CSE Undergrad News

Hey all,

I am sure you guys are feeling it this week, somehow EVERYTHING congregated to the same week: applications, homeworks, projects, midterms,  an epic let down of a Husky football game, academic rebound after an eventful weekend, and a never ending torrential downpour!

But hang in there! ACM and CSE is here for you! We are not here to distract you from your midterm power studying, don’t overdoit on events!  But rather, we provide a serving of sanity to encourage a short healthy breaks to keep your mental machinery moving!  Here’s the sumary:

0.) Stanford President John Hennessy, “The Future of Research Universities”, Tuesday November 2nd, 330-430, CSE Atrium

Another, most likely, Atrium filling talk, this should be interesting!

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/10/04/john-hennessy-at-uw-cse-tuesday-november-2/

1.) Facebook Info Session, Tuesday November 2nd, 6:00-7:00pm, EE105

The usual, food, talk, swag, and resume drop off.  Come see what it is like to work at a website you use (too much) every day!

2.) Amazon Info Session, Thursday November 4th, 5:30-6:45pm, EE105

“How amazon is reducing entropy in the cloud.”  This is our local internet shopping supergiant, but they do alot more then just that. You should know what to expect from tech talks by now.

3.) CSE Fall Fest!!!  Friday November 5th, 5:00-9:00pm, CSE Atrium

Remember, Remember, The 5th of November!

This is ACM’s largest, most awesome, social event of the quarter!  I hope this can be a reward for a tough week! The doors open at 5pm and the festivities will be in full swing by 6pm. Cost is FREE for ACM members (you can join at the door), and $6 for non-acm members (feel free to bring your non-cse friends). So what exactly is going on:

• Free Food
• Free Drinks
• Free BEER (for over 21 people with valid ID, our lovely advisors will be carding mercilessly)
• Board Games: Munchkin, Blockus, Settlers of Catan, and much more
• Video Games: Rock Band, Smash Bros, Wii, some N64?!
• DJ and Music: to get your groove on.
• Facebook Table
• ACMW Table
• ACM Table

Feel free to resurrect your Halloween costume one last time for the year! We would very much appreciate a Facebook RSVP http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171057026244043.

4.) 10-Hour Microsoft Puzzle Challenge, Saturday November 6th, 10am-8pm, Microsoft Campus

Ok, this is long, i doubt many will compete. This is not at all an ACM event, but something i found interesting.  But, if you can’t get enough mental competition you might be interested in this event.  Food, shirts, and other prizes are provided.  For the enthused, to compete, grab some friends and sign up here http://www.collegepuzzlechallenge.com/.

Cheers,

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

Ugrads,

Quick Reminder: Facebook office hours on right now until 1pm today in atrium! Come talk to Facebook employees and recruiters about working/interning at facebook. Resume is required for entry, but there will be free food and drink.

Chris

REMINDER!!!

Palantir Tech Talk, Today, 600pm-730pm, CSE Atrium

IPAD Raffle: MUST be present to win! I.e. you must stay for the whole talk, (dine and dashing is discouraged… you know who you are!)

It should be a fun talk! Lots of great opportunities out there!

Chris _________

ACM _________

Hey CSE,

Lots is going on for the next couple of weeks!  Remember you can add http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html to your Google calendar to stay in the loop!

Tech Talks: remember all will include some sort of swag, food, and internship/career information.

1.) Madrona Info Session

Tuesday October 19th, 530-730pm, CSE Atrium

A collection of venture-backed start up companies, click event calendar link for more details!

2.) Palantir Info Session

Wednesday October 20th, 600-730pm, CSE Atrium

Analysts, large data sets, Taco Del Mar, and iPad drawing?!

3.) Cisco Info Session

Tuesday, October 26th, 600-700pm, EE 125

“Welcome to the Human Network, Cisco is more than just routers.” There will be a FLIP Video Raffle.

