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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:03 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates » CCC Blog
To: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
http://www.cccblog.org/2011/
Hey all,
No more tech talks! But this is probably the best week ever to be a CSE major! Here are the lowdown of events this week.
1.) Ugrad Research Night — Thursday May 19th — 430-730pm — EEB037/Atrium
This quarterly event is a great time to pick up a research position for the summer if you are still looking for something to do, pick up a project to work on next year, or start preparing for graduate school. 430-530pm will be a graduate school and research panel in EEB 037, while 530-730 will be a research poster session in the Atrium. Light refreshments will be provided.
2.) CSE Spring BBQ — Friday May 20th — 400-730pm — Sylvan Grove
It’s the Department-Wide BBQ! It should be an awesome time with Music, Food, Drinks, Inflatables, Frisbee, Prof Pieing, and tons of Socializing. Come celebrate the end of the year! The alternate location will be the CSE Atrium and surrounding area if the torrential monsoons return (let’s hope not).
3.) ACMW Canoe Day — Saturday May 21st — 10:30am — Atrium —> Lake Washington!
If that wasn’t enough, then there is canoeing. Possibly the funnest event of the year. Meet at 1030am to walk over to the WAC, or meet us at the WAC at 1045am. Bring a lunch, Frisbee, waterproof camera, and cash for the canoe rental! (~5-10$) This should be a really great event to hang out with CSE people before we all head off for the summer.
Enjoy the sunshine! =D
UW ACM
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From: Ruth Anderson <rea@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Subject: CSE students needed for Ultrasound Research project
Cc: Crystal Eney <ceney@cs.washington.edu>
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A woman dies in childbirth every 70 seconds; the majority of these deaths take place in Africa and Asia. Ultrasound imaging is an effective tool for identifying maternal mortality risk factors. Unfortunately, ultrasound is nearly absent in many rural health care facilities in developing regions due to the high costs of both equipment and required training. The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project has built a low-cost portable ultrasound system designed specifically for use by midwives with limited medical training in developing regions.
The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project is looking for a couple of CSE undergrads to join our group. We are an interdisciplinary group consisting of undergrads, grad students and faculty from CSE, HCDE, and Radiology. We have produced a working prototype of our system which a group including (a CSE undergrad) just got back from testing in Uganda over spring break.
CSE students working on the project can expect to be involved in all aspects of the research process: designing, developing, testing, and traveling to test deployments in the field as well as writing publications about the research. Students should be available to work on the project at least during the 2011-2012 academic year, and preferably during summer 2011 and 2012 and beyond.
If interested, please send email to Ruth Anderson (rea@cs.washington.edu)
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More information about the project including publications can be found here:
http://change.washington.edu/projects/mobile-midwives-ultrasound
The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University is seeking outstanding members of the current junior class for a summer research workshop on language engineering from June 27 to August 19, 2011.
The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment.
Undergraduates work closely alongside more senior researchers as part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled for the summer to attack some problem of current interest. The teams and topics for summer 2011 are described here:
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/internship.php
We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language technology, as it has been doing for many years.
The summer workshop provides:
* An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research
* A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology
* Mentoring by an experienced researcher
* Participation in project planning activities
* Use of a computing cluster and personal workstation
* A $5,000 stipend and $2,520 towards per diem expenses
* Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop
* Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue
Initial applications should be received by MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011, and should include the name of a faculty nominator who would be willing to serve as a reference if asked. Apply online here:
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/internship.php
Applicants are evaluated only on relevant skills, employment experience, past academic record, and the strength of letters of recommendation. No limitation is placed on the undergraduate major. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
From: Kayur Patel, CSE PhD Student
Machine learning is cool! It allows us to unleash the power of data to attack hard problems like controlling computers with our minds, diagnosing diseases, and even understanding the very nature of the physical universe.
Machine learning is also changing the way we program. Instead of just writing code to tell a computer what to do, programmers have to both write code and provide data to teach a computer what to do. Learning from data leads to all sorts of unique programming challenges. For example, how does a programmer know if the computer has learned the correct concepts? And how do they determine if poor performance is due to bad data or buggy code?
