Dear University of Washington ACM Officers,
I’d like to invite your students to apply to the second annual NYC Turing Fellowship. The NYC Turing Fellowship provides exposure to the rapidly growing NYC ecosystem and the opportunity to meet with some of the best entrepreneurs, founders, and technologists in the country.
The application for 2012 will be live shortly and we are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis. Interested students should apply at www.nycturingfellows.org. The first application deadline is January 18th and the final deadline is February 2, 2012. We strongly encourage students to apply early. A group of up to 45 Semi-Finalists will be invited to NYC on February 24th and 25th to interview with participating startups, such as Etsy, OpenSky, Knewton, BirchBox, and ZocDoc. From those 45 Semi-Finalists roughly 30 will be offered Fellowships.
New York City is a growing center for technology, media, and entrepreneurship. The NYC Turing Fellows Program seeks to match outstanding computer science and mathematics students with paid summer internships at leading NYC startups. In addition, these students will benefit from a summer curriculum consisting of networking and mentoring events (including: Yankees Game, MoMA tour, and “Tech Talks” with Dennis Crowley of Foursquare and Esther Dyson) and a $5,000 fellowship prize upon completion of the program.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
All the best,
Maya Mandel
NYC Turing Fellow Program Outreach
917.710.3334
December 13, 2011
Also from Lazowska:
In the interest of balance:
http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-wikileaks-2011-2#-1
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From:
Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Subject: Palantir
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>
Palantir is a long-time member of our Affiliates Program.
There was a somewhat creepy article about them in the most recent Business Week:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html
However, they provide links to some interesting information below.
It’s a cool company, out of PayPal and Stanford.
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Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Business Week
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Thanks, Ed!
It’s certainly an interesting take on what we do. We found it to be a
bit too spook focused and drawing way too many parallels to things
like the Total Information Awareness project, which is really not at
all what we build. The portions about how we’re a different kind of
company were spot on. The article was factually correct, but sort of
made our tech seem magical and fully automated (which it’s not). But
hey, that’s not what sells papers, so it goes.
If you’re interested in a different perspective on what we do, there’s
a couple of short pieces I’d point you to:
http://blog.palantirtech.com/2007/12/04/what-do-we-do/
http://blog.palantir.com/2009/11/06/palantir-like-an-operating-system-for-data-analysis/
http://blog.palantir.com/2010/03/08/friction-in-human-computer-symbiosis-kasparov-on-chess/
http://blog.palantir.com/2010/07/23/help-is-there-a-doctor-in-the-network/
Also, for your students, we just put together of series of interview
strategies posts that we’re pretty proud of:
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/09/26/how-to-rock-an-algorithms-interview/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/10/03/the-coding-interview/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/10/28/how-to-rock-a-systems-design-interview/
http://blog.palantir.com/2011/12/01/the-ui-design-interview/
Great to hear from you,
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December 2, 2011
Samasource Information Session
samasource.org
Date: Monday, Nov 21, 2011
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: UW Career Center (LOBBY) 134 Mary Gates, Seattle Campus
Speaker: Martin Anderson, VP of Engineering
Samasource is a social enterprise based in San Francisco that connects people living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet.
We created a technology platform that distributes microwork to centers around the world. Microwork is a new way to fight poverty by enabling capable, marginalized people to complete digital tasks in some of the world’s poorest places. Our model provides direct income to thousands of people at a fraction of the cost of traditional aid programs and equips them with skills to succeed in the new economy.
We’re looking for students and graduates interested in joining our engineering associate program. The associate program starts with a 10-week stipend internship period where a candidate will be introduced to our platform and pair with a senior engineer to build and deploy new features. Upon successfully completing the internship, the software engineer will gain increased responsibility over feature specification and implementation, helping us grow our platform and develop innovative solutions to ICTD problems like these:
– Distributed, collaborative education and training
– Remote, rural content delivery over high latency networks
– Intelligent, automated task allocation and adaptive workflow
– Mobile payments and messaging
We are a small, growing, dynamic team committed to changing the world with an innovative business model. To get a quick overview of what we do, watch this 50 second video on YouTube of two of our workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bSBNRCSoQ.
