In case this might change anything these courses will definitely be offered this summer (although I don’t yet have final times).
Definitely offering:
CSE 456 and 464 (animation)
CSE 333
CSE 351 and 390A
CSE 154 web programming
CSE 142/143
Maybe offering:
*CSE 421, we’re not sure yet
I finally have word on what we will offer this summer. We will definitely offer:
CSE 142, 143, 154 (web programming), 333 (systems programming) and 351 (hardware/software interface) and 390A the one credit course that goes with 351.
Additionally, there will be two animation courses, CSE 456 and 464 (one A term and the other B term) and we *might* offer CSE 421, that is still pending. I should know by a week from today (by the start of spring quarter) if we’ll offer 421 this summer.
If you don’t see the course name/number above, then we are not offering it this summer. If you see it on the time schedule and not on this list, again, then it will not be offered.
Just a reminder that STAT 391 has been re-vamped a bit to match our new curriculum better. You would ideally have CSE 312 completed before taking 391. Additionally, note that Stat 391 can be applied to a math minor, but you have to email the math advisors to have the exception put into the UW system. There are still a couple of spaces left in stat and it also counts as a CSE core course and CSE Senior elective.
We need YOU to help inspire the next generation of computer scientists!
Join the spring K-12 Computing Education seminar to:
– share your excitement about CS with kids
– learn about tools and strategies for teaching CS to anyone
– learn about existing CS outreach and education projects at companies
and schools across the nation
– learn how to advocate for CS education and start your own outreach initiatives
We will meet on Tuesdays from 1:30 – 3pm to discuss weekly readings
and share our experiences volunteering with K-12 students. We will
also complete projects in small teams.
Previous quarters’ projects included designing and implementing a
computer science activity fair for middle school girls and starting a
programming club at a local high school. See fall’s course page at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/
There are two credit options:
– >= 2-credit Pipeline seminar (based on number of weekly volunteer
hours – see http://www.washington.edu/
Register for the CSE seminar with SLN 12594.
(https://sdb.admin.washington.
Registration for the Pipeline seminar is by add code only. Please
e-mail me (ln@cs.washington.edu) if you’d like to register.
I hope to see you in spring!
Hélène.
Ben Dugan is a former CSE graduate student who went on to get a law
degree and become an intellectual property lawyer. He is a superb
teacher – he won our departmental teaching award as a graduate
student.
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From: Ben Dugan <ben.dugan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM
Subject: CSE 490T/590T course announcement
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>, John Zahorjan
<zahorjan@cs.washington.edu>
Hi Ed and John,
Just in case you want to share this with anyone, here is the course
announcement for this year’s IP Law for Engineers offering. I’ve sent
this to Pim as well, but not sure if he uses the same media outlets
(e.g., grad students vs. undergrads, etc). It looks like the course
is on the time schedule, so they can sign up anytime…
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CSE 490T / 590T: Intellectual Property Law for Engineers
Wednesdays 3:30-5:20, 2 units CR/NC
Perplexed, annoyed, or interested in patents? Confused by copyright
laws? This course provides a survey of intellectual property law for
a technical (non-legal) audience. The purpose of the course is to
assist engineers and scientists in navigating and utilizing various
intellectual property regimes effectively in the business context. In
the patent space, we will study the significant revisions of U.S.
patent law under the America Invents Act of 2011, including the change
from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file patent system and new
post-grant review procedures. Additional patent-related topics will
include patent preparation and prosecution, claim interpretation, and
assessing patent validity and infringement. Other intellectual
property areas will also be addressed, including copyright, trademark,
and trade secret law. The course will balance the discussion of
practical legal considerations with broader policy questions (e.g.,
should certain subject matter be off limits for patenting? the
relationship between innovation and intellectual property regimes,
etc.).
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students and 4th-year College of
Engineering students. Many of the cases and teaching examples will be
situated in the computer arts, so some background in computer science
or engineering is preferred.
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Learn more about an exciting new field!
COURSE CODE:
■ EE/BIOE 425, CSE 488
■ 500-level course credit available for graduate students.
