CSE Undergrad News

Tue; November 15; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB125
Treat yourself to tech and Thanh Vi at this quarter’s terminal tech talk. Terra tackles trending troubles in targeting demand, inventory tracking, and transportation forecasting.

Hey undergrads, Fallfest is ultimately for you guys so we wanted to let you get involved in our planning process. If you’ve got any great ideas for things you’d like to see this Friday, shoot us/me an e-mail and we’ll try to make it happen.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve hosted a series of events for developers in the Twitter ecosystem. All of those events have been here at Twitter HQ, and consequently those outside of San Francisco have a tough time attending. We’ve received feedback that you’d like to see some of the technical workshops that we’ve been hosting happen in other cities – so we’re making that happen.

There’s a lot going on in the ecosystem and we’d like to take this chance to share the highlights with you – including the latest developments with the platform, areas of demand within the ecosystem that we’re seeing, and technical dives into integration opportunities for developers. We’ll also be holding a Q&A session with members of the platform team, plus time to hang out with each other.

Details:

November 9th from 6pm to ~9pm

We’ll be hosting this at Hotel 1000 which is located at:
1000 First Avenue, Seattle, WA

Please sign up below to attend:

Twitter Tech Talk; Monday 11/7 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
Twitter Search comes in many shapes and sizes, all of which require scalable, fault-tolerant distributed search systems to support them. In this talk, Jake Mannix, engineering Tech Lead on the User Search team, will describe the architecture they designed to future-proof the Operations work which surrounds any rapidly growing distributed system.
Research Reference: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/publications/Leibert_etal_SoCC2011.pdf

Smoothie day is actually free since it is being sponsored by Facebook, no need for cash!

Hang out with friends and maybe even some Facebook engineers over cheap smoothies tomorrow in the Atrium from 2:30pm to 4:30pm.

This is a College of Engineering event, CS or CE students are welcome to participate.  Sign up online if you want to attend.

CSE Advising
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From: Keri L. Sliger <ks56@u.washington.edu>

6:30-6:45pm: Student Check-in @ Paul Allen Building Atrium

7:00pm: Networking Night officially begins @ Paul Allen Building Atrium

8:30pm: buffet dinner for both students & alumni is served, alumni welcome/encouraged to stay and mingle with students

Registration Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ks56/143545

Happy Friday,

Keri Sliger

Special Events Manager

371 Loew Hall, Box 352180
Seattle, WA 98195-2180

v: 206.685.6843
f: 206-685-0666

UW CSE students!

Google wants you to:

1. Dress up in costume
2. Om nom on Jimmy Johns.
3. Win free stuffz!

Food arrival @11:30am
Costume contest begins @12:00pm with panel of Faculty, Staff and Googler judges
Prizes include: Android Tab, Gift Cards, official Google Gear

COSTUME JUDGING CATEGORIES:

•Best Overall Costume – Android Galaxy Tab & Google Gear
•Most CS related Costume – Cash gift card $25 & Google Gear
•Scariest Costume – Cash gift card $25 & Google Gear
•Most Creative Costume – Cash gift card $25 & Google Gear

All CSE majors who will be looking for a full-time job this year should consider participating in our CSE Mock Technical Interviews the evening of Tuesday, November 1.  We have several outstanding companies coming to campus, including  Amazon, Google and Microsoft, to run CSE students through a single half-hour simulated technical interview.  The sessions will place students one-on-one with a hiring manager or engineer who regularly conducts technical interviews.  Interview questions will include puzzles, logic, data structures, coding and more with a ten minute feedback session following.  Mock interviews will take place this year in the CSE building (a correction from the just-sent CSE email).

Registration dates for this event are as follows:

10/24-10/25: CSE seniors only (definition: those who will earn their CSE degree before summer 2012)

10/26-10/27: CSE seniors and juniors only (definition: those who will earn their CSE degree before summer 2013)

10/27: (before noon): All CSE majors (if any seats remain)

Registration is now open.  Students can RSVP here:  (https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/147383)

Students can choose one of three offered interview times from the linked sign-up form: 6:00-6:45 pm, 6:45-7:30 pm or 7:30-8:15 pm.  Space is extremely limited.  Slots will be assigned in order of sign up.  Students will be informed of their interview time and interviewer via email Thursday afternoon.

Please direct all event questions to Dave Rispoli, CSE Advisor at rispoli@cs.

Isilon: Locking and cache coherency in a distributed file system; Tue, Oct 25, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE125
Isilon, a division of EMC, is a company that is developing combined software/hardware solutions to some of the world’s toughest enterprises data management challenges. Look forward to a real systems tech talk.

Redfin: How To Suck the Marrow Out Of Your First Job and Start Your Own Company Before Turning 25; Thu, Oct 27, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB125
Finally, a talk for the startup/entrepeneur crowd. Come see Glenn Kalman, Redfin CEO, do stand-up comedy for an hour and a half.