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News on registration for 2018-2019

Dear students,

Fast version if you’re short on time:

1. Please fill out your MyPlan for the next year with what courses you hope to take

2. The tentative teaching schedule will be out around May 1st

3. Machine Learning will not, at this point in time, be offered this fall, but we’ll have an offering in winter and a large one in spring. If we hire new faculty, we may be able to add it back for fall. We’re really sorry. 🙁

4. The Virtual Reality capstone will be making a come-back for the 2018-2019 academic year!

5. If you are graduating in fall or winter this next year, apply to graduate by May 2nd, 2018 to get graduating senior priority registration of May 4th.

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Longer version – more details:

First, it is REALLY important that all of you put your desired courses in your MyPlan for the next year. We have recently been given a window into MyPlan data so we can run analysis on what students want to take in the coming year. We obviously have a lot of constraints on when/how often we can offer certain courses, but this is an amazing new tool that we would like to take advantage of as soon as possible. Please only put the courses you really plan to take (don’t stack them all up to skew the statistics).

Registration for fall quarter is going to come up fast, it’s starting on May 4th for graduating students. We hope/plan to have the tentative teaching schedule out to you by May 1st so you can plan for the upcoming year.

There are going to be some changes in store, some you’ll like (VR capstones returning, probably fall and spring, two offerings of 446, one BIG one in the spring) and some you will not like (no one to teach 446 – machine learning in fall) but things are still changing. We are hoping to hire some additional faculty, and if that goes well, we’ll be able to likely add some additional courses, but that will happen as we move into summer.

Finally, we hope capstones will be posted for sign ups in early summer so stay tuned for that too.

CSE Advising

April 18, 2018

The Allen School is Hiring Peer Advisers!

The Allen School is hiring peer advisers for the 2018-19 school year! We hope you will consider applying, or encourage friends to apply (you can nominate someone here!).

Peer Advisers are an important part of the CSE Community. They assist with quick questions and student appointments, give presentations, help staff our front desk, and represent our school at events across campus. Peer Advisers help students with course planning, academic exploration, admissions, the career search, and more! They also create resources for students and offer the professional advising staff and faculty an important perspective. It is a fun job that can make a big impact!

We encourage students of all years and backgrounds to apply!

Start Date: Autumn Quarter (with some occasional training beforehand)

Weekly load: 5 – 12 hours a week (Varies depending on special events and time of the quarter). Hours are flexible depending on your course schedule!

Pay: $15.45 per hour (plus some CSE swag!)

Job Duties

-Speak with prospective students and their parents (via phone, email and in-person) about the field of computing, the Allen School, and the University of Washington.

-Advise UW students who are pre-majors on course planning, academic exploration, admissions, and opportunities outside of the classroom.

-Advise Allen School students on a variety of topics dependant on your year in school and relevant experiences

-Present at information sessions and represent the Allen School at academic fairs and recruitment events

-Help students, prospective students, and parents who come to the CSE reception desk with undergraduate-related questions.

-Work on various projects based on your strengths and interests!

Required Qualities & Experiences

-Empathy and compassion towards students and families of all backgrounds

-Trustworthy with confidential student information

-Good conversation and presentation skills

-Ability to work well on a team and independently

-Ability to have difficult conversations in a compassionate and approachable way

-Making satisfactory progress towards a CS or CE degree (you don’t need to be a perfect student!)

-Demonstrated involvement in something outside of the classroom at UW (either in or outside of the Allen School)

-Willingness to learn and speak about other tech-related majors and opportunities at UW

-Ability to represent the Allen School and the UW in a professional manner

-Willingness to provide and receive feedback

If you would like to apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to Jenifer Hiigli (jenifer@cs.uw.edu) by 10am on April 24th. In your cover letter, please address why you want to be a peer adviser and what experiences and qualities you have that would enable you to succeed in the role. Interviews will take place in late April/early May.

