CSE Undergrad News

Join us for the Business Plan Competition Resource Nights!  If you’re interested in starting your own company or working at a start-up, this is an opportunity for you to learn about the business side.  The resource nights are open to all students – you can just show up.  More information is available on our website.

http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/cie/businessplancompetition/Pages/schedule.aspx

Marketing in a Competitive Environment with Sharelle Klaus, CEO of DRY Soda

Thursday, January 28 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

Who are your customers? What drives them to make a purchase? How do you segment the market? Acquire the tools you need to overcome marketing challenges commonly facing startups from a woman who understands the importance of marketing, and developing and managing your brand.

Thinking Through Your Financials with Alan Dishlip, CFO of Billing Revolution

Thursday, February 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

Wondering what’s with all the talk about hockey sticks? Come learn the fundamentals of putting together the financials for a business plan.  Alan Dishlip will cover financial projections–what they are, how to create them, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that drive investors crazy–and he’ll give tips on how to raise capital.

Legal Issues for Start-Ups with Matthew Forkner of Fenwick & West

Thursday, February 11 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

What are the legal issues to consider in starting your own company? How do you divide equity, protect your IP or structure the company? Matthew Forkner, Fenwick &West, will walk you through the essentials.

Business Plan Competition Overview and Insights from Past Participants

Thursday, February 18 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

We’ll cover how the Competition works and what to expect.  You’ll also have the opportunity to learn from those who have gone before you. We’ll have a panel discussion with past Business Plan Competition competitors, giving insider tips and advice for WINNING and getting the most out of your experience. Panelists are Brent Lamphier of Athleon, BA ’07 and Second Place winner of the 2008 BPC, and Daniel Rossi of Nanocel, EveMBA 2010 and winner of the 2009 BPC, and Ann Greeley, MBA 2002 and Second Place winner of the 2002 BPC.  Moderator will be Jason Hahn, MBA 2010 and BPC Co-Chair.

Bootstrapping with Steve McCracken, CEO of CultureMob

Thursday, February 25 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

How are you going to finance your new venture? MOST companies are not appropriate for venture funding but instead are self-funded or bootstrapped. How can you start a venture on a shoestring? Come learn funding strategies for footing the bill (and keeping more of your equity!).

What Do Investors Look For? with Rebecca Lovell, Executive Director of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network

Thursday, March 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in Sieg 134

Why should an investor put money into your company instead of someone else’s? What are the critical elements you need to have and what could kill the deal? This session walks the audience through potential sources of investment dollars as well as HOW to give a pitch in a compelling way.  Will feature an investor pitch from the CEO of Findood, Jamen Shively. 

Resource Nights are offered by the UW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These sessions are open to students and the public.  To learn more about the Resource Nights or the Business Plan Competition, contact Sarah Massey at masses@uw.edu or 206.685.9868.

http://www.foster.washington.edu/cie

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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

From Ed Lazowska:

Amazon.com announced yesterday that they will soon release a Kindle Development Kit, making it possible to build and test Kindle apps on Macs, PCs, and Linux, and get them onto the Kindle. Three relevant links appear below.

Amazon is willing to provision Kindles owned by UW CSE students with this capability (it requires pushing a new version of the OS to the device). They also are willing to send a couple of developers over to UW to run a short “boot camp” on how to develop Kindle apps.

If you’re interested in this — specifically, if you own a Kindle and would attend the short “boot camp” — please let me know ASAP. Thanks.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1377349

http://www.amazon.com/kdk

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/01/kindle_apps_wish_list.html

From: Craig Bauling
Date: January 25, 2010 7:06:39 AM PST
Subject: Mathematica seminar at University of Washington at Seattle

To support the Mathematica site license at University of
Washington at Seattle, Wolfram Research will be on campus to give
a technical talk on Mathematica 7 at 9:30am on Monday, February
8. The talk will be held in Savery Hall, room 410.

This seminar will be given 100% in Mathematica and will show
useful teaching and research examples for mathematics, the
physical sciences, engineering, and business/economics. Ideas for
creating universal examples in Mathematica that can be used by
colleagues or students with no prior Mathematica experience will
be a central theme.

