CSE Undergrad News

Hi all,

Undergraduate Advisor
UW CSE
http://www.cs.washington.edu/

For the second year in a row, Zynga is pairing with Hidden Agenda, a non-profit organization that looks to support the building of games for educational purposes, and together we’re asking students to form teams and build a game that educates high school students utilizing the Facebook platform.  Finalist teams will be flown to San Francisco where they’ll present their games to a panel of judges at Zynga’s offices, and there’s $25,000 in prize money on the line ($20,000 for the winning team; $4,000 for second place; and $1,000 for third).  See flyer here:  Zynga – Hidden Agenda Competition2

Full information can be found at www.facebook.com/haproject.  Students must form teams and register to compete by December 15th.

Don’t miss Tuesday’s Pacific West Graduate School Fair – more than 65  programs will be there.  Will you?

PACIFIC WEST GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR
When: TODAY! Tuesday, November 2nd, 10:00am-2:00pm
Where: Mary Gates Hall Commons

Come to the 2010 Pacific West Graduate School Fair next week to find out about opportunities with participating schools from the Pacific Northwest, California, and Alaska. Sponsored by the Career Center and the Graduate School, this event will give you the opportunity to meet with real admissions representatives who will answer any questions you might have about their graduate school programs!

Schools in attendance include, among others:
•    Seattle Pacific University
•    Gonzaga University
•    University of British Columbia
•    Oregon State University
•    DigiPen Institute of Technology
•    University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
•    And over 25 UW Graduate Programs!

For the full list of participating schools and programs, as well as tips on how to prepare, visit http://careers.washington.edu/Grad-Fair. Be sure to check out the full-color attendee guide!

See you today!

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Career Center Events
careerevents@uw.edu

Hey all,

I am sure you guys are feeling it this week, somehow EVERYTHING congregated to the same week: applications, homeworks, projects, midterms,  an epic let down of a Husky football game, academic rebound after an eventful weekend, and a never ending torrential downpour!

But hang in there! ACM and CSE is here for you! We are not here to distract you from your midterm power studying, don’t overdoit on events!  But rather, we provide a serving of sanity to encourage a short healthy breaks to keep your mental machinery moving!  Here’s the sumary:

0.) Stanford President John Hennessy, “The Future of Research Universities”, Tuesday November 2nd, 330-430, CSE Atrium

Another, most likely, Atrium filling talk, this should be interesting!

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/10/04/john-hennessy-at-uw-cse-tuesday-november-2/

1.) Facebook Info Session, Tuesday November 2nd, 6:00-7:00pm, EE105

The usual, food, talk, swag, and resume drop off.  Come see what it is like to work at a website you use (too much) every day!

2.) Amazon Info Session, Thursday November 4th, 5:30-6:45pm, EE105

“How amazon is reducing entropy in the cloud.”  This is our local internet shopping supergiant, but they do alot more then just that. You should know what to expect from tech talks by now.

3.) CSE Fall Fest!!!  Friday November 5th, 5:00-9:00pm, CSE Atrium

Remember, Remember, The 5th of November!

This is ACM’s largest, most awesome, social event of the quarter!  I hope this can be a reward for a tough week! The doors open at 5pm and the festivities will be in full swing by 6pm. Cost is FREE for ACM members (you can join at the door), and $6 for non-acm members (feel free to bring your non-cse friends). So what exactly is going on:

• Free Food
• Free Drinks
• Free BEER (for over 21 people with valid ID, our lovely advisors will be carding mercilessly)
• Board Games: Munchkin, Blockus, Settlers of Catan, and much more
• Video Games: Rock Band, Smash Bros, Wii, some N64?!
• DJ and Music: to get your groove on.
• Facebook Table
• ACMW Table
• ACM Table

Feel free to resurrect your Halloween costume one last time for the year! We would very much appreciate a Facebook RSVP http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171057026244043.

4.) 10-Hour Microsoft Puzzle Challenge, Saturday November 6th, 10am-8pm, Microsoft Campus

Ok, this is long, i doubt many will compete. This is not at all an ACM event, but something i found interesting.  But, if you can’t get enough mental competition you might be interested in this event.  Food, shirts, and other prizes are provided.  For the enthused, to compete, grab some friends and sign up here http://www.collegepuzzlechallenge.com/.

Cheers,

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Emily Fortuna <fortuna@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] NSF essay editing session
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, cs-grads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: Karla Danson <karla@cs.washington.edu>

Hello NSF applicants,
I’d like to invite you to an NSF essay editing session this Friday,
November 5th, from 2:30-3:30 in CSE 403. We will be providing snacks
to attendees, so please let me know if you’re coming so that we can
enough food for everyone!
Happy essay writing,
Emily

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From: Stuart Reges <reges@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Subject: ACM Programming Contest
To: faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, vgrads <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>

On Saturday 33 teams competed in our local ACM programming contest.
Marty Stepp helped me to run the contest along with student helpers
Victoria Wagner and Chris Lesinski, Google staffers Amanda Camp, Krista
Davis, Kevin Wallace, and Ethan Apter, and Facebook staffers Ryan
McElroy and Justin Bishop.  Google and Facebook were our official
sponsors and provided food, prizes, and swag.

The top three teams have won the honor of representing us at the
regional contest which will be held November 13th:

#1: Const Char Stars: Jeff Booth, Michael Sloan, Will Johnson
#2: Team Awesome: Derek Cheng, Alex Vaschillo, Huy Dang
#3: jedidiah: John McCord, eric wu, David Truong

You can find more detailed results along with information about the
problems at this url:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/reges/acm/results.html

Please join me in wishing our teams good luck in the regional contest.

–Stuart

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From: Dieter Fox <fox@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:36 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Intel Lab Open House today!
To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Just a reminder that the Intel research lab has an open house today. It’s located on the 6th floor of the building at the corner of 45th and 11th, just a short walk through the rain. You’ll be able to see some very cool demos showing work that’s been done by many of your fellow grad and undergrad students. Among others, we’ll show a robot playing chess, an interactive Lego playing system, interactive 3D mapping, and 3D Avatar-like virtual flythroughs of the lab.
And, there’ll be food!! So please stop by any time between 3pm and 6pm.
Cheers,Dieter

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Hal Perkins <perkins@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Subject: that ballot envelope on the table….
To: faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads-general – Email Alias <cs-ugrads-general@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Hal Perkins <perkins@cs.washington.edu>

In the FWIW department….

In the midst of Halloween weekend, midterms, hang-overs from affiliates week, SIGMOD deadlines, and more, there’s an election on Tuesday and ballots have to be mailed by then.  We’re going to live with the results of this one for years, so it would be worth digging out the ballot from the bills and other junk that’s shown up in the mailbox over the last couple of weeks and sending it in.

And while you’re at it, be sure to vote yes on Propo@#$#$%^$@

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Subject: John Hennessy talk on Tuesday
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

I’d like to remind everyone of John Hennessy’s talk in our
Distinguished Lecturer Series on Tuesday at 3:30 in the Microsoft
Atrium.

Hennessy is a god:  one of the leading computer architects of the past
several decades, and the president of Stanford.

He will be speaking about the future of research universities rather
than about computer architecture.  I guarantee you that this talk will
be worth your time.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=928

Ugrads,

Quick Reminder: Facebook office hours on right now until 1pm today in atrium! Come talk to Facebook employees and recruiters about working/interning at facebook. Resume is required for entry, but there will be free food and drink.

Chris