November 17, 2011
Tue; November 15; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB125
Treat yourself to tech and Thanh Vi at this quarter’s terminal tech talk. Terra tackles trending troubles in targeting demand, inventory tracking, and transportation forecasting.
November 15, 2011
Over the past couple of months, we’ve hosted a series of events for developers in the Twitter ecosystem. All of those events have been here at Twitter HQ, and consequently those outside of San Francisco have a tough time attending. We’ve received feedback that you’d like to see some of the technical workshops that we’ve been hosting happen in other cities – so we’re making that happen.
There’s a lot going on in the ecosystem and we’d like to take this chance to share the highlights with you – including the latest developments with the platform, areas of demand within the ecosystem that we’re seeing, and technical dives into integration opportunities for developers. We’ll also be holding a Q&A session with members of the platform team, plus time to hang out with each other.
Details:
November 9th from 6pm to ~9pm
We’ll be hosting this at Hotel 1000 which is located at:
1000 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
Please sign up below to attend:
November 8, 2011
Twitter Tech Talk; Monday 11/7 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
Twitter Search comes in many shapes and sizes, all of which require scalable, fault-tolerant distributed search systems to support them. In this talk, Jake Mannix, engineering Tech Lead on the User Search team, will describe the architecture they designed to future-proof the Operations work which surrounds any rapidly growing distributed system.
Research Reference: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/publications/Leibert_etal_SoCC2011.pdf
November 7, 2011
LinkedIn Info Session; Thu, Nov 3, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
LinkedIn is a professional social networking service globally connecting over 100m professionals from 170 industries and 200 countries. Learn how you can help connect qualified professionals together to achieve synergy!
LinkedIn is looking for Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Associate Project Managers.
October 31, 2011
This is a College of Engineering event, CS or CE students are welcome to participate. Sign up online if you want to attend.
CSE Advising
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From: Keri L. Sliger <ks56@u.washington.edu>
6:30-6:45pm: Student Check-in @ Paul Allen Building Atrium
7:00pm: Networking Night officially begins @ Paul Allen Building Atrium
8:30pm: buffet dinner for both students & alumni is served, alumni welcome/encouraged to stay and mingle with students
Registration Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ks56/143545
Happy Friday,
Keri Sliger
Special Events Manager
371 Loew Hall, Box 352180
Seattle, WA 98195-2180
v: 206.685.6843
f: 206-685-0666
October 28, 2011
All CSE majors who will be looking for a full-time job this year should consider participating in our CSE Mock Technical Interviews the evening of Tuesday, November 1. We have several outstanding companies coming to campus, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, to run CSE students through a single half-hour simulated technical interview. The sessions will place students one-on-one with a hiring manager or engineer who regularly conducts technical interviews. Interview questions will include puzzles, logic, data structures, coding and more with a ten minute feedback session following. Mock interviews will take place this year in the CSE building (a correction from the just-sent CSE email).
Registration dates for this event are as follows:
10/24-10/25: CSE seniors only (definition: those who will earn their CSE degree before summer 2012)
10/26-10/27: CSE seniors and juniors only (definition: those who will earn their CSE degree before summer 2013)
10/27: (before noon): All CSE majors (if any seats remain)
Registration is now open. Students can RSVP here: (https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/147383)
Students can choose one of three offered interview times from the linked sign-up form: 6:00-6:45 pm, 6:45-7:30 pm or 7:30-8:15 pm. Space is extremely limited. Slots will be assigned in order of sign up. Students will be informed of their interview time and interviewer via email Thursday afternoon.
Please direct all event questions to Dave Rispoli, CSE Advisor at rispoli@cs.
October 24, 2011
Isilon: Locking and cache coherency in a distributed file system; Tue, Oct 25, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE125
Isilon, a division of EMC, is a company that is developing combined software/hardware solutions to some of the world’s toughest enterprises data management challenges. Look forward to a real systems tech talk.
Redfin: How To Suck the Marrow Out Of Your First Job and Start Your Own Company Before Turning 25; Thu, Oct 27, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB125
Finally, a talk for the startup/entrepeneur crowd. Come see Glenn Kalman, Redfin CEO, do stand-up comedy for an hour and a half.
October 24, 2011