The content will help attendees with no prior experience get
started with the Mathematica language and workflow. Since there
is a large amount of new functionality in Version 7, most
intermediate and advanced users who attend these talks report
learning quite a bit as well. All attendees will receive an
electronic copy of the examples, which can be adapted to
individual projects.

Students are also welcome; please invite any graduate students or
students in your courses.

To make sure we have enough space, please let me know if you plan
to attend or if your students are likely to attend. I look
forward to meeting you!

Best regards,

Craig Bauling
Wolfram Research, Inc.
1-800-965-3726 ext. 3498
fax: 217-398-1108
craig_bauling@wolfram.com
http://www.wolfram.com
Wolfram Products:
http://www.wolfram.com/products

Registration is still open for tomorrow evening’s (January 27) Mock Technical Interviews in the UW Career Center in Mary Gates Hall. The Mock Interviews provide CSE students the opportunity to participate in a one-on-one simulated interview with a representative from a local software company. Each interview will be 40 minutes long and will include ten minutes of employer feedback.

Any CSE major can register today for one of the five remaining interview times–all with amazon.com .

To register:

* Log in at www.huskyjobs.washington.edu/students/
* First time users will need to fill out a brief profile
* Upload a cover letter and resume into my documents
* Search for the positions
* shortcuts > Search All Listings (Jobs, Internships, Interviews)
* keyword, enter the word Mock and hit Search
* Click the underlined job title
* Read the description; submit your resume and cover letter
* Select an interview timeslot

Do you have what it takes to be a Ninja Coder?

Come find out!

Solve a series of coding puzzles using Java and C++. We’ll have a different puzzle every hour.

Wednesday, January 27th

Gates Auditorium

11am – 1:30PM

Solve coding puzzles and win prizes

Enter to win a Flip Video recorder.

Free pizza at 12PM

—–Original Message—–
From: Ed Lazowska
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:52 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List
Cc: Kay Beck-Benton
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Recruiting fair on Thursday afternoon

Thanks for the *phenomenal* turnout today.  Sorry for the long lines
— we’ll maybe extend the hours next year to spread things out,
although it’s hard to judge how these things are going to go —
there’s lots of year-to-year variability.

For the faculty, a particularly great thing is having a whole gaggle
of alums come back to recruit.  It’s super-rewarding seeing students
again after a few years out.
_______________________________________________

If any of you have research or capstone projects that fit with this, you may want to attend the info session on Monday.

From: Pamela Tufts [mailto:ptufts@uw.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:47 PM
To: Crystal Eney
Subject: INFO Session MONDAY – UW ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION CHALLEGE

UW ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE

INFO SESSION & PIZZA!

Monday, January 25, 3:30-4:30, EEB 303

Do you have a passion for clean-tech, the smarts to play in the emerging green economy, and the desire to leverage your engineering background to make an impact?

The UW Environmental Innovation Challenge can provide a great platform.

$10,000 GRAND PRIZE – Intent to Submit Feb 11

(Some prototype funding still available – come ask us about it!)

Questions?  ptufts@uw.edu

Pam Tufts

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington

foster.washington.edu/cie Intent to Submit – Feb 11
P: 206.685.3813

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: “Marya Dominik” <maryad@u.washington.edu>
Date: Jan 21, 2010 8:04 AM
Subject: [Escience_bbl] New course on High-Performance Scientific Computing coming, Spring Quarter
To: “bb Brown Bag” <escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>

From: Randy LeVeque <rjl@uw.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Subject: New course on High-Performance Scientific Computing coming
Spring Quarter
To: amath-current@amath.washington.edu


I will be teaching a new course *Spring Quarter* 2010 on High-Performance
Scientific Computing, appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate
students.  It is intended to be a broad-brush survey course as described
further below, for students who have had some programming experience.

Please help spread the word about this course.  Feel free to contact me
with suggestions for the course as well, since it is still in the planning
stage.

A pdf version of this announcement suitable for posting can be found
on the webpage
  http://www.amath.washington.edu/~rjl/hpsc10.html
where there is also a pointer to the seminar on this topic we ran last spring
as a warmup to this class, which may give more idea of the intended level.

