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Reminder and more updates- CSE advising team

Hello Allen School Students! A few first day notes:

First, some good news for a change!

Hector, our awesome front desk employee at the Gates Center has officially joined onto the CSE advising team. He will still be working the front desk when we return to the building, but he’ll also be helping the advising team directly now, so you may hear from him directly with answers to your questions as he learns more about our team. Yay for Hector!

And some house keeping notes:

If you are emailing the advising team this week asking for our help in a registration issue, please remember to include your full name, student number and sln’s of the courses you need help with (to drop/add) as that will help us get you answers faster.
Also note the online dropins that we referenced yesterday: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising, some students pointed out that they don’t have access to gmail chat, in that case, watch your email for updates with the Zoom link.

We hope everyone has a relatively smooth start to the quarter. Remember your CSE Advising team is here for you.

Crystal, Pim, Jenifer, Maggie, Chloe, Lesley, Chelsea, and Hector

March 30, 2020

BS/MS Information Session on March 10th

If you are interested in applying to the 5th year masters (combined BS/MS) program, take a break from studying for finals and join us for an information session Tuesday, March 10th from 3:30-4:30pm in CSE1 Allen 691 (we might move to a bigger room if we can – I will email if that happens).

Take a look at the BS/MS webpages to familiarize yourself with the program and then join us on the 10th. We will go over how the program is set up, pros/cons of doing a fifth year masters, and how to prepare a strong application.

Hope to see you there!

February 26, 2020

Ugrad Lunch with the Director, Magda, Jan 21st 12-1, please RSVP ASAP

Our first Ugrad Lunch with the new Director of the Allen School, Magda Balazinska will be next Tuesday the 21st from noon to 1 in the Zillow Commons (4th floor of the Gates Center). This event is open to all current CSE undergraduates. Please RSVP by this Thursday (using your CSE google account) so we can get a count for food. There will be pizza and lots of time to ask our new director questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

January 13, 2020

CRA Annual Survey for students

Dear Allen School Undergraduates and 5th year masters students,

The Computing Research Association (CRA) is interested in career development
among students in computing fields. To that end, I encourage you to complete their
survey, which will take about 25 minutes to complete.

Your contribution to this research helps us understand factors related to academic
retention and persistence.

In exchange for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a raffle to win
one of ten $20.00(USD) Amazon gift cards!

If you are interested in completing the survey, please follow the link below:
https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0djRWfjg1ucXODP/?id=washington

Note that if you completed a survey for CRA in the past, you may have been contacted
directly by CRA. If you have already completed this survey, please disregard this
message.

Many thanks!

CSE Advising

October 24, 2019

Research groups in the Allen School looking for two separate positions: AR/VR developers and another position for Android or IoS developers

Looking for AR/VR developers to support research for people who are deaf and hard of hearing

We’re a research group in UW CSE and are looking for undergrad or masters students who have experience with coding AR/VR applications, particularly on Microsoft HoloLens, or at the very least fluency with programming in Java. Experience with Machine Learning and NLP is a bonus. This is a volunteer or for-credit (e.g. an independent study) research opportunity. The project will involve building real-time captioning applications on HoloLens, including integration of automatic speech transcription, speaker segmentation, and showing topical information. See this preliminary paper for more details. Once built, we will evaluate the app with people who are deaf and hard of hearing. You will be working closely with a grad student, Dhruv Jain and will interact regularly with our NSF sound awareness team. We are aiming for a conference publication (our group has a strong publication record in top tier conferences), and depending on the work accomplished, an open source release of the app.

If interested, fill out this form and send an email to Dhruv Jain (djain@cs.uw.edu) with your resume and a brief explanation of your interest and experience.

Need android or IoS developers for research on sound awareness for people who are deaf or hard of hearing

Calling out to undergrad and masters students with android or IoS programming experience to develop a smartwatch sound awarness app! You could volunteer or opt for course credits (e.g. using an independent study). We’re a group of HCI researchers making tools to support sound awareness for people who are deaf of hard of hearing. The project will involve loading an existing tensorflow based model onto a smartwatch and making an interactive app to sense and display visaulizations for sound information (such as type of sound, location, loudness, pitch) to the wearer. You will be working closely with a grad student, Dhruv Jain and will interact regularly with our NSF sound awareness team. We are aiming for a conference publication (our group has a strong publication record in top tier conferences), and an open source release of the app.

If interested, fill out this form and send an email to Dhruv Jain (djain@cs.uw.edu) with your resume and a brief explanation of your interest and experience.

