Are you a sophomore and CSE major? Would you like to spend 1 hour participating in a research study and receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card?
Dear Students,With the consent of your department, I’m conducting a NSF-funded research study entitled “Exploring the Undergraduate Experience in Computing Education.” I’m seeking second-year, declared CSE majors (or those who plan to graduate in Spring 2014) to participate.
Participation in the study is voluntary and would involve completing an in-person interview for about 1 hour, scheduled at your convenience. The questions are about your classes and other activities related to computing. All student participants will receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card for participating in the study, and may elect to continue with follow-up interviews in the next two academic years. (If you continue, all it would take is one hour per year…and the gift cards increase to $30 in Year 2 and $50 in Year 3!).
If you’re interested in participating, please email me (laura.portnoi@csulb.edu) with a few dates and times when you’re available so that we can schedule a date for the interview. I will be on campus next week, May 7-11, and can meet during the day or evening.
Thank you in advance for your time and participation in this research project. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you should have any questions about the study.
Sincerely,
Dr. Laura Portnoi
Associate Professor
Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling
Email: laura.portnoi@csulb.edu
Phone: (562) 985-7047
May 3, 2012
TouchDevelop is a new way of developing mobile apps just ON the phone. No PC required.
You get a Windows Phone for 24 hours and your goal is to create the most awesome app using TouchDevelop.
See what others have already published at http://www.touchdevelop.com/gallery
Win Kinects, Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phones and other prizes!!! See you at the Commons (room 691)
May 4th 5pm – May 5th 6pm
May 2, 2012
Research Problem:
The high-level goal of this multi-site research project (led by SRI) is to improve machine translation performance on less formal genres such as web forum data, blogs, microblogs, chat, conversational speech, etc. The focus of the UW team, led by Prof. Mari Ostendorf in EE, is on translating Mandarin Chinese to English, looking at methods for normalizing informalities and idioms as well as incorporating multi-sentence context for resolving ambiguities. Challenges for an undergraduate researcher may include: analysis of impact of tokenization strategies on word alignment between languages, discovery of error patterns between gold reference English sentences and hypothesis English sentences translated from Chinese, and unsupervised learning of style/formality differences in forum text.
Desired Skills/Background:
1, Familiar with linux and shell scripting
2, Familiar with one or more of the following scripting languages: perl, python, and ruby
3, Experience in automatic text processing preferred
4, Ability to read simplified Chinese is a plus
For more information or to submit a resume, please contact Bin Zhang (binz@u.washington.edu). Bin will meet with all candidates, and he will select the most qualified to talk with Prof. Ostendorf.
April 10, 2012
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From: Ben Birnbaum <birnbaum@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Call for participation: user study
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Hi CS students!
I’m running a user study on undergraduates with Android phones. Please see the call for participation below to see if you might like to participate.
Thanks,
Ben Birnbaum
Ph.D. Student, CSE Dept.
Call for Participants
Research Study: Survey Data Quality for Mobile Phones
Researchers at the University of Washington are performing a study on survey data quality assurance using mobile phones.
Participation in research studies is always voluntary!
This study may be a good fit for you if you:
- Are a student at the University of Washington.
- Own and use your own Android phone.
- Are willing to have the study software on your phone.
If you took part in this study, you would:
- Attend a training session in the lab.
- Conduct a short survey on 10 university students over the course of the week following the training session.
- Attend a follow up session in the lab.
People who take part in the study will receive between $50 and $70 in Amazon.com gift certificates to thank them for their time.
To take part in this research study, or for more information, contact
Ben Birnbaum
birnbaum@cs.washington.edu
425-522-3297
(Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed for communication sent via email.)
The principal researcher for this study is Benjamin Birnbaum at the University of Washington.
April 3, 2012
Hello, I’m Tim Vega and I’m TAing for the Undergrad Research Seminar, https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/timjv/29655/, this quarter. We would like undergrad speakers to present their work to a group of about 20 undergrads, ranging from sophomores to seniors, on Fridays from 12:30 – 1:20.
