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Capstone course to consider: CSE 490D (14wi) + CSE 481K (14sp)

Dear CSE undergraduate and 5th year masters students:

As students are firming up their plans for Winter quarter and starting
thinking about Spring 2014 we want to make sure everyone knows about
CSE 490D (14wi) and CSE 481K (14sp) Designing Technology for
Resource-Constrained Environments. This is a capstone course sequence
that will be co-taught by Richard Anderson & Ruth Anderson this Winter
and Spring. It works a little differently than other capstones, so we
want to make you aware of the details. The course web page from last
year, with links to previous years can be found here:

13wi: (design studio)
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse490d/13wi/

13sp: (capstone)
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse481k/13sp/

In Winter quarter, CSE 490D is a 2-credit design seminar that meets
Wednesday 4-5:50 pm. The course will focus on project scoping,
performing user research, and assessing the technology landscape
(mobile phones, tablets, embedded sensors, cloud services, SMS, etc.).
Students will meet together to develop project ideas for technologies
specifically designed to address the needs of low resource communities
(in the Seattle area and internationally).

In Spring quarter, CSE 481K is a 5-credit capstone project
course. This course is for students to take the ideas developed in
Winter and actually realize a working prototype and complete
preliminary evaluations.  It is is a more traditional CSE capstone
experience with weekly milestones, demos, and some presentations. The
intent is that groups of students formed in Winter quarter will
continue on to work together in Spring quarter (although there is
always some shuffling in that not all students continue on in Spring
quarter and some new students join the groups formed in Winter).

We believe this is an interesting and productive way to do a capstone
course as we have more time to investigate the project space and
determine the best course of action by doing it in advance (in Winter)
of the actual capstone course (in Spring) where we can then get
started right away on implementation. Of course, students can take the
Spring course without having taking the Winter course, but it is more
fun to be in the midst of defining and shaping the projects and that
will happen (mostly) in Winter.  This is a great course sequence for
5th-year MS students.

We’ve done a version of this course for the past six years and it has
been very successful. Each year, we have had projects that have gone
all the way to real deployments and publications in research workshops
or conferences.

Here are a few sample projects:

*  StarBus: SMS based vehicle tracking targeting public transportation in Kyrgyzstan.
R. Anderson, A. Poon, C. Lustig, W. Brunette, G. Borriello, B. Kolko. Building a
Transportation Information System using only GPS and Basic SMS Infrastructure, ICTD
2009.
*  Multilearn: Multi-input device educational games for elementary education in India.
C. Tseng, S. Garg, H. Underwood, L. Findlater, R. Anderson, J. Pal. Examining
emergent dominance patterns in multiple input based educational systems, IDID 2010.
*  Midwives’ ultrasound. Developed an interface for antenatal ultrasound for use by
rural midwives in Uganda. W. Brunette, W. Gerard, M. Hicks, A. Hope, M. Ishimitsu, P.
Prasad, R. Anderson, G. Borriello, B., Kolko, R. Nathan.  Portable Antenatal
Ultrasound Platform for Village Midwives, ACM DEV 2010.
*  Milkbank: Developed low-cost milk banking for HIV positive mothers. R. Chaudhri, D.
Vlachos, J. Kaza, J. Palludan, N. Bilbao, T. Martin, G. Borriello, B. Kolko, K.
Israel-Ballard. 2011. A system for safe flash-heat pasteurization of human breast
milk, NSDR 2011.
*  Low-power Sensors and Smartphones for Tracking Water Collection in Rural Ethiopia.
R. Chaudhri, R. Sodt, K. Lieberg, J. Chilton, G. Borriello, J. Cook, Y. Masuda.
IEEE Pervasive Computing (special issue on Pervasive Information and
Communication Technologies for Development – ICT4D), Vol. 11, No. 3, July-September
2012.
*  Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies. N. Dell, N. Breit, T.
Chaluco, J. Crawford, G. Borriello. ACM 2nd Annual Symposium on Computing for
Development (DEV), Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012.

For additional information, you can contact Richard Anderson
(anderson@cs.washington.edu) or Ruth Anderson (rea@cs.washington.edu).

Thanks,

Richard and Ruth

November 25, 2013

CSE495 (Programming Practicum, a.k.a. “Hacking for Credit”) course announcement

We are happy to announce that UW will be participating in the Facebook Open Academy (a.k.a. Hacking For Credit) in Winter/Spring 2014. This class presents a unique opportunity for students interested in a job in industry to gain experience. Facebook has hand-picked important open source projects to which students will contribute, and it has chosen select Facebook engineers who will act as mentors to guide the students through the open source development process. We expect that students will learn a lot in this class and thus encourage any interested students to sign up. In particular, prior experience contributing to open source software is NOT required.

