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.

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

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:51 PM
Subject: follow-up message

I’d like to reach out to all of you regarding the recent editorial written by Allen School faculty member Stuart Reges and the Allen School’s response to the editorial. In particular, I want you to know that I’ve posted a more detailed response (here) to Reges’ editorial – it appears below the original response on the same diversity web page.

While this has become a very public discussion, I am particularly concerned about the impact of the editorial on our community, and I know that others share this concern.  We have worked hard to foster a culture that reflects our values when it comes to diversity and inclusion, and we are considering ways to reinforce that culture in the future.

We know it is important that members of our community have a way for school leadership to hear their thoughts and concerns. We’ve set up a new email address, leadership@cs.washington.edu, which can be used to post comments to our leadership team (me, Dan Grossman, and Ed Lazowska), our Advisors, and our Assistant Director for Diversity & Outreach.  Please feel free to send any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. to this list if you’d like to communicate with us on this topic.

Hank

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Response to recent editorial
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edus>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>

Dear Allen School Community,

Some of you may have read a recent editorial written by an Allen School faculty member about gender diversity in tech. Regardless of whether you saw the specific article or not, this is a good time to reaffirm our values around diversity and inclusion as a School.

The Allen School actively supports diversity and inclusion, as articulated in our Inclusiveness Statement. We disagree with the conclusions drawn in the editorial and are optimistic that our substantial, ongoing efforts to build an inclusive community will make us a better school — and make the tech industry, as a whole, a better place in which people of diverse backgrounds and experiences are empowered to do great work that impacts people’s lives. Our efforts include (but are not limited to):

• An extensive K-12 outreach program focused on inspiring students to pursue CS — especially girls and students from underrepresented groups.
• We are proud to be one of 11 leading computer science programs in the NSF-funded FLIP Alliance: Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate, collaborating to launch and demonstrate the effectiveness of strategies for recruiting and retaining diverse doctoral students.
• A quarterly workshop on Building An Inclusive Community, which provides participants practical strategies for promoting inclusion in their daily interactions.
• A holistic undergraduate admissions process that aims to admit students who have strong academic and personal potential to contribute to the Allen School community.
• Enthusiastic participation in the UW STARS program for students from underserved high schools, including CS coursework to help STARS students explore and succeed in CS.
• A commitment to empowering people with disabilities to pursue computer science, through the AccessComputing Alliance and the nationally recognized work of Professor Richard Ladner.
• Participation in national organizations promoting diversity, such as NCWIT and BRAID.
• The Student Advisory Council, created to foster a strong undergraduate community and amplify the student voice.
• Q++, another organization created and led by undergraduates to promote community among LGBTQ students.
• Active ACM and ACM-W student organizations leading activities ranging from industry prep to workshops on imposter syndrome and sexual harassment.
• Sponsoring students to attend national conferences such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. This year, the Student Advisory Council and ACM-W will both present at these conferences.

Notably, many of these efforts have been led by students. Along with the work of faculty and staff, we fully support students’ ability to determine their own needs and solutions and we empower students to be change agents within the Allen School.

We acknowledge that we have a long way to go, but these efforts work. Enrollment in our CS undergraduate and Ph.D. programs is around 30% women, after a steady increase from about 20% a decade ago. Recent admissions trends are positive: women account for 38% of our incoming CS direct freshman admits and 37% of transfer students for the coming academic year.

As you can see in these numbers, women are interested in CS and women do code! It is central to the  mission of the Allen School to pursue initiatives that broaden participation in CS. Furthermore, we do not believe that where we are today is the best we are likely to achieve. We continue programs at all levels that focus on building interest among women in CS. We are currently expanding our efforts to include a focus on underrepresented minorities, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students. Beyond recruiting new people to the field, it is crucial to create and nurture an environment where all students — especially members of underrepresented groups — feel supported.

All members of the Allen School are entitled to share their ideas freely, and no one among our leadership has any interest in silencing or censoring people even when they express controversial ideas. However, our leadership also has the right and the responsibility to affirm our values and to discuss the many ways in which we are supporting and will continue to support those values.

The most important thing we can do to promote inclusiveness is to listen to the people we want to support and to respond in tangible ways to the needs of students. The leadership of the Allen School believes that all students have the potential to be interested in computer science, and we believe that our ongoing efforts to promote an inclusive community help students of all backgrounds and identities succeed. If you have feedback on these initiatives or anything else related, please talk with an advisor or send an email to me or other members of the school leadership.

Hank Levy

Director, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

CSE 490 G1/CSE 599 G1 — Introduction to Deep Learning

Dear students!

This year the Allen School will send students to both the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Funding from CSE will include airfare, hotel (shared), and conference registration. Along with sending both undergraduate and graduate students to the conferences for personal and professional development, the Allen School is sponsoring booths for PhD student recruitment.

Read on to learn more about each conference and to apply for funding to attend!

ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
September 19-22, 2018 — Orlando, FL
Apply for Allen School TAPIA funding by Wednesday June 27

The goal of the Tapia Conferences is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to:

• Celebrate the diversity that exists in computing;
• Connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, and gender so as to create communities that extend beyond the conference;
• Obtain advice from and make contacts with computing leaders in academia and industry;
• Be inspired by great presentations and conversations with leaders with common backgrounds.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
September 26-28 — Houston, TX
Apply for Allen School GRACE HOPPER funding by Wednesday June 27

Grace Hopper is the largest gathering of technical women in the world, an exciting celebration of diversity in tech, and a fantastic academic and professional opportunity. GHC features professional and personal development workshops, a career fair, social activities, and research presentations. Past attendees have generally found GHC incredibly valuable for connecting with peers and industry, exploring grad school, and feeling inspired in their CS work.

Please apply for either conference funding by Wednesday June 27, 2018. We will notify those selected to attend by Friday June 29th.

-Raven & Elise

CSE 490, Information and Communication Technology for Development

Prerequisite: CSE 332 and 331 or 351

Counts as a CSE Senior Elective

SLN   23346 , offered MWF 130-220

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 with different technologies and software systems and to explore the design space for various applications.

Join Madrona Venture Labs for Startup Open Mic!

It’s like an Open Mic Night…but for startup ideas!

In a way we are flipping the script: the Madrona Venture Labs team and
founders will pitch you startup ideas. You will have the opportunity to ask
questions, give recommendations, and provide feedback. At the end of the
pitches, you will vote on the most promising ideas worthy of funding and
further validation.

Date: Tuesday, May 29th
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Where: EEB105