4.) CSE Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair

Thursday, October 28th, 9am-3pm, CSE Atrium

Mark your calendars.  This is hands down the largest recruitment event of the year!  More than 30 companies will be present! Check them out here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1011.html

You will NOT want to miss this if you are remotely thinking about an internship  or full time employment.  Bring lots of resumes to hand out. Come looking sharp and eager to learn about who’s who in the tech world. It will be a very exciting day!

In the distant future…

5.) ACM Fall Fest

Friday November 5th, 500-900pm, CSE Atrium

“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…”  Mark your calendar.  This is ACMs major social event of Fall Quarter.  Look for posters to go up and more details to come.  There will be food, games, music, and socializing.

6.) ACM Research Night

Wednesday, November 10th, 430-700pm, CSE Atrium

A fun night to see what exciting research projects undergraduates are working on in the department.  There will be a short talk, Q&A panel, poster session, refreshments, and opportunities to get involved in research for the following quarter.  This is a great opportunity to take part in a serious project long before summer comes around.

That’s all folks!  (for now) I apologize in advance if my overuse of exclamation marks, !!!!!’s, bothers you!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

It was great to see so many of you at our tech talk last week! We have extended the deadline to submit your resume for full-time software engineering opportunities. Please submit your resumes and unofficial copies of your transcripts by October 25th. You can view the full time opportunities at www.google.com/students/eng.

You can also check out our internship opportunities at www.google.com/students/intern.

Thanks!

Jessica Einfeld
University Programs

Hi all!!! I apologize again for the necessary but possibly irritating amount of inbox filling bits, but i assure you things will taper down come Winter quarter!

This needs to get out there quick! If you plan on attending the Google Tech Talk Thursday PLEASE RSVP ASAP!!!!  By clicking

<https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHM4elBKTGhUdUg4Tll4b2xJdTBhX2c6MA#gid=0>

This helps assure adequate amounts of precious food for this popular talk! Below is the attached details for the talk!

Chris Raastad

You-know-who

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Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. It’s an enormous goal to accomplish and we need great people to help us achieve it!

Come learn about Google and meet some of our Googlers at this event. Swag and food will be provided!

Who: UW Computer Science students
What: Google Tech Talk & Info Session
When: Thursday, October 14, 2010 from 6-8 PM
Where: EE 125
How: Sign up for this event by RSVP’ing here<https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHM4elBKTGhUdUg4Tll4b2xJdTBhX2c6MA#gid=0>. RSVPing helps us know how many people to order food for, but everyone is welcome!

Please check out our job opportunities at www.google.com/students/eng<http://www.google.com/students/eng> and complete this form<https://spreadsheets5.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFUtUWY3SGtjSXF4cTFHUmY0ckpPYnc6MA> to receive announcements about future job opportunities, scholarships, and programs.

Hey CSE,

This is a HUGE Week!  Plan ahead, there is LOTS going on in the department! Don’t forget to study.  Prepare for the biggest companies and a high energy speaker!  Here’s the summary!

Tuesday October 12th, Resume Review Workshop,  3:00-5:30pm, CSE Atrium

Dave Rispoli sent a blurb about this earlier! Come any time!  The affiliates fair is right around the corner, so now is the best time to get yourself looking fabulous on paper!!!

Wednesday October 13th, Microsoft Tech Talk, 6:30pm-8:30pm, EE 125

THE Microsoft, just across the bridge in Redmond.  There will surely be free food, swag, interesting discussion about the direction of the software giant, and of course info for internships and employment!

Thursday October 14th, Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO, 3:30pm-4:30pm, CSE Atrium

“A Conversation with Steve Ballmer.” Come watch one of the most high energy speakers come to our very own “Caregie Hall of Academic Lectures.”  Take a seat or stand on the 6th floor balcony and enjoy the show!

