CSE Undergrad News

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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:19 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] FW: transient in the building

Hey…just a heads up as our building is connected to EE….

(btw, we are a public building, but panhandling is against the law on campus.  If you encounter somebody in the building who is asking for money, please contact me, or UWPD.  While most of us like to be nice, we don’t want to create an environment in the building that is welcoming to panhandlers).

tracy
3.9264

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From: John Young [mailto:johnnyy@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:14 PM
To: Ee_all@ee.washington.edu
Cc: Tracy Erbeck
Subject: transient in the building

Hi everyone,

There was a report that there was a transient roaming the building and panhandling. Please be sure that your doors are not propped open and sensitive items are properly secured. If you encounter this transient, please notify UW police.

Officer described the individual as a dark skinned color male with a baseball cap carrying a backpack of some sort. Backpack was not a typical book bag.

Again, if you see the person, contact UWPD.

Thanks,
John Young

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From: William Stafford Noble <noble@gs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Subject: Undergraduate research opportunity

Undergraduate research position in computational biology

One undergraduate research position is available in the lab of William Stafford Noble in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

The project involves developing and improving software used to interpret mass spectrometry data for use in proteomics experiments.

Our research group develops and applies computational techniques for modeling and understanding biological processes at the molecular level. Our research emphasizes the application of statistical and machine learning techniques, such as dynamic Bayesian networks and support vector machines. We apply these techniques to various types of biological data, including DNA and protein sequence data, shotgun proteomics mass spectrometry data, and a variety of high-throughput genomic data types. We also develop and maintain a variety of software to support research in molecular biology. More information is available at http://noble.gs.washington.edu.

This is a paid, part-time position; however, it is also possible for a student to perform some or all of the work for research credit. The start date is the beginning of winter quarter, though it could be earlier.

Having some background knowledge in biology would be helpful, but is not necessary for the position. Knowledge of C++ is required, and knowledge of Unix system programming and Python are strongly recommended.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of interest, a resume, and a copy of your transcript to Benjamin Diament (bdiament@cs.washington.edu).

We have made some updates to the degree requirements webpage for the undergraduate program and more specifically to the transition document page for students under a mix of old and new 300 level requirements.

There was some confusion within the last few months that has recently been nailed down, so all transition students should look at the transition page to make certain that they understand what they are required to take.

Degree Requirements: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/degree_requirements.html

If you had a graduation appointment recently and think that something on this sheet conflicts what you heard from an advisor, please contact us asap so we can clear up any confusion.

And finally, if you took a mix of old and new 300 level courses and they are not showing up on your degree audit, please send email to ugrad-advisor@cs with your student number and we can make the substitutions for you so that your degree audit should make more sense.

Let us know if you have questions,

CSE Advising

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Subject: Fwd: Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, CCC Council <councilccc@cra.org>, Jeannette Wing <wing@cs.cmu.edu>

This is a very nice short article.

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From: Chris Johnson <crj@sci.utah.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:48 AM
Subject: Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The
Chronicle of Higher Education
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

http://chronicle.com/article/Decoding-the-Value-of-Computer/125266/

CIE Seattle Tech Startups

Date Thursday, November 11

Time 7:00-9:00 PM

Location: North campus, Bank of America Executive Education Center – Douglas Forum: http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=EXED

Event Details: Meeting between students and entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology startups.  The topic is four useful technologies you should know. Specifically:

• Solr: a faceted search engine. Great for full text search, but oh so much more. Learn more from Paul Brown whose data processing and visualization consulting firm uses Solr as a key part of their visualization stack.
• Event Machine: an event processing library for Ruby. Learn about how evented servers give you scalable non-blocking i/o (and why you should care), help with lots of concurrent connections and more. The speaker is Jeff Wartes from Whitepages, where he used EventMachine to build a new high-throughput service whose primary requirement was tolerance of outside failures.
• Redis: an in-memory, persistent, key value store with push and pop operators. Ever wanted memcache with persistence? Or an easy-to-use in-memory queue? Learn about the versatility of Redis as a simple to setup and use, but flexible and powerful new tool.
• Node.js: similar to Event Machine, Node.js is Javascript’s answer to evented servers.

No need to sign-up to attend.  You can just show up.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sarah Massey, Assistant Director

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Michael G. Foster School of Business

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

Attention CSE Majors!

The University of Washington Academic Support Program is offering a service-learning seminar titled “EDUC 401: Tutoring and Mentorship in Higher Education” for Winter Quarter 2011. This weekly seminar will introduce junior and senior CSE students to a diverse range of tutoring, mentoring, and teaching methodologies. Students will have an opportunity to apply what they learn in class through tutoring and mentoring new transfer, freshman, and sophomore students who are transitioning socially, culturally, and academically to the University of Washington. This is a great opportunity for seasoned students to give back to the University by sharing their knowledge and experience with new students who are working to become independent learners.

• Seminar begins 2nd week of Winter Quarter,  January 10, 2011 in MGH 288
• Seminar will meet on Mondays from 4-5 PM (section H) or from 5:30-6:30PM (section I)
• Tutoring will take place on campus
• Receive 2 credits for working with one student
• Receive 3 credits for working with two students
• A letter of recommendation will be available upon request after completion of the seminar

For more registration information, please contact Anne Browning at:

anneb7@u.washington.edu

Tutor-Mentor * 2-3 Credits * EDUC 401
Current syllabus available for review at:

http://depts.washington.edu/aspuw/

In my previous post I accidentally put “Xanga” in the title of the post.  The info session is put on by “Zynga”, both having strange combination of letters.

Well here is one last reminder!

Today, Zynga, Atrium, 6-7:30pm, Thai Food and drawing for a netbook.

Chris

We are re-designing our outreach webpage to send out to prospective high school students and we’d like to include a “top ten” list from our students on why they should consider UW CSE.  We’re on a short timeline, so please try to respond by this weekend if at all possible. Thank you!

You don’t need to come up with ten, just give us as many as you can think of and we’ll pick the best ten submitted.

Catalyst Response: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/117000