For more information, please see the course website at http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse495/14wi/.
November 21, 2013

New Neural ENGR course WIN 2014: Info session TOMORROW

Dear Students,

 

The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) will offer a “Tech Sandbox Competition” in the winter quarter of 2014 as a two credit course (BioE 498G and 599H).

 

BIOEN 498G, SLN 21189, Thursday 3:00 – 4:50 p.m. in Russell 204, 1414 NE 42nd Street.

BIOEN 599H, SLN 21190, same days, times, place.

You need instructor permission (from Lise Johnson, liseaj@uw.edu ) to register. Once you have her permission, please forward that to bioeng@uw.edu and ask to be added to the course. Specify BIOEN 498G or BIOEN 599H and include your student i.d.#. We will NOT issue entry codes; we will register you directly, so clear ALL course conflicts prior to asking to be added.

 

In this class undergraduate and graduate students will work in teams to create projects that demonstrate concepts in sensorimotor neural engineering.  For these projects, students will have access to Center-based equipment (see below) and workspace.  The final projects will be presented to and judged by a panel of CSNE industry affiliates.  Each member of the winning team will receive a tablet computer for personal use.  Space is limited and students can only be enrolled once they have identified a team.  Teams must have one graduate student and one undergraduate student and no more than three members.  There will be an information session at the CSNE (1414 NE 42nd St., Suite 204) on Tuesday, November 19th at 12:30 PM.  If you are interested in the class you are encouraged to attend; if you do not have a team this is will be an opportunity to meet other interested parties.  If you have questions, please email CSNE University Education Manager, Lise Johnson at liseaj@uw.edu.  Please feel free to share this email with your colleagues.

Equipment List:

  • Biometrics Ltd. wireless, dry EMG system including 8 active EMG sensors, 8 goniometers (different sizes to accommodate upper and lower extremites), a torsiometer, contact switches, and an event marker
  • Sensable Technologies Phantom OMNI haptic device with six degree-of-freedom positional sensing
  • Emotiv EPOC wireless 14 channel neuroheadset with the research SDK
  • 2 Microsoft Kinect sensors for Windows
  • 5 degree-of-freedom data glove for motion capture
  • MakerBot 3D printer
  • Parrot Quadrotor
  • Vicon Motion Capture System
  • Arduinos and accessories
  • Gumstix single board computers
  • Additional low-cost equipment may be purchased by the Center upon request
November 18, 2013

New course! Engineering for Social Justice, 2-credits, ungraded

NEW COURSE OFFERING!
ENGR 202, WINTER 201 4

ENGINEERING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE:
A CRITICAL SEMINAR ON THE POLITICS AND POSSIB IL ITIES OF  ENGINEERING 

Join us this Winter quarter for an innovative new seminar! We’ll ask questions like:

  • How can engineers work for social justice at the drawing board and in their daily lives?
  • Who do we engineer for? Who defines the problems we solve? Whose work is considered engineering?
  • Is technology political? Who wins when a dam is built and who loses when an engineer designs a robot?
  • Why are women and people of color still so underrepresented in engineering classrooms?

These questions of the social and historical context of our discipline and the values undergirding our
work are notably absent from most skill-focused engineering curricula. This seminar is intended to fill
this gap by creating a space for engineering students to reflect on our impact on society and to imagine
a new kind of engineering for the common good.
The course is open to all levels and all majors, including non-engineers. There are no prerequisites
other than a desire to learn about the subject and participate actively in class. Course assignments will
include readings, reflections, and conceptual designs. In class activities will be largely discussion based,
focusing on weekly readings and the experiences and visions of students.

Want to combine engineering and social justice?
Email Daniel Ullom (ullomd@uw.edu) for an add code or more info!

ENGR 202 A | SLN#: 13947
Grading: 2 Credits | Credit/No Credit
Time: Mondays, 2:30-4:20 pm | Room: MEB 202
Facilitators: Daniel Ullom and Dean Chahim | Faculty Advisor: Susan Bolton
More information online at: e4sj.wordpress.com

November 14, 2013

Change Seminar Invitation

Trevor Perrier <tperrier@cs.washington.edu>
Sep 20 (5 days ago)
to faculty, cs-grads, cs-ugrads, dub, change, new-grads
Hello Everyone,
I would like to invite you all to register for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12753) which will be meeting on Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.
Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly in the developing world. We cover topics such as global health, education, micro finance, agricultural development, and general communication, and look at how technology can be used to improve each of these areas.
We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for more information (and if you know anyone in the community who we should invite please let me know).

Please consider enrolling.  If you are unable to enroll, feel free to come to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll/attend if interested.

Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists, and we hope to see you on Tuesday October 1st at noon in Room 203 of the Paul Allen Center.

