CSE Undergrad News

Hello fellow CSE-majors,

It’s another one of those crazy unpredictable event filled weeks!!!  Here’s what’s on the menu:

1.) Cisco Info Session, TODAY, 6-7pm, EE125

“Welcome to the Human Network Cisco is more than just routers. Dinner will be served plus a FLIP Video Raffle.”  Internship and job info. For more information, please visit www.cisco.com/go/universityjobs.

2.) UW CSE Affiliates Dinner, Thursday, The Atrium, October 28, 9am – 3pm

This is UW CSE’s exclusive, amazing, renowned career fair and recruitment event.  There are going to be SOOO many companies, there will be something for everyone.  You can’t miss this.  Dress nice to make a good impression.  Bring lots of copies of your resume.  Also dont forget to upload your resume prior to the fair. Go to https://www.aftercollege.com/career-networks/university-of-washington/department-of-computer-science-and-engineering/ (Just go to “Sign Up” at the top of the page and follow the steps.)

3.) Smoothie Day, Friday, October 29th, 330-430, CSE Atrium

We make smoothies out of yummy ingredients.  Quick, easy, tasty, and social way to welcome the weekend! A 2$ donation is greatly appreciated!

4.) ACM Local Programming Competition, Saturday October 30th, 10am-230pm, CSE 002 and CSE 006

This is organized by Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp.  This Saturday is a preliminary competition to determine 3 teams to represent UW CSE at the regional competition at University of Oregon on Saturday, November 13.  The programming languages available to use include C, C++, and Java.  I believe the teams are of three people each, start looking for teammates now! Information on team sign ups and official details will go out soon!  This is a fantastic contest to be a part of (a resume entry? especially if you make it to the next round!).  There will be free lunch and goodies sponsored by Google and/or Facebook.  Don’t be discouraged if you are new to the department, you only need to be familiar with one language (we hope you didn’t forget 142/143).  No preparation is necessary, just form a team and show up! More details soon..

For the Future

5.) Tech Talks, Tuesday 11/2, Facebook, Thursday 11/4, Amazon

6.) ACM Fall Fest, Friday November 5th, 5-9pm, More details soon!

7.) Research Night, Wednesday November 10th, 430-7pm
Enjoy the Events!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

From: Sarah Krueger [mailto:skrueger@mail.utexas.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 7:50 AM
To: innovation@rgkcenter.org
Subject: 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition

We are excited to announce that entry to the 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition is open! I hope you will share this opportunity with those you think will be interested.

The University of Texas at Austin and Dell are searching for student social entrepreneurs to dream up ingenious ideas to change the world. College students worldwide are invited to enter the 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition for a chance to win $50,000 to turn their ideas into a new business or nonprofit with a mission to change lives for the better.

The deadline to enter is February 14, 2011. Students can submit their ideas online at
http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com.

Along with students, the public is invited to comment on, vote for and discuss the ideas in the online community forum.

The RGK Center for Philanthropy & Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin has awarded more than $200,000 in prizes to student social entrepreneurs since the introduction of the Social Innovation Competition in 2006.

Please let me know if you’d like materials to pass out to your students, and I’d be happy to send some along.

http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com
http://twitter.com/dellsocialinnov
http://www.facebook.com/DellSocialInnovation

Best,
Sarah

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Sarah Krueger

Marketing Specialist

RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service

LBJ School of Public Affairs

The University of Texas at Austin

skrueger@mail.utexas.edu

rgkcenter.org

twitter.com/RGK_Center

facebook.com/theRGKCenter

Hi All,

IEEEXtreme 4.0, the 24-hour online worldwide programming contest for students, is coming up! Are you ready to solve and win the world’s most extreme programming challenge? Last year, UW placed 3rd in the US West Coast region and we are hoping to do even better this year. Students with any level of programming experience are encouraged to apply.

Registration is open until Friday, October 8th.
Here is the official site and rules: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/xtreme/index.html

Event Details:
Date: October 22nd – 23rd
Time: Begins at 4pm
Location: DeVry University
Requirements: IEEE Member ID
Team Sizes: Up to 3 people

If you are interested in competing, would like more information, or want to setup/join a team, contact Josh at koemon@cs.washington.edu

Regards,
Josh Scotland

In this quarter’s Games Capstone class teams were presented with a challenge to produce a full featured video game released in the wild, on major game distribution sites such as Kongregate and newgrounds so that their creations can be evaluated in the real world.

I am happy to report that the games are now out, you can see all of them here.  Give them a try, they cover a variety of genres.

More interestingly the games gathered significant praise from the players around the world.  Here I list some of the outcomes (new ones arriving hourly):

–    Around a million players played all games in total in last 3 weeks

–    Two games had full featured reviews by a site that reviews a few noteworthy games each week. You can read the two reviews here: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/05/chromatic.php and http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/06/hello_worlds.php

–    The publicized games have now over 10 contract offers for distribution at different game sites, as well as offers for additional funding to develop the game for other platforms.

–    Hello Worlds! Game has won two monetary prizes: a second place, in the best game of the week, and the second/third best game of the month (even though it has been out only for the last week of May) on Kongregate.com.  This is particularly impressive given, that the competition is games with real budgets, and high quality production including the licensing rights for Wallace & Gromit branding.

