CSE Undergrad News

eBay Tech Talk; Mon 6pm – 7pm; EEB 125

Please join us for a tech talk, where Prasad Sriram, a Senior Software Engineer will discuss the Search Infrastructure at eBay which currently serves more than 250 million queries a day over an index of more than 200 million items. He will also explain how the current ‘Title’ based search architecture is evolving to a much more scalable one that indexes and uses both Title and Description data by default for recall and ranking. He will cover the various challenges and the interesting problems involved in building such a large-scale, low latency, distributed real-time search technology. He will also demonstrate how the Search Engine is enabling some of the key features of the site like Relevance based Ranking, Search Results Blending, Image Search and Recommendations.

Expedia Tech Talk; Wed 6pm – 730pm; EEB125

Join us for a deep dive with Aman Bhutani into the Technology driving our largest brand – Expedia Worldwide. Aman Bhutani leads the engineering team for the Expedia brand. The brand technology team focuses on the web tier of our global platform and services that offer differentiation from other brands. The Expedia technology team is at the heart of the brand’s product based growth strategy and have team members in many cities across the planet. Aman joined Expedia in 2010 after many years in financial services and consulting.

Salesforce.com Info Session; Thu 6pm – 730pm; EEB125

Salesforce.com is the global leader in Enterprise Cloud Computing and the fourth fastest growing tech company in the world. We’re one of Fortune’s 2011 “100 Best Companies to Work For”! Join us at our ACM Info Session, 2/16 to learn more about how we continue to lead our industry in Cloud Computing. Employees from our San Francisco office will review how our exciting roles that set us apart from the competition.

Facebook tech talk; Mon, February 6, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE125

Facebook is hosting a Tech Talk at UW on Monday, February 6th. The topic of this Tech Talk is “Transitioning from UW to Facebook.” UW alums (who are now Full-Time Software Engineers), will be speaking about their experiences at Facebook, providing tips and advice for future candidates, and answering questions directly from students in a Q&A. Stop by to learn more about life at Facebook!

Microsoft info session – big app on campus; Tue, February 7, 6pm – 8pm; EE125

We are kicking off a brand new national and local competition that is challenging you to be what’s next. You’ll not only get the opportunity to earn recognition for building the next big phone app, but you’ll also get the chance to win some amazing prizes. Join us at the Info Session for your chance to learn about the Big App on Campus contest details and rules.

Pariveda tech talk; Thu, February 9, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE125

Join Pariveda Solutions CTO, Brian Orrell for a conversation on mitigating the risks of Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms.

HARD WORK & LOW PAY: Opportunity to Build an Open Source EMR for a Leading Hospital in Rural India

A leading non-profit healthcare organization in rural India, JSS (www.jssbilaspur.org), is building an open-source health information system (Raxa) and is seeking a few energetic, talented programmers. In a catchment area of about 300,000 JSS operates a multi-nodal hospital, three remote village sub-centers and an extensive public health outreach program with 104 community health workers.

Its founding doctors hail from AIIMS, the premier teaching hospital in south Asia. They left their cushy positions in the city for a life of toiling in a challenging rural environment where severe malnutrition, multiple drug resistent TB and leprosy are common.   To further their vision of high-quality healthcare in resource-poor environments, JSS has set forth the ambitious goal of transitioning from its current paper-based recordkeeping system to a cloud-based digital Health Information System.  This project will undoubtedly benefit tens of thousands of people in the near term and many more in the long term.

This project not only involves building a health information system for JSS, using a modified data model of the robust and field-tested OpenMRS platform (www.openmrs.org), but also making this system modular, extensible, freely and widely available for other organizations to implement as easily as possible in the future.

We need your help!  We are designing the system to be completely cross-platform and are prioritizing the mobile device; users interact with the application through web-based services that are accessed by a basic browser.  In a sense, we are making a canonical open-source point-of-care system, one that will hopefully be the seed for a large number of such developments in the future.

The project already has a small but dedicated group of very talented programmers in the US and India, but is looking for an additional handful of skilled developers to round out the team, to be based between the hospital, in rural Chhattisgarh, and our development hub in New Delhi, for the summer of 2012.

Extensive documentation about the project is available.  Main expertise required  for participation is in javascript, jquery, enthusiasm, logic, vision and to be able to learn by doing.

Drop us a line and we’ll invite you to our shared DropBox folder with most of our designs.