October 23, 2019

Winter Quarter Entrepreneurship course

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:10 AM
Subject: Winter Quarter Entrepreneurship course

Again this winter, Greg Gottesman and I will teach a project-oriented entrepreneurship course to students from the Allen School, the Foster School, and various Design programs.

Permission of the instructor is required.

Information is here:

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599a1/20wi/

(If something doesn’t work, give me a yell – I almost never manage to get it right the first time!)

October 21, 2019

Allen School Industry Affiliates Program

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From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:57 PM
Subject: [Ugrads] Allen School Industry Affiliates Program
To: <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>

Hi CSE students;

Thanks to all of you who participated in our career fair last week – we hope you learned a lot about the companies and found interesting opportunities. In light of this experience, I want to tell you a little about the Allen School’s Industry Affiliates Program, which we have created in large part for your benefit.

The goal of our Industry Affiliates Program is to stimulate mutually beneficial interactions between the Allen School community and the tech community: these include providing career opportunities for our students, technical exchange, collaboration, feedback on the effectiveness of our education programs, etc.

The principal benefits to companies are the opportunity to participate in our fall and winter recruiting fairs and the opportunity to participate in an annual daylong research symposium, which includes student research presentations and poster sessions. While we charge a fee for membership in the program, this fee simply covers the expenses of running the program – e.g., the costs involved in putting on the recruiting fairs and research symposium.

The membership of a company in the Affiliates Program should not be construed as an endorsement. As a public institution we have a particular responsibility to remain as neutral as possible in administering our program. We have terminated (or threatened to terminate) the membership of companies for violations of our recruiting policies (policies designed to protect the interests of our students, e.g., we prohibit the use of high pressure or of “exploding offers”). However we have not excluded companies based on their business and we do not see a coherent way to deny membership to an otherwise legitimate company: many companies, even those widely regarded as good corporate citizens, engage in some practices that some individuals may find objectionable.

We trust all of our students to learn about different companies, to be smart consumers of job offers, and to vote with their feet when deciding which companies to visit at our recruiting fairs. These are choices that you will need to make throughout your lives.

Best,

Hank

Hank Levy

Director, Paul G. Allen School

October 21, 2019

Diversity in the Allen School

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From: Jennifer Mankoff <jmankoff@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:51 PM
Subject: [Vgrads] Diversity in the Allen School
To: <cs-grads@cs.uw.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>

Hi, I’d like to introduce myself. I’m an Allen School faculty member, and Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion, which means I am part of the School leadership and I am responsible for helping to coordinate the many efforts across the School to address diversity.

I am reaching out to all CSE students/students taking CSE courses to tell you that we welcome your presence in class and would like to orient you to some CSE resources and policies. We strive to make CSE a welcoming and inclusive environment. This means several things — First, you are part of a shared learning environment, and one where we value kindness and respect. We hope you will contribute to that, and also tell us about problems/experiences that are counter to those values. More information about how to contact myself and others working to support diversity and inclusion in the Allen School follows at the end of this message.

What does inclusion mean in the Allen School? You can contribute to and expect:

An accessible environment. We strive to respect individual differences and support individual needs. If you are a student with disabilities, you should work with the Disability Resources for Students Office to make sure that professors in your classes meet your needs. In addition, you can reach out to AccessComputing for support. AccessComputing is an organization dedicated to the success of high school, college, and graduate students with disabilities.
An inclusive environment. In addition to a general commitment to creating an inclusive environment, the Allen School has full-time staff whose job includes diversity and access (Chloe Dolese-Mandeville coordinates this work for undergraduates; Elise deGoede Dorough and Les Sessoms coordinates this work for grad students); provides TAs with anti-bias training; and educates instructors about legal requirements such as accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities.
A safe environment. We are committed to ensuring the safety of all people in the Allen School. If you are feeling unsafe in the Allen School and/or during your time at the UW, we encourage you to reach out to our undergraduate advising team who can support you and connect you with the appropriate resources on campus. In addition, students can contact SafeCampus, the violence prevention and response program on campus. They are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. SafeCampus will assess the situation, connect the impacted person with a confidential advocate, and engage necessary services. SafeCampus is the first organization to contact if there is risk of self-harm (such as suicidality), or harm to a student (such as sexual assault or misconduct). They understand the sensitivity of these topics and they can be called anonymously. While we hope that none of you experience these difficulties, it is important to acknowledge the real risks students face. For example, the beginning of autumn quarter is a particularly high-risk time for the occurrence of sexual assault and other forms of sexual misconduct, and many students also face mental health challenges which can escalate during high-stress periods. You are not alone, and you do not have to face these things alone.
A welcoming environment. Our student leadership is committed to strengthening the Allen School community. Our student groups include ACM, ACM-W, CSE Student Advisory Council, and Q++: These student-led organizations provide our students with community, peer guidance, and personal and professional resources while offering leadership opportunities to undergraduates. They also serve as valued sources of input to School leadership on how we can better support students representing diverse backgrounds and experiences.