–    as of last Sat, hello worlds is now a #1 featured game on Kongregate!

–    This week, Defenders of the Light and Time Decay are competing for the best game of the week honor at Kongregate.com

–    The teams collectively earned a significant amount of revenue through awards, commissions, and distribution contracts, which will likely continue beyond the class.
Zoran

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:33 AM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Cc: Arvind Krishnamurthy
Subject: [cs-ugrads] NSDI best paper

I am thrilled to announce that a UW paper, Reverse Traceroute was just awarded the best paper award at the leading research conference on network systems, NSDI 2010.  More information about Reverse Traceroute, and a prototype you can try out, can be found here:

http://revtr.cs.washington.edu/

The paper is the result of a remarkable research collaboration between UW grad students and undergrads.  Congratulations to co-authors UW grad student Ethan Katz-Bassett, UW undergrads Justine Sherry, Colin Scott, and Peter van Wesep, and UW recent PhD grad Harsha Madhyastha!  The paper was co-advised by Arvind Krishnamurthy and myself.

Tom

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Zoran Popovic
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:20 PM
To: undergrad_students@ee.Washington.edu; EE_GRAD@ee.Washington.edu; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW vs Cornell Competition

As some of you know a heated competition between UW and Cornell has started: who will build a full 3D replica of the campus first.  So far Cornell is trampling all over us, and there are only 13 days left.  I’m hoping you can help us with the comeback by playing at

http://photocitygame.com/competition.php

or with the iPhone app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photocity/id341994556

There are trophy replicas of the buildings, T-shirts and general bragging rights at stake.
Photocity Team

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:05 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Go Team!

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/04/03/cses-mark-bun-dan-gnanapragasam-milda-zizyte-excel-in-mathematical-contest-in-modeling/

—–Original Message—–
From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 1:17 PM
To: Gaetano Borriello
Cc: cs-ugrads – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List
Subject: Re: [cs-ugrads] Scott Hauck selected for the University Distinguished Teaching Award.

As I continually remind folks, sign up for the CSE News twitter or rss feed!

http://news.cs.washington.edu/

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Gaetano Borriello

<gaetano@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

> Fantastic news for Scott and CSE – Scott is a CSE PhD alum (’94).

>

> ———- Forwarded message ———-

> From: Leung Tsang <tsang@ee.washington.edu>

> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:14 AM

> Subject: Scott Hauck selected for the University Distinguished Teaching

> Award.

>

> Dear Scott:

>

> I would like to congratulate you for being selected for the University

> Distinguished Teaching Award.

>

> http://www.washington.edu/uaa/textpattern47/tp/features/142/2010DistinguishedTeachingAwards

>

> One of the students said in the nomination letter , ” Scott obviously spent

> a great deal of time to prepare his lectures, and ensured that things went

> smoothly from one class to the next.”

>

> Thank you very much for devoting your time to serve the students!

>

> Sincerely

>

> Leung Tsang

> EE Chair

>

>

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Want a chance to win up to $800? Do you have papers cluttering your hard-drive from final projects, research projects or internships? Then submit an abstract to the IEEE Seattle Section Student Paper Contest by this weekend! The important thing to note is that the paper can be any technically related paper — it doesn’t need to be a new work!

The IEEE Regions have annual contests for students to demonstrate their writing and presentation skills. This year, we will have our third consecutive contests for students here in the Seattle Section, hosted at the UW.

To submit an abstract, or the full paper, send an email to Joe Decuir at jdecuir@ieee.org.

Full rules for the contest can be found at: http://ieee-seattle.org/details/2010-04-10_students.html

UW IEEE

* Submit a YUI BSD-licensed gallery module by March 22, 2010
* Entries will be judged on usefulness, uniqueness, code quality and documentation
* Prize: JSConf 2010 conference pass + $500 gift certificate to Expedia.com for travel
* Full contest details: http://yuiblog.com/yui3gallerycontest2010/
* Some community-generated module ideas: http://yuilibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=2915

YUI 3 is an JavaScript and CSS library originally developed (and still supported) by Yahoo!  It powers Yahoo.com, Yahoo Search, and future versions of Yahoo Mail and other key sites.  YUI addresses many of the same challenges as jQuery, but it takes a different approach — lazy-loading and sandboxing are built in to everything you do in YUI 3, making it a good choice for scalable frontend development.

The YUI 3 Gallery (http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/ ) provides a straightforward mechanism for you to contribute to this prominent open-source project, and now is a great time to make a contribution.  If you submit a new module to the Gallery by March 22, 2010, under YUI’s BSD license, you may be eligible to win a ticket to one of the premier web engineering conferences, JSConf, along with $500 from Expedia to help you get there.

Contributing to the YUI 3 Gallery is easy if you know some JS and CSS.  Several dozen modules already to serve as code-structure models, and there are many reasonably-scoped ideas for new modules that could be completed within a couple of weeks.  The prize is fantastic — JSConf has some of the best speakers in the industry, and this year’s lineup is filled with compelling speakers.  Win or lose, contributing a visible, enduring piece of code to a well-known OSS project is a fantastic learning experience and an activity that looks great on your resume going forward.