INSTRUCTORS:
■ Georg Seelig, gseelig@ee.washington.edu
■ Alex Rosenberg, abros@uw.edu
■ Shelly Jang, shellyj@uw.edu
DESCRIPTION: This course is an introduction to the practice of synthetic biology: building artificial biochemical reaction networks and devices in bacteria. Synthetic biochemical devices and organisms have applications in cell and tissue engineering, gene therapy, biologically derived drugs and materials, alternative fuels, biosensors, and much more. New tools and approaches are emerging rapidly and promise to make engineering living systems and components broadly useful. Many of these emerging tools are based on tools in computer science (digital logic, automata theory) and electrical engineering (circuit theory, feedback control, signal processing, dynamical systems). In this course you will learn how to program cells with DNA, learn to build genes, make your own transgenic bacteria, and characterize your constructions using PCR, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, DNA sequencing and more.
PREREQUISITES: The course is open to all engineering students and does not assume any background in biology or chemistry (although such background would be very helpful). It will consist of a lecture and a lab. The lab will consist of about six hours a week at the bench (EEB 031) and 3-5 hours working on lab reports and data analysis.
Based on feedback we gathered last week, there will be an offering of CSE 341 added this spring taught by Professor Grossman. We will still try to overload a few students into winter’s 341 offering at the start of the quarter, but most of you should plan to take it this spring. The overload process for 341 is the same as it is for most other CSE courses.
Other notes:
Reminder that there is still space in the robotics course, CSE 490 for winter.
We’ll release information on additional space in 484 by Friday of this week.
The updated schedule of courses can be found here: https://www.cs.washington.edu/education/time-sched/
Monte-Carlo Methods for Artificial Intelligence: A Short Course
March 18-22, 2013, Corvallis, Oregon
Following the previous year’s highly successful short course, the National Science Foundation and Oregon State University are sponsoring another all-expenses paid short course on Monte Carlo algorithms.
Monte Carlo methods are search algorithms based on repeated random sampling. Originally invented in physics to optimize nuclear reactions, they are used in many fields such as computational biology, finance, astrophysics, and microelectronics. They are creating big advances in Artificial Intelligence, including the first master-level play in Go, and excellent performance in Solitaire and other games. Monte Carlo methods are also being applied to many more practical problems such as robot planning, species conservation, weather forecasting, and air traffic control.
Monte Carlo methods are naturally parallel, simple to implement, and appear to perform better or comparably to other more complex approaches. There are many open research problems including some fundamental ones such as why and when they work well.
Applicants should be US citizens or permanent residents with a preference to historically under-represented groups in computer science (women, minorities, first generation to attend college). They should be in the second or third year of their undergraduate degree and should have prior experience in programming. Background in Artificial Intelligence is not required. The course runs from March 18-22 in the beautiful town of Corvallis. We will provide accommodation, airfare, computer access, high quality interactions, and technical presentations.
If you are interested or have questions, please visit http://www.eecs.orst.edu/mcai. Applications are due by December 20, 2012.
We are planning to add more space to CSE 484, but you must fill out the survey if you want to be considered. Professor Kohno will likely be on sabbatical next year, so while we are hoping to offer security during the 2013-2014 academic year, we can’t promise it. With that being said, please fill out this survey if you want to take 484 this winter. You will need to have completed CSE 332 and 351. Experience with C programming is important, so 333 might also be helpful.
Unlike the rest of the courses where we will overload during the first week of the quarter, we will give space in 484 to some of the students who fill out this survey. Priority will go first to graduating students, then to students who will graduate before the next possible offering.
We will not be able to accommodate all students, but hopefully opening space in 484 will also offset pressure in some of the other courses.
484 survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/
CSE Advising
Instructor: Todorov
CSE 490P
MW: 12pm – 1:20 pm MGH 248
SLN: 20775
Prereq: still TBD, likely 332 and possibly 333
This class will be based on the ongoing DARPA Robotics Challenge (see http://theroboticschallenge.or