Today’s tech talk is cancelled because of the weather. Now if only class was cancelled too!
ACM Weekly Events Digest 1/16 – 1/20
Delphix tech talk; 6-7pm 1/17; EEB 125
The computer industry is focused on building cloud services. From infrastructure (IaaS), platforms (PaaS), and applications (SaaS), the major architectural components are turning into cloud facilities. Data, however, remains an unvirtualized anchor. Delphix is bringing that last major component to the cloud. Come hear about the technology that the team at Delphix is building from Adam Leventhal, Delphix Architect and one of the inventors of DTrace. There will be a particular focus on ZFS — the filesystem at the heart of the Delphix.
Amazon tech talk; 6-7:30pm 1/19; EEB 125
Come hear about what it’s like to work at one of most innovative, fastest growing, tech companies. David Berge, Quality Assurance Manager with Kindle, will be speaking.
Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 Qualification Round; 4pm 1/20 – 4pm 1/23; Online
Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems. In the Hacker Cup, programmers from around the world will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges. This is your chance to compete against the world’s best programmers for awesome prizes and the title of World Champion.
Google Hangout Hack 2012; 4pm 1/20 – 3pm 1/21; CSE 691
UW Hangout Hangout Hack 2012 brings together the brainpower of UW students to build awesome new apps for Google+’s Hangouts. The Hack is 23 full hours (why? we like prime numbers!). You can work on the ideas you pitched on the ideas form, at the beginning of the hack on Friday 1/20 or just show up, join a team or work solo! There will be food, snacks, prizes, and demos. The best projects will be demoed for the Google+ Hangouts Team in Google Seattle!
ACM Events Digest 1/9 – 1/13
Google Tech Talk With Alon Halevy; Wednesday 1/11, 6:05pm – 7:15pm; EE125
How do we make data management tools collaborative and much easier to use, and to leverage the incredible collections of structured data on the Web? Alon’s is the creator of Google Fusion Tables, a service for managing data in the cloud that focuses on ease of use, collaboration and data integration. Fusion Tables enables users to upload spreadsheets, CSV and KML files and share them with collaborators or with the public. You can easily integrate data from multiple sources (and organizations) and use a collection of visualizations to look at your data.
Internship Panel; Thursday 1/12, 5:30pm – 6:30pm; EEB 125
The internship panel consists of recent CSE grads from Amazon, Zillow, Google and Microsoft who will provide the insight CSE undergraduates need to secure the best-fitting internships, prepare for those internships, and know what to expect once they get there. Students are encouraged to bring their internship questions for the panel.
Smoothie Day!; Friday 1/13, 4:30pm – 5:30pm; Atrium
Come drink free smoothies and hang out with your friends this Friday.
poster session – final project presentations for CSE 440, Introduction to HCI
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From: Alan Borning <borning@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] poster session – final project presentations for CSE 440, Introduction to HCI
To: dub <dub@dub.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: cse440a_au11@uw.eduWe are having a poster session in the Microsoft Atrium in the Paul Allen Center (the CSE building) for the final projects for CSE 440, Introduction to HCI, Thursday Dec 15, 10:30-12:20. There are some really interesting projects – come check them out! For example, we’ve got a controller for domestic robots (pick up your kid’s mess …), a Husky Crime Guide (how to avoid being a victim, not how to commit them), motivating public school students to attend (particularly at-risk ones), and 6 others. There will also be refreshments. Links to the project websites are up at https://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse440/11au/projects/
Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] poster session – final project presentations for CSE 440, Introduction to HCI
To: dub <dub@dub.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: cse440a_au11@uw.eduWe are having a poster session in the Microsoft Atrium in the Paul Allen Center (the CSE building) for the final projects for CSE 440, Introduction to HCI, Thursday Dec 15, 10:30-12:20. There are some really interesting projects – come check them out! For example, we’ve got a controller for domestic robots (pick up your kid’s mess …), a Husky Crime Guide (how to avoid being a victim, not how to commit them), motivating public school students to attend (particularly at-risk ones), and 6 others. There will also be refreshments. Links to the project websites are up at https://www.cs.washington.
cheers,
Alan
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CSE colloquium by Jevin West, 3:30 Thursday in EE 105
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:50 PM
Subject: CSE colloquium by Jevin West, 3:30 Thursday in EE 105
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Escience_bbl <Escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>, talks – Mailing List <talks@cs.washington.edu>Once again, *strong* encouragement to attend Jevin West’s talk on
Today at 3:30.Jevin is a postdoc in UW Biology. He and his collaborators have
developed techniques to process and visualize zillions of journal
citations. I know, this sounds kind of zzzzz. Wrongo. First of all,
the visualizations are incredibly cool. (So cool that Google
Analytics appears to have ripped them off, although Google of course
strongly denies this.) Secondly, incredibly neat insights arise from
this – for example, they have a viz that clearly shows the emergence
of the field of neuroscience as the confluence of several other fields
around 2005.