The goal of the seminar is to get undergrads to recognize that doing research isn’t just for students going to grad school, seniors doing a thesis, 4.0 students, and students with extensive experience. We’re doing outreach to get undergrads involved with graduate students, faculty, and research.
It would be great if you could speak about what it is you work or have worked on, what you’re trying to accomplish, and entertain the undergrads with a technical, yet accessible, aspect of your research.
We’d additionally like for you to talk about your background: class year/standing, how long you’ve been doing research, what you’ve learned, what it’s like working with faculty/grads, etc.
As an undergrad you’ll have a large advantage in being able to relate to the class. This is also a great chance to practice public speaking if you happen to be working on a senior thesis and need to do a presentation.
Would anyone like to be a speaker for our seminar?
April 3, 2012
Robotics seminar, advanced upper classman can contact Professor Fox regarding permission to register.
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From: Dieter Fox <fox@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Subject: Robotics Colloquium 590R
To: faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Mailing List – cs-grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
I am very excited to announce the new UW CSE Robotics Colloquium. This colloquium
will feature a mix of invited and local faculty presenting a broad set of topics in
robotics.
Time: Fridays 2:30pm
Location: CSE 305
Signup: 590R
We’ll kick off the series with a talk by Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech. Andrea is
doing some of the most interesting work in human robot interaction, which is becoming
a very hot topic in robotics.
The list of all speakers and topics is at http://www.cs.washington.edu/news_events/robotics_colloquia
Very best,
Dieter
March 26, 2012
one credit seminar open to ugrads
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From: Gaetano Borriello <gaetano@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Spring quarter CSE590F – Reading and Research in Computing for Development
Join us for the CSE 590F (ICTD Seminar – Computing for Development) on
Tuesdays at 1:30 in CSE 203. This quarter we will be discussing
papers from the recent DEV and ICTD conferences held in Atlanta in
March 2012.
The first day’s paper is already set:
Shreddr: pipelined paper digitization for low-resource organizations.
Nicki Dell will be leading the discussion with help from others.
After that, we’ll get volunteers for the other 9 papers and possibly
re-arrange them.
See http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/590f/ for the list
of papers for this quarter (unordered except for the first).
If you have any interest in applying computing, information, and
communication technology to real-world problems, please consider
attending.
Gaetano Borriello and Richard Anderson
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March 23, 2012
From: Nicola Dell <nixdell@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Seminar announcement: Change
In preparation for the spring quarter I wanted to invite you all to register for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE590C1, SLN:12542) on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203).
Change is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly in the developing world. We are cover topics such as global health, education, microfinance, agricultural development, and general communication, and look at how technology can be used to improve each of these areas.
This quarter we will be alternating between talks by invited speakers and group discussions. Those who sign up for credit may be asked to participate in leading one of the discussions (this requires very little work and can be done in groups). We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar, Twitter, or mailing list for more information.
Please consider enrolling. If you are unable to enroll, feel free to come to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll/attend if interested.
Please forward this message to the relevant mailing lists, and we hope to see you on Thursday March 29th at noon in Room 203 of the Paul Allen Center.
March 9, 2012
We are looking for student researchers to assist in the development of a system to process and visualize the social media activity of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We’ve already collected over 25 million tweets, and we’re adding anywhere from 300,000-1 million new tweets each day. The system we are developing (an information flow atlas) will be able to process the social media data in real-time and create interactive visualizations such as information flow or retweet maps.
Our data collection and processing system runs on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS) using a combination of python, unix shell scripts, mongoDB (a NoSQL database), Hadoop (MapReduce clusters), and R. We’re adding more data and data sources every day. Students do not need prior familiarity with all of these technologies — this is an opportunity to learn! Ugrad researchers would help us write code to collect, process, explore, verify, and visualize the data. There’s room for coding on both the server side and the client side.
Our lab consists of one faculty member from the iSchool and three PhD students from the iSchool and the Department of Geography. We work hard, value everyone’s contribution, and have a lot of fun while doing it.
Credit through the Informatics program is available.
Thanks,
Shawn
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Shawn Walker
Doctoral Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
March 5, 2012
