CSE Undergrad News

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From: Saleema Amershi <samershi@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Subject: [dub-students] Participants Needed: Investigating New Tools for Creating Customized Groups in Online Social Networks
To: dub-students <dub-students@dub.washington.edu>, cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, hci-students <hci-students@cs.washington.edu>

Call for Participants: Investigating New Tools for Creating Customized Groups in Online Social Networks

My name is Saleema Amershi and I’m a graduate student in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Our group is investigating new tools for helping people create customized groups in online social networks such as Facebook.

We are looking for participants to evaluate new tools that we have developed for creating customized groups. We will ask you to interact with each of these tools and provide feedback about them. The study will take place next week (Sept. 6-9, 2011) in the Paul Allen Center at UW and will take approximately 1 hour. You will receive a $20 Amazon gift certificate for your time.

To qualify for this study, you must meet the following requirements:

• You must be over 18 years of age
• You must have an active Facebook account that you have used for at least one year
• You must have over 100 friends on Facebook

If you are interested in participating, please contact samershi@cs.washington.edu to set up an appointment.

Thanks!

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Saleema Amershi
PhD Student
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/samershi

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Subject: Fwd: FCRC Plenary Sessions
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, uw-systems <uw-systems@cs.washington.edu>

Dave Ferrucci’s talk was excellent.  Worth 45 minutes for *everyone*.

Luiz Barosso is always very good too.

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From: Pat Ryan
Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Subject: FCRC Plenary Sessions
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: John White

Hi Ed,

I know that you have been asking about the availability of the
videos of the plenary sessions from FCRC.  Well, good news, they are
available finally:

IBM’s Watson/DeepQA

by David A. Ferrucci, IBM

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2019525

Algorithms: Recent Highlights and Challenges

By Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2019526

Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade

By Luiz Andre Barroso

Warehouse-Scale Computing: Entering the Teenage Decade

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2019527

These are the three talks for which we received releases.

They can either be downloaded and are also available for streaming,

Regards,

Pat.

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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Subject: carpet cleaning
To: cs-ugrads-general – Email Alias <cs-ugrads-general@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>

Hello,

We are offering the LabVIEW training class again this Summer Quarter. Please visit the online registration if you are interested:

Registration:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jmreina/136457

Syllabus:

http://www.seattletm.com/mytmContent/uwSum11_syllabus.pdf

Location and Time:

The lectures will take place in Sieg 232 on Mondays from 2:30pm-3:50pm. Lectures start the first week of the quarter (6/20). Enrollment is 45 seats. Lab sessions will be held Wednesdays from 2:30pm-3:50pm also in Sieg232.

Summary:

Nine Week Introductory LabVIEW course. Experience with data acquisition will be provided. CLAD certification exam offered during finals week after satisfactory completion of course. Special topic lectures will be provided at request.

Description:

This course will take you through the fundamentals of the LabVIEW environment in preparation to use it as a powerful T&M tool. Each week will have one 1.5 hr lecture and a follow-up homework assignment afterward to re-emphasize the lecture material.

At the end of the sessions, anyone who has completed eight or more sessions with satisfactory homework grades will be eligible to take the NI CLAD certification test. This test is normally $300, but NI is offering it for free given satisfactory completion of the course. Additionally, NI has been gracious enough to give top-performing students their own personal ‘NI MyDAQ’ for completion of this course and successful completion of the CLAD test.

Thanks,
Justin Reina
justinmreina@gmail.com

UW Electrical Engineering
(425)760-7291

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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] elevator testing Friday, June 10
To: cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads-general – Email Alias <cs-ugrads-general@cs.washington.edu>

Hey everybody, this is your new internal relations ACM officer Tim Vega. Brace yourselves for email from me all of next year.

Please fill out this survey to nominate a faculty member for the ACM 2011 Teaching Award:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/pimenm/135411

Thanks a lot!

Will Johnson, a senior majoring in Computer Science and in Mathematics, has been awarded the 2011 UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal for the Sciences, recognizing the most accomplished graduating student in the natural sciences.

Will has a remarkable record of accomplishment and recognition:  he recently won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; he was celebrated in the Washington State Senate and in the Seattle Times for being named a Putnam Fellow (for finishing among the top five students in the nation — from among 4,036 competitors — in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition); he was named the 2010 University of Washington Junior Medalist, recognizing the most accomplished student among UW’s roughly 7,000 juniors.  (No reason to go back further than 12 months …)

Today starts the registration period (May 2 – 22, 2011) for UW Commencement.  CSE students may attend both the UW Commencement ceremony and the CSE Graduation Celebration (or just one, whatever you prefer).

Registration is now open for ordering graduation regalia, parking, tickets for the UW Graduation Ceremony in Husky Stadium. You can also register for the CSE Graduation Celebration on the same form.

Go here to register:  http://www.washington.edu/graduation/

If you do not wish to order regalia, you can still participate in the CSE Graduation Celebration, but not the UW one.
Dress code for the CSE Graduation Celebration is business casual.

Meany Hall now requires that we distribute tickets for admission to the CSE event.  You can order them here:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/pim/132351

We will distribute tickets during finals week at the front office desk between 1:00-3:30pm. Shortly before Graduation on June 11, we will send you instructions about where to sit in Meany Hall and what to do.  🙂

Please let us know if you have any questions!