April 10, 2018

Undergraduate Newsletter – April 2018

Hello CSE Ugrads!

Our undergraduate student groups (ACM, ACM-W and SAC) are working to put together a new newsletter and you’ll find the April newsletter attached! They’re excited to highlight students in the undergraduate community, and are looking for more people to contribute to the content for the next couple of months. If you have suggestions or feedback, please fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/AK4FeJfdMJcZGEzs1

April’s newsletter is attached! They look forward to your response.

Raven

April 2018 – Undergraduate Newsletter

April 5, 2018

Revised Advising Resources for spring quarter, please read: online appt scheduling, dropins now called Quick Questions, more peer adviser hours, etc

Short version if you’re in a hurry or in denial about spring quarter starting tomorrow:

*Redesigned advising page

*New tool for scheduling appointments

*More peer advising hours

*Dropins renamed Quick Questions

*Online appointments

Longer version if you like knowing the background and “why” behind our actions:

First, thank you to the 100 or so students who filled out our survey on CSE advising services.

The general consensus from the survey respondents regarding adviser contact was that you would prefer a mix of appointments and dropin advising times. We have decided to pilot a few new programs this spring to increase the accessibility of the CSE advising staff. We appreciate your patience as we try out various methods of scaling our services up to the increasing demand:

*We have redesigned our advising page to give you comprehensive information on what you can gain from advising and how to contact us.
https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising

*We have a new online scheduling tool so you can now book an appointment up to 3 weeks out.

*The ‘Dropin’ format will be the same style, but we’re re-naming it ‘quick questions’. Quick questions are only meant to be 5-10 minute advising appointments. If you think it might take longer than that, you should schedule an appointment. You can now schedule 15 minute appointments or 25 minute appointments. EX: “Easy” graduation appointments where you know you have everything in place can be a quick question, detailed planning or any complications that you foresee should be a scheduled appointment.

*Peer advisers will be staffing the front desk between 10 and 3 *most* days so you can come to ask them quick questions when you see the sign at the right of the front desk showing they are in.

*There will be online advising appointments available for those who have trouble coming into campus or if you just prefer that method of interaction. We’ll be using gmail hangouts/chat for these appointments. If you’re away on an internship, this might be easier than a detailed email conversation.

We hope that these improvements will help us serve the CSE student community better moving forward. Wait times will hopefully improve with the new ‘quick question’ format and the increased availability of individual appointments.

As always, if there are no appointment times that work for you and you can’t come to quick questions, you can always reach out to us on ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu. Our new email ticketing system seems to be improving email response time overall.

Thank you everyone and we’ll see you soon!

~CSE Advising

March 25, 2018

Review of CSE Advising – request your feedback

Dear CSE Students,

If you have 5 minutes to spare, I’d like to get your feedback on how CSE advising services are working for you.

CSE Advising Survey Winter 2018

We are trying hard to scale our services with the increased number of students and we could use your help as we brainstorm ways to serve you better in the future. For example, should we offer fewer dropin hours and more appointments or do you like the flexibility of dropins? Have you had a good experience with advising or a challenging one that I should know about?

These survey results will only be seen by me in my role as Director of Student Services. We will randomly choose two students who complete the survey to receive some free CSE swag. Please complete it in the next two weeks so we can make adjustments for spring quarter as needed.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Crystal Eney

CSE Advising

Director of Student Services

March 12, 2018

Registration Reminders Spring 2018 and Summer 2018

Please remember that the only way for the advising team to know if there is more demand than we have available for a particular course is if you sign up on the UW’s Notify system. Please make sure to do that if you’re trying to get into full courses. We will not be doing overloads for any courses at the undergraduate level.

If we have space in the capstones remaining this Friday afternoon, we will release the rest of that space. You may have originally told we would wait until period II, but we will open the space on Friday afternoon. If you were given an add code, you have until noon on Friday to use it or lose it (or contact me and tell me why you can’t register for your capstone yet).

