CSE Undergrad News

Engineering Networking Night

November 17, 2010, 6-8pm

Vista Cafe, S Foege – Genome Sciences

Engineering Networking Night is an opportunity for engineering juniors and seniors to interact with engineering alumni working in industry.  The event is an opportunity to interact with industry professionals, build your professional network, and get your questions answered about “life after graduation.” This is not a recruiting event.  Please complete this registration form to attend the event – space is limited.

We would like for students to RSVP here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/krhoward/113071

Here are some further details.

The format of the event is similar to “speed dating.”  Students will rotate to different tables 3 times throughout the evening.

Here’s the timeline for the evening:

6pm – Eve Riskin Welcomes

6:10pm – 7:10pm Discussion – 3 rotations of 15 minutes and 5 minutes to alternate groups

7:10pm – Buffet opens

7:10pm – 8pm – Dinner and conversation

8pm – Departure

Our donors and alumni really enjoy this opportunity to interact with students.

Take care,

Karen

Drop-ins have been very busy this week, so plan accordingly. Mornings are generally less busy. You can also use email or set up individual appointments if you have longer questions.

Please note that although we have been trying to keep drop-in advising consistent to M, T, W, Th from 2-3PM and T, W, F 10-11AM, this week we need to make a change. There will be no Friday morning hours, but we will have 2-3PM hours on Friday instead.

There will only be one advisor available this Tuesday and Friday afternoon  for current students, so line-ups may be a little longer. We appreciate your patience.

Hey CSE Ugrads,

Only 2 events this week, 2 days in a row!

Zynga Info Session: Tuesday November 9th, 6:00-7:00pm, CSE Atrium

AKA the makers of FarmVille and other ridiculously populated online games. There will be Thai Food, giveways, and a drawing for a Free HP Mini Netbook! They are hiring for full time and interns, check it out!

Research Night: Wednesday November 10th, 4:30-6:30pm, EE 125 and Atrium

One more ad for Research night.  A marvellous speaker and panel will start off the night at 4:30pm in EE125 getting us pumped for research.  Then a poster session will ensue at 5:30 in the atrium with ugrads, grads, and profs showing off their awesome research maybe looking to take on some new students!  It will be swell.

Take it easy,

Chris Raastad

Hey undergrads,

There was a mistake in the last post. Research Night starts at 4:30, not 5:30. Sorry! Here’s the rest, for context.

“It’s coming up! This Wednesday is Research Night. Come check out the research our department has been working on, and maybe find a project you’d be interesting in working on. Undergraduate research looks great to grad schools and employers alike, and it’s really never too early to start.

The event kicks off at 4:30 PM with a short talk and a Q&A panel in EE 125. Afterwards, we’ll move to a poster session in the Atrium.

Hope to see you there!”

– ACM

Hey undergrads,

It’s coming up! This Wednesday is Research Night. Come check out the research our department has been working on, and maybe find a project you’d be interesting in working on. Undergraduate research looks great to grad schools and employers alike, and it’s really never too early to start.

The event kicks off at 4:30 PM with a short talk and a Q&A panel in EE 125. Afterwards, we’ll move to a poster session in the Atrium.

Hope to see you there!

– ACM

Please note that even though the times are listed for 930PM the course, will in fact, be at 930, AM.

Here are the sln’s:

12365 CSE    490  H     SPECIAL TOPICS C    M W  F 0930-1020
19751 CSE    490  HA    SPECIAL TOPICS C     TH  0830-0920
19752 CSE    490  HB    SPECIAL TOPICS C    TH  0930-1020

From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] attempted break in

Last weekend it appears there was an attempted break in to several offices in the building.   Fortunately, it doesn’t appear that the thieves actually gained access to any of the rooms, and damage was minimal.   Although we have a security guard most nights,  he can’t be everywhere at once, nor be here 24 hours a day.