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:50 PM
Subject: CSE colloquium by Jevin West, 3:30 Thursday in EE 105
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Escience_bbl <Escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>, talks – Mailing List <talks@cs.washington.edu>Once again, *strong* encouragement to attend Jevin West’s talk on
Today at 3:30.Jevin is a postdoc in UW Biology. He and his collaborators have
developed techniques to process and visualize zillions of journal
citations. I know, this sounds kind of zzzzz. Wrongo. First of all,
the visualizations are incredibly cool. (So cool that Google
Analytics appears to have ripped them off, although Google of course
strongly denies this.) Secondly, incredibly neat insights arise from
this – for example, they have a viz that clearly shows the emergence
of the field of neuroscience as the confluence of several other fields
around 2005.
Do you need to see this talk in order to write your next research paper? No.
Are you at a university for the sole purpose of burrowing
ever-further-down into some little rat-hole, oblivious to all of the
really cool stuff going on around you? Also no.
Take a look here:
http://octavia.zoology.
And come hear Jevin this afternoon.
Michael Nielsen DLS, December 8
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Michael Nielsen DLS, December 8
To: talks – Mailing List <talks@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Michael Nielsen DLS, December 8
To: talks – Mailing List <talks@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
In addition to all the great talks this coming week, please note
Michael Nielsen’s Distinguished Lecture on December 8:http://news.cs.washington.edu/2011/11/24/michael-nielsen-on-reinventing-discovery-december-8/
Michael Nielsen’s Distinguished Lecture on December 8:http://news.cs.washington.edu/
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Samasource info session Monday – fight poverty in your next internship
Samasource Information Session
samasource.org
Date: Monday, Nov 21, 2011
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: UW Career Center (LOBBY) 134 Mary Gates, Seattle Campus
Speaker: Martin Anderson, VP of Engineering
Samasource is a social enterprise based in San Francisco that connects people living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet.
We created a technology platform that distributes microwork to centers around the world. Microwork is a new way to fight poverty by enabling capable, marginalized people to complete digital tasks in some of the world’s poorest places. Our model provides direct income to thousands of people at a fraction of the cost of traditional aid programs and equips them with skills to succeed in the new economy.
We’re looking for students and graduates interested in joining our engineering associate program. The associate program starts with a 10-week stipend internship period where a candidate will be introduced to our platform and pair with a senior engineer to build and deploy new features. Upon successfully completing the internship, the software engineer will gain increased responsibility over feature specification and implementation, helping us grow our platform and develop innovative solutions to ICTD problems like these:
– Distributed, collaborative education and training
– Remote, rural content delivery over high latency networks
– Intelligent, automated task allocation and adaptive workflow
– Mobile payments and messaging
We are a small, growing, dynamic team committed to changing the world with an innovative business model. To get a quick overview of what we do, watch this 50 second video on YouTube of two of our workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bSBNRCSoQ .
Twitter Seattle Dev Teatime
Over the past couple of months, we’ve hosted a series of events for developers in the Twitter ecosystem. All of those events have been here at Twitter HQ, and consequently those outside of San Francisco have a tough time attending. We’ve received feedback that you’d like to see some of the technical workshops that we’ve been hosting happen in other cities – so we’re making that happen.
There’s a lot going on in the ecosystem and we’d like to take this chance to share the highlights with you – including the latest developments with the platform, areas of demand within the ecosystem that we’re seeing, and technical dives into integration opportunities for developers. We’ll also be holding a Q&A session with members of the platform team, plus time to hang out with each other.
Details:
November 9th from 6pm to ~9pm
We’ll be hosting this at Hotel 1000 which is located at:
1000 First Avenue, Seattle, WA
Please sign up below to attend:
ACM Weekly Events Digest 11/7 – 11/11
Twitter Tech Talk; Monday 11/7 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
Twitter Search comes in many shapes and sizes, all of which require scalable, fault-tolerant distributed search systems to support them. In this talk, Jake Mannix, engineering Tech Lead on the User Search team, will describe the architecture they designed to future-proof the Operations work which surrounds any rapidly growing distributed system.
Research Reference: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/publications/Leibert_etal_SoCC2011.pdf
ACM Weekly Events Digest Oct 31 – Nov 4
LinkedIn Info Session; Thu, Nov 3, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
LinkedIn is a professional social networking service globally connecting over 100m professionals from 170 industries and 200 countries. Learn how you can help connect qualified professionals together to achieve synergy!
LinkedIn is looking for Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Associate Project Managers.
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