Hey everyone, we’re holding spring undergrad research night in a few weeks on Tuesday, May 22nd at 4:30pm and we need about 5 undergrads with research experience to talk and field questions for other undergrads who are potentially interested in doing research.
If you’re interested in helping out, please reply. We’ll need you for about 30 minutes during the actual event.
It’s that time of the year again, us ACM/W officers will be stepping down and we need to get new officers elected.
This is a great opportunity for a leadership role and departmental involvement!
Nominate people you think are worthy to take the reigns of ACM by going to: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/timjv/162727
You can nominate as many people as you’d like.
Specific officer roles will be determined in the future.
We plan to close the poll by April 23, 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?
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 6:58 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Excellent short talk videos on “computer science futures” topics
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, eScience team <escience-team@u.washington.edu>, Escience_bbl <Escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>
Videos have now been posted from last month’s “NITRD Symposium” – excellent short (15-minute) talks by people like Jeannette Wing, Sebastian Thrun, Stefan Savage, Shwetak Patel, Beth Mynatt, Vint Cerf, Kathy Yelick, Al Gore. (And don’t inadvertently skip the one by Tom Lange just because the title looks boring – it’s a really interesting talk about things like using CFD to model the aerodynamics of Pringles and the flow of p**p through Pampers.)
The web page is here: http://www.cra.org/ccc/
A blog post describing the Symposium is here: http://www.cccblog.org/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.
Home networking students create homes of the future! Come see their work!
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From: John Zahorjan <zahorjan@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Home Network Capstone presentations tomorrow
CSE 481m, the Home Networking Capstone course, will be presenting its work tomorrow:
Wednesday, March 7
3:30-4:10
CSE Atrium
The 13 students in this course worked on a single project, attempting to build something we weren’t sure could be built.
What was it? Did we manage to build it?
Come tomorrow to for answers to those and other nagging questions, and a chance to ask your own.
Wednesday, March 7
3:30-4:10
CSE Atrium
One more capstone poster session for you to attend. Mark your calendars!
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From: bruceh <bruceh@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Audio Capstone demos
Please join us for the CSE481i Sound Capstone demo and poster session, on Thursday March 8th ,10:30-12 noon in CSE503.
See the Sound Blob interactive virtual controller; the Virtual DJ iPhone app; and the Film Composer’s click-track tool.
-Bruce
Come see your peers’ hard work! If you’re new to CSE, checking out this year’s capstone projects is a great way to plan for your future capstone.
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From: Alan Borning <borning@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] invitation to poster session for Accessibility Capstone course, March 12
Hi all – I am teaching the Accessibility Capstone course in CSE this quarter (CSE 481h). We will be having a poster session for the student projects for the course on Monday March 12, 10:30am – 12:20pm, in room 691 (Gates Commons) in Allen Center. There are 5 projects this quarter, with a really interesting range of activities, primarily for blind and low vision users but also one for deaf users. We’ll have light refreshments as well.
“I thought this talk may be of interest to the CS folks. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy the founder and CTO of Gluster will provide an overview of global file systems and discuss how the Gluster global filesystem deals with the technical issues of meta data, locking, speed, and redundacy on March 8th. For more details check out:
http://www.sasag.org/2012/02/27/mar-8th-meeting-gluster-file-system/
cheers,
ski
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe” John Muir
Chris “Ski” Kacoroski, Secretary of LOPSA
206-501-9803, ski98033 on IRC and most IM services”
NetApp Tech Talk; Mon, February 27, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE 105
Join us to learn more about one of the most Innovative and GREATEST places to work!!!
Guest speakers, FREE food and giveaways!!!
Intentional Software tech talk – Making Software Intentionally; Tue, February 28, 5:30pm – 7:00pm; Commons
Intentional Software, making Software intentionally. Please join Shane Clifford, VP of Application Development for Intentional Software Corporation to learn more about the concept of “intentional software” that captures the intentions and knowledge of the users (domain) and displays it in a variety of visual projections in a structured editing environment. We are pioneering the world’s leading language workbench technology and are initially applying it to create domain specific knowledge intensive workbenches for clients with high value problems that no-one else can solve. Shane will demonstrate application of Intentional Software’s technology and methods to real world problems. Intentional Software creates and combines simple yet powerful domain specific languages that empower business and technical experts to express their knowledge and participate directly in the software creation process. Examples from vehicle design, healthcare, and other domains will be demonstrated and explained.
Winterfest; Fri, March 2, 5:30pm – 8:30pm; Atrium
Hangout with all your CSE friends this friday. Games, food, drinks.