CSE Undergrad News

Google Voice is a (mostly) cost-free service from Google that gives subscribers a host of handy features, including:

• a single phone number in an area code that you choose that can be used for incoming calls that ring any or all of your phones, plus for outgoing calls from any or all of your phones
• free voicemail that transcribes your messages to text and delivers them as MP3 to selectable destinations
• cost-free calling to US numbers, plus Canada
• super-cheap calling to international numbers
• cost-free text messages

To subscribe, you need an invitation, and invitations have been scarce. But in this post on the Official Google Blog-  Google Voice invites for students– Google announces that they are delivering invitations to students upon request- you just need a .edu email address.

As a Google Voice user (who ran out of invites a long time ago), I recommend it.

Tell us what teacher you loved this year:

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

Please fill out the survey by 10pm on Friday, May 28th.

– ACM Officers

If you had a positive tab in the coke closet, today is the last day to get your money back.  Officers will be in the ACM Lounge until 5:30pm.  If you cannot make it to the office hours, please e-mail acm-officers@cs to make special arrangements.

Remember, coke closet tabs do not carry over to next year.  After today, all tabs will be tossed out.

Thanks,

ACM Officers

Hi everyone,

We’ve officially raised $431 for the new Coke Closet.

Thank you to everyone who contributed. We’re working on getting the
first order in by this Wednesday. If you have any preferences, please
email Noe at noekhalfa@gmail.com.

Regards,

Aryan Naraghi and Noé Khalfa

Hi everyone,

The Coke Closet is almost back! We just need $80 to reach our $400 goal.

We’ll (Aryan Naraghi and Noe Khalfa) be around the labs tomorrow to
accept contributions. You can also drop a check made out to “UW ACM”
in locker 115 in the basement of the Electrical Engineering Building.

If we meet our goal by Monday night, the Coke Closet will be stocked
as early as Wednesday!

Regards,

Aryan Naraghi and Noe Khalfa

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Yaw Anokwa
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 3:11 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] First National Lab Day Seeks ACM Volunteers

There is an Android Cell Phone programming project in Vancouver WA that

someone in CSE may be interested in helping with.

http://www.nationallabday.org/projects/541-android-cell-phone-programming

is the website, they are open on-line help/advising if the person is not local.

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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:54:03 -0400
From: ACMBulletin <acmbulletin@ACM.ORG>
To: acm-bulletin@ACM.ORG
Subject: [ACM-BULLETIN] First National Lab Day Seeks ACM Volunteers

Today’s Topic: First National Lab Day Seeks ACM Volunteers
Thursday, May 6, 2010

____________________________________________________________________________

Dear ACM Member,

May 12th marks the first National Lab Day, a partnership of more than 200
industry and non-profit organizations and volunteers. This year-round effort
is designed to bring high-quality, hands-on science, technology,
engineering, mathematics and computer science education experiences to
middle and high school students.

National Lab Day is seeking volunteers from the ACM community to be paired
with local K-12 teachers through the NLD website. Learn more and sign up to
search the NLD interactive map to find projects for your skills, timeframe
and location at:

http://www.nationallabday.org/groups/acm

Currently, nearly 50 teacher-identified computer science projects and
hundreds of other discipline-specific projects needing volunteers are
listed. Your commitment could be as little as a few hours but it is critical
to NLD’s success. Volunteer opportunities cover a wide range from mentoring,
to helping design and implement hands-on projects, to identifying computing
resources.

Please join in this nationwide movement to support active teaching, inspire
children, and build long-term relationships between science professionals
and the K-12 classroom.

John White
ACM Chief Executive Officer

Cameron Wilson
ACM Director of Public Policy

P.S. ACM led a joint effort to establish the first Computer Science
Education Week last December with CSTA, NCWIT, CRA, and the support of
Google Inc., Intel, and Microsoft. CSEDWeek demonstrates the strength of the
national STEM education movement, of which National Lab Day is a part. Learn
more about CSEDWeek, and discover how computer science touches everyone’s
lives and plays a critical role in society at: http://www.csedweek.org/

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Hey everyone, If you want to help revive the coke closet you need to get the money in to Aryan Naraghi or Noe Khalfa as soon as possible. It’s close, but we just need a few more contributors and the more people who join in, the more food and drinks we can have ready for the rest of the quarter, especially finals week. We will be hanging around the labs 002, 0022, 003 and 006 tomorrow, Friday, from 12:30 to 2:30 pm. We are accepting cash or checks of $20, or $10 if you can’t do $20. We prefer checks made out to “UW ACM”. At the end of the quarter all money made will be refunded. So, if you want to help save the coke closet don’t forget to bring cash or check tomorrow to one of the labs!

Thanks,

—
Noé Khalfa

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 11:56 AM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] College of Engineering “Innovator Awards”

The annual UW College of Engineering “Innovator Awards” have been

posted, and CSE has TWO WINNERS.

Congratulations to Carol Matsumoto and Jon Froehlich!!

https://www.engr.washington.edu/mycoe/awards/coera_index.html

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Perkins
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 8:32 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] powerpoint

Great article in the NYTimes on PowerPoint and the military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html

A link to the presentation that’s illustrated at the top of the article:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/Afghanistan_Dynamic_Planning.pdf

“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” – Gen. McChrystal