CSE Undergrad News

research study needs participants – $15 gift card

Janara Christensen <janara@cs.washington.edu>

11:27 AM (23 hours ago)

to cs-ugrads

We are recruiting participants for an online user study in Natural Language Processing.

Study:
We are studying summarization mechanisms for scientific articles. Each participant will be directed to a website to complete the study, so there is no need to come to campus. The study will take less than an hour, and participants will be asked to read a few summaries of research topics and fill out surveys on the summaries.

Participants must be graduate students or undergraduates in Computer Science.

Compensation:
We will compensate participants with a $15 Amazon gift card.

Contact:
Email janara@cs.washington.edu if you have any questions or are interested in volunteering.

Thanks!
Janara

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Janara Christensen

Ph.D. Candidate

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

cs.uw.edu/homes/janara

June 20, 2014

Research Assistant to Build New Geo-Mobile and Creativity Apps

Position is for credit or possibly pay

The Tactile and Tactical Design Lab (TAT Lab) at UW is looking for a student interested in designing novel digital tools to support creative invention and reuse. For example, mixing artist expression and GPS-based urban exploration. Applicants should have mobile application implementation (Objective C or Android Java) and preferably Google maps API experience. The project would require 10-20 hours per week. Please send resume and related experience to Prof. Daniela Rosner at dkrosner@uw.edu.

June 16, 2014

Survey about QR codes in CSE

Franziska Roesner

9:28 PM (23 minutes ago)

to Cs-Grads, cs-ugrads, cs-staff, researchers, Alisha, Tadayoshi

Hi everyone,

Several weeks ago, we posted some QR codes in the basement, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor bathrooms of the Paul Allen Center. If you saw one of these QR codes, whether or not you chose to scan it, we’d like to ask you some follow-up questions as part of our research study. The goal of our study is to learn how frequently and why people scan (or don’t scan) QR codes posted in different public locations.

If you’re willing, please take our quick survey here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/franzi/239921

This survey is voluntary, anonymous, and should take you about 5-10 minutes. You may terminate the survey at any time or skip any questions that you do not want to answer.

If you have any questions or concerns, or feel you have been harmed as a result of your participation in any part of this study, please feel free to contact any of us. If you have any questions about your rights as a subject in this study, you can call the Human Subjects Division at (206) 543-0098.

Thank you!

Franzi, Alisha, and Yoshi

June 11, 2014

FUNLAB has openings for dedicated junior/senior undergrads and M.S students seeking exciting research-oriente projects

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Stephen Graham <grahams@uw.edu>
Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:21 AM
Subject: Research opportunity in Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory
To:
Cc: Brenda Larson <brenda16@uw.edu>

Opportunities for Projects (www.ee.washington.edu/research/funlab)

FUNLAB has openings for dedicated junior/senior undergrads and M.S students seeking exciting research-oriented project experience to support our work on building a Spectrum Observatory and White Space Networking (http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/funlab/specobs/index.html). At this time, we are actively looking for students with strong Java/Javascript programming skills as well as interest in databases and algorithms. Please contact Prof. Sumit Roy (roy@ee.washington.edu) and Ph.D student Farzad Hessar (farzad@uw.edu) for more details.

June 11, 2014

software testers needed for a CSE Research group: food rewards

Hello CSE undergrads! Do you like testing software and giving feedback? Awesome, keep reading then.

Kate Starbird’s HCDE / CSE research group has been conducting research exploring social media data use in crisis situations and how to help digital volunteers more effectively monitor and process these data. We have implemented a prototype tool for collaborative Twitter monitoring, and we would love to have your help in testing and evaluating the tool.

We are seeking participants to use this tool and give feedback during interviews that will take around 45 minutes to an hour. We’ll provide you lunch or dinner in gratitude!

If you’re interested in participating, please contact me, Joe Kohlmann (kohlmann@uw.edu).

Cheers,

Joe Kohlmann
Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design Candidate
University of Washington

May 28, 2014

FCW 14 grant applications due Monday usenix

Calling all students!

