CSE Undergrad News

Hello, CSE undergrads! Please see your monthly (beautifully redesigned!) undergrad newsletter for events, highlights, and some mid-quarter inspiration.  May 2019 — Undergraduate Newsletter

Hello, ugrads! Join us for an informal presentation and Q&A about the basics of personal finance.

Finance Hacks 101
Thursday April 12, 5pm
SIG 134
Presented by Allen School alum Stephanie Smallman

Topics include:

• Your post-graduation paycheck and how to manage a tech salary
• Money and happiness, and how to get the most bang for your buck
• Finance basics: how to set yourself up for financial success, with tools like savings, investing, and retirement

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age
A conversation with historian and author Leslie Berlin
Monday, January 29, 4:30-6:00PM
University of Washington HUB, Room 214

At a time when the five most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms and nearly half of Americans say they cannot live without their cell phones, Troublemakers reveals the untold story of how we got here. This is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world.  Author Leslie Berlin comes to the University of Washington to share this history and its lessons, in conversation with Professor of History Margaret O’Mara.

Co-sponsored by the UW Department of History, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, and the UW Information School.

This event is free and open to the public.  Parking and transit information for the HUB can be found here.

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Hidden Figures: Bringing Math, Physics, History

and Race to Hollywood
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 4:30pm
Guggenheim Hall 220, University of Washington

Rudy L. Horne, PhD
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Math Consultant for Hidden Figures
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

In January 2017, the movie Hidden Figures was released by 20th Century Fox studios.
The movie tells the story of three African-American women mathematicians and engineers
(Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan) who played pivotal roles in John
Glenn’s successful orbit around the Earth and the NASA missions to the moon.
For this talk, we will give a brief review of the space race going on at the time between
the United States of America and the former Soviet Union. We will discuss the lives and
contributions that NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and the NASA engineers Mary
Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan made to the space race. In particular, their work related to John
Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and the moon missions. Finally, we will talk about the
experiences of being a mathematical consultant for this film.

Hi, undergrads! Professor Richard Ladner has been a faculty member here for decades, with a wide range of interesting and impactful CS work. He’s nationally recognized for his important work making technology more accessible to users with disabilities. Come celebrate his career with this lecture reviewing his life as a UW CSE faculty member!

My 45+ Years at UW

Reminder: Informal Professional Communication for Techies – This Wed May 10, 2:30-3:30, CSE 691

Communicate like a legit adult! A huge part of working in tech is informal communication: email, code review comments, chats/IM, etc. Doing this well builds healthy teams, reduces response latency, and more importantly saves time you can spend coding (or practicing pool). We’ll talk about the nuances of professional tech communication and how to do it right.

This workshop is presented by Krista Davis, senior backend engineer and UW CSE alum. She’s worked at Google and some small startups, and has designed this workshop to teach you what she learned the slow way.

Reminder! Data-Driven Health & Wellness Strategies: this Wed April 26, 3:30-4:30, CSE 691

• Eat right, drink water, sleep well, exercise, and practice mindfulness. Sure, but do these things really matter? Will they help you as a student? Let’s look at the data! We’ll examine the research – from the source rather than the oversimplified media articles – to see how much health and wellness can really impact mental function. We’ll also discuss practical ways to incorporate wellness into your busy schedule so you get the most bang for your buck.

And in two weeks: Professional Communication Tips: Wed May 10, 2:30-3:30, CSE 691

• Write and speak like a legit adult! Present your ideas with authority, avoid awkward misunderstandings, and understand nuances of professional communication.

Reminder! Our next of three workshops on general life skills is starting now! See you in CSE 691.  🙂

• Social Responsibility for Tech Professionals – Wed April 19, 4:30-5:30, CSE 691
  • This discussion is intended to help you consider your goals and values, and identify ways to act on them after graduating — selecting a company or job that reflects your values, volunteer and service opportunities, and utilizing benefits provided by your employer.

Also mark your calendars for these two workshops:

• Health & Wellness Strategies – Wed April 26, 3:30-4:30, CSE 691
  • Coding should not be your entire life, and SnackOverflow should not be your only source of food. This workshop will present strategies for being a well-rounded and reasonably healthy human: balancing your exciting new tech job (or current CSE schedule) with eating, sleeping, exercising, and doing fun non-work stuff.
• Professional Communication Tips – Wed May 10, 2:30-3:30, CSE 691
  • Write and speak like a legit adult! Present your ideas with authority, avoid awkward misunderstandings, and understand nuances of professional communication.