Thanks,
 Randy LeVeque

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

NEW COURSE --- SPRING QUARTER 2010

Applied Mathematics 483/583
High-Performance Scientific Computing

Instructor: Prof. Randy LeVeque
Time: Spring Quarter 2010, MWF 8:30am (tentative), EDGE Classroom TBA
Webpage: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~rjl/hpsc10.html

This class will cover a selection of topics in high-performance computing
(HPC), briefly introducing many of the issues that arise when solving
large scale computational problems in science and engineering. In
particular, the following topics will be touched on:

 - Computer languages and issues affecting the choice of language, e.g.
  compiled vs. interpreted, procedural vs. object oriented.

 - Programming in Fortran 95 and Python/Sage as representative languages
  (prior programming experience in some language is a prerequisite!)

 - Computer architecture issues relevant to HPC, e.g., cache and memory
  hierarchies, shared vs. distributed memory, vector pipelines, GPUs, parallel
  computers from multicore laptops to supercomputers with 100,000+ cores.

 - Languages for parallel computing, in particular MPI and OpenMP.

 - Tools for managing large computer programs, e.g., makefiles, debuggers,
  version control systems such as Mercurial or Subversion.  Best practices for
  reproducible research.

 - Dealing with large datasets arising from computation or scientific
  observations.

 - Graphics and visualization of scientific data.

This is a lot of material to cover in one quarter.  The emphasis will
be on seeing key concepts, getting started using a variety of tools, and
becoming familiar with the documentation and online resources available
for further learning.  Homework assignments will involve using many of
these tools.  Other courses, such as CSE 524 (Parallel Algorithms), go
into more details of some aspects of this class and would be a natural
next step.

Prior programming experience is required, at the level of CSE 142,
AMath 301, or AMath 481/581.  Students should be comfortable installing
software on their own computers and/or using ssh for remote access
to linux machines.  Assistance and documentation will be available
(including an introduction to linux/unix), but students averse to
exploring new software and overcoming the frustrations that typically
accompany this will probably not enjoy the class.

Some background in linear algebra at the level of Math 308 or AMath
352 is recommended.  Linear algebra is the basis for much of scientific
computing and we will study examples related to matrix multiplication
and solving linear systems in particular.

-- 
Marya Dominik
Administrative Specialist
eScience Institute
Box 359562
UW Tower O2-153
206.221.0778

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Are you a self-proclaimed Facebook junkie?

Know all there is to know about the University of Washington?

Do you know CS trivia like the back of your hand?

Join the Facebook team in the Paul Allen Center at 530p for a fun and interactive night of trivia. We’ll test your knowledge of Facebook, Washington and computer science facts. Awesome prizes will be given out to the team that scores the most following each round.

You don’t need to have a team formed as we’ll be putting teams together right before the event. However, if you have a team of 4 in mind, go ahead and make one up.

We are interested in computer scientists looking for full time and internship opportunities to join our engineering team.

Email your resume to washington@facebook.com or come see us at the CS Spring Career Fair on January 21 in the Allen Atrium from 130p – 430p.

Registration is now open for our Winter Mock Technical Interviews.  This event will be held on Wednesday January 27 from 6:00 to 8:15 pm in the UW Career Center in Mary Gates Hall.  The Mock Interviews provide CSE students the opportunity to participate in a one-on-one simulated interview with a representative from Amazon, Google, Microsoft or Adobe.  Each interview will be 40 minutes long and will include ten minutes of employer feedback.

Due to limited space, CSE seniors only will be able to register on January 20 and January 21.  CSE seniors and juniors only will be able to register on January 22 through January 25.  If any slots remain all CSE undergraduates will be able to register on January 26.  Each student can register for one interview only.

To register:

• Log in at www.huskyjobs.washington.edu/students/
• First time users will need to fill out a brief profile
• Upload a cover letter and resume into my documents
• Search for the positions
• shortcuts > Search All Listings (Jobs, Internships, Interviews)
• keyword, enter the word Mock and hit Search
• Click the underlined job title
• Read the description; submit your resume and cover letter
• Select an interview timeslot