From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 3:19 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Snohomish Lane opening day-
To: <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>
Hey CSE! Snohomish Lane is the name of the pedestrian path across from Stevens Way that runs east/west to the Burke Gilman and the IMA. As a part of the construction of the Gates Center, the pathway was completely revised, including hardscape (rocks and concrete) and landscape (trees and shrubs). While we had a temporary pathway much of last year, the path was closed early summer for the construction of the permanent stairs, ramps and planters. The current plan is for the path to open to pedestrian traffic again Oct 15th. The team will still be planting, but the stairs will be ready to go.
The accessibility ramps will be ready to go shortly after, Nov 1.
The schedule may either improve or slip a few days on either end. We’re hoping for improvement!
Happy to answer any questions-
Tracy Erbeck
Director of Facilities
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
206.543.9264
www.cs.washington.edu
September 28, 2018
New animation course still has room:
Advanced animation course: Email Barbara Mones for an add code: mones@uw.edu
Over the past few years more and more entertainment verticals are moving away from offline rendering technology in favor of real-time engines. The main objective of this course is to cover the techniques and strategies used for creating content for runtime environments. Students will be introduced to various 3D engines and runtime development pipelines built to increase the efficiency of 3D production. Beyond pipeline development, shading, lighting, and effects for runtime will also be covered. At the end of the course students will have the skills necessary to tell a story using a runtime engine (Unity) for traditional and virtual reality formats.
September 27, 2018
CSE 490G1 / 599G1 – Introduction to Deep Learning is a survey course of recent developments in neural network-based machine learning. We’ll cover supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised tasks in computer vision, NLP, and robotics and you’ll build out your own deep learning framework. The course is open to both undergrads and graduate students. Come see what all the hype is about!
23410 WF 330-450
KNE 110 Farhadi,Ali
PREREQUISITES: CSE 446 OR CSE 455
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September 26, 2018
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse490c/18au/
There is an exciting new course that is open to all CSE majors who have completed CSE 143. If you want to know how to have a huge impact on the world this is a very special opportunity with fantastic projects that can help real people. I highly encourage you to consider registering, there are 15 open spaces now.
SLN 23346 meets MWF 130-220 with Thurs sections at 130 or 230
Counts as a CSE senior elective course
CSE 490c, Information and Communication Technology for Development, Autumn 2018
This is an engineering course teaching the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to address specific needs of developing countries. While ICTs are having an enormous impact on livelihoods worldwide, deployment environments vary dramatically based on available infrastructure and technologies accessible to people. The goal of this course is provide background to develop and deploy technologies in a global setting that address development challenges. Specific topics will include: health information systems, data collection technologies, applications for basic mobile phones, user interface design for low literate populations, behavior change communication, voice based social networks, community cellular networks, open source projects for global good, low-cost smartphones, satellite image analysis and mobile financial services. The course will consider a wide range of application domains including health, education, agriculture, finance, and livelihood.
The class sessions will be a lecture / discussion format with readings and assignments. There will be a series of small group implementation projects to gain familiarity different technologies and software systems and to explore the design space for various applications.
September 25, 2018
There are still 6 spaces left in the Virtual Reality Capstone this fall quarter. It’s going to be a great course. There is a glitch with the registration system only allowing up to 25 students to enroll but we can take up to 28. Class meets this Thursday. Attend in person on Thursday to learn more if you’re interested. SLN 23473 CSE 481V
Also:
Advanced animation course for students with graphics experience ideally. Email Barbara Mones for an add code: mones@uw.edu
Class description:
Over the past few years more and more entertainment verticals are moving away from offline rendering technology in favor of real-time engines. The main objective of this course is to cover the techniques and strategies used for creating content for runtime environments. Students will be introduced to various 3D engines and runtime development pipelines built to increase the efficiency of 3D production. Beyond pipeline development, shading, lighting, and effects for runtime will also be covered.
September 25, 2018
I wanted to update all of our students on a few changes on the Ugrad advising team.
- Before we get to that, just a quick note that this week on Tuesday we will be very short staffed, so please note there will be a longer than normal wait at Quick Questions (QQ’s) on that day. We’ll have the same QQ schedule this year of Monday mornings, Tues-Wed-Thurs afternoons and Friday mornings. Check the advising calendar for dates and times.
