From Tracy, Facilities manager:
We’ll have a lift in the Atrium next week to clean the windows, ledges, and free the grounded airplanes. The disruption should be minimal (you won’t likely be here anyway).
Reboot is open Dec 19-23, 7:30am-3pm. They will be closed the rest of the break. Rumor has it that Sofia will be back when they reopen Jan 3rd!
Building hours during the break: M-F, 7:00am to 5pm. Locked on Sat and Sun. Locked on observed holidays, Dec 26 and Jan 2.
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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:35 AM
Subject: men’s shower
The shower in the lower level men’s room is undergoing repairs. ETA for completion is next week. I’ll send out a notice then.
Tracy Erbeck
Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington
tracy@cs.washington.edu
206.543.9264 (office)
206.543.2969 (fax)
December 16, 2011
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:51:21 -0800
Subject: NY Times Science section today
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
All about computer science.
December 7, 2011
From: Helene Martin <ln@cs.washington.edu>
Hello,
I’m (sort of) new around these parts and am working with Stuart and Marty on our intro courses. I’m also hoping to help coordinate some of our K-12 outreach efforts — middle and high school is a great time to get kids hooked on computer science! I have several local computer science classes asking for speakers the weeks of Jan 9th, 16th, and 23rd and would love to send some of you out to share what gets you excited about computer science.
Ideally, we’d send out a graduate student and an undergraduate student to share a bit about their research, course projects and experience at UW. The perfect presentation would include demos, some kind of activity (design exercise, thought experiment…) and lots of energy!
Please respond to me directly if you have some interest in participating in these kinds of efforts. I’d like brief answers to these questions:
– why are you excited about CS:
– what could you demo:
– what activities could you do with students (ok if you don’t have any in mind):
Once I get a feel for interest, I’ll set up some time to discuss common information we’ll want all students to get, talking to teenagers, ideas for activities, and general logistics. Even if you’re not around early Jan, please respond if you have any interest in this kind of work. We are building a UW CSE Outreach Army.
Thanks!
Hélène.
Hélène Martin
ln@cs.washington.edu
November 22, 2011
Hey fellow undergrads! We’ve noticed that the labs are starting to slowly drift towards messiness again and we’d like to remind you that the labs are a mutual commons for all undergrads. We understand things can start to get messy around midterms and finals; just please keep a few points in mind.
Recycle paper instead of leaving them around
Clean up remnants of everything you eat or drink (including packaging)
Leave snacks to share in the ACM lounge
The first two points are particularly important because custodians are legally unable to clean up scratch paper and certain leftovers.
Happy coding!
November 9, 2011
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From:
Nicholas FitzGerald <nfitz@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Cs-grads] Fwd: [IP] Computer Experts Building 1830s Babbage Analytical Engine – NYTimes.com
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Lyndsay Downs <lcd@lazowska.org>
If anyone is interested in this, Doran Swade’s book “The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer” is an excellent and relatively short read. It has two parts: first being a biography of Babbage’s attempts to build his engines, and the second is an account of the modern day project to recreate the Difference Engine (the precursor to the Analytical Engine which they are now attempting to recreate). You can see a video of the Difference Engine here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anIyVGeWOI
– Nicholas
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Ed Lazowska <
lazowska@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
Terrific computer history article!
Begin forwarded message:
November 8, 2011
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW users group for Amazon Web Services, TOMORROW, Monday 11/7, 3pm, EE 303
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Some of you might be interested in this. It’s intended for people
using AWS for research computing.
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From: Bill Howe <billhowe@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Subject: [Escience-team] Reminder: UW users group for Amazon Web
Services, Monday 11/7, 3pm, EE 303
To: awsusers@u.washington.edu, Escience_bbl <escience_bbl@u.washington.edu
>
Cc: eScience team <escience-team@u.washington.edu>, “Korver, Mark”
<mkorver@amazon.com>, “Pizarro, Rachel” <pizarro@amazon.com>
UW AWS community,
Reminder that we will have an inaugural AWS users group meeting
tomorrow, Monday November 7th, 3 pm – 4:30 pm in EE 303.
The goal is to establish a self-sustaining community to discuss AWS
applications at UW for research, teaching, and enterprise and to
introduce AWS resources available, including UW’s account team from Amazon.
Thanks to all who have sent in case studies. If you have a project
you’d be willing to informally share, send me a note or just come
prepared to discuss it. No need to prepare slides.
If you have technical questions you’d like reps from Amazon to
specifically speak to, send me a note.
Agenda:
— Introduce campus resources for AWS (eScience)
— AWS case studies at UW
— Technical Q&A. Mark Korver, AWS Solutions Architect and a key
contact at Amazon for UW, will be present to answer questions.
— Logistics and agenda for next meeting
All are welcome — please forward to anyone that might be interested.
Other Resources:SIG Wiki:
https://sig.washington.edu/itsigs/SIG_AWS_Users
eScience website:
http://escience.washington.edu
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
AWS pricing:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
eScience Institute
November 7, 2011
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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Subject: building and reception hours
Fall reception hours are (starting 9/26):
M-F, 9am to Noon and 1pm to 5pm
Fall building hours are (starting 9/28):
M-F, 7:00am to 9pm
Locked Sat/Sun, holidays
Happy school year!
Tracy Erbeck
Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington
tracy@cs.washington.edu
206.543.9264 (office)
206.543.2969 (fax)
September 27, 2011
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From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Start-up/Commercialization Office Hours
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Perkins Coie Law Firm will be providing free consulting meetings on Wednesday October 5th, 9AM to noon, for anybody in CSE (students, faculty, postdocs, etc.) interesting in learning about or talking about start-up companies, particularly anyone thinking about commercialization who wants more information. Meetings are informal and anybody is free to sign up.
Both Madrona and Perkins have been involved in a number of successful CSE and UW spinoffs. They held these sessions several times in the past and had a strong response. If you’re interested, please book a slot here:
http://www.peopleware.net/1862a/index.cfm?eventDisp=START
Meetings will be held in the Allen Center atrium.
hank
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September 23, 2011