Thursday October 14th, Google Tech Talk, 6:00pm-8:30pm, EE 125

Yes, our search giant of 10^100.  Want to some day work at the 10^10^100? (This is the Googleplex of course)  This is the first step to finding all about what it takes become a Googler!  Like all great Tech Talks there will (of course) be Food, Fun, and Swag!

Friday October 15th, Smoothie Day?!  Time: TBA Early Afternoon  Location: TBA

Just when you think this week couldn’t get any more exciting, we just had to continue on with CSE tradition.  There will be smoothies, they will be cheap.  Relax, don’t stress, its a cool calming event to welcome the weekend.   More information is on the way, stay tuned!

Chris Raastad

ACM SPAM-A-LOT

Hey all you CSE people,

Another tech talk today, its gonna rock! Free food, tshirts, more swag, and of course Internships and Jobs!!!

Tableau, TODAY, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, EEB 105

“How New Technology Is Helping Us Change the World.”

This little birdy tells me everything…

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Chris Raastad — ACM SPAMelot

Hey CS&E Majors!

Hope your first week of real school is off to a strong start!  It was good to see new faces today at the New Major Welcome Events.  Here is the line up for this incredibly jam packed week!

• Tech Talk: Imagine Cup Info Session, Ideafest@UW Seattle,

• Tuesday October 4th, , 530-630pm, CSE 503

Free food and a info about a really cool contest! For the creative problem solvers.

“1. check out the software design contest rules & register to compete at www.imaginecup.us

2. pitch your idea using the project plan template available at http://bit.ly/icprojectplan

3. grab your closest friends and form a team

4. bring & be ready to submit your project plan at the event for a chance to win prizes free pizza and drinks will be provided.”

• Career: Employer Panel

• Wednesday October 6, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, EEB 125

Seriously.  This is fantastic information if you are serious about landing a sweet internship or job.  You’ll hear from a panel of people from all different types of companies with inside information of what companies are looking for.

• Tech Talk: Tableau
  

• Thursday October 7, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, EEB 105
  

“How New Technology Is Helping Us Change the World.”  Free food, Tshirts, and Jobs?!  What more could you want!

Note that this info is on a Google Calender located conveniently at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/.

Happy Studying,

Chris Raastad

ACM SPAM-Bot

Good Morning!

On behalf of the Association of Computing Machinery welcome back!!!  We hope you guys are pumped for the new academic year and had awesome productive summers of study, research, internships and travel.  If you are new to the department the ACM is a department run organization responsible for organizing awesome social, academic, and career development events to benefit you, the CS or CSE student.

Events

Here is a summary of approaching events!

Tech Talks — These are information and recruiting sessions put on by companies (always free food and prizes).  Fall quarter is loaded! Imagine Cup, Tableau, Microsoft, and Google are coming up in the next two weeks! Check out http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html for the detailed schedule.

Welcome Event for New Majors — Monday October 4th.  A call for mentors will go out soon.  We hope all new students can make it!

Smoothie Day — will make its return on October 15th, stay tuned!

Career Fair — is huge!!! Every company will be there. Thursday October 28, 9am – 3pm in Atrium.

Fall Fest — largest social event of quarter will be in late october early November.

002 and 006 Rearrangent

You will notice some significant changes to layout of the two popular undergraduate labs.  Don’t be alarmed, the department implemented the new design based on lab usage statistics (most noteworthy change, the addition of mobile work stations). We know change (even small) can be difficult, but we encourage you to give the new arrangements a try and we will seek out comments and feedback later in the quarter.

Coke Closet

The beloved coke closet will make its return within the first few weeks of the quarter! Stay tuned and don’t steal!!!

ACM Website

Expect some significant changes in the next few weeks to update the usability and relevance of the ACM website http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/ .  We hope to make the website a more central source of information for ACM events.

CSE T-shirts

You will see cat and man shirts being displayed around the department.  We will be selling these and older versions at the ACM welcome event or you can contact an ACM officer with details.

Enjoy the first day of classes!

Chris Raaastad

ACM Internal Relations (aka ACM Spambot)