CSE Undergrad News

HEY! UW CSE!

Yahoo! is sponsoring a 24-hour programming competition, preceded by a
week of tech talks on Yahoo! technologies! Tech talks each night will
be in the CSE Atrium with speakers like Rasmus Lerdorf, inventor of
PHP!

The overnight programming competition will start next Friday
afternoon, with teams of up to 4 members. You can code up whatever you
want, using whatever technology you want - may the coolest hack win!
You can sign up for teams here:
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/reges/69780.

Here's Next Week's Schedule:
Tuesday February 17th – HACK U Kickoff
Start Time 6:00pm

Wednesday February 18th - Searchmonkey & BOSS Brain Jam Dinner
Start Time 6:00pm

Thursday February 19th - YAP/Y!OS/YUI Open Technology Night
Start Time 6:15pm

Friday February 20th – Hack U 24 hour coding festival begins
Start Time 2:00pm

Saturday February 21st:
2:00pm Hack day ends, and all submissions are due
4:30pm Hack winners announced, prizes, after party

More info is available at:
http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/

You can also join our Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48145928387&ref=ts

This event is open to everyone - you can invite your friends, CSE or
not, freshman through super-senior through grad student. Good luck!

Your Friendly ACM Officers

After placing first in last years Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (PRCCDC), the UW CSE team is looking to add a few members to its ranks for the 2009 competition. We’ll be competing against other regional schools, and have the opportunity this year to advance to the national competition.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to have studied “computer security” to be valuable to the team. We’re looking for undergrads who have any number of skillsets. (more…)

Emer Dooley, with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is seeking a CSE student interested in participating the UW Environmental Challenge. The specific opportunity is to join a team working to fix a deficiency in some of the climate hydrology models by hooking it up with Google maps.

The first prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the team with the best working prototype addressing an environmental problem that’s water-related.Contact Emer with questions, or if you’re interested.

Emer Dooley
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University of Washington
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195
206 369 7248