If you run into any problems related to diversity, we encourage you to reach out through one of several communication options including the advisors, myself, attending a lunch with the director, or submitting an anonymous feedback form. In addition, there are many ongoing initiatives supporting inclusion and we encourage you to take part. For example, you can join the diversity-allies mailing list or join any number of diversity-focused student organizations. Find out more about our diversity work and initiatives on the Allen School diversity webpage.

Sincerely,

Jen Mankoff

—

Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner Endowed Professor

Office 211, Gates Building

University of Washington

http://make4all.org

October 15, 2019

AFFILIATES!

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: [cs-ugrads] AFFILIATES!
To: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, <postdocs@cs.washington.edu>

The fall recruiting fairs are MONDAY, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY.

PLEASE turn out in force! We need to keep these companies engaged!

UW Data Science fair: Monday, October 14, 12:00 noon-6:00 p.m. in the
Ballroom (2nd floor) at the HUB. (Pre-registered UW students only,
12:00-2:30. All UW students, 2:30-6:00.)

Established company fair: Tuesday, October 15, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in the
Ballroom (2nd floor) at the HUB. (Allen School students and postdocs
only, 11:00-2:30. All UW students 2:30-5:00.)

Startup and smaller company fair: Wednesday, October 15, 1:00-5:00 p.m. in
the Atrium in the Allen Center (CSE1). (Allen School students and
postdocs only.)

Be sure to get your name badge and lanyard!

Be sure to enter your resume in the database.

Further info here:

https://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2019/studentinfo
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October 14, 2019

October 10th, 2019 distinguished lecture: Jeff Dean, Google AI

Info about upcoming UW Allen School Colloquia talks@cs.washington.edu

Fri, Oct 4, 8:51 AM (3 days ago)

to cs-ugrads, Kay, production

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

PAUL G. ALLEN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

SPEAKER: Jeff Dean, Google AI

TITLE: Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems

DATE: Thursday, October 10, 2019

TIME: 3:30 pm

PLACE: Amazon Auditorium

HOST: Ed Lazowska

Abstract:

For the past eight years, Google Research teams have conducted research on difficult problems in artificial intelligence, on building large-scale computer systems for machine learning research, and, in collaboration with many teams at Google, on applying our research and systems to many Google products. As part of our work in this space, we have built and open-sourced the TensorFlow system (tensorflow.org), a widely popular system designed to easily express machine learning ideas, and to quickly train, evaluate and deploy machine learning systems.

We have also collaborated closely with Google’s platforms team to design and deploy new computational hardware called Tensor Processing Units, specialized for accelerating machine learning computations. In this talk, I’ll highlight some of our recent research accomplishments, and will relate them to the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century, including the use of machine learning for healthcare, robotics, language understanding and engineering the tools of scientific discovery. I’ll also cover how machine learning is transforming many aspects of our computing hardware and software systems.

This talk describes joint work with many people at Google.

Bio:

Jeff Dean (ai.google/research/people/jeff) joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Senior Fellow and SVP for Google AI and related research efforts. His teams are working on systems for speech recognition, computer vision, language understanding, and various other machine learning tasks. He has co-designed/implemented many generations of Google’s crawling, indexing, and query serving systems, and co-designed/implemented major pieces of Google’s initial advertising and AdSense for Content systems. He is also a co-designer and co-implementor of Google’s distributed computing infrastructure, including the MapReduce, BigTable and Spanner systems, protocol buffers, the open-source TensorFlow system for machine learning, and a variety of internal and external libraries and developer tools.

Jeff received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1996, working with Craig Chambers on whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented languages. He received a B.S. in computer science & economics from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), and a winner of the ACM Prize in Computing.

Reception to follow in Allen Center Atrium.

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu

Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/

(206) 543-1695

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accomodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities.

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450/V,

(206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or email at dso@u.washington.edu.

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October 7, 2019

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