Our research group tries to understand how to build software that uses machine learning and creates tools that allow ordinary developers to effectively apply machine learning. We try to accelerate progress by increasing the number of people using machine learning so we can reduce the time until we get to control computers with our minds*. Specifically we want to know what development environments, debuggers, and version control systems look like when building software that learns program behavior from data, and we’re looking for smart, hard-working undergrads to help out during the spring and/or summer quarters.
– Writing GUI code to create interactive data visualizations.
– Creating, building, and testing small machine learning projects.
– Working in a small group to refine and extend a development environment for machine learning.
These projects will give you a chance to learn about machine learning, visualization, and research in computer science. We can figure out how to get you course credit or a paid position depending on your skills and interest. If you’re interested, send an email with a bit about yourself to kayur@cs and we’ll chat.
-k
*Disclaimer: You probably won’t be controlling computers with your mind, but we might do cool things with Kinnects and iPhones and such.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win”
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Activities will include joining a research group led by a faculty mentor, completion of a 10-week research project, and participation in weekly faculty seminars, field trips, and career development workshops. Students will write a report and present their research to their REU cohort and at an REU poster session on campus. They will also be strongly encouraged to polish their reports after completing the program, with a view toward presenting at a national conference and/or publishing in an academic journal.
Each participant will receive a stipend of $450/week for ten weeks. Other benefits include allowances for housing, meals and round trip travel to College Station; 1.0 credit hour of undergraduate course credit; and full access to university recreational facilities.
Criteria for selection include:
Students who have limited opportunities to participate in research on their home campuses or who are from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and science are highly encouraged to apply.
For more information, please contact:
Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh, Ph.D., Professor
Director, Rockwell Automation Laboratory
Dept of ETID (Jt. Appt. with ME)
3367 TAMU, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3367
Phone: (979) 845-4985
Fax: (979) 847-9396
Email: hsieh@tamu.edu
Web site: http://etidweb.tamu.edu/hsieh/
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From: Eric Klavins <klavins@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Subject: Undergraduate Researcher Needed in Synthetic Biology and Programmed Evolution
To: Crystal Eney <ceney@cs.washington.edu>
Relevant skills include:
Programming
Electronics
Fabrication
Knowledge of biology/biochemistry/microbiology
Enthusiasm
Good organization
Of the above, only the last two are required. If interested, please prepare an application including a cover letter, a cv/resume, and an unofficial transcript. Send the application to cnt@u.washington.edu. More information about the Klavins lab can be found at: http://soslab.ee.washington.edu/
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From: Richard Ladner <ladner@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:05 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Research Positions Available
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Dear Undergraduates:
I have two research positions for undergraduates available. These positions could be for academic credit or for pay, depending on availability of funds. For each position, students will join a team of researchers.
1. MobileASL – For this position we are looking for a student to help implement the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for peer-to-peer mobile video conferencing on Android Phones. Students must have completed the Computer Networks class or have equivalent network programming experience to apply.
2. Appliance Reader Project – For this position we are looking for a student who to work on building an accessibility application for Android. The application allows a blind person to take a picture of a digital display, as on a stove or clock radio, and read out loud the information displayed. Experiences with the following technologies are recommended: computer vision, network programming, databases, and user interfaces.
To apply for either of the positions please fill out the following questionnaire by Tuesday, January 11th at 5:00 pm.
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ladner/121263
Thanks,
Richard Ladner
Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
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CSE Ugrads – See below for a summer research opportunity with faculty at WSU. Please contact Teddy Yap directly with questions.
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Greetings! I hope that this message finds you well.
I am a faculty member at Washington State University and am helping Prof. Diane Cook in managing a summer research program for Computer Science/Electrical Engineering students on the topic of designing smart environments. We are trying to recruit undergraduate students that are interested in graduate school and/or research and would like to be involved in a summer-long program. The URL for the program is http://reu.eecs.wsu.edu/ .
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Teddy
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Teddy Yap, Jr.
Faculty
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EME 121 Spokane Street PO Box 642752 Washington State University
(509) 335-6602
tyap@eecs.wsu.edu
http://eecs.wsu.edu/~tyap
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