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TEDx event May 3rd, looking for speakers respond by March 13th

Computer Science and Engineering department,

                Do you think you might have an interesting story or an innovative idea? As luck would have it, you may have an opportunity to share it! The University of Washington is hosting the annual TEDx event on May 3rd, an independently held event associated with TED. Our theme this year is “Transcend with TED”, and we are in the process of selecting  featured speakers for the event: incredible individuals who are changing the way we think, feel, and act around a specific topic. TEDx is searching far and wide in  the UW, Seattle, and greater Washington community for the Pacific Northwest’s most innovative, creative, and original minds. We’re looking for inspirational people with powerful messages to share, and we absolutely believe it could be you.

Due to the vast ingenuity of TEDx speaker applicants, we will be holding interviews near the end of this search to finalize our speakers. This can be somewhat of a competitive process, but TEDx would be thrilled and honored if you joined us for an interview! Please consider collaborating with us in promoting TED’s vision of spreading transformative and positive ideas across the world.

If you think you might be interested, please send a brief pitch to Michelle Auster at tedxuofw@uw.edu introducing yourself and your ‘idea worth spreading.’ Please send your response by March 13th. Or, if you know someone you believe would make a great candidate, please forward this email along. Students, faculty and professionals alike are encouraged to apply.  Any questions you have may also be directed to this email. Even if it is only an inkling of an idea, we want to hear what you have to say!

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Michelle Auster

Committee Lead – Speaker Selection

TEDx University of Washington

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Thank you very much for your time.

Kyle Nelson

Speaker Selection Committee

TEDx University of Washington

Yifan Xiao, Austin Vu, Jamie Tan

TEDxUofW Curators | Transcend with TEDx

February 26, 2014

ACM Events Digest 2/24 – 2/28

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2/28 – Winterfest

Winterfest

2/28; 5:30-8:30pm; Atrium

Join us for food, drinks*, and games at our annual Winter event! Winter Fest is free to all local ACM chapter members, otherwise $5. Not a UW ACM member, but want to be? Bring $8 and sign up so you can get in free to all our other future events. 🙂 CSE undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff are welcome.

* Must have ID and be 21+ for alcohol.

RSVP

February 24, 2014

ACM Events Digest 2/19-2/21

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2/19 – Ebay Info Session

2/21 – ACM Movie Night

Ebay Info Session

2/19; 5:30-6:30pm; MGH134

The technology and systems powering the eBay marketplace. The talk will provide a high level overview of eBay’s architecture and domains and their interconnections, with an emphasis on the science and data behind these systems.

ACM Movie Night

2/21; 5:00-7:00pm; EEB125

Come watch a movie with your fellow ACM members! Snacks will be provided by Isilon! RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1448826308667687/ !

February 18, 2014

Sudo Soldiers: Building Web Apps with node.js

From Sudo Soldiers Student Org:
Hey hackers
Sudo Soldiers is a RSO at UW with only one aim – to teach people modern
technologies and help them discover new programming concepts and tools.
With this in mind, and in continuation of our “Learn web development” series,
we are hosting a workshop for all interested students, where we will teach
how to build amazing web apps with node.js.
When: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: SAV 155
Cost: Always free
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building
fast, scalable network applications. It is *the* hottest web development platform
right now, that has had paradigm shifting effects on the software development
community (in a good way).
In this (longer) session we will make a web app, from scratch, using NodeJS,
ExpressJS, MongoDB and Bootstrap. It will be a fun and intense session – and
you will know enough to get started with making web apps right afterwards.
Email any questions/suggestions to uwsudo@gmail.com or post in our Facebook
See you on Thursday!
Karan Goel
Primary Officer
Sudo Soldiers
February 13, 2014

Float Day This Friday!

Have fun with your fellow CSE majors this Friday, February 14th, at 3:30pm in the Atrium! We will have lots of root beer, ice cream, and other sodas to enjoy. See you there!

What: Float Day!

Where: Atrium

When: 2/14, 3:30pm

Why: Ice Cream, Root Beer, and Soda with your friends!

February 10, 2014

Winter Fest!!!!

Our annual Winter Fest is Friday February 28th, 5:30-8:30pm in the Atrium! Join us for food, drinks*, and games.

Winter Fest is free to all local ACM chapter members, otherwise $5.

Not a UW ACM member, but want to be? Bring $8 and sign up so you can get in free to all our other future events. 🙂

CSE undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff are welcome.

RSVP on FB at: https://www.facebook.com/events/289870167826956/

* Must have ID and be 21+ for alcohol.

February 10, 2014

ACM Events Digest 2/10-2/14

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2/10 – Adobe Tech Talk

2/11 – EMC Isilon Tech Talk

2/12 – Expedia Tech Talk

2/13 – Palantir Tech Talk

2/14 – eBay Virtual Networking Event: Is it harder for women in tech?

2/14 – ACM Float Day!

Adobe Technical Talk: Dynamic Media Advanced Product Development

2/10; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB105

COME LEARN, NETWORK, AND ENJOY COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH. Win an Adobe Creative Cloud membership. We’ll have a raffle at the end of the Info Session. SPEAKER: David Simons, Principal Scientist and James Acquavella, Principal Scientist VENUE: University of Washington, Electrical Engineering Building, Room 105 DATE: February 10, 2014 TIME: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM www.adobe.com/university

EMC Isilon Tech Talk

2/11; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB125

84 Petabytes Largest Deal in the History of EMC EMC Isilon Tech Talk Speaker: Steven Lockhart – Software Engineer February 11 @ 6:00pm, EEB 125 Food/Drinks provided EMC Isilon builds the world’s largest, fastest filesystem using clustered computing development in both the kernel and userspace, delivering a proprietary distributed filesystem on top of FreeBSD. Learn how you can solve challenging problems in scalability, help drive cloud computing and storage to new levels, and work where you can make a difference. Visit me.emc.com, or email Alex.Brynza@Isilon.com to learn more about our opportunities

