CSE Undergrad News

Microsoft, together with other local tech companies and organizations, is hosting a WebPlatform.org Doc Sprint in Seattle on June 22, 2013.

Web developer? Web designer? Technical writer? Internet Enthusiast? Join the Internet Explorer Developer Relations team and many other web professionals for this unique opportunity to learn and help document the web on WebPlatform.org!

We will be hosting our WebPlatform.org Doc Sprint event on June 22^nd at the Microsoft office in downtown Seattle. We have created an Eventrbite event page with all the info: http://seattledocsprint.eventbrite.com/

WebPlatform.org is an open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Anyone can contribute and each person who does makes it stronger. Together we can continue to drive innovation on the Web to serve the greater good.

This Doc Sprint is all about making it easy for anyone to contribute articles, samples, tutorials, overviews, and insights. Learn about webplatform.org, how to contribute, and help grow the definitive reference site for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and more. A great networking opportunity and definitely something you can brag about in your resume!

This is your chance to create/review articles that will become the reference for millions of web professionals around the world: leave your mark (and name!) in web history!

WebPlatform.org is convened by W3C and is made possible by the support of the Web Platform Stewards.

Please bring your own computer. There will be snacks, meals & drinks, and even some cool swag & a Surface Pro for you to win!

Join us in the Sylvian Grove right now for our annual Spring BBQ!

We have food, drinks*, inflatables, and more! You’ll also see some of your favorite professors get pied… and who wants to miss that? You can also pick up your ACM shirts here.

See you there!

* Bring ID if you want alcohol.

You are invited to the:

CSE481K Designing Technology for Low-Resource Settings (the ICTD Capstone)

POSTER AND DEMO

SESSION

Monday, June 10, noon-1:30 in the CSE Atrium

Each winter and spring, students from CSE and HCDE collaborate on a set of projects to design and prototype technology solutions to particular problems motivated by issues encountered in low-resource settings.  Each of the teams has an external customer that connects them to real users for ideation and evaluation.  Winter quarter is spent exploring and developing project plans while Spring quarter is focused on developing a working prototyping and conducting preliminary evaluations and/or getting user feedback.

Come join us on Monday, June 10th, from noon – 1:30 in the CSE Atrium to get a hands-on demo and discuss the projects with the students around their posters.

There will be six projects showcased:

—– Forwarded message ———-
From: John Zahorjan <zahorjan@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:53 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The Bring-Your-Own-Laptop Games Capstone Colloquium
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, researchers@cs.washington.edu

The students in this year’s games capstone course have produced six
dynamite games.  This Thursday, at 3:30 in EE 105, you’ll have a
chance to play those games.  We’ll begin with brief presentations by
the game designers to explain their games and convince you to play
them.  We’ll end by announcing an audience choice winner.  In
between, we’ll game.  When’s the last time a game designer personally
helped you play well?  Exactly.  Here’s a unique chance.

Bring your laptop.  (We thought about building for phones, but the
consensus opinion was that there are no arrow keys on phones so no one
would ever want to play games on them.)  Come play your favorite
team’s game on to victory!

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You can always find out about upcoming talks open to all, by going to this webpage: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/

here is one that we thought ugrads might be particularly interested in.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science & Engineering
TECH TALK

SPEAKER:   Jeff Currier, Twitter

TITLE:     Manageability Systems @Twitter: towards efficiency and
reliability

DATE:      Thursday, June 6, 2013
TIME:      4:30pm
PLACE:     CSE 403

ABSTRACT:
This talk will focus on the manageability systems that Twitter is building
to increase the overall reliability and efficiency of our services.
Further, practical applications of the techniques captured in this
substrate benefit the services that allow Twitter to operate at a massive
scale.

Speaker Bio:
Jeff Currier is a Engineering Manager in Twitter’s Seattle Engineering
office. He’s leading a team who is focused on building technologies that
enable service self healing, automatic load balancing of data systems and
making running services at scale more economical.

Overview:
6/7: Spring BBQ

Spring BBQ
6/7; 4:00pm – 7:30pm; Sylvian Grove

Come relax before finals and join us in our Annual CSE Spring BBQ this Friday, June 7! This is an annual department wide celebration for the end of another great academic year. CSE undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff are invited.

We’ll be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, other snacks, and lots of drinks*! We’ll also have inflatables and an opportunity to pie your favorite professors. If you ordered an ACM t-shirt, you can pick it up here as well!

We’ll be setting up from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Want to help? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂

Come relax before finals and join us in our Annual CSE Spring BBQ this Friday, June 7! This is an annual department wide celebration for the end of another great academic year. CSE undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff are invited.

We’ll be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, other snacks, and lots of drinks*! We’ll also have inflatables and an opportunity to pie your favorite professors. If you ordered an ACM t-shirt, you can pick it up here as well!

When: June 7, 2013; 4:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: Sylvian Grove

We’ll be setting up from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Want to help? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂

ACM-W presents the annual CSE canoe trip! Come hang out with ducks, turtles (not guaranteed), and fellow CSE students. Please bring a lunch, some snacks to share, and a few dollars (~$5) for canoe rental. All grads and undergrads welcome!

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 2013! Meet us either in the CSE Atrium at 10:40am or at the WAC at 11:00am.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the ACM-W officers at acmw-officers[at]cs[dot]washington[dot]edu.

Angelhack is the largest worldwide hackathon spanning over 30 cities.
Angelhack would love to see more students participate at the hackathon. We
will provide free tickets to these students.

Everything you need to know are in these two links:

http://ahsp13seattle.eventbrite.com/
http://angelhack.com

The free ticket code is “college”. Have the students just punch that in
and make sure they DO NOT put in their credit card info. If 50+ students
can sign up by tomorrow, we can have free transportation pick up the
students and bring them back once the event is over.