From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Reges
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:31 AM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; vgrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] ACM Programming Contest
On Saturday 23 teams competed in our local ACM programming contest.
Marty Stepp helped me to run the contest along with student helpers
Lisa Fiedler and Jared Jones and Google staffers Amanda Camp, Krista
Davis, Shen-Hui Lee, and Scott Shawcroft. Google was our official
sponsor and provided yummy pizza and Rubik’s cubes.
The top three teams have won the honor of representing us at the
regional contest which will be held November 7th:
#1: Team Captcha: Jeff Booth, Michael Sloan, Will Johnson
#2: Firefighter Endorsed: Joshua Snyder, Kevin Wallace, Alyssa Harding
#3: Three Bytes Deficient: Steven Howard, Conrad Meyer, Tyler Smith
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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October 26, 2009
IEEEXtreme Programming Competition
Think you can code? On 24 October 2009, you can prove it! The IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 3.0 is an innovative 24-hour global online competition in which you and a team of up to two other IEEE Student Branch members can test your collective coding expertise simultaneously against other student programmers. Solve and win the world’s most Xtreme programming challenge and your team will claim ultimate bragging rights, be recognized as some of the world’s top up-and-coming programmers, and win an all-expense-paid trip to the IEEE event or conference of the team’s choice – anywhere in the world! Other prizes will include cool gear from our sponsors. Visit the IEEEXtreme Web site for more information or to register your team. Registration closes 12 October 2009.
So basically, there’s our punchline. Just to give you guys a quick rundown, the UW IEEE club is one of the primary EE undergraduate student clubs but is always open to non-EE members, especially from CS/CSE. For more details please visit our event page at http://www.uwieee.org/node/11.
Daniel Vishoot
UW IEEE
October 7, 2009
From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:23 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List
Subject: Putnam competition
I’d like to once again draw your attention to the prep course for the Putnam Competition. CSE students have had excellent showings in recent years in this, and also in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, with help from the expert tutelage in the Mathematics Department.
PUTNAM MATHEMATICAL
COMPETITION
Weekly meetings:
Mondays, 6-8PM, Padelford C-36
starting October 5
Competition date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Practice Exam: October 12, 2009
Learn problem solving skills in:
Combinatorics
Number Theory
Geometry and Trigonometry
Sequences and Series
Functional Relations
Algebra
For more information, see the Putnam at UWpage
http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/putpage.html
and theMath 480, The Art of Problem Solving page
http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/m480 au09.html
Faculty Contact/Sponsors:
Prof. Ioana Dumitriu, dumitriu@math.washington.edu
Prof. Julia Pevtsova, julia@math.washington.edu
October 1, 2009
In the past few years, UW students have done incredibly well in the national Putnam Mathematics Competition. And many of these students have been CSE majors.
The big asset that we have is a “training course” (The Art of Problem Solving) taught by two young faculty members in Mathematics. This training is essential to doing well in the competition.
They would like to recruit CSE students for the coming year. Please see the announcement below, and please seriously consider this. With the help of these two great Math profs, you can do exceedingly well in this top national competition. (more…)
September 11, 2009
Given a 49×49 grid of numbers, can you place mines in the cells in such a way that each number represents the number of mines in its 3×3 sub-grid (the cell itself and its 8 immediate neighbors)? Find the maximum number of mines that could end up in the middle row of the grid.
Intrigued? Think you can solve it with a clever algorithm? At Google, we know how thrilling it can be to encounter a challenge and then overcome it by coding up a creative solution. Since 2003, we’ve been privileged to share that experience with a global community of computer programmers through our annual programming competition, Google Code Jam.
We’re excited to announce Google Code Jam 2009, powered by Google App Engine. Join the fun and compete in several 2½-hour online rounds, attacking three to four difficult algorithmic problems during each round. You may use your favorite programming languages and tools to code up a solution. When ready, run your solution against our fiendish test data. The algorithm needs to be right, and it needs to be efficient: when N=10000, O(N3) won’t cut it!
If you’re up to the challenge, visit the Google Code Jam site to read the rules and register by September 3. Most importantly, you can practice on the problems from last year’s contest, so you are in shape when the qualification round starts on September 2. After four tough rounds of online competition, the top 25 competitors will be flown to our Mountain View headquarters to to match wits for the $5,000 first prize — and the title of Code Jam champion!
P.S. Think you can solve our “Mine Layer” problem? Try it out on the Code Jam website!
August 25, 2009
Two news items from Ed L:
The ParkSmart team from CSE 440 received 2nd place in the 2009 Usability Professionals Association Student Design Competition. Congratulations to CSE’s Alireza Garakani and Jonathan McKay and Informatics’ Linda Le!
Also, TextRunner has been featured in Technology Review.
And! A reminder that you can “Get the news the same day it happens” through the CSE news blog, which features general CSE news from throughout the department (different than this CSE ugrad news blog):
http://news.cs.washington.edu/
Sign up for the RSS feed: As soon as we have 500 people signed up, Ed says he’ll stop sending these annoying emails! 🙂
June 11, 2009
Apply asap for Apple’s Cocoa Camp this summer!
Selected students will spend a week at Apple Inc. headquarters in California learning to build iPhone applications using Cocoa. This will be a lab-style environment with both lecture and exercises including hands-on training activities led by Apple engineers. The session will take place week of August 17, 2009.
The deadline to submit the application is May 3, 2009.
Apple will be responsible for the following expenses:
* roundtrip airfare to/from school or home,
* hotel accommodations,
* per diem for food expenses, and
* transportation to/from the hotel to Apple activities and events.
Read on for application info. (more…)
April 29, 2009
Hello everyone,
It's that time of the year again - We need some new designs for departmental t-shirts.
The basic idea: you submit a design to acm-officers@cs.washington.edu by
April 22rd and everyone votes for their favs in the following week.
We need a high-quality vector graphic that's ready for print (each
color a different layer, scalable, etc.) Feel free to re-submit a
design, collaborate on ideas or submit more than one. On the 22nd,
we'll have all the designs up and allow CSE students, faculty, and staff
to vote on what they like best. The contest's grand prize is, of course,
the pride and satisfaction of having your work worn by the students,
faculty, and staff of this department.
Need some ideas? Check out a few past designs:
http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/pictures/?album=1&gallery=4
Again, please e-mail your submissions to acm-officers@cs.washington.edu
Thanks,
Your Friendly ACM Officers
April 15, 2009
Students who placed well in the Putnam Prize competition with the two teachers who helped them prepare. In the back row, left to right, are Igor Tolkov, Nate Bottman and Ben Hayes. In front are teacher Ioana Dumitriu, Michael Rutherford, Will Johnson and teacher Julia Pevtsova.
UW CSE junior Will Johnson placed sixth out of roughly 3,700 competitors in the 2008 Putnam Mathematical Competition – the highest score posted by a student at a public university!
See the University Week article here:
http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=48614
Three other CSE students participated in the competition: Igor Tolkov, Keyun Tong, and Michael Rutherford. The competition coaches were especially proud to have all UW students participating earn correct answers in the competition (many students don’t earn any).
The Putnam Competition, offered each year by the Mathematical Association of America, began in 1938, and is open to undergraduate students in the United States.
Incredible! Congratulations to Will and the rest of our awesome students!
April 9, 2009
Stuart Reges would like to remind all our undergrads of the Yahoo! HackU events this week:
“All this week we will have events sponsored by Yahoo! This is the brainchild of Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PhP, who will be here all week along with other Yahoo engineers. This is the first year Yahoo has included us in this traveling event. They also visit MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Waterloo, etc. (more…)
February 18, 2009