Expedia Tech Talk

2/12; 6:00 – 7:30pm; EEB105

Palantir Tech Talk

2/13; 6:00 – 7:30pm; EEB125

Palantir Technologies Tech Talk Thursday, February 13th 6pm-7:30pm EEB 125 Dinner from Little Thai will be provided Enter raffle to win a prize! Please join Palantir Technologies, to learn how we are revolutionizing the analysis of hard and important problems that face our world today. We build the technology that allows people at the world’s most critical institutions to make sense of their data.We solve the technical problems, so they can solve the human ones. Combating terrorism. Tracking disease outbreaks. Finding missing and exploited children. We believe that with the right technology and enough data, people can still solve hard problems and change the world for the better. View a live demo of our data fusion platforms, and learn how you can be a part of our mission. www.palantir.com We are hiring! http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPositionLanding

eBay virtual networking event: Is it harder for women in tech?

2/14; 1:00 – 2:00pm; log on: http://www.collegefeed.com/networking

PRIVATE NETWORKING EVENT Is It Harder For Women In Tech? Friday, February 14th, 1:00 p.m. PST Join for the online discussion LOG ON: http://www.collegefeed.com/networking Guest speaker: Laura Chambers, Head of University Programs, eBay Inc. Laura Chambers is head of University Programs for eBay Inc. – responsible for identifying and hiring top talent from Universities, and setting them up for successful careers at the company. eBay Inc.’s University Programs team strives to change the trajectory of eBay Inc.’s impact on the world by attracting the world’s most sought after University talent, and unlocking their potential. Throughout her eight year career at PayPal and eBay, Chambers has held numerous roles in PayPal, Marketplaces, Skype and eBay Inc. Highlights include heading Mobile at PayPal, running Consumer Products at Skype, and being chief of staff for the CEO at eBay Inc.

Float Day

2/14; 3:30pm; Atrium

Enjoy root beer floats, ice cream, and other sodas with your friends!

February 10, 2014

Hulu Open House 2/20

Hulu is having an Open House Thursday February 20th:

As undergraduate leaders in Computer Science at the University of Washington, you’re in a great position to join us for an open house event at our Seattle office! Come learn about the tech teams based in Seattle, find out what it’s like to be a Hulugan, and eat some great food! All are welcome and we encourage you to bring friends. Please see below for the official invite where you can input your RSVP. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Lauren Fischer at  lauren.fischer@hulu.com.

http://www.evite.com/event/005B6NKI3LEQDIHT6EPDPYVHSESJVM

February 4, 2014

ACM Events Digest 2/3-2/7

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2/3 – Logos Tech Talk

2/4 – Splunk Tech Talk

2/5 – Mock Technical Interviews

2/6 – Microsoft Office Hours

2/6 – Twitter Tech Talk

Logos Tech Talk

2/3; 6:00-7:15pm; EEB105

Dinner Provided Logos offers the world’s premier Bible study software, along with the Faithlife Study Bible (the world’s most advanced study Bible), Faithlife.com (an online community that connects Christians from all around the world), Proclaim (a cloud-based church presentation tool), and Vyrso (an electronic reading application).

Splunk Tech Talk

2/4; 6:00-7:30pm; EEB125

Mock Technical Interviews

2/5; 5:00pm-8:15pm; Paul G Allen Center for CSE

Practice interviews! If going should have already signed up for this event.

Microsoft Office Hours

2/6; 1:00-2:30pm; Atrium

Twitter Tech Talk: #TwitterStormIsComing #RealTime #BigData @Twitter

2/6; 5:30-7:30pm; EEB125

FREE SWAG (#UDUB shirts) and FOOD SERVED! #TwitterAtUDUB @TwitterU

Twitter is all about real time – real time conversations, real time trends, real time search and real time content dissemination. Twitter has invested in a massive data pipeline that collects, aggregates, processes large volumes of data in real time. At the heart of the pipeline is Twitter Storm, a real-time stream processing engine. In this talk, we will give an overview of real time analytics, discuss the twitter real time data pipeline and how Storm is used for extracting analytics. We will also discuss the challenges we faced and lessons we have learned while building this infrastructure at Twitter.

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February 3, 2014

ACM Events Digest 1/27 – 1/31

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1/28 – Startup Industry Affiliates Career Fair

1/28 – VMWare Tech Talk

1/29 – Industry Affiliates Career Fair

1/30 – Microsoft Office Hours

1/30 – Dropbox Info Session

1/30 – LinkedIn Tech Talk

Startup Industry Affiliates Career Fair

1/28; 1:30-5:00pm; Atrium

Startup companies want to recruit you!

VMWare Tech Talk: Panel Discussion

1/28; 6:00-7:30pm; EEB125

Please join us to learn from various VMware R&D team members about their roles, current projects and any insight they might be able to provide you about our company and hiring process. We will go over our technology and answer any questions you have about VMware so come on by! Free food and giveaways will be provided!

Industry Affiliates Career Fair

1/29; 1:30-5:00pm; Atrium

Established companies want to recruit you!

Microsoft Office Hours

1/30; 1:00-2:30pm; Atrium

Dropbox Info Session

1/30; 6:00-7:30pm; MGH 134

Dropbox is a great place to work Dropbox lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. We have over 200 million users across 200 countries, and we’re one of the fastest growing companies in the world. We are hoping to meet with computer science students for our internships and full time positions. https://www.dropbox.com/jobs

LinkedIn Tech Talk

1/30; 6:00-7:00pm; EEB125

January 27, 2014

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