Thanks,

– Trevor
September 25, 2013

Software Entrepreneurship (ENTRE 432 /CSE490B)

 

Software Entrepreneurship (ENTRE 432 /CSE490B)

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This course is designed for students who want to learn how to build a software-based startup. More

than ever, software, algorithms, and circuitry form the core of new businesses. And when you include

internet and mobile applications, it’s difficult to think of any future consumer business that doesn’t have

a software component.

This course will explore the opportunities and challenges of the software industry, using a mix of real

life examples, lectures, and guest speakers. You’ll learn the basics of software-based startups: product

and customer development, business feasibility and competitive analysis, basic software intellectual

property, the present and future of mobile applications, software and internet marketing, etc.

The class will include:

• An overview of the industry: from Web 2.0 to gaming to enterprise software to bioinformatics

• Trends and emerging opportunities in the software industry

• A roadmap for starting, funding, and growing a software venture

• University spin-offs and technology transfer

• Current industry challenges

• Cutting–edge software practices

How does a part-time, dog-walking business produce six-figure profit?  How does an undergraduate end

up leading a computational genomics company? How does a clean-tech application get sold to Belkin

International for a good chunk of money? You’ll meet the entrepreneurs (former UW students) and hear

how and why they did it.

Students will come away with an understanding of the dynamics of starting a company and competing

in the software industry. At the end, you’ll deliver an executive summary for the startup, a proof of

concept, and a polished presentation. You’ll know how to take a “good idea” and turn it into a plan,

which could form the basis for your new career.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the basic foundations for modeling a software business

2. Learn to create an oral and written proposal for a new venture

3. Learn best practices for starting and growing a software and technology based venture

4. Learn about current trends and opportunities within the software industry

September 9, 2013

CSE 466 and 467 – consider enrolling

Dear Computer Science & Engineering major:

There are two courses being offered this fall that we want to call to
your attention.
Please consider including these in your fall schedule.  They make
excellent senior electives for CS majors and are an important part of
the intellectual center for CompE majors.

CSE466: Software for Embedded Systems – Bruce Hemingway

Microprocessors pervade our everyday life from implanted medical
devices to anti-lock brakes to robots.  Take CSE466 to learn how these
devices are programmed and how code can interact with real world
physical objects – not just data objects in memory. Programming these
systems poses interesting challenges in performance for real-time
operation, security and safety considerations, network communications,
and user interfaces. The class project will have students implement
their own physical device.

CSE467: Advanced Digital Design – Gabriel Cohn

How you ever wondered how the Xbox Kinect and other computer vision
systems can compute complicated algorithms on large data sets in
real-time? Take CSE 467 to learn how to dramatically accelerate an
algorithm by implementing it on custom hardware! Such hardware
acceleration is commonly used for high speed computations in computer
vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, and finance.
The class project will allow students will implement a highly
optimized computer vision algorithm on an FGPA.

Thanks,
Gaetano Borriello
Undergraduate Program Faculty Coordinator

 

September 9, 2013

CSE 467 – new course added for fall 2013

CSE 467 has been added to the fall schedule, CE Majors and interested CS Majors are encouraged to apply

 

Short course description:

This course builds upon the basic digital logic design techniques from CSE 352, focusing primarily on design, implementation and verification of customized application-specific digital logic designs. In this course, students learn how to build and optimize algorithms to run very quickly on custom hardware. Such hardware acceleration is commonly used for high speed computations in computer vision, artificial intelligence, computational biology, and finance. The class project will allow students will implement a highly optimized computer vision algorithm on an FGPA.
Prereqs: 352 and 332
CSE   467  ADV DIGITAL DESIGN Prerequisites
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                        GABECOHN AT CS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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July 31, 2013

Recruiting for the CSE Animation Capstone course 2013-2014

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Pixar/Disney and Dreamworks productions. We are seeking applicants for our 2013-2014 production. There are several courses CSE offers throughout the year to support the pre-production and production work. cs464, Character Animation and cse458 Introduction to Animation will be offered Fall quarter 2013. CSE 460, the Animation Capstone will be offered in Winter qtr 2014 and CSE 464 Post Production will be offered Sprint quarter.  Only two courses are required  for those who have limited space in their schedules:  cse458 and cse460.  For more information, film examples,  and instructions for applying to this exciting program go to:
www.cs.washington.edu/research/ap or contact Robert Forsberg ( dybbek@cs.washington.edu) or Barbara Mones ( monesie@gmail.com)
July 22, 2013

Animation course this summer, B term July 25-Aug 22

From Barbara Mones:

If you are interested in designing, modeling and rigging 3D characters for games or film, please enroll in cse464 B Term. The course will follow the pre-production  for 3D characters for animated games or film.

The class meets on Thursdays, from 5:30pm – 8:20pm, from

July 25 – August 22, 2013

SLN 14364

July 19, 2013

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