For more information about JSS itself please see the link above and this news item about its work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yY_JSO-Dqg

Please contact: daniel.pepper@gmail.com and visit our project wiki at:
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Raxa+JSS+EMR

Many thanks,
Daniel

LinkedIn Tech Talk; Mon 1/30 6:00pm – 7:00pm; EEB125

LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With over 135 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network.

Palantir Tech Talk; Wed 2/1 6:00pm – 7:00pm; EEB125

Amazon

Facebook

Google

Microsoft

Twitter

Zynga

Lucky CSE majors get two career fairs tomorrow: First, the CSE Affiliates Fair is open only to CSE majors, 1:30-5pm in the CSE atrium. Then take your resumes to this fair at Hec Ed and speak with a few more companies:

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION CAREER FAIR

• Tuesday, Jan  24, 5:30 – 8:30PM
• UW’s Alaska Airlines Arena (Hec Edmundson Pavilion, next to Husky Stadium)
• Dress: Business Casual
• All Majors – All Class Levels – OPEN TO ALL UW STUDENTS!

List of participating companies: http://students.washington.edu/uwnsbe/corporate/Company_List_2012.pdf

2012 DIVERSITY CAREER FAIR RESUME BOOK – Put your resume in front of employers!

Make sure that employers attending the Diversity Career Fair have your resume.  Information on how to submit your resume available at: http://students.washington.edu/uwnsbe/corporate/students.html

Resume writing assistance available at the UW Career Center (134 Mary Gates Hall)

• Resumes & Cover Letters Workshops:  1/23, 3:30-4:30pm
• Resume  Review – Same Day Session Appointments, Monday – Friday, 10am-3pm
• Career Fair Success: 1/23, 2:00-3:00pm & 1/24, 3:30-4:30pm

Nutanix info session/code jam; Mon 1/23 6pm-9pm; EEB 125

Instead of a tech talk, Nutanix is holding a hack! Students who have taken or are currently taking CSE 331, 332, 341, 344, 373, 374, 403, 417, 451 are encouraged to come. Top three coders win iPads. Please bring your laptop and probably your power supply.

Industrial Affiliates Winter Recruiting Fair; Tue 1/24 1:30pm-5pm; Atrium

All sorts of UW CSE affiliate companies will be out this Tuesday looking to hire for full time and intern positions. Bring resumes.

Intel tech talk – Intel Night for PhD/MS/BS Engineers; Wed 1/25 6pm-7pm; EEB125

You’ve probably heard of us before. But maybe you’re thinking “What can I do at Intel? Is the work challenging? Can I be a part of something cool and groundbreaking?” Well we have some answers, and we’ll have some fun sharing them with you. Join our engineering reps to hear all about these things and learn about the tons of exciting opportunities for you at Intel. Representatives will be on hand from our various business groups to talk about how you can be a fit, so bring your resume!

Google hangout hack 2012; Fri 1/27 5pm – Sat 1/28 4pm; CSE 691

UW Hangout Hangout Hack 2012 brings together the brainpower of UW students to build awesome new apps for Google+’s Hangouts. The Hack is 23 full hours (why? we like prime numbers!).

The Amazon tech talk originally scheduled for today is now shelved because of snow. Stay safe and warm out there!

Delphix tech talk; 6-7pm 1/17; EEB 125

The computer industry is focused on building cloud services. From infrastructure (IaaS), platforms (PaaS), and applications (SaaS), the major architectural components are turning into cloud facilities. Data, however, remains an unvirtualized anchor. Delphix is bringing that last major component to the cloud. Come hear about the technology that the team at Delphix is building from Adam Leventhal, Delphix Architect and one of the inventors of DTrace. There will be a particular focus on ZFS — the filesystem at the heart of the Delphix.

Amazon tech talk; 6-7:30pm 1/19; EEB 125

Come hear about what it’s like to work at one of most innovative, fastest growing, tech companies. David Berge, Quality Assurance Manager with Kindle, will be speaking.

Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 Qualification Round; 4pm 1/20 – 4pm 1/23; Online

Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems. In the Hacker Cup, programmers from around the world will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges. This is your chance to compete against the world’s best programmers for awesome prizes and the title of World Champion.

Google Hangout Hack 2012; 4pm 1/20 – 3pm 1/21; CSE 691

UW Hangout Hangout Hack 2012 brings together the brainpower of UW students to build awesome new apps for Google+’s Hangouts. The Hack is 23 full hours (why? we like prime numbers!). You can work on the ideas you pitched on the ideas form, at the beginning of the hack on Friday 1/20 or just show up, join a team or work solo! There will be food, snacks, prizes, and demos. The best projects will be demoed for the Google+ Hangouts Team in Google Seattle!