CSE Advising

We are receiving a lot of questions about what the new prerequisites will be for 400 level CSE courses once the new 300 level courses are introduced.  We have posted a link on the degree requirements page to help you understand the old and new prerequisites.

Eventually we’ll phase out the old 300 level courses, but you can use either the old or the new prerequisites to register for the next couple of years.

Let us know if you have questions/concerns (although if it can wait a week or two until registration for spring calms down, that would be helpful.)  🙂

CSE advising

From: Ed Lazowska
Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:16 AM
Subject: Video interviewing today
To: Faculty , Staff , Cs-Grads , Cs-Ugrads

There will be a small video crew in the Atrium at about 2:00 today, conducting very short (one-sentence) interviews with random passersby. The responses will be edited into a short video that will be used as part of a talk here next week. We cleared these folks to do this, so don’t be alarmed, and please play along if they approach you. Thanks!

Tonight, Tuesday, February 23rd
6:00pm Hack U™ Kickoff
Join Paul Tarjan and the whole Yahoo! crew.
Learn everything you need to know to participate
in the competition. Plus get in on Hack examples
and tips, a raffle, T-shirts and dinner!
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

Wednesday, February 24th
6:00pm Guest Lecture
Douglas Crockford: JavaScript—The Good Parts
Location: EE 105

Thursday, February 25th
6:00pm Open Tech Night Dinner
YUI3 with Eric Miraglia
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

Friday, February 26th
3:00pm Official 24-hour Hack Competition Kickoff
Let the Hacking begin! Ongoing talks, food, music,
games, raffle prizes and fun throughout the day
and night.
Location: Base Camp 6th floor commons

Saturday, February 27th
3:00pm Hack Demos, Judging and Awards
Show off your Hack for a chance to win prizes including
Netbooks, iPods, headphones, Thinkgeek.com gift
certificates and, of course, the grand-prize trip to the
Open Hack Showdown in California.
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

The stat 391 course finally moved. It may not show on the time schedule yet, but you should be able to register now. It’s new time is T/TH 1230-220

Student Fiscal Services will be offering classes assisting students in interpreting the 1098T student tax forms sent out by the UW.

Students – You’ve received your 1098T tax form! You may have heard that President Obama included a new education tax credit in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  What’s the connection? Student Fiscal Services is presenting this workshop to help students understand the information on the 1098T tax form and how it relates to educational tax credits plus tax issues regarding scholarships, fellowships, stipends and grants.

Upcoming classes:

US Resident Student Taxes 101
3 sessions

Health Sciences
Date: Feb. 24, 2010
Time: 12noon – 1pm
Location: South Campus Center 350

Main Seattle Campus
Date: Feb. 25, 2010
Times: 12noon- 1pm
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Location: HUB 309

Kyra Worrell
SFS Outreach Advisor, Lead
University of Washington
http://f2.washington.edu/fm/sfs/