Thank you everyone for your patience. We are attempting to adjust space for CSE 371 and 455 and 452 at this point in time, and will look at other course demand as the data becomes available.

Additionally, we plan to offer these courses this summer:

142, 143, 331, 332 (maybe), 333, 344, and 351

CSE Advising

February 13, 2018

Patterns for Career Success – new seminar for CSE majors, seniors only period 1

There is a new seminar being offered this spring geared towards CSE Majors who are senior standing or 5th year masters graduate students.  

"As with the science of computing, careers in computing also have models, patterns, and anti-patterns.  This interactive seminar, led by a 20-year industry veteran from Facebook and Microsoft, covers insights across a gamut of topics that will accelerate your career.  Learn tips for growing quickly toward your goals while avoiding common pitfalls, and start your career off with helpful advice distilled from years of experience

CSE 490 P1  21588 T      100-220    OUG  136

February 13, 2018

Machine Learning for Computational Social Science colloquium (talk) thurs Feb. 15th 330PM

Reminder: If you want to hear about all the talks in CSE you should check this page: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia

Here is one happening this week:

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

PAUL G. ALLEN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER: Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology

TITLE: Machine Learning for Computational Social Science

DATE: Thursday, February 15, 2018

TIME: 3:30 pm

PLACE: EEB-105

HOST: Noah Smith

ABSTRACT

Our social, personal, and political lives are increasingly mediated by technology. This change has introduced new problems, such as echo chambers and viral hoaxes. But it has also brought exciting new opportunities to understand the social world, using data and methods that earlier social scientists could only dream of. The first generation of computational social science focused on sensing technologies and social network analysis; the next generation will be driven by artificial intelligence, which makes it possible to operationalize social science constructs such as influence, attention, formality, and respect. In this talk, I will present an approach to computational social science that leverages customized machine learning models of heterogeneous data, including language, social networks, and spatiotemporal cascades. First, I will show how unsupervised machine learning over social network labelings and text makes it possible to induce the social meanings of address terms such as “Ms” and “dude.” Next, I will describe how the spread of linguistic innovations can serve as evidence for sociocultural affinity and influence, using Bayesian vector autoregressive models and the Hawkes process. Finally, I will present recent research analyzing the causal impact of closing forums for hate speech.

Bio

Jacob Eisenstein is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He works on computational sociolinguistics, social media analysis, and machine learning. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, a member of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program, and was a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work has also been supported by the National Institutes for Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Google. Jacob was a Postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2008, winning the George M. Sprowls dissertation award. Jacob’s research has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the BBC.

Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.

*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.

February 12, 2018

Ugrad Lunch with Director Hank Levy Feb. 27th 12-1

On Tuesday, February 27th from 12-1, Director Hank Levy will host a Ugrad Lunch for current CSE majors in room 691 of the Allen Center.

Please RSVP for the event so we know how much pizza to order: https://goo.gl/forms/1jYQFsgrYiBnajwe2

This is your chance as a CSE Undergraduate to chat with the Director of the Allen School to hear what is new and for him to hear from you. We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!

Hank and CSE Advising

February 8, 2018

Buy your CSE branded items today – sale ends Feb. 12th

In case you didn’t see this on the CSE Facebook page, there is exciting news that we’re having an internet pop-up shop for CSE swag! You can order stuff until February 12th, after which orders will be processed/shipped, and you should receive any ordered items around 2 weeks after that.

You can elect to have orders shipped to you directly or pick them up from advising (no shipping fees with this option!) with more details to come in the future.

CLARIFICATION: Just in case it’s a little confusing, the colors of the sweatshirts/t-shirts are exactly as they are on the ordering form. There are pictures on the site of CSE folks wearing other CSE swag, but the purple tees and gray sweatshirts aren’t what’s for sale!

Get your CSE items today: https://imagesource.ignitecx.com/UWAllenSchool2018

January 30, 2018