We really need all of you to help keep our building secure, certainly so after building hours and on the weekends when there are less of us around.  When you enter the building via keycard, check to make sure nobody has “piggy backed” and followed you in.   If somebody tries, likely they belong here too, but it would be optimal if you could ask them who they are and if they are a part of CSE.  If they are, great, you’ve made a new CSE friend.  If they aren’t, likely they will turn and walk the other way.  If they continue into the building without responding, please call UWPD- 911 from any campus phone.   If you call from your cell phone, you’ll need to tell the dispatcher you are on UW campus and you need to be transferred to UWPD.   ***The police would rather have us call and have the possibility of a mistake, then to have a call because of a break in.

When you leave your office, make certain that you close and lock the door (unless, of course, your officemates are there).

You should never leave your laptop on your desk, unless locked.  Same for cell phones or other portable electronics.  These are precisely things that thieves are looking for…something they can quickly and easily slide into a backpack, or stuff into a pocket.   The goods can be stored in peds, filing cabinets, etc.

With the HUB closure, our building is experiencing a high rate of new traffic.  There are lots of people wandering through that we don’t know.  It’s an adjustment that we need to accept,  and we’ll all need to keep up good security practices.

And lastly, please don’t ever put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, or where you could be harmed.  We don’t need supermans… just good samaritans.

If you have any security of safety concerns, I’d be more than happy to discuss.

Tracy Erbeck

Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington

tracy@cs.washington.edu

206.543.9264 (office)

206.543.2969 (fax)

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:59 PM

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> When you enter the building via keycard, check to make sure nobody has
> “piggy backed” and followed you in.   If somebody tries, likely they belong

Note that this is much easier if you enter from the EE side of the
atrium, where you can just shut the door behind you.  There’s really
no socially ept to get around piggybacking if you enter (or leave!)
through the sliding doors facing Stevens Way.

Dan

Please note, this winter we are going to allow this course to count as one of the four 400-level required CSE courses for Computer Science majors and for Computer Engineering majors, as a software track course in the one of three required courses section that includes: 401, 421, 444, 466, 471, 484.

Once registration calms down, email an advisor if you want this to count in your degree audit in one of the two ways listed above and we’ll fix it for you.

New Course Annoucement, Winter Quarter 2011
CSE 490h: Distributed Systems

Distributed systems have become central to many aspects of how computers are used, from web applications to e-commerce to content distribution.  This senior-level course will cover abstractions and implementation techniques for the construction of distributed systems, including client server computing, the web, cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, and distributed storage systems.  Topics will include remote procedure call, consistency of distributed state, fault tolerance, and security.  We will also cover several case studies of distributed systems.  A substantial programming project is involved.  A graduate version of the course will be offered to fifth year masters students.

PREREQUISITES: (CSE 351 OR CSE 378) AND (CSE 326 OR CSE 332;)
RECOMMENDED: CSE 451 
CSE Majors only

Today was the first day of registration for winter 2011.  Graduating seniors had priority today and security is already full.

Please note that we will be running overloads the same way we did fall quarter. That means, you should keep watching for space to open for any full CSE course that you want to get into and plan to attend the first week of the quarter.

Instructors/advisors will begin to coordinate add codes on that Friday after the first week is completed.

I know a lot of people are disappointed about security. Unfortunately there isn’t much we can do, however stay tuned to info coming soon on distributed computing, a 490 course this winter that will also count as one of the four required 400 level CSE courses for CS majors, and as a software track option for CE majors.

Hey UGrads,

Just a reminder, today is the ACM Fall Fest!  It will be 5-9pm in the CSE atrium!

Please enter through the main entrance to the Atrium (the one closest to Reboot and the MS Table PC).

If you want free alcohol YOU MUST HAVE A VALID ID (and be at least 21 years of age)!!!

There will be food, drinks, snacks, board games, video games, facebook swag, ACM/ACMW tables, TShirt orders, and a DJ Groove Zone.  Come hang out with all the cool cse people.

Come whenever you can! Remember, its Free for ACM Members (you can join at the door), and $6 for everyone else! Feel free to bring non-cse friends (as long as they pay : P).

Chris Raastad

PS: Remember Remember the 5th of November