CSE Undergrad News

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of S. Morris Rose
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 3:21 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: More Heron babies of the Sylvan Grove

Besides Bruce’s ongoing photo album, there are also the following three

*live* views of the herons:

1. http://www.cs.washington.edu/heroncam redirects to a cambot located

on the sixth floor that watches the nest. This one is simple: point your

web browser at that URL and enjoy. There are three selectable preset

positions: a view zoomed into the nestlings, a wide view, and a view

that includes the attending parent. Bruce Hemingway helped set that up.

2. CSE staffer Fred Videon has established an HD video feed from the

same sixth-floor location that is truly stunning– if you are on a

network that supports multicast. Basically, that means most “research

networks” such as the one on campus and at some large companies, but

almost certainly not your home internet service. This one is less simple

to use, but if you have the cross-platform open-source VLC viewer

installed, you can do it thus:

1. Open the viewer.

2. Select “open network stream” from the Media menu.

3. Select UDP as the protocol, 233.0.73.67 as the IP address, and

1234 as the port (that’s the default).

4. Click “Play.”

If it displays, you are good; if not, probably you aren’t in a location

that supports multicast.

3. Your own eyeballs! Work best from a high floor at the EE end of the

building. An excuse to visit your advisor?

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Subject:    More Heron babies of the Sylvan Grove

Date:       Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:55:49 -0700

From:       Bruce Hemingway <bruceh@cs.washington.edu>

To:   faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads –

Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads – Mailing List

<cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff – Mailing List

<cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>

Even more Heron babies, starting here:

http://hemingway.cs.washington.edu/Photos%20from%20CSE/#/content/47-Herons/16-Herons-_DSC0012.jpg

I added a caption for the date the photo was taken.

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New ACM T-Shirts are in!

For those who ordered a T-Shirt.  I will be in the ACM lounge from 930-1230 am today to hand them out. Since it is the height of “project” week there will not be a particular time outside of this when an ACM officer will be in the lounge.  Instead, check the lounge, 002, or one of the other labs for an ACM officer (it IS project week) and they will get it for you.  Or email me or the ACM officers with a particular time you wish to pick up a shirt and we’ll try to make it happen.

While your in 002 you may notice a magical bowl of treats to help you get you through the week.  Enjoy!

Happy Project Week,

Chris Raastad

Some pictures of our neighbors…

From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hemingway
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:58 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: Herons of the Sylvan Grove

Outside Allen Center.  I’ll add to this as they grow up…

http://hemingway.cs.washington.edu/Photos%20from%20CSE/#/content/47-Herons/01-Herons-_DSC0150.jpg

-Bruce

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:50 AM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: 4 of Forbes’ “top 10 best-paying jobs for women” are CS-related

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From: Paul Beame <beame@cs.washington.edu>

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:43 AM

Subject: 4 of Forbes’ “top 10 best-paying jobs for women” are CS-related

To: faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff

<cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/03/best-paying-jobs-women-salary-forbes-woman-leadership-careers_slide.html

(The lumping of Computer Scientists and Systems Analysts at 9 is a bit odd.)

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Have a favorite CSE Teacher this year?  Do you want he/she to be recognized for being awesome?  Then vote for them now at

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/acm/103743

Quick, there is only three days left!!!  Deadline is 10pm, Friday May 28th.

-ACM Officers

The UW Student Engineering Council (SEC) is having its End-of Year Event this Tuesday, May 25th at 5pm in the electrical engineering building room EEB 403 on the 4th floor (room 403 is in the northwest corner of the building).  The event is free and is open to all engineering students, faculty and staff.  Come to this event if you have any thoughts about becoming a student officer next year for any organization or you are interested in learning more about SEC and would like to participate from time to time without necessarily being a student officer.

We will be nominating board members, introducing SEC representatives who represent their respective student engineering organizations, introducing our new adviser, and announcing the new SEC website with a complete student engineering organization directory and inclusive Google calendar created by volunteers for the benefit of all student engineering organizations here at UW. And to top the evening off, we will have Susannah Malarkey the Executive Director of the Washington State Technology Alliance be our guest speaker following our end-of-year meeting.

Events Agenda:
5:00pm – 5:15pm Sign-in, Introductions, and food and refreshments
5:15pm – 6pm SEC meeting – unveiling of new website, SEC board member nominations
6pm – 6:40pm Technology Alliance Guest Speaker
6:40pm – 6:50pm Q & A
6:50pm – 7:00pm Reception/refreshments

I hope to see you there,
Jason

Jason B. Salazar
2009-2010 Industry Relations Lead,
Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program
Founder, UW-Student Engineering Council
jason.salazar2010@gmail.com

The Student Engineering Council (SEC) was founded this year in association with the UW Emerging Leaders in Engineering Program. We are an interdisciplinary student run council that consists of representatives from student engineering organizations across the College of Engineering. SEC’s mission is to:
1)      Build upon a widely supported effort to improve interdisciplinary communication within the College of Engineering.
2)      Facilitate student opportunities in industry, academia and the greater engineering community.
3)      Provide a volunteer support network between our student organizations.
4)      Enhance the quality and quantity of opportunities students and advisers facilitate in support of our professional and technical development.
5)      Increase participation in our student engineering organizations by providing a resource to pre-engineering students and undergraduates.
6)      Build upon our community as engineering students and future alumni of the UW College of Engineering.

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Amit Aryeh Levy
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:33 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] We need YOU!

Hi,

Please help us out by participating in our experiment at:

clusterquiz.appspot.com

We need a few minutes of your time. Yoav and I are looking for

participants in a experiment evaluating some ideas we have regarding

social networks. For this evaluation we created a short sequence of

questions using Facebook. It will be short and painless – 10

questions. And, most important, we promise not to make any use of your

private information. We only will collect statistics over your

responses to our questions. The experiment uses a Facebook application

and will require you to approve a simple Facebook application. The

application will create a snapshot of your social network and ask you

to answer a series of categorization questions, but none of your

social information will be stored long term – only your answers to the

questions.

To participate please go to: clusterquiz.appspot.com

Thank you in advance!

Yoav and Amit

Yoav — yoav@cs.washignton.edu

Amit — levya@cs.washington.edu

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On Behalf Of Bruce Hemingway
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:18 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: UW CSE ACM Spring Picnic

Photos from the picnic:

http://hemingway.cs.washington.edu/Photos%20from%20CSE/#/content/48-ACM-BBQ-2010/ACM-BBQ-2010-_BRH0471.jpg

(You folks are SO photogenic! And the light was good for once!)

-Bruce Hemingway

Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:14 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; Matt O’Donnell; Ana Mari Cauce; Phyllis Wise; Mark Emmert; Karin Strauss; Elizabeth Rowson; Lyndsay Downs; Adam Lazowska; Jeremy Lazowska
Subject:  UW CSE Spring Picnic

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/05/21/uw-cse-acm-spring-picnic/

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:43 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: [IP] Quote of the day

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From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Subject: [IP] Quote of the day
To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Jonathan S. Shapiro” <shap@eros-os.org>
Date: May 19, 2010 3:34:12 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Quote of the day

[For IP]

From the New York Times, front page of today’s Business Day section (5/19/2010):

“Information technology and manure have a symbiotic relationship.”

– Chandrakant D. Patel,

HP Sustainable Information technology Laboratory

The NYT article was about using cow manure to help power data centers, but the I think quote holds up pretty well on its own. 🙂

Jonathan S. Shapiro