CSE Undergrad News

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Hi fellow CSE students!

The IEEE student chapter is excited to be filling officer positions for next year. Although primarily associated with EE, it has close ties with CSE and puts on a number of events for you.

Here are a few:
– IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition: Our team this year placed 1st in the NW region.
– Micromouse Competition: Build and program a robotic mouse to solve a maze. We’re in the coding phase right now.
– Student Paper Contest: Present a research paper or project and win some serious cash.

If you are interested in IEEE, be sure to attend the meeting:
Date: Monday, May 16th at 5:30
Location: EEB M403

We have plenty of positions, such as:
– Vice Chair
– Treasurer
– Corporate Liaison
– Events Coordinator
– Secretary
– Public Relations / Social Media Director
– Webmaster / Multimedia Director

If you’d like more information or can’t make the meeting, contact Josh Scotland at koemon@cs.washington.edu. See you there!

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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Subject: building fans on 5/10- tuesday

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] “The Facebook Class”
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

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We are students in the business school working on a consulting project with Microsoft. We are interested in gathering your feedback regarding your level of understanding and use of cloud computing in regards to application development. The survey should not take more than 10 minutes of your time. We really appreciate your assistance with our project!

http://washington.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_77zNc43R8DOnluQ

Hey CSE people,

The submissions are in!!! Thank you designers for your awesome, clever designs!  Please fill out this T-Shirt Preorder form ASAP

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/stever4/132445

by at the absolute latest, 11:59pm, Wednesday, May 4th! We need enough time to get the T-Shirts ordered by the BBQ so we can introduce the T-Shirts in a high profile environment (and sell the extras!).  Please only indicate T-Shirts you would intend to buy if the shirt got printed! Not all T-Shirts are guaranteed to print (we will likely drop the bottom 1-4 shirts  if interest is not high enough to justify printing), but we will contact you if yours doesn’t make the cut and solicit a final shirt tally.  T-Shirts may change slightly for better printing, but they will be more or less unchanged in concept.  Payment will be due before picking up the shirt, the cost will be no more than 15$ a shirt, we will contact Preordering people individually about those details.

Do fill out this survey! Do it now!

ACM Officers

Hey Ugrads,

Now that tech talks are winding down you’re not hearing, as much from us….

But, we have an opportunity for you!  Have you ever noticed geeky-tech-fabulous in house T-Shirts older CSE majors wear around on occasion? Ever thought of an epic T-Shirt idea you want to show the (cse)  world!  Then now is your chance! We want YOU to create the most clever hilarious 1337 (elite) shirts you can think of.  Your creation could join the ranks of the CSE classics such as the One Root Ugrad Tree, Cat, or “MAN Shirt”.  We want these designs no later than Tuesday, April 26th by 11:59pm. Designs can be submitted to this catalyst dropbox

https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/assignment/stever4/15452/58535

Here is the fine print:

• The designs must be scalable, ie, a PDF or PSD, not compressed separated by color
• We will not accept any design with more than 2 simple colors (ie Black, White, Blue, Green, Red, etc…)
• We strongly encourage 1 color designs (to keep costs down for not very large orders)
• Your design can have a front and back component.
• You may choose the T-Shirt color (within reason, please try to keep it to basic colors)
• We will try to get American Apparel shirts since that is what people mostly prefer!
• We have the right to modify your design slightly to make it printable, we will tell you if we need to do this.

And the selection process

• We will have both girl and guy styles and sizes of shirts, make sure the design is generally accepted!
• We will consider all T-Shirt designs for printing
• We will then send an electronic preorder form (this will act as a design vote)
• If your design get’s a reasonable number of preorders, and the orders/cost ratio works out, it will be printed and sold. Surplus shirts will likely be purchased for future sales depending on number of preorders and awesomeness of the shirt
• We hope to have shirts in and distributed at the CSE BBQ on May 20th, but we can’t guarantee anything!

Remember the best designs are simple, clever, humorous, and make us proud to be CSE Majors!

Looking forward to awesome T-Shirt designs!!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Emailing Guy

Hey All,

It turns out the ACM elections are completely over!!!  For the elections not held, the candidates won by default! Here are the final results!

Chair: James Athappilly

Vice Chair: Milda Zizyte

Internal Relations: Tim Vega

External Relations: Jim Ionue

Treasurer: Peter Brook

Event Coordinator 1.5: Mary Pimenova

Event Coordinator 1.5: Steven Rutherford

Congratulations to our new ACM Officers!  I’m sure you will do a fine job when you take over next year!

In other news there is a Tech Talk TONIGHT at 6pm from a company that works heavily with Government Contracts, do check it out!!!

Chris Raastad

ACM Spambot-Not-For-Much-Longer…

Hey all,

A few random things…

0.) Berico Tech Talk

When: Wednesday April 13th (Tomorrow), 6:00pm-7:30pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: Is SQL Dead? Please join Berico Technologies Senior Engineer Soup Shah as he explores the use of traditional Relational Databases vs. the new NoSQL/Cloud database approach. Discussions will take a high level approach before diving into the internals of the question and examining when is an appropriate time to use each one of the two paradigms. Following discussion of the main topic, Soup will answer any questions regarding cloud computing as well as its application in the national security arena. Food and beverages will be provided by Berico Technologies.  www.bericotechnologies.com   Presented by Sapan “Soup” Shah.

This company is from the East Coast, in D.C.,  (which is pretty rare for a tech talk here, 5 hour flights aren’t fun!) so it might be interesting to drop by.

1.) UW Spring Career Fair

When: Thursday April 14th, 3pm-7pm

Where: Alaska Airlines (no longer Bank of America) Arena

What: It’s UW’s largest career fair. But there are a fair number of tech companies that will be present eager to higher Software Engineers (aka us!).  If you are still looking for a job or internship do stop by! See the list for yourself, http://www.scribd.com/doc/52508971/2011-SCF-Employer-Guide.

2.) Greening-up-the-Labs

We are very fortunate for our printing privilegedes!  Now here is a way to automatically end those pesky cover sheets from printing from linux machines.  Run the following script in linux:

#!/bin/bash
# Sets the ugrad lab printers to print double-sided  without header pages
# Author: Krysta Yousoufian, 10/11/10

# Print double-sided in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps003 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps006 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble
lpoptions -p ps022 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble

# Turn off header pages in 002, 003, 006, and 022
lpoptions -p ps002 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps003 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps006 -o job-sheets=none
lpoptions -p ps022 -o job-sheets=none

Once again thank Krysta Yousoufian for that tip! (Sorry for the delay… and we are still not sure how to do it automatically for windows!)

3.) Vote!

ACM elections are still going! Please vote!

Event Coordinators: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130683 (remember to vote for 2)
External Relations: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130685

Please vote by 11:59pm Tuesday April 12th (aka TODAY).

Enjoy the sunshine!

Chris/ACM

Hello Everybody,  (hello Dr. Nick)

Congratulations to James Athapilly and Milda Zizyte as our newly elected ACM Chair and Vice Chair.

One friendly reminder about elections, we realize this is a catalyst poll and everyone with a uwnetid can vote.  Note that we are CSE majors, and we are checking to see if the people voting are in the CSE department.  All votes outside of the department will be discounted.

Todays elections are:

Event Coordinators: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130683 (remember to vote for 2)
External Relations: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130685

Please vote by 11:59pm Tuesday April 12th.

Enjoy the random sunshine!

Chris Raastad

ACM