CSE Undergrad News

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From: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:49 PM
Subject:Invitation to UWCSE Entrepreneurship Town Hall Discussion: May 30th @ 5PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <cs-pmp@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>, CSE CSE Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>

In the last decade, The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering has become one of the world’s premiere places of computer science research. We have access to amazing resources: a strong local tech culture including some of the largest, most successful companies in the world, a robust local startup environment, (soon-to-be) two cutting-edge buildings, and some of the best faculty in data science, AI, wireless, NLP, computer systems, programming languages… basically all of computing. These faculty have gone on to start numerous successful companies and often hold positions at some of Seattle’s best VCs.

However, UWCSE still lags behind comparative institutions in one key area: student-led entrepreneurship. Despite numerous campus resources, including classes at the Foster School of Business and our own entrepreneurship seminar, most students (though there are counterexamples!) instead decide to graduate and immediately take a position at one of our local tech juggernauts. While that’s a good result (and you all should be excited) we want to make sure our students feel comfortable pursuing all options available to them, including entrepreneurship.

To better understand this phenomenon and solicit ideas for changes we can make to better encourage people striking out on their own, we will be holding a “UWCSE Entrepreneurship Town Hall” in the Gates Commons at 5PM on May 30th. This will be an open-ended discussion (and light dinner) between local entrepreneurship actors (both faculty and outsiders) and the student body (both grads and undergrads) where we, as a group, learn more about the needs and tradeoffs being made. We want to know how students view entrepreneurship and how to make it easier, safer and more attractive for students here in UW CSE. Current attendees include myself, Luis Ceze (CSE), Chris DeVore (TechStars), Elizabeth M Scallon (CoMotion), and Amit Mital (Krnl Labs).

If interested, please RSVP here. RSVP isn’t necessary but will let us better judge the interest and buy the appropriate amount of food.

Thanks!

Good Morning! The BS/MS application is now open.

A couple of notes about the application:

• We will contact your faculty recommenders after the application closes. You should talk to them in advance, but do not need to coordinate the actual recommendation process.
• You may not find a person you want to use as a reference in the drop down menu. If that is the case, it may be that:

1. They are a graduate student. In that case, we generally encourage them to work with their faculty adviser to submit on their behalf. Please let us know if this is problematic.
2. They may be a guest lecturer. In that case, if we still have contact with them we will try to include them.  Contact us with questions.
3. They may be affiliate faculty and may not be in our system yet. Let us know and I’ll have it updated.

The application is linked from the BS/MS application page: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/bsms/application

Here are the timelines for this application cycle:

May 21 – June 11th: Application Open
June 11th: Application Deadline
Decisions emailed early July

Questions? Email Jen <jenifer@cs.uw.edu> or Crystal <ceney@cs.uw.edu>

The Ugrad Lunch with the Director, Hank Levy, will be next week on Wednesday, May 23rd from 12-1pm.  We need an RSVP ahead of time so please take a minute to fill this out if there is any chance that you’ll be able to stop by.

RSVP Link

This is a chance for CSE Current Students  to eat pizza, talk with Hank, eat more pizza, talk with advisors, and eat more pizza. We’re hoping to collect questions ahead of time, so please let us know what you’d like to hear about so we can make the best use of your time.

We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Present your posters at the 2018 Allen School Spring Poster Fair!
 
Hello Allen School undergrads and 5th year masters students!

We are excited to announce our second annual Paul G. Allen School Spring Poster Fair! All students who have participated in any capstone, project courses, or research this year are encouraged to apply to present their posters.
 
The Event
The 2018 Allen School undergraduate poster session will be held on Thursday, June 7^th, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Atrium. The poster session is open to all BS and BS/MS students who participated in a capstone course (such as 475 and 481) or project course (such as 440 or any other 400 level project course) or research during the 2017-18 academic year.

This will be a more formal event, with high profile Allen School alumni and friends coming to view your work. Presenting students are welcome to bring family members, as it will be the day before our CSE commencement ceremony.

There is a short application process. Student posters will be selected based on various factors including the quality of the abstract in the application, the likely interests of the Allen School alumni/friends visiting, and our goal to present a wide range of ‘cool’ projects from multiple courses.
 
Why participate?

1. There will be a prize! A panel of judges in attendance will vote on the 2018 Project of the Year. Presenters of the winning poster, in addition to all the kudos associated with being the second-ever awardees, will receive $1,000 to split among the group.

1. You can have another chance to show off that project you have worked so hard on. Presenters will get to meet and talk about their projects to smart, talented friends of CSE.

 
The Details

• At least one member of the team must be at the poster session to represent the poster.
• At least one member of the team who will be present at the event must be enrolled as a CS, CE, or CSEM student.
• Fall 2017, Winter 2018, and Spring 2018 capstone, project courses, and research are all eligible to participate.

 
Application Process
Fill out this short form: https://goo.gl/forms/q74k36ayR9tQIazN2
 
Applications are due by end of day on May 23^rd

Presenters will be notified by May 30^th.

Questions? Email Kay at kbeck@cs.washington.edu or the advisors @ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu

Emily Chang (host of Bloomberg Tech and author of the recent
horrifying best-seller Brotopia) will speak in the Paul G. Allen
School at 4 p.m. on Tuesday May 15.

Here’s the (rather Spartan) announcement:

https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=3035
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This is a public service announcement that the Quiet Lab (022) in the basement will be moving to Sieg Hall for fall quarter 2018.  This is a temporary move before we all move into our swanky new home in 2019.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but keep in mind:

1. It’s an above ground room in Sieg, with windows even, so it will be much nicer than 022 in that regard.
2. Very soon, in less than a year now, we’ll have moved the majority of our ugrad space into our brand new building and you’ll all be so happy you won’t remember this minor inconvenience.

Please let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

Crystal

Director of Student Services

First, this week and next week are going to be very busy for Quick Questions (formerly known as ‘drop ins’) so please plan accordingly.   There are multiple ways to contact the advising staff, so please take a look at the advising page for more information. Remember we’ll have a sign at the front desk saying when the peer advisers are available, so that is a good option for many quick questions.

Additionally, here are some changes to the fall schedule:

I’m sad to report that we’ve been informed that 10+HDMI cables have gone missing from the ugrad labs making the monitors unusable.  In case you decided to ‘borrow them’, please consider returning them to the labs where they belong ASAP.  We all work very hard to provide nice facilities for our students, but when things like this happen, it hurts the whole community, most importantly, your fellow students.

Borrowing from Metro, “If you see something, say something”.  We need all of you to look out for each other and our facilities.  If this continues to happen we’ll be forced to re-consider the types of resources we provide for students.  Let’s work together to keep this a safe, well functioning place to work.

Thank you,

CSE Advising and CSE Support

Hello, CSE undergrads! Please see your monthly (beautifully redesigned!) undergrad newsletter for events, highlights, and some mid-quarter inspiration.  May 2019 — Undergraduate Newsletter