- We will have a new process for graduation appointments this year, please stay tuned for more information on that process in the next few days. Please do NOT come to QQ’s for graduation appointments this week.
- Overload process is the same as previous quarters: sign up on UW’s notify tool and watch for open space. Contact advising if you are in need of a course to graduate or something else extraordinary.
Now on to the staffing changes/updates:
First, Lacey one of our ugrad advisers from last year, was on a temporary contract position through August and decided to pursue other adventures. We are grateful for the time she spent on our team and wish her well in her future endeavors.
This week we are super excited to welcome TWO new ugrad advisers onto our team!!
- Leslie Ikeda joins us as an academic adviser. She will work with prospective students in the beginning and will eventually add in current students as well. She has worked on campus previously and just graduated from Seattle University with a masters degree.
- Kim Nguyen, graduated in 2012 from our CS program, worked at Microsoft for 5 years in both program manager and recruiter positions, and will be joining our team as an adviser focused on career counseling but also doing some academic counseling. Kim will be available to start taking appointments soon, so stay tuned for how to schedule those on Acuity. She will also be available during some of our quick questions as well.
- With over 1300 total current students and over 1000 prospective students, we are very appreciative of the Allen School leadership supporting these additional positions.
We will also have a staff of 7 peer advisers from the ranks of your CSE classmates helping the ugrad team this year:
- Daniel Barnes
- Mitali Palekar
- Alison Ng
- Savanna Yee
- Maegan Nevalsky
- Josephine Lee
- Suzanne Kaltenbach
Jenifer, Maggie, Chloe, Pim and I are still here to help you all out as well, in addition to graduate advisers Elise, Dave and Garrett. Raven and Jeremy are also still here heading up our Diversity and Outreach team.
We are excited for the year to begin and look forward to seeing you all back this Wed.
Sincerely,
Crystal Eney and the CSE Advising Team
September 24, 2018
Modern Mobile Systems: Reimagining the Future of Smartphones
CSE 599N1, SLN 23828
WF 2:00-3:20pm
Credits 4
Website –
modernmobile.cs.washington.edu
Description:
Do you want to learn about cool emerging technologies like using smartphones to diagnose diseases and health disorders? Do you want to explore novel interfaces that will redefine the future of virtual reality systems? Everyday, we are awash in wireless signals that are used for communication, but did you know that we can also leverage these signals for many other applications. Our smartphones today are full of highly capable sensors that we can use to do everything from healthcare monitoring to motion tracking. Our class explores the unconventional approaches that allow ubiquitous sensors and signals to solve real world problems. You will gain hands on experience applying signal processing and machine learning algorithms to tackle issues that affect millions of people.
Undergrad students from CSE are welcome. If you are interested, send us a mail (
rajaln@cs.washington.edu or
jucha@cs.washington.edu) with a list of CSE/EE courses you have taken and few sentences about why you want to take this course.
September 18, 2018
Limited slots are available, so if interested, be sure to sign up soon. Undergraduates in CSE should register for CSE 490T. Graduates in CSE should register for CSE 590T. Please see the web page for additional information — it’s a special kind of course difficult to summarize in a short announcement.
August 29, 2018
We finally have the list of 2018-2019 capstones. Please fill out the survey linked on the capstone page to request a space in a capstone for this coming year. Most students should only be requesting capstones after they have finished most of their 300 level courses and ideally at least one 400 by the time you enroll in the capstone course. (There are exceptions to this, such as Accessibility – contact instructors for more information)
Computer Engineering students and BS/MS students who are required to have a capstone will be given priority, followed by graduating seniors in Computer Science. You can select your first, second and third choice. You will only be placed into one capstone, if you want to take more than one you can register on a space available basis after registration starts for that quarter. I’ll try to have decisions out by August. 30th.
We are still waiting on faculty to provide more details about the Fall cloud computing capstone and the spring technology for the developing world capstone. When I hear from those faculty I’ll update the webpage and send additional news posts.
~Sincerely,
CSE Advising
August 20, 2018
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www-cse-public/education/time-sched/teaching2018-2019.html
We have just released the teaching schedule for the upcoming year with instructor names. The UW time schedule should be updated in the next week with this information. While things can still change at this point, this is our best information at this point in time.
Capstone information will be sent out hopefully early next week after we finalize information on all the expected capstone courses. Stay tuned for that message.
CSE Advising
August 13, 2018
