We are Batman’s Kitchen, the UW competition team, and we are looking for new members.
Interested in learning about computer security issues and/or being part of a competition team? We hold regular meetings, practice breaking/hacking stuff, learn about the latest security topics, and compete in CTF/hacker jeopardy competitions throughout the year. You don’t need any prior experience in security to join the team — all you need an interest in CTFs and/or security plus a willingness to learn. Our group is an interdisciplinary group of students from CSE, EE, iSchool, pre-engineering, and other UW departments. We also collaborate with the other two UW branches (Tacoma and Bothell).
Our Info Meeting is next Wednesday, October 1st, CSE room 691, at 6:00pm. We welcome everyone. At the Info Meeting we’ll talk about the type of competitions we do, topics we‘ll cover in the coming year (e.g., lockpicking, bitcoin, etc.), and about local hacker groups and hands-on labs.
Even if you can’t make it to the meeting, sign up for our mailing list at https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uwctf and check out our website at http://uwctf.cs.washington.edu. If you have any questions, email me and I can tell you more.
See you Wednesday!
Melody Kadenko
Advisor of Batman’s Kitchen and Team Hillarious
Computer Science & Engineering
September 24, 2014
Dear CS majors,
With just one week left until the beginning of a new academic year, we
would like to send you a quick reminder (or announcement) for the Putnam
Mathematical Contest preparations sessions and the Math 380A class (“The
Art of Problem Solving”) connected to it.
Math 380A can be used as good preparation for anyone interested in
mathematical contest-taking (and as a stand-alone, it would make for a
very interesting, fun, and challenging class).
Are you a person who is intrigued by mathematical puzzles and beautiful
problems? Would you considering taking the Putnam exam? If so, we urge you
to think about registering for Math 380A. Let me emphasize registering,
not just auditing. It is important that you do the homework, in order to
learn, and there is more incentive for doing homework if you’re
registered.
Please check out
www.math.washington.edu/~putnam/putpage.html
for the Putnam exam, and
http://www.math.washington.edu/~putnam/m380_aut14.html
for Math 380A, The Art of Problem Solving.
Wishing you all a great Autumn ’14 quarter,
Ioana Dumitriu and Julia Pevtsova
September 18, 2014
As part of the continuing series on programming competitions, ACM is running an ACM-ICPC style practice programming competition. It’ll emulate a real competition as much as possible, with teams of 3, real problems, balloons, and food :-). It should be a lot of fun!
When: Saturday, May 24th; 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Where: 006
If you’re interested and available, please sign up as an individual or as part of a team here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/depstein/236763.
Space is limited, we have room for about 6 more teams. We have a few partial teams, so don’t shy away from signing up as an individual!
May 19, 2014
As part of the continuing series on programming competitions, ACM is running an ACM-ICPC style practice programming competition. It’ll emulate a real competition as much as possible, with teams of 3, real problems, balloons, and food :-). It should be a lot of fun!
When: Saturday, May 24th; 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Where: 006
If you’re interested and available, please sign up as an individual or as part of a team here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/depstein/236763.
Space is limited, we have room for about 6 more teams. We have a few partial teams, so don’t shy away from signing up as an individual!
May 19, 2014
UW/Amazon Coding Competition
Are you a fast programmer? Want to prove it? Here’s your chance: Compete in the 2014 Amazon/UW Coding Competition where you could win a Kindle Fire HDX and other prizes!
For more details of the event please visit: http://programmingcontest.net/
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Paul Allen Center for CSE ATRIUM
TO RSVP EMAIL Mike Materasso at mikejmat@amazon.com (Spots are limited) with the following information:
Full Name
Email
Degree/Major
Grad Date (month/year)
Questions
For technical questions about the event, contact programmingcontest@amazon.com. For all other event questions, contact mikejmat@amazon.com
Come meet with our developers and get some swag! Make sure to bring your computers and power cords!
May 5, 2014
For more information and immediate event notification, please like us on facebook or follow us on twitter.
Overview:
4/7 – Weekly Typed
4/10 – Programming Competition Prep
Weekly Typed
Monday, April 7, 2014; 6 – 7:30pm; CSE 203
Ty Overby will be giving a presentation / code-lab about Scala, his favorite Object Oriented and Functional programming language. You are encouraged to bring laptops to the talk to participate.
Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1421886981399509
Programming Competition Prep
Thursday, April 10, 2014; 4 – 5pm; CSE 403
“10 reasons why YOU should care about programming competitions”
Daniel Epstein (UW CSE, PhD Student) will cover why programming competitions will make you a better software developer and programmer, help you find a job, and most importantly, why they’re tons of fun! He’ll offer some tips for clever problem solving, go through problems from previous contests and their solutions, and demonstrate some common pitfalls.
Please fill out this interest survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/230992
Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/540277926089641
April 6, 2014
From: Brandon Ballinger
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:29 PM
Subject: Last-minute advice for Y Combinator applicants
Garry Tan just posted last-minute advice for YC applicants:
The deadline is March 28.
If any UW CSE students are thinking about applying, I’d be happy to take a look at their app and give feedback! I’d love to see more Huskies get in. (contact CSE advising staff for Brandon’s email)
Brandon
March 18, 2014
SOLVE THE
PUZZLES
SCORE SWEET
PRIZES
Not bad for a Saturday
Microsoft’s College Puzzle Challenge 2014
Saturday, April 5 across the U.S. & Canada
Solve the puzzles, follow the clues, and piece it together. Everyone
on your team could score an Xbox One or gift cards.
Register your team today at
https://www.collegepuzzlechallenge.com/
March 8, 2014
I wanted to loop UW students in on something called the AdMob Challenge. There was a recent announcement made via a Google Students post about this which you can read about in more detail via the link, but basically AdMob is the name of a Google platform that helps app developers monetize their apps. The AdMob team is trying to build tech student awareness (especially to those who are already creating their own apps) by creating this challenge.
Students form teams of 1-5 and create an App. They have until March 31st to submit their apps. Winning teams get prizes, and the grand prize is a trip to Mountain View, CA.
This challenge could be particularly good for students who already have an internship with another company this summer but are still interested in Google. I’ve attached a one-sheeter about the challenge and you can feel free to copy and share the G+ post as you wish.
It would be great if you could let your students know about this challenge. You can direct students to the official site, where they can register and get all the info.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Marion Daly | Specialist, Tech University Programs – West – Google Seattle | 650-669-7594 | google.com/students
January 14, 2014