FCW ‘14 grant applications are due Monday, May 5, 2014
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/students/grants

Guidelines and hints for can be found at:
https://www.usenix.org/students/tips

Register online for FCW ’14 at:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/registration-information
<https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/registration-information>

Join us in Philadelphia, PA, June 17–20, 2014, for the 2014 USENIX
Federated Conferences Week. FCW ’14 combines a variety of events,
established and new, into one week chock-full of intensive training
sessions, research presentations, and information sharing. Attend, and
you’ll gain valuable insight into a variety of important topics, while
the joint lunches, breaks, and evening events provide cross-topic
networking possibilities.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14

NEW at FCW ’14: Training Sessions!
Want to learn more about Hadoop, Jenkins, Apache CloudStack, SRE, or the
best practices and standards to improve security within an organization?
Attend the half- or full-day training courses, and you’ll acquire
unique skills that you can take back to your workplace. The FCW ’14
training program includes the following courses:

**Thursday, June 19**
Hadoop Operations by Jennifer Davis, Chef
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/training-program/full-training-program#R1

Using Apache Cloudstack to Build a Big IaaS Cloud by David Nalley, Citrix
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/training-program/full-training-program#R2

Jenkins for Continuous Education by Joshua Jensen, EMC
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/training-program/full-training-program#R3

**Friday, June 20**
SRE University–Practical Large System Design by Salim Virji, Google
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/training-program/full-training-program#F1

Hands-On Security for Sysadmins by Branson Matheson, NASA
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/training-program/full-training-program#F2

Register at:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/registration-information
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If you’re interested in the latest systems computing breakthroughs,
looking for the hottest topics in storage or cloud computing, or would
like to discuss women in computing, FCW ’14 has everything you need to
stay ahead of the curve. The events include:

USENIX ATC ’14: 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Thursday–Friday, June 19–20
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14

USENIX ATC ’14 will bring together leading systems researchers for
cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain
insight into a variety of must-know topics, including virtualization,
system administration, cloud computing, security, and networking.

ICAC ’14: 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Wednesday–Friday, June 18–20
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14

ICAC ’14 will bring together researchers and practitioners to address
multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems
and applications from different perspectives. The program includes
Keynote Addresses from Yuanyuan Zhou, Lucy Cherkasova, andIon Stoica;
paper presentations on self-adaption and self-tuning, cloud resource
management, network and system management, scheduling and pricing,
resource and workload management, and data center energy issues; and
more.

NEW at ICAC ’14: Half-day tutorials on “Autonomic Computing and Its
Applications” and “Autonomic Cloud Workload Optimization.” Learn more
at:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/tutorials

9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
Tuesday, June 17
https://www.usenix.org/conference/feedbackcomputing14

Many research disciplines rely on feedback to achieve goals such as
autonomy, learning, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or
performance optimization. This workshop provides a unique forum to
exchange the insights across these disciplines as the theoretical
foundations of feedback, broadly defined, in computing and to share the
experience pertaining to use of feedback in computing.

HotCloud ’14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing
Tuesday–Wednesday, June 17–18
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud14

HotCloud ’14 provides a forum for both academics and practitioners to
share their experience, leverage each other’s perspectives, and identify
new/emerging “hot” trends in this important area.

HotStorage ’14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File
Systems
Tuesday–Wednesday, June 17–18
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage14

HotStorage ’14 will showcase the latest in storage systems design,
implementation, management, and evaluation. This workshop provides a
forum for the cutting edge in storage research where researchers can
exchange ideas and engage in discussions with their colleagues.

WiAC ’14: 2014 Women in Advanced Computing Summit
Wednesday, June 18
https://www.usenix.org/conference/wiac14

At WiAC ’14, we will continue to bring technical women together to
discuss some of the challenges women face in the professional computing
world. Beyond mere discussion, we hope to engage all attendees to share
ideas, best practices, and knowledge to move us forward in our
professional capacity as technical people.

UCMS ’14: 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit
Thursday, June 19
https://www.usenix.org/conference/ucms14

The configuration management community will come together at UCMS ’14 to
advance the state of configuration management, discuss its problems and
solutions, and enhance the community of this growing field. The summit
kicks off with Eric Windisch’s Keynote Address, entitled “Things Will
Change.” Invited talks throughout the day will discuss continuous
integration, automation within Ubuntu Juju, software-defined
infrastructure, in-container configuration management, and configuration
as a service, and much more.

URES ’14: 2014 USENIX Release Engineering Summit
Friday, June 20
https://www.usenix.org/conference/ures14

NEW at FCW ’14! The inaugural URES will bring members of the release
engineering community together to advance the state of release
engineering, discuss its problems and solutions, and enhance the
community of this quickly growing field. The summit includes a Keynote
Address by John O’Duinn; Invited Talks, and a Panel Discussion.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to create the conference experience
that meets your unique needs.

Register now:
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2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (FCW ’14)
June 17–20, 2014
Philadelphia, PA

May 1, 2014

security and courses?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Tadayoshi Kohno <yoshi@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:22 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Security and courses?
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: Tariq Yusuf <yusuft@cs.washington.edu>, Neil Hinnant <nrhinnant@gmail.com>

Hi all,

Are you interested in Security? Are you currently enrolled in a CSE class that uses a textbook? We’re looking to get a group of students together to kickstart a crowdsourced security audit of the UW CSE undergraduate curriculum. We would like to get a few students involved in adding entries to our vulnerabilities wiki when they see unsafe code in their textbooks! There’s minimal extra commitment on your end, because you are (theoretically) already reading your text anyways. Security is one of the fastest growing fields in computing, and historically one of the most underserved fields in undergraduate education. So if you want to polish those hacking and cracking skills, this might be for you.

We’re going to have a meeting at noon this coming Wednesday (April 30) in CSE 303 to explain the project in more detail, and go over the vulnerability coding scheme. (We will provide food.)

Thanks!

Tariq, Neil, Yoshi, et al.

April 28, 2014

Two Google Events with Alum Corin Anderson this Wednesday

Google Office Hours:
Here is a chance to meet and chat with Corin Anderson.
Wednesday, April 30:
1:30 – 3:00 p.m., 4^th floor breakout area
4:30-6 p.m., Atrium

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Google Tech Info Session: Web client development in Google Search
CSE403, Wednesday, April 30, 3:30-4:30 pm

Abstract: Web client development is a microcosm of software engineering where the web browser is a virtual machine and where the best developers understand memory management, networking, threading, graphics, and user behavior. This environment is forgiving for simple tasks and supports sophisticated applications from Search to Maps to Gmail. In this presentation I will share several technical challenges in Web client development within Google Search and argue that this is an ideal environment for well-rounded software engineers.

Speaker: Corin Anderson is a Principal Engineer at Google working in search on Visual Search Experience. This team is responsible for everything that makes Google Search look and act like Google Search, from the instant search-as-you-type feature to the excepts shown for each result and down to minute but important visual design aspects. Prior to Google Corin studied at the University of Washington, earning B.S. degrees in Math and Computer Science and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science.

April 28, 2014

paid research project

Hello,

My name is Tien-jui Lee. I am an UW EE PhD student. I am part of a research team conducting a research project on automatic cough detection especially for kids with Cystic fibrosis(CF). In sum, we are trying to develop an algorithm to detect cough episodes from a continuous, ambulatory audio recording using a recorder in a real-world setting. This work will make cough assessment a much easier task and help health professionals conduct research on cough with less effort.

We are recording a large database of cough/non-cough sounds in varying environments and looking for Annotators:

They will listen to the audio recordings and help us to label the “type” of each part of the audio recordings. For example, 1:20 – 1:22 is a cough, laughter, speech, silent, or anything else. We will provide a software tool to help them achieve this. They will be paid *$12/work hour*. Some more information could be found here:

http://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/CoughStudyAnnotator

If you are interested in participating in this study as an annotator, or would like more information about the study, please contact me at tienlee@uw.edu directly.

Thanks you for considering participation in our study.

Sincerely,

Tien

April 25, 2014

Summer 2014 Research Position in Chicago – theory, deadline coming up, April 20th

The Chicago Center for the Theory of Computing and Allied Areas,
an alliance of the University of Chicago and the Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago, is now accepting applications to its

2014 summer REU in the Theory of Computing and Machine Learning.

The program starts on June 23, 2014 and runs 6-10 weeks depending on
an agreement between each student participant and their faculty mentor.

For details, including support and application instructions, please
consult the program website

http://theorycenter.cs.uchicago.edu/REU/2014/

Deadline for applications: April 20.

April 11, 2014